From actors and writers to producers and costume designers, here are 14 of the youngest winners in Academy Awards history.

The DOJ released over three million pages of new documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein and many notable developments haven't been widely covered by mainstream media.

Americans say the country's biggest problem right now is politics, per a new global Gallup survey out Wednesday. Why it matters: Only eight other countries — out of 107 — ranked politics first, a sign of heightened political polarization and overall dissatisfaction among Americans. The only country with a statistically significant higher share identifying politics at the top was Taiwan. It's under mounting political pressure from China, which doesn't consider it a country...

The Justice Department said it will seek the death penalty for the man accused of shooting two National Guard members, and killing one of them, near the White House in November. The man, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, pleaded not guilty to the nine charges against him — including first-degree murder — during his initial appearance in federal court Wednesday...

Warning: this story contains graphic content which some readers might find distressing Previously unseen photos showing Jeffrey Epstein's body lying on a stretcher and being attended to by medics in the immediate aftermath of his death have been released by the US government. Twenty images, many of which are too graphic to show, were published as part of a declassified FBI report into Epstein's death in custody, as well as a post-mortem and internal prison documents...

For years it seemed like a surefire business model: amass vast troves of financial data and sell it to Wall Street for a premium. Then Claude came along. Shares of companies such as S&P Global, MSCI, Intercontinental Exchange, London Stock Exchange Group and FactSet Research Systems all tumbled this week after fast-growing artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic unveiled a new suite of tools for automating legal tasks...

President Trump on Wednesday said he held an "excellent" phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, touting movement on soybean purchases by China as well as trade and discussions on global conflicts including Taiwan, Russia's war in Ukraine and Iran. Trump's call with Xi comes ahead of the president's expected trip to China in April. The Chinese government did not immediately have a readout of the call between the two presidents...

When I tell people that I write about rural America, I often get asked, "So, you write about agriculture?" But anyone who has spent considerable time in rural places knows that rural economies are more complex than that. Rural counties with economies dependent on farming make up less than a quarter of all nonmetropolitan, or rural, counties, according to my analysis of USDA data. And the share of the rural population that is actually employed in agriculture is in the single digits. (And farming articles make up an even smaller portion of my total writing.)...

Chinese students and scientists who are members of the Chinese Communist Party, attended schools tied to the Chinese military or worked with companies connected to Beijing's theft of U.S. technology have "infiltrated" several top American universities, according to a watchdog group report that raises fresh concerns about America's vulnerabilities to its most fierce adversary...