The first sign is silence. The fridge quits its tiny opera. The Wi-Fi blinks a farewell. Somewhere, a neighbor yells, “Is it just me?” Nope. The lights are out, but this is not the apocalypse; it’s ...

If you're planning to increase your electrical load by adding a new major appliance, make sure your panel can handle it. Here's how.

Whenever I tried operating both at the same time, the main breaker in the panel tripped, because the combined load ... Include 1,500 volt-amperes for each 120-volt 20-amp kitchen circuit, and likewise ...

The best part about post-mortem teardowns of electronics is when you discover some unusual design features, whether or not these are related to the original fault. In the case of a recent ...

A federal appeals court handed SpaceX a win on Tuesday, in a ruling that prevents the National Labor Relations Board from prosecuting unfair labor practices against the company. The ruling by the U.S.

Caryn Devins Strickland testifies before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, on legislation that would expand federal protections for employees of the federal judiciary ...

A federal appeals court panel declined Louisiana’s invitation to gut a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) that has required the state to draw additional majority-minority districts, ruling ...

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Gov. Kathy Hochul has proudly touted her Housing Compact that she negotiated in 2024 with the goal of building 800,000 new units of housing over the next decade. But two years earlier, in her first ...

An appeals court late Friday mostly kept in place restrictions on "roving" immigration raids in the Los Angeles area, agreeing with a lower court judge who found that sweeps conducted by the Trump ...

TikTok is launching its own version of community notes in the US called "footnotes." The tool lets TikTok users chip in on identifying bad or misleading information in videos. The company is joining ...