Three counties in New Jersey are under an air quality alert due to smoke from the massive wildfire ripping through Ocean County. As of 9 a.m. Wednesday, southern coastal areas of New Jersey were listed in the “red zone” with an air quality index of 173, according to AirNow. When AQI values are above 100, air quality is considered unhealthy. As a result, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection declared an Air Quality Action Day, called when the Air Quality Index gets into unhealthy ranges. The air quality alert...

Months after first testing ads in select markets, including the U.S., Meta on Wednesday announced that its Instagram Threads app would now expand ads to all advertisers worldwide. The expansion will allow eligible advertisers to reach Threads’s over 320 million monthly active users, and it will include access to an inventory filter to control the sensitivity level of content next to which the ads run. The company says that the new ad placement within the Threads feed will be switched on by default for all new ad campaigns that use...

Amazon’s Project Kuiper, the company’s initiative to launch a fleet of satellites into low-Earth orbit and beam internet connection to users, is struggling to ramp up production, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The competitor to Elon Musk’s Starlink has completed only a few dozen satellites, according to the report. The venture reportedly needs to quadruple its rate of production in order to meet a government deadline, which requires the company to launch 1600 satellites into space by next summer. Project Kuiper seems to be a long way off from catching up...

Amid plunging stock prices and a staggering 71 percent profit drop, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pivoting back to his day job. “My time obligation to DOGE will drop significantly,” Musk told investors Tuesday after the company’s Q1 earnings report attributed a “changing political sentiment,” among other factors, for a precipitous drop in business. The report did not go into specifics. It declined to highlight Musk’s singular role in decimating the federal government, flirting with Nazi salutes, trying—and failing—to buy a state Supreme Court seat. Nor did the report directly...

Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. A woman gave a wildly entertaining karaoke performance of a Blink-182 hit, blissfully unaware that Tom DeLonge, the co-founder, co-lead vocalist, and guitarist of the rock band, was in the crowd watching.

Riot Fest headliners for 2025 will be Green Day, Blink-182, Weezer and Jack White, along with sets by the Sex Pistols and The Beach Boys (current lineups), Weird Al Yankovic, Idles, Alkaline Trio and All Time Low. The three-day festival of punk and alternative music will be back in Douglass Park this summer with an all-star lineup of bands for its 20th anniversary, running Sept. 19-21 as part of a new, multi-year agreement with the Chicago Park District. Tickets (2-DAY and 3-DAY) are on sale at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Other...

If Gabby Windey is ever feeling low, she can always count on her wife Robby Hoffman to pick her up. While speaking with PEOPLE for the World's Most Beautiful issue , star, 34, opens up about what makes her feel the most beautiful — better yet who . "My wife helps me feel beautiful all day, every day. You got to get yourself one of those. If you don't have one, I don't know what to tell you," Windey jokes, adding "just knowing that she loves me" has gone a...

Buoyed by positive gains for shares of Boeing and Amazon.com Inc., the Dow Jones Industrial Average is soaring Wednesday morning.

The Dow Dow Jones Industrial Average is trading 853 points, or 2.2%, higher, as shares of Boeing Boeing Co. and Amazon.com Inc. Amazon.com Inc. are contributing about one third of the blue-chip gauge's intraday rally.