America's billionaires have grown .1 trillion richer during the pandemic
Billionaires are minting money during the pandemic, even as millions of Americans join the ranks of the poor. Read more...
Airbag jeans and high-tech vests could make motorbikes safer
Balanced on two wheels without a protective shell, riding a motorbike is far more dangerous than driving a car. In the United States, for example, motorcyclists are about 28 times as likely as car occupants to die in a crash. Read more...
Is Rivian the Next Tesla? Investors Bet Big on Electric Truck Maker
Rivian, which has raised another .65 billion, plans to sell a pickup truck and S.U.V. it has worked on for more than a decade. Read more...
California's monarch butterfly under threat from climate change
Just 1,194 butterflies were reported in 2020, down from 29,000 in 2019. Monarch numbers have been declining precipitously for decades, from over 4 million in the 1980s to 200,000 in 2017. Read more...
President Biden Vows to Speed Up the Pace of Inoculations
The Biden administration is nearing a deal that would enable 300 million Americans to have their shots by summers end. Heres the latest on the pandemic. Read more...
Social media triggers a sharp decline in teenagers' self-esteem, study finds
A study of 5,000 young people born around the year 2000 has found mental health and wellbeing drops among children at around 14, with social media playing a role in the decline. Read more...
A Season of Chaos Will End With a Powerhouse Matchup College Football Wanted
Alabama and Ohio State took different paths to the national championship game, with twists that showed how much college football wanted its biggest stage to feel familiar. Read more...
A Total Failure The Proud Boys Now Mock Trump
Members of the far-right group, who were among Donald Trumps staunchest fans, are calling him weak as more of them were charged for storming the U.S. Capitol. Read more...
Irish traveller, 20, reveals she isn't allowed to go on holiday until she is married
Caitlin, 20, from London, has gained thousands of social media followers after revealing an insight into her life with her sister Lizzy, 18, as an Irish traveller on TikTok. Read more...
Teacher wrote a gossip blog about his pupils saying girls 'look like Eastern European prostitutes'
Alexander Price, 43, offended pupils, parents and colleagues at Denbigh High School in Denbigh, North Wales, with his mystery gossip blog called 'The Provoked Pedagogue'. Read more...
Cricket WAG Candice Warner reveals whether she and husband David will expand their brood
She a doting mother to her three young daughters, who she shares with her cricket star husband David Warner. Read more...
Lawmakers Push for Selena to Be Added to National Film Registry
Lawmakers and experts hope that by adding the film to the National Film Registry, more doors could open for Latinos in movies and television. Read more...
NYPD officer is shot in the back while on plainclothes patrol in the Bronx
The officer, 31, is in stable condition after police say he was shot in the back while pursuing a gun-violence related suspect, who's now in custody. Read more...
Covid has killed 100,000 people in the UK. Experts say government is getting it wrong
Scramble for vaccines gets ugly Read more...
Bill Ted Face The Music review Laugh-out-loud funny at times, and thin and slow at others
The enduring appeal of Bill Ted's Excellent Adventure - released way back in 1989 - hangs on three things. Read more...