Member countries kicked off the World Health Organization’s annual assembly on Monday with hopes of improving global readiness for deadly outbreaks like COVID-19, after an ambitious “pandemic treaty” ran aground last week. Source link
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with officials poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war. The final, overnight construction sets up a complicated delivery process more than two months […]
Are there any old sci-fi fans in the house? I’m not just talking about the Golden Age of SF or the old recordings of X Minus One, although those are not to be missed. I’m thinking of something more contemporary. Who remembers “Logan’s Run?” For those who have never […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said his country has proven the West doesn’t have a monopoly on technology while inaugurating a hydropower and irrigation project in Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Raisi is the first Iranian leader to visit Sri Lanka since former President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad visited the country in 2008. “The Western […]
Democratic officials are throwing billions at California high-speed rail projects that have yet to be built, funding thousands of jobs specifically for union members. Despite funding initially being approved by a referendum in 2008, the California High-Speed Rail project currently has less than a quarter of its expected length under construction and was initially supposed […]
In a startling shift of direction, tech giant Apple is halting its much-discussed electric car initiative, signaling the end of a decade-long venture that has seen vast investment, according to multiple reports. Tuesday’s internal meeting revealed the change in strategy, with executives projecting potential layoffs and the redeployment of staff to burgeoning artificial intelligence projects, […]
Remember when Kevin Costner’s character in “Field of Dreams” hears a mysterious voice saying, “Build it, and he will come”? In the case of tech mega-giant Apple, it’s more like, “Build it, and watch it rot.” Apple’s dream of building an electric car intended to rival Tesla’s EVs has ended, according to The New York […]
The CEO who has been running the high speed rail project in California since 2018 announced last week that he was stepping down. [Brian] Kelly inherited a massive project that had been bogged down by slow acquisition of property for the route through the central San Joaquin Valley and beset by schedule delays and cost […]
NEW YORK — Criminal prosecutors may soon get to see over 900 documents pertaining to the alleged theft of a diary belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter after a judge rejected a First Amendment claim by the conservative group Project Veritas to stop investigators from seeing the records. Attorney Jeffrey Lichtman said on behalf of […]
The news was buried under two dense paragraphs and five large photos in an article in New York YIMBY about a different project: “Construction has also yet to begin on 51 Park Place, which is slated to become a 71-foot-tall, 16,000-square-foot Islamic cultural center.” The infamous Ground Zero Mosque project, a long buried effort to build […]
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