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When 32 countries this week moved to tap their emergency crude oil stockpiles in an effort to steady soaring oil prices, the gesture was quickly overshadowed by Iran's escalating strikes in the Strait of Hormuz. The members of the International Energy Agency (IEA), a coalition of major energy‑consuming nations, agreed on Wednesday to release hundreds of millions of barrels

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, which makes the Grok chatbot, is being sued by teenagers who say the company's AI models were used to create nonconsensual nudes of them. Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images Three Tennessee teenagers have filed a class action lawsuit against Elon

As Hungary enters the final month of its election campaign, the tension between it and Ukraine seems to reach new heights every day. Hungary's ruling Fidesz party has made anti-Ukraine messages a core pillar of its campaign, claiming Ukraine could meddle in the election and even attack Hungary. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on the other

Residents and Taliban police gather the remains of a projectile at the site of a strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 13. Barackatullah Popal/AP hide caption toggle caption Barackatullah Popal/AP KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan accused Pakistan of targeting a hospital for drug users in the Afghan capital late Monday, saying the airstrike had killed at

Deep in a forest in the German state of Bavaria, Jürgen Grötsch fights his way through low-hanging branches. He is heading for a secret location hiding a bounty worth millions. If tapped successfully, it could change clean energy generation around the world. The treasure in question is a rare form of hydrogen that flows naturally from the ground.

A federal judge in Boston blocked changes to U.S. vaccine policies championed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Samuel Corum/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Samuel Corum/Getty Images A federal judge Monday dealt a major blow to the Trump administration's efforts to overhaul the nation's vaccine policies, including the controversial

A debate this week in the European Parliament this week made one thing clear: When it comes to Iran, Europe is struggling to turn concern into influence. Members of Parliament argued over how the EU should respond to the US-Israeli strikes against Iran, a sign of starkly exposed divisions across the bloc and within the EU's own

The U.S. Supreme Court Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from going ahead with plans to deport some 6,000 Syrians and  350,000 Haitians who were granted Temporary Protected Status by Presidents Obama, Biden, and Trump himself in his first administration. But

You know that colleague you see Monday through Friday? The one who keeps telling you about their relationship drama, monopolizing lunch-break conversation and expecting sympathetic commentary about the same issues every single day? Or what about your dad, who calls with tech questions multiple times a week, then proceeds to criticize your lifestyle but still expects

A tsetse fly — their bite can spread the parasite that causes sleeping sickness. Patrick Robert/Corbis/Sygma/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Patrick Robert/Corbis/Sygma/via Getty Images Sleeping sickness is a notorious disease — immortalized in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. A single bite from a tsetse fly carrying the parasite is all it takes to