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Once a distant ambition for technology researchers, the prospect of artificial intelligence models teaching themselves autonomously to be more efficient and capable appears ever closer to reality.

The stabbing of a truck driver at a remote Wyoming rest stop had U.S. Sikhs on edge Friday amid rising anti-immigrant vitriol against the community and its truck drivers in particular.

The parents of a 23-year-old woman who was fatally struck after her Uber driver pulled over along a southern California highway were awarded $40 million after an arbitrator found both Uber and the driver liable for her death.

West African laboratory scientists called on governments Friday to strengthen capacity to detect disease outbreaks to avoid another major outbreak, saying health systems across the region are becoming weaker.

President Trump said the U.S. has reached an agreement with Denmark and Greenland that would give the U.S. "permanent control over security and all other needs" in the Danish island territory.

The Jehovah's Witnesses have partly eased their longstanding prohibition on the medical use of donated blood, allowing members to receive products derived from blood but maintaining a ban on transfusions of whole blood.

ICE said its pursuit of electrified shock gloves is meant to be a less violent option for officers and agents seeking to gain control of unruly individuals, reducing the need to use a Taser, baton or pepper spray.

New artificial intelligence technology is being used in the hunt for missing Americans in past wars, an investigative group announced Friday on National MIA/POW Recognition Day.

Amid growing anxiety over the risks posed by rapidly developing artificial intelligence technology, potential Democratic candidates for president are rushing to show that they're taking the warnings seriously - while Donald Trump brushes off concerns ...

The lone juror whose refusal to join the other 11 jurors resulted in a deadlocked jury and mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder case has broken his silence, disputing claims from fellow jurors that he showed doubt about the prosecution's case during ...