A former FedEx delivery driver who pleaded guilty to killing a 7-year-old girl in Texas was sentenced to death Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The jury handed down the death penalty for Tanner Horner after a court proceeding that lasted more than two weeks….

SpaceX plans to launch an updated version of its Starship megarocket — a new prototype of the system that NASA hopes will carry its astronauts to the moon in two years — on a critical test flight Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The stakes…

Five more states are joining a federal antitrust lawsuit aimed at stopping the blockbuster merger of Nexstar and Tegna, a corporate tie-up that would create the largest operator of local television stations in the country. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. California Attorney General Rob Bonta,…

OAKLAND, Calif. — Six tech billionaires walk into a courthouse … Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. It’s not the setup to a joke. It’s the extraordinary spectacle that played out at a federal court complex over three weeks, as a mass concentration of tech wealth…

The outbreak has been identified as a rare type of Ebola caused by the Bundibugyo virus. Spread by bodily fluids, Ebola is highly contagious and often fatal — killing between 30% and 50% of those it infects — and causing symptoms such as fever, rash and vomiting, the organization said. Unlike regular Ebola, Bundibugyo has…