The Chicago-based nonprofit announced today the decision to advance its Doomsday Clock closer to midnight by 30 seconds. The clock is now two minutes to midnight, the symbolic hour of imminent doom.

The group took the "unprecedented" step of moving the clock 30 seconds closer to midnight, to leave it at 2 1/2 minutes away. The setting is the closest the symbolic clock has come to midnight ...

A group of eminent scientists behind the "Doomsday Clock" has symbolically moved its time 30 seconds closer to midnight. The clock, a symbol created at the dawn of the Cold War in 1945 ...

It's now 2 ½ minutes to “midnight,” according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which warned Thursday that the end of humanity may be near. The group behind the famed Doomsday Clock ...