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With so many challenges facing us here on Earth — the pandemic, climate change, the economy — it might seem like an odd time to focus on space. But space exploration offers enormous benefits for all of us. There’s a long list of innovations that have emerged as a result of space research that have
Continue ReadingSeveral civil rights and voting rights groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the Georgia’s new voting law, which was signed last week by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. The suit — filed by the Georgia NAACP, Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, League of Women Voters of Georgia, GALEO Latino Community Development Fund, Common Cause and
Continue ReadingThe dramatic implosion of Archegos Capital Management is another warning to Wall Street about the dangers of hefty leverage and speculative behavior fueled by rock-bottom interest rates. It’s also a wake-up call to regulators about hidden risks within the financial system. “It is a dereliction of duty for regulators at the Securities and Exchange Commission,
Continue ReadingA big smartphone maker is getting into electric cars. And it’s not Apple. China’s Xiaomi announced Tuesday that it will invest $10 billion over the next decade in a subsidiary focused on the “smart electric vehicle business.” The company said in a stock market filing that the new unit will be led by billionaire CEO
Continue ReadingK-pop stars BTS have spoken out about their own experience with racial discrimination in the wake of rising anti-Asian violence in the US. “We recall moments when we faced discrimination as Asians. We have endured expletives without reason and were mocked for the way we look. We were even asked why Asians spoke in English,”
Continue ReadingMajor global banks could be hit with billions of dollars in losses after US investment firm Archegos Capital was forced to dump shares last week when it got into financial trouble. Nomura and Credit Suisse said Monday that earnings might take “significant” hits after a client of their broking services defaulted on margin calls last
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden will lay out the first of a sweeping two-pronged infrastructure and jobs proposal Wednesday, with the administration launching its expected months-long effort to pass proposals that will total between $3 trillion and $4 trillion, according to senior administration officials. Biden, who will detail the infrastructure and climate piece of the proposal in
Continue ReadingHundreds of wildfires are burning across Nepal, sending smoke and ash across its cities during one of the worst fire seasons in recent years. Nepal’s dry season, which runs from late fall to early summer, typically peaks with the most severe fires in March and April. Since November, 73 of Nepal’s 77 districts have reported
Continue ReadingGlobal leaders have called for a new treaty to help the world prepare for future pandemics, in a warning against rising vaccine nationalism. More than 20 national leaders, including France’s Emmanuel Macron, Britain’s Boris Johnson and Germany’s Angela Merkel, wrote a piece published in several media outlets on Tuesday warning that it is a question
Continue ReadingFormer Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, prosecutors said Monday, correcting the 8:46 timing that has become a symbol of police brutality. In opening statements of Chauvin’s criminal trial, prosecuting attorney Jerry Blackwell repeatedly emphasized the new 9:29 timing, telling jurors they were the “three most
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After a year in which scientists raced to understand Covid-19 and to develop treatments and vaccines to stop its spread, Cleveland Clinic is partnering with IBM to use next-generation technologies to advance healthcare research — and potentially prevent the next public health crisis. The two organizations on Tuesday announced the creation of the “Discovery Accelerator,”
Continue ReadingCovid-19 probably came to people through an animal, and likely started spreading no more than a month or two before it was noticed in December of 2019, a World Health Organization draft report finds. The least likely source: a laboratory leak, the WHO’s joint international team concluded. WHO is scheduled to release the final report
Continue ReadingThe Ever Given container ship has been dislodged and is now floating, after blocking the Suez Canal for almost a week, authorities said Monday. Tug boats had spent several hours on Monday working to free the bow of the massive vessel after dislodging the stern earlier in the day. Marine traffic websites showed images of
Continue ReadingGeorge Floyd’s public death under the knee of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin last May set off an intense debate about societal issues on anti-Black racism, on police accountability and on the entire American criminal justice system. Watch the proceedings and coverage live, when they happen, in the player below: But over the next
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New Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are beginning to rise in the US again, one of the country’s top health leaders said Monday. The latest findings, shared by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, may just be the start of what experts have for weeks warned about: another surge. A surge
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Dr. Jerome Adams, former US surgeon general and White House coronavirus task force member under President Trump, took to Twitter on Monday to defend Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator under Trump. Birx, who featured prominently in CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s special report “COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak
Continue ReadingA federal appeals court ruled on Friday that an Ohio professor can sue a university for violating his constitutional rights after he was disciplined for refusing to use the preferred pronouns of a transgender student. Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in Ohio, filed a lawsuit in 2018 after the school formally
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It’s been nearly a year since healthcare worker, Peter Woullard, has walked on his own. The 53-year-old, who contracted Covid-19 last March, lost his ability to stand and walk after spending months in the hospital fighting for his life. “I have nerve damage in certain areas of my body and also weakness,” he told CNN
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How Covid-weary Americans behave now will decide how many are yet to die. President Joe Biden on Monday warned that “now is not the time” to ease masking and social distancing and one of the country’s top health chiefs, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, admitted to feelings of “impending doom” even as hope rises that the beginning
Continue ReadingThe chairman of the Michigan Republican Party faced swift backlash Friday for comments in which he called the three top Democratic women in the state “witches” and quipped about “assassination” as a way to rid the state of two Republican congressman who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump. Ron Weiser said in a tweet
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