Thailand’s parliament voted on Friday for Paetongtarn Shinawatra to be the country’s next prime minister, thrusting another member of the kingdom’s most famed and divisive political dynasty into the top job. The vote came two days after Thailand’s Constitutional Court removed former Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin from office, in a surprise decision that plunged the kingdom into further political uncertainty and ...
Sea lions have become underwater camera operators in Australia to help scientists learn more about the animals’ homes at the bottom of the ocean. Researchers enlisted endangered Australian sea lions to help identify their previously unmapped ocean habitats. “Using animal-borne video and movement data from a predator is a really effective way of mapping diverse habitats across large areas of ...
A dramatic image of a whale shark rising from the depths to feed on a bait ball has won an international scientific photography competition. The BMC Ecology and Evolution and BMC Zoology image competition is an annual contest between scientific researchers who snap shots of science and nature in action as they work. “The slow-moving whale sharks feed on snipefish, ...
A Scottish and Irish rock formation dating back hundreds of millions of years could be evidence of what scientists call snowball Earth, a new study says. The snowball Earth theory proposes that the planet’s oceans and land were covered by ice during at least two extreme cooling events between 2.4 billion and 580 million years ago. These are speculated to ...
There is “nothing stopping” child sexual abuse images from spreading on WhatsApp, a child safety organisation has warned. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which helps detect and remove child abuse content from the web, has accused WhatsApp’s owner Meta of failing to have the mechanisms in place to stop the spread of such material, including the type of content that ...
Kim Dotcom, who founded the globally popular file-sharing site Megaupload, will be extradited to the US from New Zealand. German-born Dotcom, who has New Zealand residency, has been fighting extradition since 2012 following an FBI-ordered raid on his Auckland mansion. He is charged with copyright infringement, money laundering and racketeering. US authorities say Dotcom – born Kim Schmitz – and ...
Former Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway offered a recipe this week for Trump’s struggling 2024 campaign: “The winning formula for President Trump is very plain to see: It’s fewer insults, more insights and [a] policy contrast.” Fellow former Trump adviser Peter Navarro echoed that. “When Trump attacks [Vice President Kamala] Harris personally rather than on policy, Harris’s support among ...
NEW YORK — Lawyers for Donald Trump this week asked a judge to delay sentencing scheduled Sept. 18 for the former president on his criminal convictions on 34 counts of falsifying business records until after the election in November. The sentencing in the case involving hush money payments to an adult-film actress is set two days after New York Supreme ...
PHOENIX — Mark Meadows, who was Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, has asked that the Arizona election-subversion-related prosecution against him be moved from state court to federal court — the same legal maneuver he unsuccessfully tried in a separate election interference case in Georgia. The U.S. District Court in Arizona has set a Sept. 5 hearing to consider ...
Former president Donald Trump’s campaign is bringing on new staff — including his controversial 2016 campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski — as it continues to adjust to facing his new Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. In addition to Lewandowski, the campaign is adding Tim Murtaugh, the communications director from Trump’s 2020 campaign, as well as three former officials from a ...