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America sizzled through some hot nights last month, enough to make history

America sizzled through some hot nights last month, enough to make history

An unprecedented drought is afflicting nearly half of the European continent.

Facebook is testing end-to-end encryption as a default on its Messenger app.

Chinese tech giant Huawei says its revenue fell in the first half of 2022 but new ventures in autos and industrial technology helped to offset a decline in smartphone sales under U.S. sanctions

An unprecedented drought is afflicting nearly half of the European continent and is damaging farm economies, forcing water restrictions and threatening aquatic species

ABC News’ Phil Lipof spoke with barber and TikTok star Vic Blends about offering free haircuts to people, giving back, and creating the first barbering school for California prisons.

Federal work-safety investigators are looking into the death of an Amazon worker and an injury that potentially lead to the death of another employee

More than 1,000 firefighters in France are struggling to contain a huge wildfire burning through pine forests

Landfills are releasing large amounts of planet-warming methane gas into the atmosphere from the decomposition of waste and are a significant contributor to such emissions in urban areas, a study suggests

Plus, LG announced a new 97-inch OLED EX TV panel that debuts the company's Cinematic Sound OLED and teens' addiction to social media has nearly doubled since 2014.

More than 1,000 firefighters are struggling to contain a major wildfire that has burned a large area of pine forest in southwestern France in a region that was already ravaged by flames last month

The move comes ahead of his court battle with Twitter.

Disney said it is raising prices for streaming subscribers in the U_S_ who want to watch Disney+ without ads as more viewers switch to what CEO Bob Chapek described Wednesday as the “best value in streaming.”

A cybersecurity startup informed a major Indian online insurance brokerage last month that critical vulnerabilities in its network could expose sensitive personal and financial data from at least 11 million customers

The new tools do offer some help, but they also share some deeper flaws.

China is criticizing a U.S. law to encourage processor chip production in the United States and reduce reliance on Asian suppliers as a threat to trade and an attack on Chinese business

The tech company’s Galaxy Unpacked event is expected to unveil new foldable smartphones.

The semiconductor shortage is hitting another of the world's automakers, despite demand for product

A former Twitter employee has been convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering

The family center aims to promote conversation between parents and minors about safe social media practices.

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A Russian rocket has successfully launched an Iranian satellite into orbit

A new study finds climate hazards aggravate more than half of the known diseases that infect people

Axios Media is being acquired by Cox Enterprises, which says it plans to push the online news provider into new markets while broadening its coverage

The company said the vulnerability discovered in January didn't compromise user passwords, but some personal information may have been exposed.

A new philanthropic project hopes to invest $100 million in up to 10 countries mostly in Africa by 2030 to support up to 200,000 community health workers

Japanese technology company SoftBank Group posted a $23 billion loss in the April-June quarter as the value of its investments sank amid global worries about inflation and interest rates

Elon Musk said Saturday his planned $44 billion takeover of Twitter should move forward if the company can confirm some details about how it measures whether user accounts are ‘spam bots’ or real people

China has cut off climate talks with the U.S. — imperiling future global climate negotiations, but not necessarily blunting the impacts of significant climate actions at home in both countries

Two crashes involving Teslas apparently running on Autopilot are drawing scrutiny from federal regulators and point to a potential new hazard on U.S. freeways: The partially automated vehicles may not stop for motorcycles

Twitter says vulnerability in its software that exposed an undetermined number of owners of anonymous accounts to potential identity compromise last year was apparently exploited by a malicious actor

Amazon on Friday announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for approximately $1.7 billion

Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he said held back necessary information and misled his team about its true user base

The two have a combined 92 million subscribers and will merge sometime next summer.

South Korea is on its way to the moon

Twitter denied in a court filing that it had deprived its would-be acquirer, billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, of necessary information or misrepresented details about its business

The delay of the software will take about a month, according to reports.

A judge has ruled that Elon Musk’s answer to Twitter’s lawsuit over his attempt to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the social media company will be made public by Friday evening at the latest

The Rio Grande went dry in Albuquerque last week for the first time in four decades

Authorities in Iceland say a volcano in the southwest of the country is erupting just eight months after its last eruption officially ended

As more unprecedented events occur, risk management efforts may not be enough.

Passenger trips in early spring and summer were up 25% over the same period last year.

The U_N_ nuclear chief is warning that Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine “is completely out of control.”