A Chinese rocket crashed after being accidentally launched during a ground test Sunday, its company Space Pioneer said in a statement. The crash happened when the first stage of the Tianlong-3 rocket detached from its launch pad during a test, due to structural failure. It landed in a hilly area of the city of Gongyi in central China. “Due to ...
At least four people have died and another is missing due to flooding this weekend in southern Switzerland, according to local police and Swiss state media. Three people were killed in a landslide in the Maggia Valley, Swiss public broadcaster SRF reported. Police in Switzerland’s Valais canton said another man was found dead in a hotel in Saas-Grund, adding that ...
Those concerns, to be clear, are not about whether or not Biden is fit to make decisions. They are not worried that he will implement dangerous policies or take dramatic actions internationally – always a factor when talking about the person in charge of the world’s most powerful armed forces, a nuclear arsenal and largest economy. The common view among ...
Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party has taken the lead in the first round of France’s parliamentary elections on Sunday, initial projections showed, taking it closer to the gates of power than ever before. After unusually high turnout, the RN bloc won with 34% of the vote, while left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) coalition came second with 28.1% ...
Polls have opened for the first round of France’s snap parliamentary election, which could oust President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance and leave him to see out the remaining three years of his term in an awkward partnership with the far right. Voting began at 8 a.m. local time (2 a.m. ET), as France started the process of electing the 577 ...
MACON, Ga. — When the crush of inflation became too much to bear a year and a half ago, Rashad James and Justin Williams began hauling their smoker into an abandoned parking lot off Macon’s Route 41, dishing out $10 to $20 platters of pork chops, ribs and chicken four days a week. That side hustle formed with family and ...
Stephen K. Bannon — the sometime adviser to presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and influential podcast host who will report on Monday to serve a four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress — predicted that President Biden’s debate performance will force him out of the race, denying Republicans their weakest opponent. “The campaign is starting to wake up after spiking ...
Several Democratic allies of the president fanned out on Sunday to defend keeping President Biden as their party’s nominee, even as some donors, commentators and voters worry that his debate performance last week raised fresh concerns about whether he can defeat former president Donald Trump in November. “I think he’s the only Democrat who can beat Donald Trump,” Sen. Chris ...
CAMP DAVID, Md. — President Biden’s debate prep went fine. In the sessions, the president still spoke haltingly. He sometimes confused facts and figures. He tripped over words and meandered. Debate prep would not fix his stutter or make him appear any younger, aides knew. But as Biden boarded Marine One to leave the rustic Camp David presidential retreat for ...
James Carville, the longtime Democratic strategist known as the “Ragin’ Cajun,” said in an interview published Saturday that he does not think President Biden will be on the ticket come Election Day. But hours after the story was published, the Biden campaign sent a fundraising message invoking his name. “Hi, it’s James Carville. I need you and Democrats everywhere to ...