Consumer Reports’ test engineers spend about 30 hours testing each dishwasher. To evaluate cleaning performance, dishes are put through a proprietary test that uses photo imaging to determine precisely how clean they are after a standard cycle full of dishes with baked-on food. For cleaning performance, we consider how well dishwashers clean dishes on both…

So the car you want to buy has an open recall. Now what? “Consumers can make a demand of any seller that they fix any open defects before selling the car to them,” Wallace says. “And that’s a reasonable request, and the burden for safety in this case shouldn’t fall on consumers.” Getting a recall…

At the Department of Housing and Urban Development, employees were instructed to set an out-of-office message that reads, “The federal government’s spending authority expired at 11:59 on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, therefore, most HUD programs have been temporarily interrupted, and most HUD employees have been told they cannot work…We regret any inconvenience the government lapse…

For a while, it seemed like McConnell was single-handedly blocking the entirety of the US government from his vantage as the minority leader, an arrangement Schumer just hasn’t been able to crack. It’s not impossible, however: Unlike in the House, which only requires a majority vote among its 435 members, the Senate has a 60-vote…

Main Theme In this episode of the Talking Cars podcast, we discuss the redesigned sixth-generation 2025 Toyota 4Runner. Even though the outgoing generation has been around since 2010, it won over fans until the end with its relative simplicity, off-road capabilities, and reliability.  This updated, now larger 4Runner stays true to its roots as an…

A wiring harness located behind the glove box may overheat and melt if the manual climate control’s fan speed is turned up to 3, which could cause a fire. The problem may also result in a burning and/or melting smell, smoke from the vents, or no air coming out of the vents when the climate…

Amazon’s budget security brand, Blink, announced two new cameras during the company’s fall hardware event in New York City: the Blink Mini 2K+ and the Blink Outdoor 2K+. As the names suggest, these cameras sport 2K resolution to pick up more details. But it’s the Blink Arc accessory that makes these security cameras more interesting….

“The biggest challenge is how to make this egg extrude half of its chromosomes—and the correct half,” Amato says. “We’re not quite there yet.” The team dubbed their technique “mitomeiosis” and is trying to better understand how chromosomes like to pair and how they segregate in order to find a way to experimentally induce those…

But even the least expensive models will set you back several hundred dollars apiece, plus installation costs. We test to see which models may be more worth the money by subjecting them to heavy rain and wind.  We’ve tested wood, vinyl, and composite replacement windows from brands that include American Craftsman, Andersen, Atrium, Jeld-Wen, Marvin,…

But while automakers readily highlight the overall luggage capacity of their offerings, not all of that generous-sounding cargo room is usable space.  At Consumer Reports, we evaluate SUV cargo room differently. We use an expandable rectangular pipe-frame “box.” We enlarge it enough to just fit through the rear opening and extend it into the cargo…