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Hawaiian Electric has known for years that extreme weather was becoming a bigger danger, but the company did little to strengthen its equipment and failed to adopt emergency plans used elsewhere, like being prepared to cut off power to…

A terrestrial planet hovering between Mars and Jupiter would be able to push Earth out of the solar system and wipe out life on this planet, according to a UC Riverside experiment. UCR astrophysicist Stephen Kane explained that his…

Jurgen Klopp said Liverpool were unable to cope with Brentford's "chaos" theory in a shock 3-1 defeat on Monday that damaged their bid for a top four finish in the Premier League. Klopp's side endured a nightmare start to 2023 and they had…

Sofa Portraits, a book published by Colin Pantall this autumn, grew out of a photographic series of his daughter, Isabel, watching TV when she was a child. To the most careless glances, this would just be a series of pictures, but for those…

One natural disaster can knock out electric service to millions. A new study suggests that back-to-back disasters could cause catastrophic damage, but the research also identifies new ways to monitor and maintain power grids. Researchers at…

Former Indian cricket team captain Kapil Dev…

Americans’ income and spending failed to keep pace with rising prices in May, the latest sign that the fastest inflation in a generation is chipping away at the bedrock of the economic recovery.Consumer spending, adjusted for inflation,…

Jaylen Brown (l.) and Ime UdokaPhoto: Getty ImagesI almost wrote about the Celtics on Tuesday because I heard about these projections that had them with heavy title odds, but when I went to FiveThirtyEight to try to find them, it felt like…

The slack in the economy, as well as the fact that activity, was still catching up, also made it contingent upon policymakers to continue to maintain policy support so as to ensure that recovery becomes durable and broad-based. Reserve…