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Cyber risks add to climate threat, World Economic Forum warns

Survey of 1,000 experts and leaders finds cybersecurity and space add to the existing challenges of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.

People gather Tuesday evening for a candlelight vigil outside the Bronx apartment building which was the scene of the city's deadliest fire in decades.

Many of those who died in the Bronx apartment fire were from West Africa

The 17 victims of Sunday's blaze ranged from 2 to 50 years old. The dead included 11 people from Gambia. Many families are now struggling to prepare for their loved ones' funerals.

The (not-so) secret second life of your Amazon returns

People order pallets of online returns, knowing either something or next to nothing about what they're getting, and then they open the pallets for the benefit of YouTube viewers.

In Wordle, you have six guesses to figure out the five-letter word.

Here's what's behind the Wordle c-r-a-z-e

It's a simple game to guess a five-letter word. People on social media have been very enthusiastic about sharing how well they did.

Britain's Prince Andrew has been trying to block a lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre, who says he sexually abused her when she was a minor.

Sex abuse lawsuit against Prince Andrew will continue, judge rules

The British prince's lawyers argued that a $500,000 settlement that Virginia Giuffre and Jeffrey Epstein reached in 2009 should prevent her from suing him.

766 acres near Colerain now conserved by Coastal Land Trust

Nearly 800 acres of floodplain forest in Bertie and Hertford Counties is now protected. The Coastal Land Trust announced on Tuesday the purchase includes…

Anna Brown of Hawaii, who is in her first trimester with her first child. She found out she was pregnant in November, two months after her mother-in-law died of COVID-19. (Courtesy)

Pregnant and confused about omicron: A doctor's advice to expecting parents on COVID-19

One soon-to-be mother says she's "anxious to protect this little one on the way" during this nationwide surge in cases.

People shelter from the rain under their umbrellas as rain falls in Pamplona, northern Spain, in 2018.

When extreme rainfall goes up, economic growth goes down, new research finds

Concentrated bursts of rainfall could mean flooding or disrupted supply chains, with the negative economic effects especially apparent in wealthier, industrialized countries, a German study has found.

A protester holds a sign outside of Parliament in London after the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session, in which Boris Johnson said he joined staff for an outdoor party at 10 Downing Street in May 2020.

Boris Johnson apologizes for a BYOB party held as the U.K. was in COVID lockdown

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer called Prime Minister Boris Johnson's apology worthless, adding that his defense is that "he didn't realize he was at a party."

4 NPR hosts quit in the last year, 3 were women of color

A look at what's driving women of color to walk away from NPR's most prominent jobs and why it matters to listeners

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