USA Update

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- It's possible that Hurricane Milton could impact flights in Florida, the Sioux Falls Regional Airport said in a social media post Monday. "We are expecting several airports in Florida to be severely impacted. Please check directly with your airline regarding any delays or cancellations to your travel plans," the airport [...]

Starting this year, the weather alerts used to express the danger of cold air will change.

As recovery efforts from Hurricane Helene continue across the southeastern U.S., federal and state officials have warned that misinformation and conspiracy theories are hindering efforts to provide aid and accurate information to victims.  The American Red Cross said misinformation is hurting relief efforts, while Deanne Criswell, who leads the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said the […]

In roughly 24 hours — a mere day — Hurricane Milton grew from a tropical storm to a fierce Category 5 hurricane. With winds pushing 175 miles per hour early Monday afternoon, it’s one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic.  Forecasters expect Milton, which is now churning in the Gulf of Mexico […]

The history of video games is full of wild, untold stories fit for great documentaries — so Polygon decided to make one.  Produced and directed by our own Clayton Ashley and Simone de Rochefort, and narrated by New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, The Great Game unravels the making of the iconic ‘90s video game […]

Cassie Fitzwater hadn’t thought about Nutter Butter in years — until she saw the brutal crime scene photos. A post on TikTok showing the home of a peanut-butter-cookie family smeared in peanut butter gore — the aftermath of a double cookie homicide — left Ms. Fitzwater, 31, of Summersville, W.Va., “disturbed” and in “disbelief,” she […]

The US Supreme Court on Monday threw out an appeal from President ‘s administration to enforce federal guidance in  requiring hospitals to perform abortions if necessary to stabilize a patient’s condition in a medical emergency.  A lower court had earlier halted the enforcement of this guidance, after authorities in Texas argued the state’s laws already […]

Oh, to feel this free. On Saturday evening, the interstellar entrepreneur Elon Musk didn’t merely walk onstage for his surprise cameo at a Trump rally in Butler, Pa. He hopped onstage. He bounced. He jumped like a Pixy Stix-enhanced toddler who was up well past his bedtime. During a day that vacillated between rousing and […]

At some point during our high school years, we all were taught the main components of the Moon: crust, mantle, and core. A recent study has determined that there might be something else inside the Moon—and that something is moving around inside that big ball of rock and metal.  Scientists at NASA and the University […]

Al Pacino revealed on a podcast this weekend that he almost died during a bout with Covid-19 — a near-death experience that left the star actor pondering his mortality. Pacino, 84, was plugging his memoir “Sonny Boy” on The New York Times’ podcast “The Interview,” when he recounted how in 2020 he’d fallen sick at […]