On a recent Freakonomics episode about the German film director Werner Herzog, host Stephen Dubner voiced a familiar ...

GM built America's best-selling car, then spent decades trying to forget it.

After nearly a year docked in Mobile’s port, the SS United States, a passenger ship once declared the fastest ocean liner in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After nearly a year docked in Mobile’s port, the SS United States, a passenger ship once declared the fastest ocean liner in the ...

Known as a white elephant for its lack of practicality, the steamer still managed to get into its share of adventures in the late 19th century.

The SS United States called Philadelphia home for nearly three decades, but now preparations are underway to send the historic ocean liner to her final resting place at the bottom of the ocean. One ...

Okaloosa County officials are planning to sink the SS United States this April, according to a report by Fox10 News. Set to become the world’s largest artificial reef, the former ocean liner will be ...

Talks of sinking the historic SS United States has been ongoing for well over a year, and while that end remains on track, the fight to stop it from happening isn’t dead, writes Lawrence Specker for ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - IN-DEPTH WITH SARAH WALL: An update on the SS United States. We now have a timeline for its departure. The ocean liner has been in Mobile for months getting ready for its final ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A major milestone is unfolding for one of the world’s most iconic ships. The SS United States, which docked in Mobile last year, is preparing for a journey that will see the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New York group might have failed in a legal bid to stop a historic ocean liner from being turned into a reef, but it and its ...

Americans are no strangers to big engines. The biggest engine ever fitted to a production car – Cadillac's 500-cubic-inch V8 — hails from the U.S., and bigger engines still would likely have followed ...