The sun blisters the arid ground in Karnal, a district in India’s northern Haryana state, where empty houses stand testament to an acute problem that’s driving some residents to take unimaginable risks. There are no jobs here, so young educated locals who dream of a better life are paying thousands of dollars to flee the world’s fastest growing major economy ...
An incredible display of celestial fireworks may be visible overnight as debris left by Halley’s Comet streaks across the night sky – but the moon may end up ruining the view. The Orionid meteor shower, which has been going on all month, peaks for several hours from midnight tonight, offering you the best possible chance, in theory, of seeing the ...
A meteorite four times the size of Mount Everest may have helped life to thrive after it smashed into Earth, research suggests. The S2 meteorite crashed into our planet around 3.26 billion years ago and such impacts are usually considered disastrous for life. But experts suggest the conditions caused by the impact of the space rock, which had a diameter ...
Former president Donald Trump’s years-long effort to restrict mail balloting and early voting has skidded into reverse in North Carolina, with the Republican presidential nominee demanding the kind of easier voting access that he labeled fraudulent when Democrats pushed similar measures during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Trump’s about-face comes after Hurricane Helene left dozens dead and thousands temporarily pushed ...
All Donald Trump wants from Fox News is for it to operate as an explicit arm of his political campaign. Just that. Just no more people who criticize Trump and no Democrats and no anti-Trump ads until Election Day. It’s a simple request, really, and one that would certainly not be too much of a lift for the cable-news channel. ...
Elon Musk has inserted himself into an American presidential election more than perhaps any other uber-wealthy person in modern history. There is no question that one of the world’s richest people is going to great lengths to speak and spend Donald Trump into the White House. But could Musk’s latest gambit venture into illegal territory — by paying people to, ...
With Israeli forces pounding targets in northern Gaza and Lebanon despite U.S. objections, Secretary of State Antony Blinken embarked Monday for the Middle East to try to bring about a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas amid signs of Washington’s limited influence over Israeli policy. The trip — Blinken’s 11th to the region since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on ...
Former Republican lawmakers, advisers and Justice Department officials have called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate tech billionaire Elon Musk for awarding cash prizes to voters in swing states if they sign his political organization’s petition, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post and sent to Garland on Monday. This post appeared first on washingtonpost.com ...
Two weeks before the presidential election, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) accused billionaire Elon Musk of spreading “dangerous disinformation” about voting in her state after Musk, owner of X and Tesla, shared a post suggesting falsely that the state’s voter rolls, swelled by large numbers of inactive voters, were likely to result in widespread fraud. This post appeared ...
Letters that threatened Florida TV stations with criminal penalties if they aired a political ad backing a referendum that would repeal the state’s six-week abortion ban came directly from Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office, according to the attorney who signed and sent them. Attorney John Wilson said that he resigned as general counsel for the Florida Department of Health rather than ...