For the latest on Hurricane Imelda, visit the National Hurricane Center's website. Tropical Storm Imelda strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane early Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane ...

After rolling out entrance ramp metering along Interstate 96 in Oakland County, the Michigan Department of Transportation is reminding drivers to pull all the way up to the stop line on red lights.

The collection of passports for each member of the nearly 200-person traveling party the Vikings began more than five months ago, when team operations staff initiated preparations for an unprecedented ...

Investigators say that a private jet came within 100 feet of crashing into a Southwest Airlines plane on a runway in San Diego two years ago because the air traffic controllers in the tower got ...

ChatGPT users in the U.S. can now make Etsy and soon Shopify purchases within conversations, marking a next step toward the future of online shopping — both for consumers and the platforms that ...

Texas has one of the highest rates of employment among U.S. states, with more than 15 million residents working. For those looking for a job — or something that pays a lot better — the Work in Texas ...

CCleaner has long been a classic among Windows system optimizers, and next year the much-loved tool will celebrate its 20th anniversary. It has such an enduring legacy and has been so popular that ...

As I’ve said before, passwords suck. Microsoft agrees—last year, it announced a goal of getting one billion users to embrace passkeys instead. As part of that effort, setting up a passkey for a ...

A recent FTC ruling means Amazon must pay $2.5 billion. Amazon allegedly tricked customers into full Prime subscriptions. Customers can receive up to $51. If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, you ...

It seemed to be a moment that had been building up since the start of Saturday, as the rowdy crowd at Bethpage Black turned its sights squarely on Rory McIlroy. The Northern Irishman appeared to reach ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...