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CHICAGO — Parts of Cook and Will counties were hit by another round of dangerous weather Wednesday, just a day after two tornadoes tore through Chicago’s southern suburbs.

The back-to-back storms this week are the ...Read more

It’s hard to remember a worse time than now to purchase a computer.

Computer hardware prices have spiked globally over the past year, and experts say they won’t get cheaper anytime soon. From companies purchasing ...Read more

Tropical Storm Cristobal formed in the Atlantic on Wednesday as no threat to land, but the National Hurricane Center continued to track two other systems headed toward the Caribbean with a chance to develop into the season...Read more

Mark Zuckerberg wants AI for all, not just a few.

In the last month, there has been heated debate in Silicon Valley and Washington over whether advanced artificial intelligence is too dangerous to be freely available as ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday was busy keeping track of three systems including one with a high chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a...Read more

As summer temperatures soar across the United States and Europe, cities are being forced to confront the difficult reality that they’re getting dangerously hot.

Record-breaking heat waves strain power grids, ...Read more

You're the sentence doctor. Each of these sentences suffers from faulty syntax, wordiness, passivity, poor word choices and/or awkward phrasing. Examine each ailing sentence, make a diagnosis and rewrite it back to ...Read more

The Fender x Teufel’s Rockstar Cross Bluetooth 5.0 speaker has it all: great sound at any volume and a rugged, good-looking design for portability.

Inside the rugged 5.1-by-15-by-6.3-inch, 5.3-pound speaker are two ...Read more

This week, a reader writes, “Please tell me how to block sexually explicit emails. I block them but that doesn’t stop them.”

Yikes.

Nobody needs uninvited sexually explicit emails in their inbox.

We have all ...Read more

“Marvel Snap” has had an uneven year. It started strong with a season focused on dragons and a second volume of Guardians of the Galaxy. Second Dinner introduced powerful cards that overwhelmed players with power and...Read more

CHICAGO — Illinois is requiring polluters to begin reporting spills of industrial plastic pellets known as nurdles, a growing source of contamination in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds.

Companies that ...Read more

On August 12th, 1851, Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine.

CHICAGO — Extreme weather usually doesn’t scare Mary Beth Uretz, but she spent Tuesday morning crying in her Homewood basement, clutching her pets as the storm pounded.

“Psychologically, it’s a lot to deal with,�...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Coastkeeper and the Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation have settled a yearslong Clean Water Act lawsuit against the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission and its contractor, Veolia ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday further raised already high odds that an Atlantic system could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm this week.

If it were to spin up into a named system, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — “One bald eagle changed the world.”

So wrote Victoria Novak of Georgia, referring to Jackie, the internet-famous bald eagle who died Monday after weeks of intensive care for a mysterious illness.

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California will begin phasing out paraquat, a powerful weedkiller associated with birth defects, thyroid issues and other serious health problems.

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation said this week all ...Read more

JUNEAU, Alaska — Suicide Basin, the source of Juneau’s annual glacial outburst floods, was full as of 9 a.m. Tuesday, putting the Mendenhall Valley on standby.

With the basin full, the 2026 flood is expected to occur ...Read more