Shooting stars are lighting up the night sky for the annual Perseid meteor shower when Earth passes through the debris left behind by an ancient comet. The Perseids, which appear every year in August, get their name from their point of origin within
Ever since the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, presidents have been judged on the successes they notch during their first 100 days. Now, as Barack Obama prepares to end his star turn on the political stage, Yahoo News is launching The Last 100 Days, a look at what Obama achieved during his consequential presidency, how he navigates the struggles of his final months in office and what lies ahead for him after eight years filled with firsts. As Obama himself is fond of noting, he also spent his two terms as father to daughters Malia and Sasha and husband to first lady Michelle Obama.
A shocking road rageย incident in Gainesville, Florida was caught on camera, capturing the moment the altercation escalated and a woman involved appeared to pull out a gun. Surveillance footage shows a black pickup truck and a silver sedan pulling into a gas station beforeย the nasty confrontation earlier in the week. One of the two women who got out of the truck wielded a gun before the male driver of the pickup appeared from off cameraย andย wrestled the weapon out of her hand.
The attack took place in the Florida Everglades, where the 49-year-old woman (who has not been identified), reached into the water after dropping a can. โHer right hand was almost totally amputated,โ Mike Jachles, spokesman for the Broward Sheriffโs Fire Rescue said, CNN reports. Itโs recommended that people donโt feed alligators, which is illegal in the state of Florida.
From unwanted guests to unforced errors, it was another wild week on the campaign trail for Clinton and Trump. ABC News' Rick Klein recaps the week in politics for August 6 - August 12, 2016. Trump is standing by his comments saying he sometimes just being sarcastic.
Sunoco Logistics expects no significant impact to operations at its giant crude oil terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast from a Friday night fire that injured seven workers, a company spokesman said on Saturday. "This hasn't significantly impacted our operations," said Sunoco Logistics spokesman Jeffrey Shields by telephone. The workers, all employees of L-Con Inc, which was hired by Sunoco Logistics to perform the construction work were welding when the fire broke out, the company said in a statement.
A French court rejected a demand Friday to close 72 eateries and shops in the makeshift migrant camp in the northern port city of Calais, but the prefecture said it will continue legal action against what it calls a dangerous underground economy. A statement by the prefecture said the installations don't respect sanitation rules, risk fires and are a source of public disorder. Later, the prefect for Calais, Vincent Berton, announced that the state was lodging an appeal against the court decision.
On August 11 and 12, the biggest meteor shower of the year, the Perseids, will be lighting up the night sky, and this year the Perseids promise to be the best shower of the decade. The Perseids typically peak in mid-August every year, when the Earth intersects with the trail of Comet Swift-Tuttle. Debris from the comet impacts the Earth's atmosphere and streaks across the sky, creating shooting stars.
San Antonio del Tรกchira (Venezuela) (AFP) - Venezuela and Colombia on Saturday opened several "provisional" border crossing points for pedestrians for the first time in nearly a year as part of a progressive reopening agreed this week, AFP journalists confirmed. During three temporary border openings last month, some 150,000 Venezuelans -- suffering from their country's severe economic crisis -- poured into Colombia to purchase food, medicine and other basics. Both governments agreed to facilitate "the fastest possible movement of people, rapidly but in a controlled fashion," Venezuelan regional military chief Jose Morantes Torres said.
According to a study set to be unveiled next week at the Usenix Security Conference by a research team at the University of Birmingham, there is a flaw in Volkswagen Group key fobs that allows hackers to intercept its signal to gain access to vehicles. The paper was put together by Flavio Garcia with his research team at the University of Birmingham, with the assistance of german engineering firm Kasper & Oswald. How it works is, researchers are able to use a component inside Volkswagen's internal network to obtain a single cryptographic key that millions of its cars use.