The Hawk Fire burning northwest of Reno, Nevada has grown to 15,051 acres with zero containment as of Monday morning, August 24, forcing approximately 42,000 people from their homes and placing another 45,000 under evacuation warnings. The human-caused fire, which ignited near Verdi on Saturday morning and exploded overnight into
The White House has served as the residence and workplace of every United States president since John Adams moved into the still-unfinished building in November 1800. What stands at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue today is the product of more than 230 years of construction, destruction, rebuilding, and reinvention — a structure
The Great Fire of 1835 was a devastating event that forever altered the landscape of New York City. In just one night, a significant portion of Manhattan’s commercial district was reduced to ashes, leaving the city in shock. But from the ashes rose a new and improved New York, shaped
The National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning effective 10 a.m. Tuesday for much of Los Angeles County, with temperatures expected to reach as high as 110 degrees during the peak of the event on Wednesday and Thursday. The warning remains in place through 8 p.m. Thursday and covers
U.S. initial jobless claims dropped to 215,000 for the week ending July 4, the Department of Labor reported Thursday, falling below the 220,000 forecast by FactSet analysts and extending a months-long pattern of historically low layoff activity. The figure declined by 2,000 from the prior week’s revised 217,000, but the
Federal student loan rules changed on July 1, 2026, ending the SAVE repayment plan and replacing a tangle of income-driven options with two new plans for the roughly 43 million Americans carrying federal student debt. The Department of Education is directing about 7.5 million SAVE borrowers to choose a new
New York City is bracing for the most logistically complex week in its modern history as three unprecedented events converge on the same metropolitan footprint. The Semiquincentennial celebrations, Macy’s 50th anniversary fireworks, and the Sail 4th 250 tall ship parade are expected to draw 8 to 10 million visitors during
The First Widespread Heat Wave of 2026 Arrives as Millions Prepare for Outdoor Independence Day Celebrations, World Cup Matches, and America 250 Events A sprawling heat dome is settling over the eastern two-thirds of the United States this week, bringing the kind of sustained, dangerous heat that transforms a holiday
The Economist Who Steered U.S. Monetary Policy Under Four Presidents Shaped Modern American Capitalism — And Drew Blame For Its Worst Crisis Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman whose 18-year tenure at the helm of the U.S. central bank coincided with one of the longest economic expansions in American
Tropical Storm Arthur became the first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season Wednesday morning, forming off the middle Texas coast and putting five states under a flood threat the National Hurricane Center has labeled life-threatening. The system’s wind profile is modest, but its rainfall payload is anything but.
The federal student loan system is about to look fundamentally different. On July 1, 2026, the most sweeping changes in decades take effect, reshaping how much students and parents can borrow and how they pay it back. For new borrowers, a tangle of repayment options collapses into just two choices.
The latest results from the country’s longest-running educational gauge deliver a split verdict: the youngest students tested are climbing out of the pandemic’s academic hole, while the teenagers just ahead of them remain stuck. The findings, drawn from the 2025 Long-Term Trend assessment released June 10 by the National Center
The flag that has flown over the United States for more than six decades is often traced to a high school history assignment and a teenager who refused to accept his grade. The story of Bob Heft has become a fixture of American folklore, repeated in classrooms and patriotic ceremonies.
In the middle of the Civil War, with the nation tearing itself apart, the federal government made a quiet decision that would shape American life for generations. On July 2, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, a law that used federal land to fund a new kind of
A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has put a number to something many American families already feel at the grocery checkout: hunger in the United States has climbed past the levels recorded during the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings, released on May 27,
The motorsports world lost one of its defining figures Thursday with the death of Kyle Busch, the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and the winningest driver across the sport’s three national series. He was 41. The Busch family, Richard Childress Racing, and NASCAR announced the death in a joint statement
By: Matthew Kayser A motorcycle crash can change your day in seconds. One moment you’re on the road, and the next you’re dealing with injuries, damage, and a lot of unanswered questions. In those first moments, it’s hard to know what matters most or what to do next. That’s why