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Sorry, Facebook — but it's time to change our relationship status to "It's complicated." While the Home of the Poke still retains a billion-strong user base, people are starting to use it less, divvying up their interactions and uploads, and all kinds of apps and services benefit as Facebook's hotness fades.It used to be that we used Facebook to schedule parties, trade phone numbers, find old clas...
Tropical Storm Andrea weakened but remained dangerous as it moved northward Friday, threatening to cause flooding and severe thunderstorms along the East Coast.As the storm headed into South Carolina early Friday, heavy rains and wind gusts over 50 mph were reported.Ahead of the center of the storm, the National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for two counties in eastern North Carolina.Sho...
Across the country, schools are getting out for the summer. And while most students will leave their classrooms happy for the break, some parents will be fretting about how to feed their children without meals provided through schools.The hot summer months bring a fresh challenge for food banks in the nation’s poorest and hungriest counties: How to make sure millions of children get regular, healt...
BEIJING — When Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama meet Friday at Sunnylands, a desert retreat in California, the largely informal and unscripted summit is expected to be groundbreaking in U.S.-China relations. While previous official visits between Chinese and U.S. leaders have frequently been bogged down by stifling issues of protocol, they are meant to be largely absent this...