On July 24, 1915, a picnic steamer rolled over in the Chicago River while still tied to the dock, trapping Western Electric workers and their…

Samuel Insull pioneered the regulated natural-monopoly utility, the model that still powers your lights, then stacked holding companies so a thin…

She was a nun at twenty-five, empress consort at thirty-one, and at sixty-six she did what no woman had done in three thousand years of Chinese…

The legacy model names stop resolving at 8:59 AM Pacific while V4 general availability still has no entry in the official changelog; Microsoft…

Patreon cuts 93 people, 20% of its staff, as CEO Jack Conte says AI has "fundamentally transformed" the industry while insisting the platform is not…

The FDA's July 22 recall covers 1,589,577 dozen eggs from two Texas farms with sell-by dates running through Aug 17, so check cartons for plant code…

Apple's final iOS 26 point release ships July 27 (build 23G71, last week's release candidate). The headline change is invisible: it pre-builds the…

She owns the best three-point percentage of the six shooters and a 14-of-27 hot streak, yet oddsmakers rank her third behind Azzi Fudd and Marina…

No regular-season games until next week, but the league takes over Chicago for its 30th-anniversary All-Star Weekend: the State Farm 3-Point Contest…

Eight titles arrive on Netflix US this Friday, led by the Kevin Hart comedy 72 Hours from Ride Along director Tim Story that critics are mostly…

One SF/Bay Area opening a day, chosen and checked. Today: San Anselmo's turn, as the chef who ran Charles Phan's Slanted Door kitchens for more than…

Sixty-eight living people we could verify share today's birthday, from Jennifer Lopez, turning 57, the first woman ever to top the album and film…

The first hololive mobile game topped iOS free-game charts across Asia and debuted at 2 on Japan's grossing chart on launch day, yet the US free…

Six games including the original Metal Gear Solid are free to play on Steam through July 27, Yet Another Zombie Defense HD is free to keep through…

A 30-minute Sichuan plate that takes the dish a pockmarked grandmother built beside a Chengdu bridge in 1862 and keeps its soul intact: cubes of firm…

Boston Logan's ground stop has been extended to 6:15 PM ET from thunderstorms over the field with roughly 170 delays and more than 70 cancellations…

The CPUC pushed its deadline to decide PG&E's 2024 wildfire-cost application to Feb 19, 2027, and PG&E has not asked for interim collection, so the…

The first roster change since the July 11 debut: Oklahoma City's salary-dump trade sends Lu Dort to Atlanta, updating the list at No. 70 with no rank…

The off-season's most-asked question gets an answer, the prediction-market crackdown lands its strangest case yet, and the Season 52 cast list keeps…