As the College Football Playoff gets ready to debut on Friday, Dec. 19, there's plenty of talk about the state of college football. Between the NIL (name, image, likeness) and the NCAA Transfer Portal ...

The City of Houston is spending $2 million to contract outside help in trash pickups. Craig Semiens was finishing his shift as a city trash collector when he jumped on a Zoom call, painting a dire ...

JANESVILLE -- In post-season football, controlling the Xs and Os is critical to success. For the Roosevelt ROObots, containing and safely detonating the UXOs will be key for the team as it attempts to ...

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The common denominator in the NBA's recent string of gambling scandals has been the types of bets involved. Jontay Porter was banned from the NBA for life for manipulating prop bets, which are bets ...

When was the last time it felt like New York City was headed in the right direction? As federal funding for housing, schools, and food security gets cut, New York’s leaders are facing crises of their ...

Seven North Carolina beachfront homes collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean since Tuesday, including six in less than 24 hours as hurricanes passed offshore. The seventh home collapsed just after 8 p.m.

Making a plug-in hybrid vehicle is quite complicated. There’s a combustion engine and an electric motor that need to be meshed together. Different automakers employ disparate strategies for how to ...

We meet a solutions architect who tells us that his defining characteristic is curiosity, and that for him success is in solving problems with technology, for people. In a recent episode of the First ...

Reading levels dropped to historic lows during the pandemic. Now parents, teachers and tech companies are hoping AI can help solve America’s literacy crisis. America’s literacy challenge has been ...

Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs, Wake Forest University While U.S. and global solutions seem far off, policies to limit harm from microplastics are gaining traction at ...

Microplastics seem to be everywhere—in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in human organs, blood, testicles, placentas and even brains. While the full health ...