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In this undated photo provided by the Portuguese Navy on Feb. 18, 2022, smoke billows from the burning Felicity Ace car transport ship as seen from the Portuguese Navy vessel NPR Setubal southeast of the mid-Atlantic Portuguese Azores Islands. The large cargo vessel carrying cars from Germany to the United States sank in the mid-Atlantic 13 days after a fire broke out on board.

Ship carrying thousands of luxury cars sinks in the Atlantic after burning for weeks

The total estimated loss for the cargo, including Porsches, Bentleys, Lamborghinis and Volkswagens, aboard the Felicity Ace is close to $440 million.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he has lined up $46.5 billion in financing to buy Twitter, and he's trying to negotiate an agreement with the company.

Twitter in talks with Musk over bid to buy platform, according to reports

The Tesla CEO says that the money to buy Twitter would come from Morgan Stanley and other banks, some of it secured by his huge stake in the electric car maker.

This photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions shows a submersible vessel named Titan used to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic.

Search intensifies for the missing submersible as underwater noises are detected

Rescue teams seeking the submersible housing five tourists who had planned to visit the wrecked Titanic said "noises" had been detected close to where the sub ended contact with its mother ship.

Stephen Moore speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. He withdrew from consideration for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board, President Trump said.

Trump Says Stephen Moore No Longer Being Considered For Fed Post

The Trump campaign adviser and conservative pundit who came under criticism from lawmakers and economists has withdrawn his name from consideration to serve on the Federal Reserve Board.

Police are "responding to nonviolent, noncriminal calls for service for people whose needs are largely social, behavioral or mental. And that's just not right," says San Francisco Fire Capt. Simon Pang, who's helping to spearhead efforts to create new mobile crisis teams for the city.

Removing Cops From Behavioral Crisis Calls: 'We Need To Change The Model'

San Francisco will soon launch the nation's largest experiment that diverts most nonviolent mental health and behavioral crisis calls away from police and to specially trained mobile units.

The operations room at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Va., near Washington. The center was created in 2003 to synthesize all the incoming information about potential threats. The CIA, FBI, National Security Agency and even local police departments all have officers at the center. Every 12 hours it puts out a situation report that is shared across the national security community.

With ISIS And Al-Qaida Weakened, U.S. Faces An Evolving Anti-Terror Mission

The U.S. has delivered powerful blows to al-Qaida and ISIS. So what should the U.S. do now to combat terror? NPR's Greg Myre went inside the National Counterterrorism Center to ask that question.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Tex., as seen at the Capitol on June 5, 2024. Doggett is the first congressional Democrat to publicly call for President Biden to quit his reelection bid.

Rep. Doggett calls on Biden to withdraw. He's the first Democrat in Congress to do so

Rep. Lloyd Doggett represents a safe Texas seat. He says he had hoped President Biden's debate performance would give him a boost. "It did not," Doggett said.

The latest COVID vaccines come with new FDA limits

The Food and Drug Administration approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines, but is restricting them to people at high risk for COVID complications.

Benches With A Story Pop Up On Bloomington's West Side

A group of west Bloomington volunteers are taking a stand to help their neighbors take a seat.Two-dozen benches are being installed at Connect Transit bus…

Discovery on Launch Pad for Wednesday Liftoff

The countdown continues toward Wednesday's planned launch of the space shuttle Discovery on the first mission following the 2003 Columbia disaster. Since then, NASA has been working to implement more than a dozen critical repairs and new procedures.

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