A former Soviet aircraft carrier burned in a waterway near Shanghai over the weekend, the latest setback for the decommissioned warship since its conversion into a Chinese tourist attraction. The carrier Minsk, which has been anchored for the past eight years in a lagoon near the Yangtze River in Nantong, Jiangsu province, caught fire during renovations for it to become part ...
At the mouth of the Motagua, Guatemala’s longest river, 40 million pounds (18 million kilograms) of trash pours into the ocean each year. It is one of the most polluted rivers in Central America, winding 302 miles (486 kilometers) through Guatemala before flowing into the Gulf of Honduras and, ultimately, the Caribbean Sea. By some estimates, the trash carried downstream ...
One body has been recovered and six people are missing, according to Italian authorities, after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily. A tornado hit the vessel around 5 a.m. Monday, according to a spokesperson for Italy’s Coast Guard. The yacht was anchored about a half a mile from the port of Porticello on the Mediterranean island. Fifteen ...
The European Space Agency’s Juice craft will return to Earth tonight, taking part in a “world first” fly-by. Flight controllers will guide the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice), with UK-made scientific instruments on board, past the moon and then Earth. The risky manoeuvre will take Juice on a shortcut to Jupiter via Venus, using the moon’s gravity and then Earth’s, ...
A blue supermoon will appear on the horizon tonight, kicking off a series of astronomical events. Supermoons occur when a full moon rises during its closest point in its orbit to Earth. A blue moon happens when there are two full moons within a single calendar month or four full moons within a season. They’re fairly rare – hence the ...
PITTSBURGH — Vice President Kamala Harris joined her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and their spouses here to kick off a bus tour across a crucial part of this state, in a political show of force before Democrats kick off their national convention in Chicago. The four shook hands and took selfies at an airport hangar but did not ...
As Vice President Kamala Harris’s new economic proposals dominated Sunday morning’s political shows, allies touted her ideas to address food and housing costs as beneficial to middle-class Americans, while critics — including Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the GOP vice-presidential nominee — slammed her plan as unworkable and unrealistic. Harris’s economic plan, which she laid out in a speech Friday, includes ...
“Did you know the Kamala price hikes have cost the average American family $28,000?” — Donald Trump, in a TikTok video, Aug. 15 “As a result of Kamala’s inflation price hikes, they’ve cost the typical household a total of $28,000. These are numbers coming from the government. They are not coming from me.” — Trump, media event in Bedminster, N.J., ...
Just before Donald Trump held a rally in Doral, Fla., on July 9, Secret Service officials delivered his campaign a message: The former president and his advisers would notice additional security because the U.S. government had credible intelligence of threats against him. “The bad guys are at it again,” an adviser said, describing the Secret Service’s message. Days later, a ...
Former Republican congresswoman Barbara Comstock endorsed Kamala Harris’s presidential bid on Sunday, joining another former Virginia representative in crossing party lines while the state’s GOP establishment remains firmly in Donald Trump’s camp. “After Jan. 6, after Donald Trump has refused for four years to acknowledge that he lost, and his threats against democracy, I think it’s important to turn the ...