At least 70 people across the United States have died from weather-related causes after more than a week of frigid winter storms and brutally cold temperatures, according to reports from state officials, police departments, medical examiners and news outlets. The number is likely to grow as the authorities scramble to assess the death toll from […]
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The World Hasn’t Seen Cicadas Like This Since 1803
The cicadas are coming — and if you’re in the Midwest or the Southeast, they will be more plentiful than ever. Or at least since the Louisiana Purchase. This spring, for the first time since 1803, two cicada groups known as Brood XIX, or the Great Southern Brood, and Brood XIII, or the Northern Illinois […]
Read MoreScenes From the Harsh Winter Storm Sweeping the U.S.
Plunging temperatures have put much of the country in a deep freeze this holiday weekend, combining with snow, freezing rain, ice or gusty winds in some places to endanger nearly 100 million people from Northern California to coastal Maine. Forecasters said hundreds of records gauging the cold could be broken this week, as frigid air […]
Read MoreBlizzard Grounds Flights in Chicago With Warning for Millions in Northern U.S.
Planes were grounded for more than two hours at Chicago’s largest airport on Friday morning as a blizzard dumped snow and ice across much of the northern United States, disrupting commutes, air travel and the school day for millions of Americans. The blizzard also caused headaches for Republican presidential candidates in Iowa ahead of Monday’s […]
Read MoreFlooding, Power Outages, Flight Delays: What to Know After Tuesday’s Storms
Strong winds and heavy rain that pummeled much of the eastern United States left more than half a million utility customers without power on Wednesday. Roads and buildings across a wide region were flooded and battered by the storm. At least four weather-related deaths were reported in the Southeast on Tuesday, and an apparent tornado […]
Read MoreTurkeys Were a Marvel of Conservation. Now Their Numbers Are Dwindling.
When researchers started trapping and putting radio trackers on female turkeys in the thick woods of southeast Oklahoma, they hoped to learn how hens were successfully raising their young. Two years into that study, there is a complication: None of those 60 or so turkeys are known to have hatched offspring that lived more than […]
Read MoreNonunion Workers Are Playing a Big Role in the Autoworkers’ Strike
Tens of thousands of people who work for Toyota in Kentucky, Mercedes-Benz in Alabama or Tesla in Texas are technically not involved in the high-stakes negotiations taking place between labor and management in and around Detroit. But they are very much a presence. Executives at Ford Motor, General Motors and Stellantis, the parent of Chrysler, […]
Read MoreNorthern Lights Are Seen Overnight in Parts of U.S.
People from Montana to Missouri reported sightings of the aurora borealis overnight, and forecasters said the phenomenon also known as the northern lights would be visible over parts of the West and Midwest until about dawn on Tuesday. The northern lights get their name for lighting up the sky at higher latitudes. On Monday night, […]
Read MoreUAW Standoff Poses Risk for Biden’s Electric Vehicle Commitment
President Biden has been highly attuned to the politics of electric vehicles, helping to enact billions in subsidies to create new manufacturing jobs and going out of his way to court the United Automobile Workers union. But as the union and the big U.S. automakers — General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis, which owns Chrysler, […]
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