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After a slightly extended stay on board the International Space Station, four astronauts from four international space agencies climbed aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance and began their return trip to Earth.

A water brand with a popular social media following is now a billion-dollar company. Los Angeles-based Liquid Death has raised new capital that values the startup at $1.4 billion, double its $700 million valuation in 2022.

A tragedy played out along Florida’s Gulf Coast during spring break as a stranded 44-foot whale slowly died while stuck in the surf.

Pharmaceutical giants are mounting a vigorous legal battle against President Biden’s plan to lower seniors’ prescription drug costs, urging federal judges here and around the country to invalidate a new program that aims to reduce the price of medications for high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

Russia is weighing options for big tax increases to raise as much as 4 trillion rubles ($44 billion) as the war in Ukraine puts growing pressure on the government’s coffers.

Bitcoin topped $72,000 for the first time, advancing for a sixth straight day and taking gains this year to almost 70% on the back of massive inflows into U.S. exchange-traded funds.

On March 5, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized a rule capping credit card late payment fees at $8 for the biggest card issuers after inviting public comment on the matter last year. According to the consumer protection agency, the move is an effort to rein in “excessive” credit card late fees.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the Federal Aviation Administration will rigorously assess Boeing Co. after the blowout of a fuselage section on an Alaska Airlines flight in January.

At least 50 people have been injured after a Latam Airlines Group SA flight from Sydney to Auckland suffered a mid-air incident.

Here’s an overview of construction projects that could affect Spokane roads this week.

Lauren Sanders could not give birth in her hometown of Sandpoint. With the closure of the local hospitals’ labor and delivery services a year earlier, she had to drive over an hour to Coeur d’Alene to give birth to her son, now 4 months old .

Thousands of people took advantage of the spring weather to stroll through the Expo ’74 grounds, where they got their first glimpse of what would soon become the iconic symbol of the fair.

The pandemic affirmed my inner hermit.

Despite years of debate, land disputes and ballot measures, Sprague Avenue in Spokane Valley has remained relatively the same for decades.

It took several actions of the federal government to get the U.S. Pavilion built at Expo ’74 in Spokane.

fish ladder, swum 17 miles through urban Seattle waterways and powered through a tunnel under nine lanes of Interstate 405. It faces a gantlet of pipes and concrete tunnels ahead, the legacy of human development over once-pristine habitat. Next up is a nearly 300-foot pipe beneath an indoor shooting range and a parking lot.

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Attendees at a Johnson County Republican Party event in Overland Park, Kansas, on Friday physically attacked an effigy of President Joe Biden, according to photos and video posted to social media, prompting the state party’s former chair to call for the resignation of its current leaders.