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The Latest on the scuba diving boat fire off the coast of California that is presumed to have killed 34 people: (all times local): 10:15 a.m. Apple says an engineer, his wife, daughter and another Apple employee were on board the scuba diving boat consumed by fire off the coast of Southern California on Labor […]

The number of Americans who “super commute” (travel 90 minutes or more to work each day, each way) is on the rise. According to county-level data compiled by Apartmentlist.com from 2005 to 2017, the number of “super commuters” grew by 32%. That is more than triple the 9% growth rate for those with commutes shorter

Rescue crews in the Bahamas fanned out across a blasted landscape of smashed and flooded homes Wednesday, trying to reach drenched and stunned victims of Hurricane Dorian and take the full measure of the disaster. The official death toll stood at seven but was certain to rise. A day after the most powerful hurricane on

A new study revealed that while hardworking Americans are earning more vacation days, they’re not spending them. The study by U.S. Travel Association, Oxford Economics, and Ipsos looked at 1,025 responses from American workers aged over 18 who worked more than 35 hours a week. The researchers also drew from Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

Thirty three bodies of victims from a scuba diving boat fire off Southern California have been recovered and one was still missing on Wednesday, authorities said. The new count of confirmed deaths came after officials recovered 13 bodies on Tuesday, said Coast Guard Lt. Zach Farrell, a spokesman for the inter-agency joint information center in

Officials have vowed to find what sparked the inferno aboard the dive boat Conception that killed 34 people in waters off Southern California, but vital evidence may have gone down with the ship or drifted out to sea. The main piece of evidence, the charred remains of the boat, rests on the sea floor in

Two-thirds of all full-time employees in the United States are currently experiencing job burnout, according to a recent Gallup study. While we aren’t great at taking advantage of earned time off — a whopping 768 million vacation days go to waste every year — a survey by the American Psychological Association last year found that

The Latest on Hurricane Dorian (all times local): ——— 6:15 a.m. While Hurricane Dorian moves closer to Florida, two other named storms are blowing in the Atlantic region. Tropical Storm Fernand is in the Gulf of Mexico and closing in on the Northeast Mexican coast just south of the U.S. border, with top sustained winds

The Dune Climb is one of the most popular things to do in a remarkably beautiful, off-the-radar corner of northwest Michigan called Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Yet it had me suffering like a modern-day Sisyphus on a June afternoon. With each oxygen-sucking, uphill step, I slipped and slid backward on the sandy slope. My

The Latest on Hurricane Dorian (all times local): 5:15 p.m. More than a quarter-million visitors and residents have been told to leave North Carolina’s coastal region ahead of Hurricane Dorian. The most populous coastal county to be evacuated is Dare County, where 250,000 people, including 36,000 residents, have been told to get out. In New