Choke the chicken in the sink until I get there to help you!” was not an instruction my friend’s 19-year-old son expected to ...

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An "issue" with Verizon services left customers in Chicago and several other U.S. cities without the ability to make calls or ...

In short, when you see SOS on your phone, it means you're not connected to a cellular network. "If you see SOS or 'SOS only' ...

When iPhones aren’t connected to a cellular network, they will typically alert the user by giving an indication in the ...

When iPhones aren’t connected to a cellular network, they will typically alert the user by giving an indication in the phone’s status bar. Those notifications usually say “No Service” or “Searching,” ...

More than five years after the dawn of COVID-19, chronic absenteeism in U.S. schools remains high — at last count, it ...

Update 12/22/25 at 11:30 a.m.: The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed that at least one emergency text message was sent by an individual on board former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle’s ...