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By Chris Mason & Sam Francis BBC News 31 Aug 2023, 09:48 BST Updated 38 minutes ago image caption, Grand Shops has held seven cabinet posts since becoming an MP in 2005 Rishi Sunak has promoted cabinet veteran Grand Shops as defense secretary in a minor reshuffle of his top team. Mr Shabbs, who was…
A major emergency aid bill for Ukraine and Israel advanced in the Senate on Thursday, with a dozen Republicans joining Democrats to push it forward, but roadblocks persisted as GOP senators moved slowly on the measure and fought internally over whether to kill it. . The Senate voted 67 to 32 to advance a bill…
DAGARH, Senegal (AP) — A Boeing 737-300 with 85 people on board skidded off the runway at the airport in Senegal’s capital, injuring 10, according to the transport minister, an aviation safety team and footage from a passenger who showed up to the plane. on fire. “Our plane just caught fire,” Malian musician Chek Siriman…
Rep. Jamal Bowman, DNY., voted Thursday to pull the fire alarm in a congressional building while the House was in session in September to consider a vote to fund the government. The 214 to 191 vote was largely along party lines, with Democratic Reps. Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, Jahana Hayes of Connecticut and Mary…
(CNN) The federal Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Norfolk Southern to stop shipping hazardous waste from a train derailment site in East Palestine, Ohio, so it can review the company’s plans for disposal. Officials in Texas and Michigan complain they received no warning from contaminated water and soil. The train derailed In East Palestine, Ohio,…
After breaking several records in the western United States on Thursday, the season’s first major heat wave continued Friday, scorching cities from Texas to California. Dangerous heat will gradually subside this weekend, but will persist across parts of Texas and Oklahoma. A widespread heat dome set several records on Thursday, including Sacramento, Phoenix and Las…
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during a conversation with renowned game designer Todd Howard (not pictured) at the E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles, California, June 13, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk lost an appeal in 2018 to withdraw parts of a consent decree he and the automaker…
The US administration is considering cutIn a major change to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program, mileage ratings for electric vehicles (EVs) to meet fuel economy regulations for automakers. The U.S. Department of Energy expects to significantly reduce the way petroleum-equivalent fuel economy is calculated for EVs, which could mean automakers must sell lower-emission…
Swiss bank Credit Suisse (ticker: CS ) U.S. depositary receipts fell more than 58% to around 83 cents after larger rival UBS ( UBS ) agreed to buy Credit Suisse in a deal worth about $3.2 billion. The merger of Switzerland’s two biggest banks – hammered out by Swiss authorities over the weekend – comes…
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Copenhagen, Nov 10: Global warming has increased the rate at which Greenland’s glaciers are melting fivefold over the past 20 years, scientists at the University of Copenhagen said on Friday. Melting Greenland’s ice is of particular concern because the ancient ice sheet contains enough water to raise sea levels by at least 20 feet (6…
