Year: 2025

The Commerce Department has indefinitely suspended work on a tool to help communities predict how rising global temperatures will alter the frequency of extreme rainfall, according to three current and former federal officials familiar with the decision, a move that experts said will make the country more vulnerable to storms […]

Dear Girls, At your Aunt Cassie’s wedding, the emergency alert blared on my phone: FLASH FLOOD WARNING.I scanned our surroundings.We were half-way up a hill, but in a flimsy tent, with you all scattered, playing with your cousins. My mind raced through scenarios about how to collect you and get […]

President Trump and many leaders of the country’s largest technology and energy companies announced more than $90 billion in new investments from private companies for Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Mr.Trump, who spoke for about 30 minutes during a roundtable discussion at the Inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon […]

After YouTube , now Meta has announced its plans to crack down on ‘unoriginal’ content across its social media platform Facebook.The company has detailed the new measures on the Facebook Creators blog.With this move Meta aims to combat low-quality, repurposed, or plagiarized material that are circulating on the platform.“We’re making […]

Former President Joe Biden defended his use of an autopen during a recent interview, shedding light on his administration’s rationale for the controversial use of the technology.The interview with the New York Times was centered around his use of an autopen during the last pardons that he made during the […]

Camp Mystic’s leader got a ‘life threatening’ flood alert.They evacuated an hour later. Much of what made the camp special also put it at heightened risk as the river rose to record levels, a Post investigation found. Camp Mystic Executive Director Richard “Dick” Eastland did not begin to evacuate the […]

Archaeologists recently uncovered multistory buildings from a lost Egyptian city in the Nile Delta, fostering new insights into urban life in antiquity.The ruins of the city – known in ancient times as Imet or Buto – are located at the site now called Tell el-Fara’in.The University of Manchester announced the […]

Sen.Maria Cantwell said Sunday the federal government must take responsibility for investigating the breakdown in flood warnings during the recent deadly storms in Texas , calling it a “national responsibility” to improve forecasting systems and prevent future disasters. “It’s not community to community.It’s a national system,” said Cantwell on “Face […]

Sen.Maria Cantwell said Sunday the federal government must take responsibility for investigating the breakdown in flood warnings during the recent deadly storms in Texas, calling it a “national responsibility” to improve forecasting systems and prevent future disasters.”It’s not community to community.It’s a national system,” said Cantwell on “Face the Nation […]

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov.24, 2024.The original video can be viewed here . The Merriam Webster dictionary defines lowrider as “a customized car with a chassis that has been lowered so that it narrowly clears the ground.” Lowrider also is used to describe […]