October 13, 2025, was an exciting day for Joel Mokyr, who received the news of a lifetime: He had just been announced as the ...

Today is Saturday, Oct. 18, the 291st day of 2025. There are 74 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1977, Reggie Jackson hit three home runs in Game 6 of the World Series to lead the New York ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize for "having explained innovation-driven ...

The stars are aligning for María Corina Machado, the long-suffering Venezuelan activist and politician who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Friday. Not too long ago, the situation for Venezuela’s ...

Donald Trump did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and rightfully so. Though he constantly brags about world conflicts he says he has stopped, he has sown rancor, discord, tumult and chaos in his own ...

The winner of the Nobel Prize in literature was announced this week. It went to the Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai. I've been covering the prize announcement for more than a decade now, and I ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: If something good is done for selfish reasons, does the fact of the base motive tarnish the benign ...

Trump and his allies campaigned for an award that has frequently been used to send a message as well as bestow an honor. Maybe next year. It was perhaps not a coincidence that the announcement Friday ...

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning ...

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Venezuelans in “Little Venezuela” — the largest home for the country’s natives in the United States — are welcoming the news that opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the ...

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Corina Machado, is widely seen as worthy of the award. Yet Venezuelan opposition activists are wondering if her recognition will help end Caracas’s ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday despite jockeying from his fellow Republicans, various world leaders and — most vocally — himself.