WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court made it harder for music and movie makers to sue for online piracy, ruling Wednesday that internet providers are usually not liable for copyright infringement even if they know their users are downloading copyrighted works.

In a 9-0 decision, the justices threw out Sony's lawsuit and a $1 billion verdict against...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Members of the Pennsylvania House on Tuesday approved new regulations for data centers building in Pennsylvania, in the first effort by the state General Assembly to shape the booming market.

The Democratic-led House approved a bill with bipartisan support in a vote of 104-95 to require data centers to pay for any increased ...Read more

Iran said it rejected a U.S. ceasefire proposal and maintained attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab states, delivering a blow to Washington’s efforts to end a war that’s wreaked havoc across the Middle East and global markets.

A move by U.S. President Donald Trump to start indirect talks is illogical and not viable at this stage of the conflict,...Read more

NEW YORK — New York University and unionized faculty reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday, ending a two-day strike declared as students returned from spring break.

The union, the Contract Faculty United-UAW, represents nearly 1,000 full-time NYU professors who are not on track for tenure, yet teach roughly a quarter of the private ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Florida woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that she sprayed bullets at Rihanna's West L.A. house earlier this month while the pop star was home with her husband and children.

Ivana Ortiz, 35, was charged with attempted murder and nine counts of assault following the March 8 incident. Police say Ortiz raked Rihanna's...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — They’re calling it, “The Block Party Bonanza.” A citywide, summer-long red, white, and blue bash that aims to bring America’s 250th birthday party to the streets. And applications are now open.

On Wednesday, Semiquincentennial planners said they will sponsor 250 block parties from May through October, providing winning ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said her administration has reached a deal with City Hall unions to limit GLP-1 drug coverage for weight loss that will save the city roughly $10.6 million and curb “skyrocketing” health costs.

Wu and the Public Employee Committee, which bargains health insurance benefits on behalf of City of Boston ...Read more

DENVER — The Denver Board of Water Commissioners enacted Stage 1 drought restrictions Wednesday across the water provider’s metro service area, becoming the latest utility to limit outdoor watering.

The restrictions, which were put in place immediately, limit residents to using water outside their homes, such as for their lawns, to twice ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he regretted calling Israel an “apartheid state,” weeks after criticizing the country’s attacks on Palestinians in the ongoing war with Gaza.

Newsom previously said while promoting his memoir in Los Angeles that the U.S. should rethink its relationship with Israeli while Prime ...Read more

Martine Moïse’s statement to FBI agents in the immediate aftermath of her husband’s assassination inside his Port-au-Prince bedroom has come under scrutiny as defense attorneys raise inconsistencies between her initial comments and her testimony at the federal trial in Miami stemming from his slaying.

After being airlifted to Ryder Trauma ...Read more

BALTIMORE — In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, crashing a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos to prove that we don’t have to end up like the dinosaurs.

On March 6, scientists from Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and ...Read more

When Passover arrives each spring, Jewish families around the world gather at their tables to retell a story passed down for thousands of years. At ritual dinners known as Seders, they recount the Exodus, the biblical story of the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in Egypt – asking questions, singing songs and explaining the meaning ...Read more

Iran kept up missile and drone attacks on Israel and Arab Gulf states, even after the U.S. floated a plan to end a war that’s wreaked havoc across the Middle East and in global markets.

Saudi Arabia intercepted a drone in the east of the country, while a strike targeting Kuwait set ablaze a fuel tank at its main airport. Iranian media said ...Read more

When life feels overwhelming, many people instinctively turn to nature. A walk in a park. Sitting by the ocean. Watching a sunset. Is this just a pleasant feeling, or is there something deeper at work?

A multitude of studies have linked spending time in nature with different aspects of mental health and wellness. For example, ...Read more

Teens in the U.S. are obtaining medication abortion pills through telehealth, and young people age 18 to 24 are ordering medication abortion at much higher rates than older adults.

Those are the key findings of a new study that my colleagues and I published in the journal JAMA Health Forum.

We examined requests for medication ...Read more

In an unprecedented use of federal authority, President Donald Trump’s administration has invoked emergency powers to force a series of retiring coal plants to stay open.

Utilities, states and grid operators have said the aging plants are expensive, in bad repair and no longer needed to meet regional energy needs. But Trump’s efforts to ...Read more