Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, is in Washington for a series of high-profile appearances.

Officials from 40 countries met Monday in Berlin to discuss how to stay focused on fighting the increasing impacts of climate change while the world reels from the economic fallout of the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Economists predict that Russia will pay a heavy price for the war in Ukraine... in the long run. Meanwhile, signs of distress across the European continent are more immediate.

Cybersecurity researchers reported details Monday of cases where pro-democracy activists in Thailand had cell phones and other devices infected with government-sponsored spyware.

Scientists have discovered the world's largest bacterium.

The European Space Agency released a trove of data Monday on almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way.

Congress began moving the bipartisan debt limit package forward Tuesday, though frustrations with provisions in the bill could make for narrow passage in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate.

When officials in a small New Mexico city sued the governor and attorney general over their ordinance placing restrictions on abortion clinics earlier this month, they argued that a late 19th century federal anti-obscenity law superseded state law. In March, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law a measure prohibiting public entities from interfering with reproductive and gender-affirming care access.

Justice Clarence Thomas might be the most egregious when it comes to taking gifts and not disclosing them, but he’s not alone.

Thoughts on my role as a Martian Horror Writer

It's my second winter on Mars and, just like everything else, it's freaking weird out here.

Well, here's to a new year...on Mars. Also, here's to staying sane.

Water is so low in large stretches of Italy's largest river that local residents are walking through the middle of the expanse of sand and shipwrecks are resurfacing.

Albanian officials have declared the Vjosa River and its tributaries a future national park, a move aimed at preserving what they called one of the last wild rivers in Europe.

The circle of life was on vivid display at the Jersey Shore recently in a way that even the youngest children could understand.

Do-it-yourselfers and repair shops are celebrating a victory in Minnesota with the enactment of a new law that requires many manufacturers to share parts and information with tinkerers and small businesses.

Across much of the country, the jobs market is as strong as it’s ever been, and Black women, young people and people with disabilities are among the workers benefiting, recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data show.

The latest in a series of new Biden administration rule changes that charge higher fees to certain home buyers with good credit and lower fees for buyers with worse credit went into effect this week despite pushback from Republicans and many financial experts.

I wanted to see what the AI bot ChatGPT had to say about interest rates and inflation, so I asked it a couple questions. Photo by jpvalery

Buybacks and stock splits are tools for corporate financial engineering. They waste the capital of profitable companies at the expense of long term shareholders. They also distort investment decisions to maximize income from incentive stock options. They should be regulated.

For years, Congress has abdicated oversight of inflation, leaving it to the Federal Reserve to address it, usually by increasing interest rates, while the party not in power blames the president. With inflation at its highest level in decades, the Fed is using its favorite tool - raising interest rates. It's 2022, there are better, less painful ways to address inflation.

I took this shot a couple hours after arriving in Madrid.

If you drive along the coastof Gibraltar, you'll see this ship that must have run aground not far off the shore.

I forget the name of this building, but I took this shot on my phone from a park far away.