How do airplane emergency slides work? A primer after JetBlue incident

From the "Miracle on the Hudson' to the Feb. 18 evacuation of a JetBlue flight at Newark Airport, the slides have saved lives.

Half daylight saving? How a new proposed time change would work

A Florida congressman has introduced a new bill to end daylight saving time, but in a new way. How would it affect your schedule?

How the rich pass on their wealth. And how you can too

The rich have made an art of avoiding taxes and making sure their wealth passes down effortlessly to the next generation. But the tricks they use – to expedite payouts to heirs and avoid handing money ...
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FAQs: What is unpaid care work and how does it power the economy?

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DHS shutdown has no clear off-ramp: 5 takeaways

There’s no end in sight for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown as both sides point fingers while seemingly ...

DHS government shutdown is underway. Here are the services affected.

The Department of Homeland Security officially shut down at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday after Congress failed to pass a bill to fund its operations before a stopgap measure lapsed.

Here’s how the DHS shutdown is impacting air travel, TSA

As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remains without funding, air travel nationwide has been impacted. Employees of the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), which is housed within DHS, ...