Google vs. Uber had all the makings of a legal showdown for the ages. Google, which previously invested in Uber, sued the startup in 2017 for stealing secrets and using them to gain an advantage in a race

A different handyman hanging drywall. Photo via Flickr user Don Hankins "I know for a fact [that] it’s drywall because I’m a handyman." A handyman in Oviedo, Florida, wound up spending a few months in

Timelessness and nothingness in California's desert.  Cathy Marshall, a New Zealand–born photographer living in Melbourne, Australia, focuses primarily on fashion and portraiture. She's been published

Perched in a tiny zodiac, Tonya Wimmer and a team of scientists jetted into the Gulf of St. Lawrence last week, the Magdalen Islands visible in the distance. Their destination: an “absolutely mammoth”

The fight ended before it even began. Footage posted online shows four Chinese police officers sweeping in and detaining controversial Chinese mixed martial arts fighter Xu Xiaodong minutes before

UPDATE June 27, 2017, 5:27 p.m: Governor Brown approved the state’s 2017 budget along with a measure that stops jails from continuing to replace in-person visitation with video calling and gives inmate

“A threat to billions of people who live on or close to coasts”   By the end of the century, coastal cities could end up a lot closer to the coast than they started out — global sea levels

A 56-year-old Texas man will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars for selling marijuana in a case that highlights the severity of the mandatory-minimum drug sentencing laws that are making a comeback

A pro-ISIS hacker who claims to have helped deface dozens of U.S. government websites over the weekend has warned that the worst is yet to come, although the person wouldn’t elaborate on where and when

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review President Donald Trump’s travel ban and partially reversed lower court rulings that blocked the ban from being implemented.   Trump’s travel

that Polish hate preachers were invited to a far-right rally   Two of Poland’s most notorious far-right hate preachers, one of them a Catholic priest, are scheduled to speak at a “rally against terrorism”

The Klu Klux Klan still has active groups in 33 states  It’s not a typo — the Klu Klux Klan has active chapters in more than a third of all states, a report published by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

Many of the states that have legalized marijuana now require tests for potency and purity to ensure that consumers know exactly what they’re buying when they visit a dispensary. But the labs that

Figures published Wednesday suggest Mexico is on course  to overtake Syria as the most violent country in the world, after  murder rates soared thanks to increased fighting among drug cartels,

Donald Trump was back in full form Wednesday night at a rally in  Cedar Falls, Iowa that ran over an hour and played like a remix of his  favorite topics. And like he has before in other

A Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot a 23-year-old man during a 2016 foot chase was acquitted by a jury Wednesday. Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown had faced up to 60 years in prison on the charge

Russian hackers targeted “election-related systems” in 21 states during the presidential election, an official with the Department of Homeland Security confirmed today in Senate testimony. The revelation

Israel started cutting electricity to the Gaza Strip this week in a move that could translate to 21-hour blackouts and intensify the coastal enclave’s already dire humanitarian crisis in the brutal

Nearly two years have passed since the image of a lifeless 2-year-old, Alan Kurdi, washed up on a Turkish shore horrified the world, waking it to a surging refugee crisis that had gone largely

Russia’s defense ministry didn’t mince words Monday about its willingness to attack U.S. military jets in Syria. Less than 24 hours after the U.S. shot down a Syrian air force jet, Russia threatened