SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gray wolves throughout the U.S. should no longer be considered endangered, lawyers for the Trump administration told a federal appeals court on Tuesday, as oral arguments began in three cases that could significantly weaken protections for the predator canines.

The cases before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals grew out of...Read more

My dream house is going to have a home theater room with a big screen.

Sadly, my current house doesn’t have a good spot for a permanent screen.

I’ve reviewed half a dozen very nice projectors, and they all had to be placed 6 or 8 or 10 feet from the screen. The thing about projecting an image that far is that the projector light source has...Read more

Stef Garcia stands in front of her phone and sells, sells, sells.

The former reality television worker who lives in North Hollywood shows off a neon-green watch in a live video as viewers bid on her rapid-fire offers. She gives shoppers seven seconds to bid.

"Don't lose it for a dollar," Garcia says, counting down.

"Let's go!" screams her co-...Read more

When Hurricane Isaias hit the Florida Panhandle on Oct. 9, 2026, it was just the latest weather disaster for Americans in a year that continues to break records.

The hottest U.S. summer on record left millions of Americans facing life-threatening heat waves. Extreme heat and drought set the stage for wildfires. Flooding from powerful ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — An "aggressive" great white shark was spotted in the waters off Huntington Beach on Tuesday, prompting the closure of a popular surfing spot.

The Huntington Beach Fire Department said in statement Tuesday afternoon that a roughly 10- to 12-foot great white shark exhibiting "aggressive behavior" was seen near Lifeguard Tower 16. ...Read more

I’ve been a fan and user of several brands of food saver systems over the years, many of which work to perfection. After using the Fresko AutoMax V8 for the last month, it’s a game changer.

The countertop sealer is said to be the first hands-free food sealer and promises to keep food fresh and make storage easier. Best of all, it saves ...Read more

This week I heard from a reader, “I am having trouble understanding and believing the claims of these website/software vendors who say they can remove my information from all over and put a stop to spam emails and phone calls. No matter how much I research, I simply cannot find out if these people are legitimate. This whole category of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The morning DJ duo has mastered the warm, friendly banter that keeps commuters from switching stations.

As they talk to callers, discussing sports, news and giveaways, DJ GeeGee calls her co-host “my little coyote.” He calls her “my queen.”

GeeGee is Geraldine Guzman. Her popular partner is Coyotec — an artificial ...Read more

Character.ai, a California startup that has faced lawsuits over allegations that chatbots created on its platform harmed the mental health of teens and led to copyright issues, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The Menlo Park-based company runs an app that allows people to create and interact with chatbots who mimic celebrities, historical ...Read more

The crisp predawn skies over Central Florida had curious eyes wondering what was unfolding, as an orangish-blue wispy cloud billowed into life ahead of the rising sun.

For those in the know, what was forming is often called the “space jellyfish” effect, the result of the exhaust from a rocket launch creating luminescent clouds that expand ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX launched a cargo mission to the International Space Station before dawn Tuesday that brought a sonic boom and a space jellyfish effect to the skies over Central Florida.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the CRS-35 mission topped with a crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch ...Read more

Regardless of their views on politics or climate change, most Americans oppose the development of data centers in their communities.

These large buildings filled with computers that store and process digital information, increasingly to support various applications of artificial intelligence, are being built rapidly across the United ...Read more

CHATHAM COUNTY, N.C. — Despite being in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, this rural county of roughly 85,000 people is still brimming with red foxes, coyotes, white-tailed deer, and wild turkeys.

But in recent months, Enbridge Gas North Carolina’s proposed plans for a natural gas pipeline have exposed how population growth, ...Read more

Microsoft Corp. dramatically cut back investments in carbon removals in the first half of the year, as it ratchets up spending on artificial intelligence.

The company bought 8.55 million metric tons of carbon removal credits in the year through mid-July, which is about 80% less than it purchased over the same period in 2025, according to ...Read more

Meta Platforms Inc. released a long-awaited artificial intelligence model on Monday, a milestone that will test whether its multibillion-dollar push to rebuild its AI organization has improved its technology enough to compete among leaders.

Known as Muse Wonder, the new model is the company’s most capable since Meta Chief Executive Officer ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX is set to launch a cargo mission to the International Space Station before dawn Tuesday that could bring a sonic boom to Central Florida.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the CRS-35 mission topped with a crew Dragon spacecraft is set to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:33 a.m. ...Read more

From an airplane, most of the glaciers of the Rocky Mountain West look like small patches of white nestled into rugged landscape where the topography folds. The white is the snow cover, and lower down you can see the gray-blue bare ice.

In the middle of the 20th century, over 1,450 glaciers could be found in the contiguous U.S. ...Read more

California isn’t a place most Americans associate with tropical weather, but it’s taking a beating in 2026 from one of the most active eastern Pacific hurricane seasons in modern history.

For the second time ever, national forecasters issued a tropical storm watch for Southern California as Tropical Storm Rachel headed toward the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The University of California, San Diego has paused at least five clinical trials designed to cure or control HIV after the National Institutes of Health issued guidance last week that new enrollments should be put on hold.

The nation’s foremost research funding agency told scientists “they should temporarily hold off on ...Read more

When Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin,” it was a reminder that for more than a century, scientists have treated Antarctica’s environments as ...Read more