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Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday . Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species found in the U.S. and Canada.

NEW YORK (AP) — In a closing argument, a prosecutor told New York jurors Wednesday to follow overwhelming evidence of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried 's “pyramid of deceit” to find him guilty of defrauding customers and investors of at least $10 billio

OTTAWA — A coalition pushing for better regulation of facial recognition and other biometric surveillance technologies says proposed federal privacy legislation is in "dire need of significant amendments.

It's the kind of problem nonprofit leaders dream about: What do you do when you get an unexpectedly large donation? Summer Science Program, a nonprofit with an annual budget of about $2 million, sent about 200 high school juniors to six-week intensiv

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft on Wednesday encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its long journey to Jupiter.

With last year’s undersea volcano injecting massive amounts of water high into the atmosphere, scientists were bracing for a big Antarctica ozone hole this fall. But it didn’t happen.

The Associated Press news website experienced an outage that appeared to be consistent with a denial-of-service attack, a federal criminal act that involves flooding a site with data in order to overwhelm it and knock it offline.

LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom is hosting the AI Safety Summit , bringing politicians, computer scientists and tech executives to a site chosen for its symbolism: Bletchley Park, synonymous with codebreaking and the birth of computing.

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NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried underwent a final barrage of questions on Tuesday from a prosecutor aimed at showing that he’s not being honest about how much he knew about the disappearance of $8 billion from his customers’ accounts, s