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‘I opened her door and the wind caught me, and I went flying’: The U.S. Arctic air surge is sweeping northerners off their feet

Nationwide, more than 115,000 customers were without power Tuesday morning, around a third of them in Michigan, according to Poweroutage.us.

By Holly Ramer and The Associated PressDecember 30, 2025
Tatiana
Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK and cousin of Health Secretary RFK Jr., dies of cancer at 35
By Nick LichtenbergDecember 30, 2025
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Georgia’s ‘America First’ license plates, Washington’s $17 minimum wage and Hawaii’s climate change tourist tax: new laws are on the books
By David A. Lieb and The Associated PressDecember 30, 2025
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‘Almost impossible’: Another one of the hottest years on record brings previously unimaginable frequency of heat waves
By Alexa St. John and The Associated PressDecember 30, 2025
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Winter storm cancels more than 1,000 flights in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions as state of emergency declared in N.Y., N.J.
By Leah Willingham and The Associated PressDecember 27, 2025
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Personal FinanceToday’s best high-yield savings account rates on Jan. 1, 2026: Earn up to 5.00% APY
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Personal FinanceBest CD rates today, Jan. 1, 2026: Earn up to 4.18% APY if you lock in now
By Glen Luke FlanaganJanuary 1, 2026
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CybersecurityFeds are hunting teenage hacking groups like ‘Scattered Spider’ who have targeted $1 trillion worth of the Fortune 500 since 2022
By Amanda GerutJanuary 1, 2026
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RetailIt’s New Year’s Day 2026. What’s open and closed?
By Dave SmithJanuary 1, 2026
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SuccessCEOs say they are unplugging from the top job by cancelling all meetings and playing with Legos over the holidays
By Emma BurleighJanuary 1, 2026
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EnergyNegative prices for electricity are getting more common in Europe and consumer costs have dipped—while Americans face rising energy bills
By Jason MaJanuary 1, 2026
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Personal FinanceCurrent ARM mortgage rates report for Jan. 1, 2026
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Personal FinanceCurrent refi mortgage rates report for Jan. 1, 2026
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AIAt the edges of the AI data center boom, rural America is up against Silicon Valley billions
By Sharon GoldmanDecember 27, 2025
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EnvironmentHawaii’s Big Island cat lovers are furious about a feeding ban to protect an endangered goose species: ‘They’re both living creatures’
By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and The Associated PressDecember 27, 2025
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EnvironmentWhy coyotes won’t become the new wolves and what it has to do with moose and beaver
By Alex Jensen and The ConversationDecember 23, 2025
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North AmericaTrump administration puts offshore wind projects on hold, citing mysterious Pentagon national security warning
By Matthew Daly and The Associated PressDecember 22, 2025
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EnergySolar power and battery storage are booming despite Trump policy whiplash as clean energy meets soaring data center demand
By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated PressDecember 21, 2025
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Commentary2025: the year sustainability didn’t die 
By Andrew WinstonDecember 21, 2025
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Environment‘Mother Nature has been dealing a really hard deck’: Western ski resorts struggle with a warm, snowless start to winter
By Mead Gruver, Brittany Peterson and The Associated PressDecember 19, 2025
The Trump Media & Technology Group said Dec. 18 it would merge in a $6 billion deal with the TAE Technologies fusion energy developer.
EnvironmentCEO of nuclear fusion firm Trump Media is merging with in $6 billion deal: High-velocity capital is ‘critical’ and concerns are secondary
By Jordan BlumDecember 18, 2025
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InnovationDevin Nunes and Trump Media get in bed with Google-backed nuclear fusion company in surprise $6 billion merger
By The Associated PressDecember 18, 2025
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EnvironmentTrump goes nuclear: The president’s tech and media umbrella will merge with a fusion reactor developer in a deal valued north of $6 billion
By Dave SmithDecember 18, 2025
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North AmericaFord CEO Jim Farley said Trump would halve the EV market by ending subsidies. Now he’s writing down $19.5 billion amid a ‘customer-driven’ shift
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezDecember 16, 2025
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CommentaryColorado is suffering from Christmas Tree inflation because Denver imports most of them—from North Carolina and the Pacific Northwest
By Ali Besharat and The ConversationDecember 16, 2025
Detroit, Michigan, Residents picket DTE Energy, opposing the electric utility's plan to provide power for a proposed $7 billion data center in rural Michigan.
EnvironmentA grassroots NIMBY revolt is turning voters in Republican strongholds against the AI data-center boom
By Eva RoytburgDecember 16, 2025
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EnvironmentMaine is getting Loony again as population of beloved bird doubles since 1983
By Patrick Whittle and The Associated PressDecember 14, 2025
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North AmericaU.S., Mexico strike deal to settle Rio Grande water dispute
By Fabiola Zerpa and BloombergDecember 13, 2025
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CommentaryBanking on carbon markets 2.0: why financial institutions should engage with carbon credits
By Usha Rao-MonariDecember 13, 2025
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Personal Finance‘This year, I really see education and climate’: Patterns in billionaire MacKenzie Scott’s massive giving emerge with time
By Thalia Beaty and The Associated PressDecember 11, 2025
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AIGoogle DeepMind agrees to sweeping partnership with U.K. government focused on science and clean energy
By Jeremy KahnDecember 10, 2025
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InnovationRivian CEO says buying an EV isn’t a political choice, pointing out that R1 buyers are split evenly between Republicans and Democrats
By Jason MaDecember 10, 2025
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AIGoogle Cloud CEO lays out 3-part strategy to meet AI’s energy demands, after identifying it as ‘the most problematic thing’
By Jason MaDecember 8, 2025
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Big TechApple won’t be the same in 2026. Meet the company’s next generation of leaders and rising stars after its biggest executive exodus in years
By Dave SmithDecember 8, 2025
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Environment‘You have an entire culture, an entire community that is also having that same crisis’: Colorado coal town looks anxiously to the future
By Brittany Peterson, Jennifer McDermott and The Associated PressDecember 6, 2025
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EnvironmentThe rise of AI reasoning models comes with a big energy tradeoff
By Rachel Metz, Dina Bass and BloombergDecember 5, 2025
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Environment‘This species is recovering’: Jaguar spotted in Arizona, far from Central and South American core
By Susan Montoya Bryan and The Associated PressDecember 5, 2025
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Big TechApple is experiencing its biggest leadership shake-up since Steve Jobs died, with over half a dozen key executives headed for the exits
By Dave SmithDecember 5, 2025
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CommentaryTurning public companies into private companies: the SEC’s retreat from transparency and accountability
By Andrew BeharDecember 5, 2025
Four years ago, BKV started buying up the two Temple power plants in Texas—located between Austin and Dallas—which now total 1.5 gigawatts of electricity generation capacity—enough to power more than 1.1 million homes, or a major data center campus. There is room to expand.
EnergyHow a Texas gas producer plans to exploit the ‘megatrend’ of power plants for AI hyperscalers
By Jordan BlumDecember 5, 2025
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AIGoogle’s plan to put data centers in the sky faces thousands of (little) problems: space junk
By Mojtaba Akhavan-TaftiDecember 3, 2025
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EnvironmentSan Francisco mourns its albino alligator, Claude, dead at 30 years old
By Janie Har and The Associated PressDecember 3, 2025
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AIMore than 1,000 Amazon employees sign open letter warning the company’s AI ‘will do staggering damage to democracy, our jobs, and the earth’
By Nino PaoliDecember 2, 2025
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