Early Saturday morning, when a man dressed like a police officer knocked at the home of a Minnesota state legislator, marked the start of nearly 40 hours of violence and fear that swept through towns in an arc around Minneapolis
Senate expected to pass crypto bill without addressing Trump’s investments
The Senate is voting on legislation regulating a form of cryptocurrency called stablecoins
What warped the minds of serial killers? Lead pollution, a new book argues.
When Ted Bundy was a child in the 1950s, he hunted for frogs in the nearby swamps in Tacoma, Washington. The young Gary Ridgway, the future Green River Killer, grew up just a short drive north. Both men went on to become prolific serial killers, raping and mutilating dozens of...
Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions
On a summer night in 2023, an explosion at one of Louisiana’s biggest petrochemical complexes sent a plume of fire into the sky. More explosions followed as poison gas spewed from damaged tanks at the Dow chemical plant, triggering a shelter-in-place order for anyone within a half mile of the...
From sea monkeys to Great Salt Lake gold
The shoreline of Utah’s Great Salt Lake frames an otherworldly body of water, from pastel pink to deep marine blue. In the fall, its surface transforms with slicks of gold—made from millions of brine-shrimp eggs called cysts. These tiny golden specks play a critical role in both the local ecosystem...
Alaska just hit a climate milestone — its first-ever heat advisory
In the high glare of a summer evening in Fairbanks, Alaska, Ciara Santiago watched the mercury climb. A meteorologist at the National Weather Service office, she had the dubious honor of issuing the state’s first ever official heat advisory as temperatures were expected to hit the mid-80s. It’s the kind...
Progress and frustration mark the UN’s third Ocean Conference
Delegates from around the world convened in Nice, France, last week to discuss a range of ocean priorities, including the implementation of a recently finalized “high seas treaty” to protect the two-thirds of the oceans that lie outside countries’ control. It was the third United Nations Ocean Conference, a high-level...
Spaun deserves his dream but US Open chaos did not get best from world’s elite | Ewan Murray
With thick rough around bunkers and pin positions on slopes, Adam Scott called Oakmont ‘borderline unplayable’ There should be no sense of demeaning JJ Spaun’s US Open glory if observers question the circumstances. Spaun, not so long ago a journeyman professional, played out his dream by holing out from 65ft...
Hollie Doyle: ‘I just want to be the best jockey – I don’t compare myself to female riders’
The jockey’s obsession with winning will drive her on again this week on racing’s biggest stage at Royal Ascot “I’m obsessed with winning,” Hollie Doyle says calmly in response to a suggestion that she seems consumed by racing, “but I do love horses as well. So that helps, doesn’t it?”...
Manchester United monitoring Eintracht Frankfurt striker Hugo Ekitike
Bournemouth sign France left-back Adrien Truffert Leeds fear Newcastle or Milan may hijack Bijol transfer Manchester United are monitoring Eintracht Frankfurt’s striker, Hugo Ekitike, as a potential recruit. The French forward is of interest to Ruben Amorim after United’s hopes of signing one of his prime targets, Viktor Gyökeres, receded...