Tech Howl for August 16
Billionaire and world-famous Twitter-er Elon Musk says his Boring Company plans to build a tunnel below LA that will bring passengers to Dodgers Stadium. And a study finds children can be easily influenced by robots.
Billionaire and world-famous Twitter-er Elon Musk says his Boring Company plans to build a tunnel below LA that will bring passengers to Dodgers Stadium. And a study finds children can be easily influenced by robots.
Independent labs are out to expose what's really in consumer products.
Dancing to the tunes of a local brass band, four pallbearers carry a coffin through the streets of a town in western Peru.Four pallbearers in white shirts, ties and black pants carried his coffin from his house, through the village and to the cemetery to the rhythm of huayno and cumbia music.
DENVER — The family of a 4-year-old boy whose heart had stopped beating hours earlier gathered at Children’s Hospital Colorado last month to say their final goodbyes to Cartier McDaniel.
A new Biden administration rule announced Thursday aims to speed up asylum processing at the southern border, enabling it to quickly reject a limited group of people believed to have committed serious crimes or who have terrorist links. The change comes as the administration has been struggling to demonstrate to voters during an election where immigration is a key issue that it has a handle on the southern border. Republicans have consistently slammed the Biden administration over policies that they say have worsened problems at the southern border.
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Organizers are predicting the Democratic conventio will coincide with the largest protest for Palestinian rights in Chicago history
The Federal Reserve disclosed results from an assessment of how the biggest US banks would be impacted by climate change, an exercise that created new political tensions for the central bank.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it found “insufficient evidence” that racial discrimination shaped decisions made by two Mississippi agencies about water system funding for the state's majority-Black capital city of Jackson. The EPA's Office of External Civil Rights Compliance issued its findings this week about the investigation it started in October 2022 into the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and the Mississippi State Department of Health.
Bring on the fresh, fruity flavors and ingredients of the tropics with these dishes from Ryan Hardy.
Emergency crews are searching for two skiers who went missing after an avalanche in Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday morning.
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is seeking a court order to force the Seattle Archdiocese to turn over files on priests accused of sexual abuse.
Separately, a federal appeals court panel ruled against Biden earlier Thursday in another bid to have the charges against him tossed.
The DNC is making new tech investments to bolster its efforts to reach young voters and voters of color in an increasingly fragmented environment.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump urged oil industry executives to raise $1 billion for his campaign, promising to reverse environmental regulations imposed by Joe Biden's administration once he is re-elected to the White House, the Washington Post reported Thursday."Donald Trump is acting like a comic book villain, offering to sell off the fate of the planet for a $1 billion check," climate group Evergreen Action said in a statement.
Stocks have lost their bounce after a growing chorus of Federal Reserve officials made it clear that interest rates will need to stay higher for longer.
A Brazilian horse nicknamed Caramelo by social media users garnered national attention after a television news helicopter spotted it stranded on a rooftop, presumably for days, in southern Brazil, where massive floods have killed more than 100 people. About 24 hours after it was first spotted and with people clamoring for its rescue, a team in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state on Thursday successfully removed Caramelo, providing a dose of hope to a beleaguered region. The brown horse had been balancing on two narrow strips of slippery asbestos in Canoas, a city in the Porto Alegre metropolitan area that is one of the hardest-hit areas in the state, much of which has been isolated by floodwaters.
The fate of a major federal aviation bill remains uncertain in the Senate as a key end-of-week deadline looms.
A 42-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for a string of stabbing attacks on homeless men in July 2022 that left one dead and two critically injured.
A top former aide to U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and a political and business consultant have agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to help the Democrat congressman from Texas launder more than $200,000 in bribes and to assist prosecutors in a federal criminal investigation, according to court documents unsealed this week. Colin Strother, Cuellar's former chief of staff and campaign manager, and Florencia Rendon, a business consultant and former chief of staff for former U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz, struck plea deals in March to ensure their cooperation in a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into Cuellar and his wife.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday rejected Hunter Biden's effort to get his gun case in Delaware dismissed.