Emily Schmall

Researchers at the University of Tokyo published findings on a method of attaching artificial skin to robot faces to protect machinery and mimic human expressiveness.

The incident came months after another tourist was killed in Zambia when an elephant charged her group. One wildlife expert said the attacks were most likely “freak accidents.”

The credit card company acquired Tock, a restaurant reservation company, after buying its rival, Resy, in 2019. Its cardholders spent $100 billion in restaurants in 2023, the company said.

Lief, as the antelope was known, was comfortable with humans. A squeezable food pouch, which is among items banned at the zoo to protect the animals, was found in the exhibit.

The groups say they are increasingly confused and frustrated by how major technology platforms moderate posts about abortion services.

In 1974, a high school commencement ceremony in Moore, Okla., was interrupted by a tornado warning. Decades later, students finally turned their tassels.

It’s the first big heat wave of the year.

Hamdi Ulukaya called the craft brewer, said to be the country’s oldest, a “grand jewel.” Anchor’s former owner, Sapporo, put it into liquidation last year, citing the effects of the pandemic.

Bruhat Soma spelled a stunning 29 words correctly in a 90-second spell-off to claim victory in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

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This was featured in live coverage.

Larry Connor, 74, who made his wealth in real estate, said he’s building a new acrylic-hulled submersible that will be certified and rigorously tested to show that deep sea exploration is safe.

A traveler used the tower as an anchor to try to pull out a pickup that was stuck in mud at the national park in California.

A skeleton found in the chimney of a Wisconsin music store in 1989 has been identified, relaunching a police investigation that had been dormant for decades.

The driver of the pickup truck was charged with D.U.I. manslaughter.

Several rivers north of Houston were forecast to reach or exceed their floods of record, the authorities said. Evacuation orders were in place for some areas.

Climbers were navigating rock, snow and ice on Mount Johnson when they fell about 1,000 feet, killing one and injuring another, the National Park Service said.

When Rogelio Villarreal bought rose-gold earrings for a price that the luxury retailer said was a mistake, he looked to a Mexican consumer protection law. He later said the company delivered the earrings.

The 33-inch model surfaced on eBay after disappearing around 1979. An auction house is giving it to the son of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek.”

Luther Hall won the judgment against a former colleague in connection with a beating that took place during a 2017 protest where he was undercover.

The author of the best-selling book series said she had been undergoing treatment for glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, after a diagnosis in 2022.

At a time of heightened confusion and legal battles over access to abortion, women are looking to social media for answers.

The barges, some carrying coal, damaged a marina. One barge, which likely sank, remained missing on Saturday, an official said.

A judge denied Morgan Geyser’s request for release on Thursday, nearly a decade after the attack by a pair of 12-year-olds against their friend stunned residents of Waukesha, Wis.

Some Muslim communities rely on a centuries-old method to determine when Ramadan ends: a crescent moon. That method was harder to follow this year.

Divers found the body of Maynor Yasir Suazo Sandoval, one of the six workers who went missing in the collapse. Three others remain unaccounted for.

Taylor James Johnatakis, 40, coordinated rioters to rush a police barricade at the Southwest stairs to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Six men went missing after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in late March, and three bodies have been recovered. They were doing maintenance work on the bridge.

The cargo ship that struck the bridge in March suffered two electrical blackouts before it left the port, the National Transportation Safety Board said.

A Louisiana priest was convicted in the sexual abuse of the ex-deacon’s son. What followed was a lawsuit and now the Catholic Church’s highest censure.

The groups, which are springing up across the country, allow people to talk through their emotions around environmental change.

The cache of artifacts was discovered in the attic of a veteran’s home after he died. The items were turned over to the F.B.I., which arranged for their return eight decades after the war.

About 80 musical acts, conference speakers and sponsors have pulled out of the festival in Austin to protest sponsorship by the U.S. military, which has lent support to Israel in the war in Gaza.

A Missouri hospital said the amputations involved mostly fingers and toes after a game in January when temperatures were below zero.

Two National Guard soldiers and a Border Patrol agent died in the crash in Texas during what the military says was a routine mission on the border.

A 19-year-old man was looking at the glowing orange sky when he was struck by a butane canister from a quarter-mile away, the authorities said.

Photos on social media showed two locomotives and several container cars derailed. No one was injured and no hazardous materials leaked, officials said.

The company announced the departure of its most famous spokeswoman in a corporate filing that sent the stock into a tailspin.

As more details emerged about the suspect in the death of a nursing student, the community remained in shock of the first homicide on the campus in decades.

The blaze spread quickly in a pair of buildings in Valencia, Spain’s third largest city.

The much-loved marsupial, Saffron, was known to frequent the French Quarter with his owner. A friend started a petition for the opossum’s return after state wildlife authorities seized him this month.

A decades-old rule that requires candidates to list previous names on election paperwork has become an obstacle for all four transgender people seeking state office in Ohio.

A fan asked his Oklahoma radio station to play a new Beyoncé song. The request was rejected, spurring hundreds of calls and emails about the exclusion of Black musicians from the genre.

Traci Soderstrom, a district judge in Lincoln County, said that the messages sent while she was on the bench during the trial were “inappropriate.”

Andrew Blair Howard was found with a shovel at the site of a newly created channel at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, prosecutors said.

The planes, bound for Las Vegas and Orlando, made contact as one was entering a de-icing pad. Both aircraft were damaged, but no injuries were reported.

In a widely viewed TikTok video, a high school history teacher highlighted the errors, which appeared in a “Civil Rights Magnetic Learning Activity.”

The remains of Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Ga.; Specialist Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Ga.; and Specialist Breonna Alexsondria Moffett

The likelihood is high of a storm system bringing record rainfall, significant flooding and several feet of snow to portions of California.

The parent company of the streaming services Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu announced the change in updated service agreements this week.

Ashton Connor Garcia, who called himself a “cyberterrorist,” made 20 calls about fake bombs, shootings and other threats that drew police responses, officials said.

The class-action suit said the genetic testing company failed to notify customers whose personal information was compiled into “curated” lists that were sold on the dark web.

Estrangement felt like a hole that was impossible to fill. The birth of my daughter provided the impetus to try.

In freezing temperatures, the batteries of electric vehicles can be less efficient and have shorter range, a lesson many Tesla drivers in Chicago learned this week.

More than 40 million Americans were under winter weather advisories on Saturday, with blizzards in the Midwest, flooding in the Northeast and freezing temperatures across much of the country.

A decades-old hole in the sidewalk has recently drawn millions of views online and inspired Chicagoans to visit and even make offerings. No one knows where it came from.

Its disappearance from store shelves invited nostalgic posts on social media. “Best two seconds of flavor you’ve ever had,” one person wrote on Reddit.

Temperatures were forecast to drop

Forecasters warned of low visibility and dangerous driving conditions during the heaviest snowfall, which could reach one to two inches per hour.

Vanessa Joy, who wanted to run for a state House seat, said she was unaware of a statute that said candidates must disclose previous names on nominating petitions.