You can take simple steps to help protect your property, such as ensuring that gutters, storm drains and stormwater systems are clear and ready to do their part in carrying off heavy rain.

Extreme weather is dangerous weather, and that’s particularly true for the heavy rainfall events that experts say are becoming more frequent with climate change. The powerful storms can pose threats ranging from falling limbs to downed power lines to drowning.

The popular chocolate brand is recalling some Dark Almond Sea Salt and Everything bars sold across the United States.

Another day, another recall: On Tuesday, popular chocolate brand Tony’s Chocolonely recalled seven lots of two of its flavors, Tony’s Dark Almond Sea Salt Bar and Everything Bar, following reports from consumers who found small stones “not filtered during third-party almond-harvesting and the almond-processing process.”

ResiClub analyzed end of March 2025 housing inventory data just released from Realtor.com. Here’s what it shows.

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A new study reveals how oversaturation, perception, and industry labels are keeping women creators underpaid.

Influencing has a major pay gap, and it’s not what you might expect. 

Earthquake preparation hinges in large part on the expertise of scientists and engineers in federal agencies who develop earthquake hazard models and building codes.

Earthquakes and the damage they cause are apolitical. Collectively, we either prepare for future earthquakes or the population eventually pays the price. The earthquakes that struck Myanmar on March 28, 2025, collapsing buildings and causing over 2,700 deaths, were a sobering reminder of the risks and the need for preparation.

Confused by Trump’s tariff charts? Us too.

In a showy speech at the White House yesterday, President Trump announced his most sweeping tariffs to date—and the news has sent the global economic order into chaos.

TikTok’s photo-sharing app will go dark on May 8, with users encouraged to move to Lemon8. Here’s what happened—and what it means for TikTok’s evolving strategy.

TikTok is shutting down TikTok Notes—wait, you didn’t even know it existed? Well, that explains a lot.

Heard and McDonald Islands, accessible only by boat and unvisited in a decade, are now trade targets.

On Wednesday, President Trump unveiled a series of sweeping tariffs that not only targeted major U.S. trading partners but also included small, remote islands and territories.

Retailers may not be able to fully offset these tariffs, as countering the impact of the levies on Vietnam alone would require price increases of 10% to 12%, per analysts.

Prices of Nike Jordan and Adidas Samba sneakers are likely to rise in the U.S. after President Donald Trump imposed a raft of new tariffs on Vietnam, China, and Indonesia, key manufacturers of sportswear and apparel.

After months as Trump’s austerity czar, Musk is stepping away from government—but not before torching his own brand.

Tech leaders often brand themselves as “disruptors”—and few fit that label more snugly than Elon Musk. In the three months since joining Donald Trump in the White House following Trump’s election, Musk has certainly disrupted Washington. Now, reports suggest Musk is preparing to exit his government post, having led the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and overseen sweeping cuts across numerous federal agencies.

When the region experiences droughts, as it did in 2023–2024, the resulting water shortages can lead to increasing water conflicts.

The Panama Canal is one of the most important waterways in the world, with about 7% of global trade passing through. It also relies heavily on rainfall. Without enough freshwater flowing in, the canal’s locks can’t raise and lower ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Droughts mean fewer ships per day, and that can quickly affect Panama’s finances and economies around the world.

No longer the sole owner of cutting-edge models, OpenAI is evolving into a full-fledged consumer tech brand.

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One worker revealed that her name was the only correct item in her firing notice.

Termination notices sent by billionaire Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team to U.S. Agency for International Development staff were so rife with errors that corrected versions are being issued to avoid affecting pensions and pay, according to five sources familiar with the issue.

The New York subway system map just got its first full redesign since 1979.

One of the world’s most iconic and controversial maps just got a major redesign. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York has unveiled the final version of an updated map of its subway system, marking the first time the map has had a full redesign since 1979. It’s a visually bold, user-centric design that, according to the MTA, will make it easier for people to understand where they’re going and how to use the system. The new maps are expected to be installed in train cars and stations over the next few weeks.

TikTok faces the threat of being banned in the United States unless it reaches a deal with a non-Chinese buyer by April 5.

As the weekend deadline for TikTok to find a buyer approaches, bidders for the short-video social media site are piling up.

The violent weather caused 3 fatalities in Missouri and Tennessee.

Violent storms and tornadoes tore through cities from Oklahoma to Indiana during what could be a record-setting period of deadly weather and flooding, destroying homes and sending debris nearly five miles (eight kilometers) into the air in one location.

Dozens of tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings were issued Wednesday and early Thursday from Texas to West Virginia as storms hit those and other states. Forecasters attributed the violent weather to daytime heating combining with an unstable atmosphere, strong wind shear and abundant moisture streaming into the nation’s midsection from the Gulf.

Sgt. Clark Parrott of the Missouri Highway Patrol said at least one person was killed in southeast Missouri, KFVS-TV reported, while part of a warehouse collapsed in a suburb of Indianapolis, temporarily trapping at least one person inside. In northeast Arkansas a rare tornado emergency was issued as debris flew thousands of feet in the air.

The Tennessee Department of Health confirmed two weather-related fatalities, one in McNairy County and the other in Obion County, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency announced early Thursday.

The coming days were also forecast to bring the risk of potentially deadly flash flooding to the South and Midwest as severe thunderstorms blowing eastward become supercharged. The potent storm system will bring “significant, life-threatening flash flooding” each day through Saturday, the National Weather Service said.

With more than a foot (30 centimeters) of rain possible over the next four days, the prolonged deluge “is an event that happens once in a generation to once in a lifetime,” the weather service said. “Historic rainfall totals and impacts are possible.”

More than 90 million people were at some risk of severe weather in a huge part of the nation stretching from Texas to Minnesota and Maine, according to the Oklahoma-based Storm Prediction Center.

Trump maintains that the import taxes, ranging from 10% to 49%, would bring jobs back to the United States.

Sweeping new tariffs announced Wednesday by U.S. President Donald Trump provoked dismay, threats of countermeasures, and calls for further negotiations to make trade rules fairer.

But responses were measured, highlighting a lack of appetite among key trading partners for an outright trade war with the world’s biggest economy.

Trump said the import taxes, ranging from 10% to 49%, would do to U.S. trading partners what they have long done to the U.S. He maintains they will draw factories and jobs back to the United States.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said they are a “major blow to the world economy,” while Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said they will have a “great impact” on U.S.-Japan relations and Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo called for emergency measures to support industries affected by the tariffs.

Asian markets fell in Thursday trading and U.S. futures tumbled.

Nearly all imports into the U.S. now face a minimum 10% tariff, with much higher rates on key nations.

Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced a slew of tariffs on nearly every country in the world—over 180 of them, notes CNBC. The tariffs Trump announced are higher than most economists and business leaders feared.

After a decade, the beloved Disney show is getting a reboot.

Are you ready for another 104 days of summer vacation?