One small change in battery design could reduce fires, researchers say Yue Sun was one of a team of researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong that developed a new electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries.

Denmark ‘deeply upset’ by Trump’s appointment of Greenland envoy who wants island to be part of USDenmark’s foreign minister said Monday he was “deeply upset” by US President Donald Trump’s appointment of a special envoy to Greenland who declared that he wished to see the island become part of the United States.

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The White House is directing federal agencies to cancel all remaining contracts with Harvard University – about $100 million in all, two senior Trump administration officials told CNN – the latest barb against the school as it refuses to bend to the White House’s barrage of policy demands amid a broader politically charged assault on US colleges.

President Donald Trump met with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, where a megaprison houses migrants deported from the US who are accused of being gang members. The meeting comes as a showdown between the administration and judiciary over a mistakenly deported Maryland man in the prison heats up.

“Imagine – people left Venezuela, they found this opportunity to be able to apply for TPS. They’re working legally in the US. Some of them have a family here and kids born in the US. They have ties to this community,” De La Vega says. “Then you tell them, ‘Listen, in two months, we’re going to put you in removal proceedings.’ This creates a big stress.”

America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math, according to the latest results of an exam known as the nation’s report card.

The Los Angeles area already has one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country. And with thousands now displaced by the Palisades and Eaton fires, Angelenos are anxious that the sudden surge in demand could make rents and home prices soar even higher.

The US central bank has cut interest rates for a third time, despite concerns that the move will deliver a boost to the economy that risks re-igniting price inflation. a short note without many photos

Hurricane Milton has rapidly intensified into a category five storm as it tears its way towards the US Gulf Coast, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) has said. Ferocious winds of up to 160mph (250km/h) have been recorded as Milton heads towards Florida, where it is expected to make landfall on Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, the NHC said. Floridians have been told to prepare for the state's largest evacuation effort for years, with Governor Ron DeSantis warning that time for people to evacuate is running out very quickly. Warnings over Hurricane Milton come just 10 days after Hurricane Helene - the deadliest mainland storm since Katrina in 2005 - pummelled through the US south-east, killing at least 225 people. Hundreds of others are still missing. At least 14 of those deaths were in Florida, where 51 of 67 counties are now under emergency warnings as Milton approaches. Hurricanes are separated into five categories based on their wind speed. Those reaching category

Several major questions have emerged for the US Secret Service to answer in the aftermath of the shooting of Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Two days after Jonathan Fielding fell to his death while taking photos from a scenic overlook in southern Utah, his older sister Rebecca found herself sitting on the same ledge where he had lost his footing. It was January 29. She had driven some 15 hours from her home in Missouri, where they had grown up. Wracked with grief, Rebecca Fielding said she was in a “really dark place.” Jonathan was her best friend, and while she sometimes doubted others’ love for her, she never questioned his. She said she’d journeyed to Utah to take her own life. Rebecca said she was planning to leave a journal at the site with her last words when the clouds parted and sunlight embraced her.

Imminent rulings and looming trials could prove fateful to the Republican frontrunner’s 2024 campaign and his personal fortune. The powers and the limits of the presidency, and even America’s constitutional democracy, will be shaped by what happens next.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invited Donald Trump to visit Ukraine, after the former US president claimed he could end Russia’s war against Ukraine war within 24 hours if he wins reelection next year.

The exterior of the South Carolina Supreme Court building in Columbia is shown on January 18, 2023

A heatwave baking the US Southwest for weeks is set to expand into central and eastern regions.

An 84-year-old man in Missouri accused of shooting a black teenager who mistakenly rang his doorbell has turned himself in, authorities said.

Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges related falsifying business records, stemming from hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.

Inflation cooled off in December to 6.5%, but the Fed is likely to keep hiking interest rates There are signs inflation has peaked, but Federal Reserve officials say interest rates will stay elevated until price growth meaningfully slows down.

At least 46 people have been found dead in an abandoned lorry on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas.