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Pentagon says Americans shouldn't worry about the objects the Air Force shot down

Over the weekend, the U.S. military shot down a trio of flying objects. One was in Alaska, another in Canada and a third over Michigan.

New York University researchers led by Pascal Wallisch, a professor at the University's Center for Data Science, investigated why people love and hate different music and found that they typically know if they like a song within seconds of listening.

You've heard of love at first sight. How about love at first sound?

Researchers at NYU have conducted a study on how long it takes for people to decide whether they love or hate a song.

Regan Kerkman checks one of the Nebraska Mesonet weather stations near Valparaiso in southeast Nebraska. He visits each of the network’s stations four times a year to check on equipment and calibrate instruments, but funding cuts have forced the closure of some stations.

Weather stations that provide critical climate data are threatened by unstable funding

Accurate weather information is important for farmers, emergency responders and researchers managing extreme conditions. But many monitoring networks are limited by unstable, patchwork funding.

Shoppers like those at this Kroger store in Rolla, MO will see higher food prices this year, especially for meat and fresh fruit.

The pandemic boost to SNAP benefits ends nationwide in March

Emergency allotments that took effect in 2020 for those receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will end next month. Many expect the decrease will be especially challenging for low-income families.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, during the Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Grantee Conference in downtown St. Louis.

Merrick Garland heralds violence prevention through early intervention at St. Louis conference

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says his agency will offer up $100 million in grants to groups that try to stop people from committing violent crime.

Nearly 363,000 cars are recalled by Tesla to fix self-driving flaws

Federal regulators say Tesla software was breaking traffic laws in dangerous ways. The company is updating its "Full Self-Driving" software, after pressure from regulators.

Attorney Ben Crump (from left) Tyre Nichols' mother, RowVaughn Wells, and stepfather, Rodney Wells, exit the courthouse in Memphis after five former Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to second-degree murder and other charges in Nichols' death.

All 5 ex-Memphis officers plead not guilty in the beating death of Tyre Nichols

They were arraigned on charges of murder, assault and other felonies. Tyre Nichols died three days after officers beat him following a Jan. 7 traffic stop.

Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Grand Boulevard for the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade on Feb. 15, 2023.

See what Kansas City's Super Bowl parade might have looked like a century ago

Close to 1 million people gathered in the streets of the city and in front of Union Station to cheer on, and maybe even meet, the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs. But what would the grand event have looked like if happened in 1923 instead of 2023?

Marked in blue, East St. Louis is immediately adjacent to the Monsanto plant and industrial area in Sauget. This map image, captured June 17, 2020, was included in a federal lawsuit the city has filed seeking fines over alleged pollution from the plant.

East St. Louis says Monsanto polluted its land. It could cost billions in fines

The lawsuit, originally filed in 2021, accuses the agrochemical giant's plant in neighboring Sauget of polluting East St. Louis.

Kevin McCarthy leads his first border trip in his new role as House speaker

With Republicans in control of the House, Kevin McCarthy aimed to make good on promises he and his party made on the campaign trail to focus on border issues. He did that with a trip to the border.

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