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A rare, bright comet will be visible in October, clear skies permitting. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth on Saturday.

Amazon has been working to speed up deliveries of medication as it looks to accelerate its push into health care.

Consumers hate paying for return shipping. But as retailers struggle to keep costs in check, those fees may only increase.

After spending nearly a year at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, conjoined twins Amari and Javar Ruffin were successfully separated.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work with proteins.

The Turkish Airlines pilot who died was 59 years old. The flight was operating from Seattle to Istanbul.

Veronica Garza wanted to create a grain-free tortilla she could eat. She ended up creating a billion-dollar Mexican American food company.

Kennedy family matriarch Ethel Kennedy is recovering after she suffered a stroke, her family said Tuesday.

Forecasters warn the immense and powerful storm could generate “life-threatening” storm surge of up to 15 feet in a region that’s particularly flood-prone.

Because of the way storm surge can quickly inundate coastal locations and penetrate well inland, it’s typically one of the deadliest threats from a hurricane.

It comes after a U.S. judge found Google guilty of holding a monopoly in general search.

In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday by defeating the male behemoth that killed her cub this summer.

Justices said in the 6-3 majority opinion that Scardina had not exhausted her options to seek redress through another court before filing her lawsuit.