In our everyday lives, environmental conditions like temperature and humidity can have a big impact, whether it’s in your home, office, greenhouse, or server room. Imagine leaving your room for a few ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — It’s not every day that an all-time record is broken, but that was the case on Wednesday afternoon. The relative humidity in Chicago dipped to a desert-like 11% at 5 p.m., making it ...

I don’t like horror movies, scary TV shows, or true crime podcasts. I still occasionally check behind the shower curtain after being peer-pressured into watching I Know What You Did Last Summer in ...

Serial killers are among the worst of the worst criminals. Their crimes? Heinous and shocking. Yet, society's fascination with these murderers is undeniable. Perhaps it's because we seek to understand ...

Our obsession with serial killers and true crime probably has concerning implications for our collective psyche. Why are we so drawn to darkness? The same could be asked of many of the protagonists of ...

Some hot days feel even worse thanks to high humidity, trapped heat and dew points. Cities are especially vulnerable. By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. It ...

For lack of a better term, the 1970s and '80s are often called America’s “Golden Age” of serial killers throughout the Pacific Northwest. (Its nickname, after all, is “America’s Killing Fields.”) In ...

Growing up on Washington state’s Mercer Island in the 1960s and ’70s, the writer Caroline Fraser got used to hearing people puzzle over why the Pacific Northwest was such a hotbed of infamous serial ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said in a new interview that President Trump told her he would not pardon those convicted of a failed plot to kidnap her in 2020. “Well, I think anything short of ...

Long Island Serial Killer suspect Rex Heuermann was charged with seven murders as of December 2024 James Carbone/Newsday RM via Getty In 2010, human remains were found in Gilgo Beach on Long Island in ...

A military judge has ruled that plea agreements in the 9/11 case were valid, making it possible for the three prisoners accused of helping to plot the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to be sentenced ...