New York Times

When teachers do assign whole books, they often choose from a stagnant list of classics.

Days of heavy rain pushed waterways to record flood levels in a mountainous region north of Seattle. “Do not wait,” local officials warned residents, urging them to seek higher ground.

For China, President Trump’s moves to loosen chip controls, soften U.S. rhetoric and stay silent on tensions with Japan amount to a rare string of strategic gains.

The order would create one federal regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

The company said the new law, which makes it illegal for children under 16 to have social media accounts, infringes on children’s rights.

A gas line explosion in Hayward, Calif., sent multiple victims to the hospital and led to a fire that burned several houses.

President Trump’s failure to ram through a Republican-friendly House map was a new sign that his iron grip on the party has slipped, and was likely to reverberate nationally.

The loss of federal funding forced a difficult decision, the executive director of Arkansas TV said: Cut PBS, or go off the air entirely.

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, has overseen President Trump’s immigration policy, including efforts to detain more immigrants and pause visa applications.

A new technology release from OpenAI is supposed to top what Google recently produced. It also shows OpenAI is engaged in a new and more difficult competition.