Narrow European streets aren’t charming by accident — they’re legal. In the U.S., minimum lane widths, fire access rules, and zoning codes mandate streets far wider than necessary for safety. This ...

East Moline, Illinois (KWQC) - The East Moline trucking company Standard Forwarding is closing this week. The company announced the news in a statement on its website: “Effective December 29, 2025, ...

Genetics aren't necessarily destiny for those with mutations thought to always cause inherited blindness, a new study says. Fewer than 30% of people with these genetic variants wind up blind, even ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - The Iowa Insurance Division (IID) is warning Iowans about inheritance scams that increase during the holiday season. Iowans have been receiving letters claiming they have a ...

The fatal stabbings of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, the photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, have sparked widespread grieving. This tragedy, discovered on Dec. 14, 2025, is ...

Anthropic PBC said today it’s updating its Skills feature, which enables companies to teach its powerful large language model how to perform very specific, work-related tasks. The update comes as the ...

In the desert of New Mexico, under wide open skies, the US Border Patrol is bulking up. A record number of recruits, many Latino, Spanish-speaking, and from border towns they know well, are heading to ...

Methane isn’t just an environmental buzzword—it is energy lost. Every puff of gas from a cow’s rumen represents feed energy that could have gone toward growth, milk or a calf. That simple truth is ...

FRANKFURT, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Germany's financial market regulator BaFin said on Tuesday that it was ordering the German unit of Standard Chartered (STAN.L), opens new tab to fix organisational ...

Dear Eric: My wife and I will soon receive a small inheritance from the death of one of my relatives. Since we do not need most of this money, we have decided to distribute it among our children and ...

A couple with deep ties to the Chicago area is donating $11 million to Lurie Children’s Hospital in hopes of speeding research, treatment and diagnosis for children with rare and genetic disorders.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A genetic variant is likely putting some children suffering with myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle — at higher risk of developing heart failure, which can be fatal, ...