The Trump administration wants to stop large cities that receive federal funds from providing free bus transit, a move that would hit programs across the country — and could be a setback to New York ...

The US Department of Transportation apparently thinks it’s a good idea to use artificial intelligence to draft rules impacting the safety of airplanes, cars, and pipelines, a ProPublica investigation ...

Astronomers say they have finally figured out the mysterious “little red dots,” first spotted in 2022 in images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The objects puzzled researchers because their ...

For the past few years, astronomers have grappled with a cosmic enigma first revealed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Practically everywhere JWST looked in the sky’s distant depths, ...

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Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) went into operation, red dots in its images have puzzled researchers around the world. Now, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have explained ...

The Transportation Department is seeking to scrap the use of automated traffic enforcement cameras in Washington, a move that would cost the city millions in lost revenue but would likely be cheered ...

Good morning and Happy New Year 2026. The new year is officially here, and the first morning of 2026 has begun with a mix of celebration, reflection and quiet hope across the country. After the ...

The Federal Reserve still sees just one rate cut in 2026, unchanged from its last forecast about three months ago. The central bank's so-called dot plot, which anonymously shows 19 individual members' ...

We may love them now, but polka dots used to have a serious image problem. Before the Industrial Revolution brought about machines that could produce the pattern in a symmetrical and uniform way, any ...

DoorDash is rolling out a new delivery robot named Dot, designed to navigate streets, bike lanes, sidewalks—even your driveway. Unveiled this week, DoorDash says Dot improves on the typical sidewalk ...