WIMBLEDON, England — It’s been a long day for the Brits, considering their top two women’s players and their top two men’s players faced each other at Wimbledon earlier Thursday. A by-election that will end 14 years of Conservative rule. They left it all behind and entered Center Court anyway, wearing Wimbledon-colored blankets and scarves…
President Biden called for more sleep and fewer hours at work, including cutting back on events after 8 p.m. Wednesday’s comments were a stark acknowledgment of the 81-year-old president’s exhaustion from former President Donald J. Trump. Mr. Shortly after The New York Times reported on Biden’s comments about needing more rest, current and former officials…
Initiate a reboot: Scroll down to watch the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch live from Space Launch Complex 40 on Tuesday, June 4. Embedded content: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/spacex/2024/07/03/spacex-rocket-launch-starlink-falcon-9-early-sunrise-over-space-coast -florida-cape-canaveral-slc-40/74275493007/ Night owls rejoiced at the SpaceX rocket’s midnight launch just before 3 a.m. EDT Wednesday. However, the launch was postponed until 4:55 am, making it an early morning…
image source, Good pictures image caption, Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, has been affected by the storm A powerful hurricane has hit Jamaica with strong winds and rain, uprooting buildings and damaging trees on the Caribbean island. Beryl – a category four storm with winds of 130mph (215km/h) – hit the island’s south coast. Photos…
Police said the victim, a 68-year-old man, had visited from New Zealand. July 3, 2024, 2:31 PM ET • I read for 4 minutes A New Zealand tourist was killed during a robbery at a California mall when the suspects ran over him with their vehicle as they fled the scene, police said. The incident…
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink Internet satellites from Florida on Wednesday (July 3) following a two-hour delay. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 20 Starlink spacecraft, including 13 live-cell capable, lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 UTC) Wednesday. A three-hour window for liftoff opened at 2:57…
Officials say at least three people have died as Hurricane Beryl battered Carriacou and Petit Martinique, Grenada and St Vincent and the Grenadines. Two deaths were reported in Carriacou and Petit Martinique, Grenada, the country’s Prime Minister Dicken Mitchell told a news conference on Tuesday. “The potential for more casualties remains a stark reality,” Mitchell…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell spoke publicly for the first time on Tuesday after the central bank’s preferred measure of inflation showed prices rose at the slowest pace in more than three years in May. While still showing signs of caution, Powell acknowledged that the data is pointing in the right direction recently. Jennifer Schoenberger…
CNN — Hurricane Beryl, now possible Category 5 hurricaneIt has set its sights on Jamaica after killing at least one person and wreaking havoc across the Caribbean on Monday. The storm is expected to bring life-threatening winds and storm surge to Jamaica on Wednesday and hit the Cayman Islands on Thursday, where a hurricane watch…
Since scientists discovered the flu in American cows earlier this year, they have been puzzled by how it spreads from one animal to another. An experiment in Kansas and Germany has shed some light on the mystery. Scientists have failed to find evidence that the virus can spread as a respiratory infection. Jürgen Richt, a…
