Silicon Valley investors behind a secretive $800 million land-buying spree got off to a rocky start with the voters they need to build a green new city in Northern California.
Deb Hardy
Staff Writer
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In final hours before landfall, Hurricane Idalia stopped intensifying and turned from Tallahassee
Experts say the hurricane’s eye experienced a phenomenon that kept it from getting stronger.
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Late-night hosts team up for ‘Strike Force Five’ podcast to benefit their out-of-work staff
Because their respective shows have been dark since the Writers Guild of America went on strike in May, all profits from the podcast will go to their respective staffs.
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This isn’t what I ordered: Lawsuits accuse Burger King, others of ads that misrepresent their foods
Food ads have long made their subjects look bigger, juicier and crispier than they are in real life.
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Ceremony marks start of journey home for Indigenous totem pole taken to Scotland a century ago
Carved from red cedar in the 1860s, the pole includes family crests and animal and human figures.
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Son stolen at birth hugs Chilean mother for first time in 42 years
A 42-year-old Virginia man got to embrace his birth mother for the first time during a long-awaited family reunion in Valdivia, Chile.
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Pope says ‘backward’ U.S. conservatives have replaced faith with ideology
Pope Francis made the comments in a private meeting with Portuguese members of his Jesuit religious order while visiting Lisbon in August.
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Faculty member fatally shot in University of North Carolina building
A lockdown Monday paralyzed the campus community for hours as police searched for a suspect.
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HBCU students alerted campus security officer before Jacksonville rampage
The president of the historically Black institution in Jacksonville, Florida, says a campus security officer tipped off by observant students likely stopped the killer who fatally shot 3 people.
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Florida governor declares widespread state of emergency ahead of Idalia’s expected landfall
Florida residents are evacuating from homes in low-lying areas along the Gulf Coast as forecasters predict that Tropical Storm Idalia will hit the state as a major hurricane by Wednesday.