Current and former OpenAI employees sold $6.6 billion in shares to a group of investors, pushing the privately held artificial intelligence company’s valuation to $500 billion, according to a source ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth’s nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of human-caused climate change and people moving closer to wildlands ...

Transmission lines have been linked to the start of the Eaton fire in January. But another kind of line — distribution lines ...

Three new wildfires have been confirmed in the Northeast Region over the last few days. Two blazes were identified Monday ...

Spending time in a burn zone can come with exposure to certain toxins — sometimes including lead, arsenic, mercury and ...

The quiet Sunday afternoon of California’s Tri-Valley was jolted by the thunderous boom of ceremonial cannon fire September ...

The tone has bordered on smug among executives of the Southern California Edison Co. ever since the Eaton Fire last January destroyed most of Altadena and some of neighboring Pasadena, consuming a ...

The devastation left in the wake of January’s Eaton and Palisades fires was unimaginable. The firestorms engulfed 59 square ...

A mass shooting and devastating fire at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, left four people dead and several others wounded. Search crews have combed ...

The aftermath of the intense Sept. 26 monsoon storm resulted in deaths and led Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and Globe to declare ...

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“Notorious for getting it wrong,” was the judgment of Speaker Mike Johnson. “Making the same mistakes,” was the refrain from ...