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People watch as waves build near the Pensacola Beach Gulf Pier in Pensacola Beach, Florida, on October 9, 2026, as Hurricane Isaias continues moving north toward the Florida Panhandle.

How the oil industry is preparing for Hurricane Isaias

Hurricane Isaias is this season's first Atlantic hurricane, and is on a path to hit the northern Gulf Coast. How is the oil industry preparing?

Tennessee Assistant Attorney General John W. Ayers, left, presents arguments during a court hearing, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn., as attorneys for Christa Pike request the Tennessee Department of Corrections to preserve all evidence related to her failed execution.

Judge orders that Christa Pike execution evidence be preserved

A week after the failed execution, Pike is awake but is said to be angry and confused. Her lawyers said Wednesday's hearing was about "transparency."

Sebastian Stan plays a man accused of abusing his own children in Fjord.

Five children are taken from their parents in 'Fjord,' which won top prize at Cannes

Cristian Mungiu's latest film takes place in a small Norwegian town, where a recently arrived couple stands accused of abusing their children — but in Fjord, the truth is never quite clear.

When Lee Krasner was asked in a 1978 interview what she was doing while her husband Jackson Pollock was becoming so famous, she said, "I was working all the time." Krasner is shown above, at work, in 1981.

The Met puts a modern artist front and center (and there's some Jackson Pollock, too)

In a blockbuster show, The Metropolitan Museum of Art places the work of two major 20th century artists side by side: the married couple Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock.

The bacteria that causes bubonic plague.

What is the pneumonic plague?

The ancient disease of plague is back in the headlines after the death this month of a Russian lab worker.

State workers march along 16th Street during a SEIU Local 1000 picket outside the CalHR building in Sacramento on July 22, 2026.

California’s biggest state worker union authorizes strike in Newsom’s last months

Demanding better pay and a more flexible work-from-home policy, state workers in SEIU Local 1000 voted to authorize a strike as the union negotiates with Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The U.S. last held a public execution in the 1930s. The Pentagon wants to change that

The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, the site of his 2009 mass shooting. That would be the first public execution in the U.S. since the 1930s.

With drought conditions likely to continue through the fall and forecasts calling for a warm winter, a state hydrologist thinks 2027 could be the second straight year with a lack of water for irrigation.

Oregon's drought eases slightly, but forecasted conditions could mean the problem persists or worsens

Oregon saw a slight reduction in drought conditions in September thanks to cooler and wetter than normal weather. But drought-alleviating conditions could be sparse in the coming months.

Pedestrians walk on the campus at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026.

Cornell president calls gang rape allegations 'deeply disturbing'

Cornell president Michael I. Kotlikoff said his university "must do better" in a video statement. "This is a defining moment in Cornell's history," he added.

A Tsimane extended family gets ready for the morning, while a large pot of manioc roots cooks in preparation to make shocdye, a local fermented brew.

Gut microbes followed migrating humans across continents, new study suggests

New research looks at the surprising similarities in the gut microbiomes of hunter-gathers in Tanzania and horticulturalists in Bolivia, and asks: What role do these bacteria play in human health?

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