Gavin Phelan, from Cape Elizabeth, created an app to alert deaf and hard of hearing people to alarms and gunshots.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has clarified comments he made about alien life on a podcast over the weekend.

Obama claimed aliens are real in a podcast clip that went viral this weekend, then walked back his declaration with a clarification Sunday night.

In a region where music history runs as deep as the Tennessee River, James Counts has spent more than 40 years making sure the Muscle Shoals sound — and the ...

Secret Stories is gearing up for its digital premiere. Helmed by acclaimed filmmaker Jeethu Joseph, the series promises an intense and suspense-driven narrative that blends mystery with psychological ...

A tech-addicted couple goes off-grid just in time to miss a fuzzy alien apocalypse in this sharp sci-fi comedy.

Some people in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles said they are installing sirens to help alert the community when federal agents are conducting immigration enforcement operations in the ...

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"I found they were not given due process," U.S. District Chief Judge James E. Boasberg said at a court hearing, referring to ...

But there's something else, too. An added twist, a further turn of the screw — an additional subtlety that makes the 1956 ...

More than 80,000 Chevy vehicles are being recalled because their pedestrian alert sound system is defective, federal regulators said. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) warned ...

More than 80,000 Chevy vehicles are being recalled because their pedestrian alert sound system is defective, federal regulators said. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) warned ...