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A round of severe weather brought strong winds, heavy rain and hail to Chicagoland on Wednesday afternoon. For nearly two hours, a series of watches and warnings were issued by the ...

Rope is exceedingly common on sailboats as it's necessary for all the rigging, but it's also necessary for vessels that rely ...

The rising West Coast rapper was stabbed to death backstage at hip-hop festival Once Upon a Time in L.A. Witnessing and writing about the slaying, journalist Jeff Weiss reckons with complex feelings ...

Only one world leader is fighting to end the killing of Ukrainian people. His name is Donald Trump. Putin wants to kill Ukrainians. Zelenskyy is indifferent to it. And global leadership from the ...

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The median net worth of all Americans (half have less ... Everest with a ruler and comparing one inch to the mountain. Now stack inches of $192,900 to equal the net worth of Elon Musk.

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

I know it is anthropomorphic, and therefore wrong, to think of terns as classier versions of gulls. In the proper scientific sense, class should only be considered in the taxonomic sense. But I have ...

Next, he held a ruler in one gloved hand and a pen in the ... Mattern said proudly of his progress, and “I’ll be half an inch.” On the way to his ultimate goal: 5 feet 10.