On Dec. 6, 1917, a blast from a cargo ship in Halifax harbor destroyed the city.

A federal indictment charges U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida with stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds, laundering some of the money through straw donors to her congressional ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In South Africa ’s oldest township, volunteers in wetsuits jump into the thigh-deep water of the polluted Jukskei River to untangle a net that’s designed to trap garbage but ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Battered by last month’s ferocious climate-fueled hurricane, Jamaica joined other small island nations and impoverished countries at Monday’s United Nations climate talks to ...

The six-part documentary explores the United States’ founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence, examining how these “turned the world upside-down.” It airs nightly through Nov. 21.

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding ...

LONDON (AP) — A London judge ruled Friday that global mining company BHP Group is liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster when a dam collapse a decade ago unleashed tons of toxic waste into a ...

The filmmakers behind When Machines Prescribe — which premiered on the PBS science series NOVA, produced by GBH — are recipients of the 2025 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award in the Video Spot ...

Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment: • PBS Western Reserve has a couple of locally produced programs premiering the next two Fridays. “Feed Our Region” at 9 p.m. Nov. 14 looks at the ...

Operation Space Station will air on November 5th and 12th, with the first part, High-Risk Build, focusing on the engineering and construction of the ISS. Part two, Science and Survival, will tell the ...

After 25 years of continuous human presence in orbit, PBS’s NOVA takes viewers inside the most ambitious space habitat ever built with Operation Space Station, a two-part docuseries premiering ...

On his 2,200-acre farm near Brownton, Minnesota, Ryan Mackenthun — whose great-great-grandfather founded the farm in 1887 — says the weather couldn’t be better. Clear October skies and ...