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Netflix says more than 100 million people tuned in to watch a boxing match last week, and many people reported problems with the stream. What is needed for streaming to serve huge live audiences?

The turnout rate in this year's presidential election was relatively high — and Republicans did really well, contradicting conventional political wisdom that high turnout benefits Democrats.

As a new Trump administration signals a retreat on climate action, China is stepping up. China is the biggest producer of climate technologies, and it's making money selling them around the world.

Mike Dubke {DUB-key} served as White House communications director for then-President Trump's first term. He shares his thoughts on some of the possible incoming members of the next administration.

NATO is one of many national and global institutions that President-elect Trump has criticized over the years. What will his pick for ambassador to NATO mean for the organization?

A piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million at an auction Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur.

Everett's novel James is a retelling of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. The prestigious literary prize also awards the best in non-fiction, poetry, translated literature and young people's literature.

If a judge orders Google to sell Chrome, it could dramatically upend the multibillion-dollar online search business.

One of the world's richest people has been indicted on charges he duped investors in a massive solar energy project in India by concealing that it was being facilitated by an alleged bribery scheme.

In her new book The Serviceberry, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer argues that humans would be wise to learn from the circular economies of reciprocity and abundance that play out in natural ecosystems.