The internet has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989. Now, in an era of growing concern over privacy, he believes it's time for us to reclaim our personal data.
Virginia schools can require masking for peers and teachers of 12 students with disabilities to protect from virus exposure as part of reasonable accommodations under federal disability law, according to a settlement reached this week.
From the executive suite to the grocery aisles to the halls of the Federal Reserve, the big question is: Can red-hot inflation be vanquished without tipping the economy into a recession?
More than a third of US parents say that vaccinating children against measles, mumps and rubella should be an individual choice and not a requirement to attend public school, even if that may create health risks, according to survey data published Friday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Weaker-than-expected retail sales in November pummeled market sentiment on Thursday and raised the odds that the Federal Reserve's inflation-fighting interest rate hikes would push the economy into recession.
Facing a dramatically narrowed path to passing legislation next year, the White House has started to zero in on potential openings that Republicans' precariously slim, four-seat House majority may create.
An informal group of Black elected officials has lit up over phone calls and texts since Election Day. They're worried about Black turnout that continues to underperform and talking ideas about how to turn it around before the next presidential election.
California's air regulators approved an aggressive plan Thursday for the state to reach carbon neutrality by 2045 -- in line with legislation signed by Governor Gavin Newsom earlier this year.
Billie Moore -- the head coach of the first US women's Olympic basketball team, the first head coach to lead two schools to national championships in women's basketball and a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame -- died Wednesday at the age of 79.
Texas Department of Public Safety investigators looking into the botched response at Robb Elementary School have become increasingly troubled by the actions of two officials -- former Uvalde schools police chief Pedro "Pete" Arredondo and former Uvalde Police Lt. Mariano Pargas -- according to law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation.
The mother of one of the four college students killed near the University of Idaho last month expressed frustration over police communications on the status of the investigation into the murders.
TikTok may surface potentially harmful content related to suicide and eating disorders to teenagers within minutes of them creating an account, a new study suggests, likely adding to growing scrutiny of the app's impact on its youngest users.
Democratic investigators on the House Intelligence Committee have alleged that US intelligence agencies may have lost a critical opportunity to gather useful information on the Covid-19 pandemic's origins by failing to pivot its collection resources earlier. In a report released on Thursday morning, the Democrats also laid out perhaps the most detailed timeline to date of the litany of warnings the intelligence community offered the Trump administration in the early days of the pandemic.
Puck's William Cohan tells "Nightcap's" Jon Sarlin why Elon Musk might want to run Twitter into the ground. Plus, journalist Jacob Silverman predicts what could cause a true crypto apocalypse following the arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried. And the Washington Post's Taylor Lorenz explains why American tech giants want to make TikTok the boogeyman. To get the day's business headlines sent directly to your inbox, sign up for the Nightcap newsletter.
Two technology industry groups asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to review a hotly debated Texas law restricting social media platforms' ability to moderate content, potentially opening the door to a sweeping reinterpretation of First Amendment precedent.
Hill leaders are hoping the Senate will be able to imminently pass a major defense policy bill and a stopgap government funding bill to avert a shutdown at the end of the week -- but timing for final passage of the two measures is unclear as lawmakers attempt to sort out last-minute issues.
One of the three University of Virginia football players shot dead as they returned from a field trip last month was on the phone with his mother just before the shooting, she told NBC.
The city of Virginia Beach has reached a $3 million settlement with the family of Donovon Lynch -- a 25-year-old man who was fatally shot by a police officer last year -- the city and the family said in a joint statement.
