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The H-1B visa is having a celebrity moment, and it may never be the same.

Created in 1990 and intended for skilled foreign workers, the visa had until recently remained little known outside Silicon Valley, where ...Read more

The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have destroyed more than 10,000 structures, many of them homes, and firefighters continue to battle the infernos. Parts of Pacific Palisades, Altadena, Pasadena and other California...Read more

Rough seas caused Blue Origin to hold off a planned early Friday launch attempt with is debut of New Glenn, which is now targeting early Sunday instead. SpaceX, though, managed liftoff later Friday with a booster flying ...Read more

From the time you get up in the morning until you go to bed at night, and even while you are asleep, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency affects your life. The air you breathe, the water you drink, the chemicals ...Read more

After more than a decade of development, hype and pent-up demand, Jeff Bezos’ aerospace venture Blue Origin will at long last attempt to put a rocket into orbit.

New Glenn, originally intended to launch as early as 2020...Read more

CHICAGO — For more than 40 years, migrating birds have been crashing into McCormick Place Lakeside Center.

The glassy, low-lying convention building on the shores of Lake Michigan has been the scene of about 1,000 ...Read more

On January 10th, 1946, the first United Nations General Assembly opened in London.

WASHINGTON ― A bipartisan group of lawmakers from Great Lakes states introduced legislation Thursday to renew the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative for another five years through 2031.

The bill would also boost funding...Read more

Most male humpback whales in a Pacific Ocean population do not have offspring — and bad singing might be to blame, new research reveals.

Scientists recently conducted a paternity analysis of a population of humpbacks ...Read more

Dry conditions across Southern California set the stage for a series of deadly wind-driven wildfires that burned thousands of homes in the Los Angeles area in early January 2025.

Ming Pan, a hydrologist at the ...Read more

The Space Coast could welcome a big player to the launch landscape early Sunday with the debut of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, a two-day delay from original plans to launch early Friday.

Blue Origin announced ...Read more

The oceans are heating up as the planet warms.

This past year, 2024, was the warmest ever measured for the global ocean, following a record-breaking 2023. In fact, every decade since 1984, when satellite ...Read more

When wildfires spread into neighborhoods, they burn all kinds of materials found in cars and houses and everything around them – electronics, paint, plastics, furniture.

Research shows that the mix of ...Read more

ATLANTA — More than two inches of snow fell in metro Atlanta on a Friday in January, 11 years ago. It began late in the morning, when hundreds of thousands of students were in schools and many of the region’s 2.6 ...Read more

Snow is now expected to reach the Kansas City metro from a winter storm pushing across the southern United States overnight Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.

While initial forecasts indicated the metro ...Read more

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp has issued a state of emergency ahead of the severe winter weather expected to start in metro Atlanta in the overnight hours, though forecasts are now calling for less snow to reach the area.

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