School districts race to invest in cooling solutions as classrooms and playgrounds heat up

After striking for over a month, video game performers have reached agreements with 80 games that have signed interim or tiered budget agreements with the performers' union and accepted the artificial intelligence provisions they have been seeking. Members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists began striking in July after negotiations with game industry giants that began more than a year and a half ago came to a halt over AI protections. Union leaders say game voice actors and motion capture artists’ likenesses could be replicated by A

Selena Gomez can now add becoming a billionaire to her long list of achievements.The 32-year-old actress, singer, investor and entrepreneur just achieved the financial milestone thus making her one of the youngest self-made billionaires in the United States, according to Bloomberg, which values her net worth at $1.3 billion.Some of the wealth for the “Only Murders in the Building” star comes from singing, brand partnerships and acting, but the “vast bulk” of her wealth is tied to Rare Beauty, her 5-year-old makeup line that is a success with influencers and teens, the publication revea

Thousands of Southern California residents were forced from their homes Saturday after an explosive wildfire grew thousands of acres in size in mere hours – and is burning so intensely that it is creating its own weather.The Line Fire, which began about 53 hours ago in San Bernardino County, has burned more than 17,237 acres – up from nearly 7,000 acres just a few hours earlier.About 4,800 homes have been affected by the evacuation order in the Running Springs and Arrowbear Lake areas as of Saturday evening, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department told CNN. Hundreds more have been evacua

Weather forecasters who produce Colorado State University's closely watched hurricane outlooks said on Tuesday tropical storm activity in the first week of September would likely be below average."With the exception of the western Caribbean and southern Gulf of Mexico, large scale environmental conditions look relatively unfavorable for the next (approximately) 7 days but look to get more conducive for tropical cyclone activity towards the middle of September," the meteorologists wrote in an outlook issued on Tuesday. The Colorado State forecasters still forecast an above-average Atlantic