CNN — Ukraine’s missile attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters on Friday was the most dramatic example of Kiev’s reliance on Russian facilities in Crimea. “The enemy launched a missile attack on the naval headquarters,” Mikhail Rasvozhayev, appointed as the Russian governor of Sevastopol, said in a telegram. Over the past month, Ukraine has…
Leave a comment on this storyComment California’s top leaders announced Thursday reforms to the state’s insurance system to stabilize the market, a major shift in the nation’s disaster-prone state, one of the world’s largest insurance markets. Government action using executive orders came later Seven of the state’s top 12 carriers, including giants Allstate and State…
CNN — At least one person was killed and at least 48 students were injured when a bus carrying a band camp event overturned on Interstate 84 in Orange County, about 75 miles north of New York City, officials said. Three of the students were seriously injured, said Daniel Minerva, vice president of operations and…
All the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. Ukraine Attacks Crimea Air Base The Ukrainian military said Thursday it had attacked a Russian military airfield near the Crimean city of Chaki, in another attack by Kiev on the Moscow-annexed Ukrainian peninsula used as a base for an invasion of Ukraine. Advertising “Ukrainian security forces…
20 September 2023 Updated 1 hour ago image source, Russian Ministry of Defense image caption, Russia said it had evacuated 2,000 Armenians from villages near the fighting Azerbaijan’s president has declared his country’s sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh restored after a 24-hour military offensive against ethnic-Armenian forces. Ilham Aliyev praised the bravery of Azerbaijan’s military hours after…
Anticipating a winter surge of Covid-19, the Biden administration announced Wednesday that it would renew a program that offers free coronavirus tests by mail to Americans and spend $600 million to buy the tests from a dozen domestic manufacturers. Website for the project, covidtests.gov, will begin accepting orders on Monday, and families will receive four…
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks to the media during a visit to the Shell St Fergus gas plant in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland on July 31, 2023. Wpa Pool | Getty Images News | Good pictures LONDON — UK-based industry bodies and automakers criticized British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday amid reports that he…
UPDATE: The SpaceX Falcon 9 liftoff from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 11:38 pm EDT Tuesday with 22 Starlink satellites, followed by a drone ship booster landing minutes later. Welcome to Florida Today’s Space Team live coverage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Starlink 6-17 mission from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station….
By Henry Jeffman & Chris Mason & Brian Wheeler BBC News 19 September 2023, 18:00 BST Updated 7 minutes ago image source, Good pictures Rishi Sunak is considering weakening some of the government’s key green commitments in a major policy shift. Multiple sources have told the BBC that this includes delaying a ban on the…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on July 26, 2023. Brendan McDermidt | Reuters Stock futures retreated modestly on Tuesday as Wall Street prepared for the start of the Federal Reserve’s two-day September policy meeting. The future is bound Dow Jones Industrial Average Lost 30 points or 0.1%. S&P…
