ST. JOSEPH, Mich.– Video from a pier along Lake Michigan on Thursday morning showed thick coats of ice along the railings caused by an arctic blast of air dropping temperatures across the U.S. While ...

The study’s authors examined 50 years of data on the Great Lakes to better understand the relationship between ice cover and evaporation during the winter months. Randy Carlson, of the University of ...

Historian Walter Isaacson’s new book “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written” analyzes just one line of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have voiced support for Venezuelan ally President Nicolás Maduro amid escalating tensions with the United States. The backing of ...

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