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Thanks to a recent blizzard of executive orders and late-night congressional maneuvers, the nation’s public lands have become the latest target in the giant sucking vortex of current American politics. The current ...Read more

For decades, Hollywood directors including Stanley Kubrick, James Cameron and Alex Garland have cast artificial intelligence as a villain that can turn into a killing machine.

Even Steven Spielberg's relatively hopeful "A...Read more

On May 28th, 1588, the Spanish Armada began to set sail for the English Channel.

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX managed to send its developmental Starship back into space surpassing the explosive fates that befell its last two attempts, while also for the first time flying with a reused Super Heavy booster. ...Read more

As the Colorado River’s giant reservoirs have declined during the last two decades, even larger amounts of water have been pumped and drained from underground, according to new research based on data from NASA satellites...Read more

The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear an Apache religious challenge to the construction of a massive copper mine on Oak Flat, a swath of untouched federal land in Arizona that tribe members consider sacred and ...Read more

SpaceX looks to get its developmental Starship back into space, this time with less explosions, and for the first time flying with a reused Super Heavy booster.

The massive combined rocket and spacecraft is targeting ...Read more

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. —Two decades after Macomb County officials first noticed a peregrine falcon nest atop the Old County Building in downtown Mount Clemens, the species continues to come back to nest and now three newly...Read more

CHICAGO — Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal mine, the...Read more

On May 27th, 1883, Alexander III was crowned Tsar of Russia.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Get ready, California.

The official start of summer less than a month away, and it’s shaping up to be a hot one.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center ...Read more

CHICAGO — For nearly four decades, owners of the Baldwin power plant in southern Illinois managed to avoid the most stringent requirements of the federal Clean Air Act.

The gargantuan coal burner, built during the early...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — With the hurricane season starting soon, you are certain to hear about categories and other terms used to describe hurricane strength. Tropical systems tracked by the National Hurricane Center will be ...Read more

On May 26th, 1897, Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula" went on sale in London.