The hardest-right members of the Republican Party voted down the California congressman’s candidacy for the third day in a row, leaving the legislative branch without a leader. This hasn’t happened since 1859
The politician, the first since 1923 to lose a vote to lead the House of Representatives, had longed for years to be speaker, one of the most important offices in US politics
Eleven years after accompanying the American climber on his toughest free solo in Yosemite, filmmaker Peter Mortimer has released the footage
A nuclear fusion experiment at a US national lab reached a milestone on the path to producing clean and almost endless energy, although commercial applications are still a long way off
Scientists for the first time achieved a reaction with a net energy gain. Secretary Jennifer Granholm called it one of the most impressive scientific achievements of the 21st century
Although the incidents would seem to have increased in recent years, this practice, intended to show the love (or disdain) of the fans, is not new
Scientists transmit a message through a space-time tunnel and achieve a breakthrough in quantum mechanics
Nearly 50,000 academic researchers and teaching assistants have downed tools, threatening to derail spring admissions and cause exam chaos as employees demand salary hikes in line with spiraling living costs
With gas prices rising and winter coming, the Biden administration is reaching out to the Maduro regime, in hopes that the Venezuelan leader will partner with private multinational energy companies to increase output
A new technique for regenerating cells is not ready for humans, but has potential for extending the quality of life
An analysis of the huge floating island of garbage in the Pacific Ocean reveals that it mostly comes from five countries, but experts warn other environments like the Sea of Japan and the Mediterranean are similarly affected
The founder of the FTX platform watched his entire fortune evaporate in a matter of days
State vote-by-mail laws, the Georgia runoff and the tight result are delaying the outcome
The trailblazer has taken his message to Harvard, where he teaches the importance of the circular economy
The shadow cast over the campaign by the ex-president, weak party leadership and campaign failures took their toll on conservative aspirations in the US midterms
‘The Oppermann Brothers’, Lion Feuchtwanger’s seminal book about the German Reich, has been republished in the US to great acclaim
His book ‘City of Quartz’ became a bestseller when it was published, despite its pessimistic portrait of the Californian metropolis
With the midterms looming, Democrat strongholds are at risk as issues such as rising fuel prices and the state of the economy take center stage
This is the first time pharmacy chains have been ordered to pay money in a lawsuit relating to the epidemic, which has caused more than 500,000 overdose deaths over two decades
