South Carolina billionaire investor and hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent faced questioning on Capitol Hill Thursday during his Senate confirmation hearing to be the country’s next treasury secretary.

Over 75 extremely rare sea creatures — about “20% of the entire population” — were spotted off the Maine coast, photos show. Aerial surveys over the Gulf of Maine captured the group of North Atlantic ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick- also called a deer tick - is a risk during spring, summer, and fall. A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors , ...