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Columbia University agreed Friday to put its Middle East studies department under new supervision and overhaul its rules for protests and student discipline, acquiescing to an extraordinary ultimatum by the Trump administration to implement those and other changes or risk losing billions of dollars in federal funding.

U.S. President Donald Trump awarded Boeing on Friday the contract to build the U.S. air force's most sophisticated fighter jet yet, handing the company a much-needed win and boosting its shares.

Flight backlogs could continue for days after an electrical fire closed London’s Heathrow Airport, one of the world’s busiest travel hubs, causing global travel chaos.

When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ice shelf, they knew they had to stop what they were doing and go check it out. But they didn't expect to find a rich and flourishing ecosystem.