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Aretha Franklin, a musician whose songs combined themes of feminism, religion, the civil rights move

Some brave early-adopters have surgically implanted a microchip in their hands, and are using it to

A ground employee at the Seattle airport stole an empty airplane, took off, flew it for an hour, and

A plane crashed shortly after taking off from the city of Durango, Mexico, but all 103 people on boa

The McDonald’s Monopoly game—the fast-food chain’s most popular promotion—was scammed for over ten y

The government of Brazil released a video of a lone indigenous man surviving in the Brazilian state

Greece faced its most devastating tragedy in over a decade when a wildfire swept through a seaside t

Recent studies by music streaming services Deezer and Spotify have found that most people reach an a

Rome is building a new subway and archaeologists keep finding hidden treasures buried deep beneath t

Several companies are developing robots to automatically prepare restaurant meals. One California re

The movement to eliminate plastic straws is spreading: the UK government plans to ban them and Starb

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a populist leader who twice lost presidential races in Mexico, swept to

In a high-scoring and at times odd final, France defeated Croatia 4-2 to win its second World Cup in

Twelve boys and their 25-year-old soccer coach were rescued from a cave in northern Thailand after f

As part of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s Vision 2030, the government of Saudi Arabia began issu

The final four teams are set: they are France and Belgium, who face off on Tuesday, and Croatia and

Venezuela is facing a slow-motion societal collapse, as shortages of food, medicine and electricity

Happy Fourth of July! Americans celebrate their nation’s birthday by having parades, watching firewo

Two soccer powerhouses fell in their first games in the knockout round of the world cup as Portugal

They are a ubiquitous part of live in New York City: the yellow plastic cards with a magnetic stripe