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Workplace safety regulators say they are investigating two incidents at automaker Tesla's factory in Northern California

Environmentalists are asking an appeals court to reinstate a rule restricting harmful methane emissions on U.S. lands, at least temporarily

The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into whether AT&T and Verizon and a standards-setting group worked together to hinder consumers from easily switching wireless carriers

Scientist Nerses "Krik" Krikorian, who became a legend in the once-secret New Mexico city where the atomic bomb was developed, has died

Cities and even countries now such as Great Britain are looking at banning straws because plastic pollution is a huge global problem

A British teenager has been jailed for two years for compromising the email and phone accounts of senior U.S. government officials in what a judge called acts of "cyber-terrorism."

Reports say Netflix is considering buying and owning movie theaters.

Audit of Facebook's privacy practices found no problems, though company knew a data-mining firm improperly obtained private data from millions of users

A volcano in southern Japan has erupted for the first time in 250 years, and the authorities have set up a no-go zone around the mountain

As doors close in the US, Chinese telecoms and smartphone giant Huawei shifts focus to Europe

Attorneys for a British cybersecurity expert credited with stopping a computer virus got more time to prepare for arguments on whether to suppress statements he made to the FBI after his arrest on criminal indictment

The Senate narrowly confirmed President Donald Trump's choice of a tea party congressman to run NASA

Social media is helping fuel activism by teachers seeking better wages and improved funding for education across the country

Officials are eyeing ways to protect a threatened squirrel species amid plans to expand a dam in western Idaho

Los Angeles harbor commissioners have approved a permit for Space Exploration Technologies to build a facility to manufacture a Mars rocket that will be so big it will require an oceangoing barge for transport to launch sites

Attorneys for a British cybersecurity expert credited with stopping a computer virus got more time to prepare for arguments on whether to suppress statements he made to the FBI after his arrest on a criminal indictment

Scientists in Singapore designed the robot to do the delicate work quickly.

A Los Angeles City Council committee has approved an environmental review exemption for a tunnel Elon Musk wants to dig to test a novel underground transportation system

A measure approved by Maryland lawmakers would create more transparency for online political ads on social media platforms like Facebook to help stop foreign influence in the state's elections

NASA marks Hubble Space Telescope's 28th launch anniversary with peek into a wild stellar nursery

Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos revealed for the first time a specific number of Prime memberships.

Adrian Abramovich is accused of making nearly 100 million fake calls in three months and faces a proposed $120 million fine by the Federal Communications Commission.

The parliament in Belarus has passed a measure prohibiting internet users from commenting on forums without authorization and requiring online publications to register with the government as mass media

The Chinese government says Qualcomm Inc.'s plan for its $44 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors 'has difficulty' resolving concerns of anti-monopoly regulators

Amazon has persuaded more than 100 million shoppers to subscribe to its Prime service as its empire and ambitions expand

NASA's newest planet-hunting spacecraft rockets away; SpaceX booster lands on floating platform

NASA's Tess spacecraft embarks on quest to find planets around neighboring stars that might support life

Brown University's brain science institute has been given $100 million to advance the understanding of the brain and what causes Lou Gehrig's disease, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases

The European Parliament is repeating a call for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify about the internet giant's data privacy scandal, after Zuckerberg offered to send someone else in his place

The chief of the Russian communications watchdog has admitted to blocking access to millions of IP addresses in a so far futile attempt to block a popular messaging app