The Fire Department and Police personnel were engaged in rescue and debris removal operations with the help of JCB Earthmover The Fire Department and Police personnel were engaged in rescue and debris removal operations with the help of JCB Earthmover Two children died and 7 persons were stilled trapped under debris when a four-storeyed under-construction…Continue Reading
(The Political Line newsletter is India’s political landscape explained every week by Varghese K. George, senior editor at The Hindu. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox every Friday.) What do tribespeople have in common with Lord Ram? It was his interaction with the tribespeople that transformed Ram, born a prince,…Continue Reading
We’ve been hearing about self-driving cars for years, but autonomous vehicle entrepreneur Aicha Evans thinks we need to dream more daringly. In this exciting talk, she introduces us to robotaxis: fully autonomous, eco-friendly shuttles that would take you from place to place and take up less space on the streets than personal cars…Continue Reading
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Police fired warning shots, injuring an unknown number of people, as riots broke out Friday night in downtown Rotterdam at a demonstration against plans by the government to restrict access for unvaccinated people to some venues. Police said in a tweet that “there are injuries in connection with the shots” during…Continue Reading
The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Friday was forced to walk back his remarks on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict after making false claims about the case. Soon after Mr. Rittenhouse was acquitted of murder charges for fatally shooting two during racial justice riots, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York said the…Continue Reading
More than 1 million people in the U.S. who contracted COVID-19 might have lost their sense of smell for six months or longer, a new study revealed. Anywhere from 700,000 to 1.6 million individuals with COVID-19 in the U.S. could have experienced a loss of smell lasting for months, according to the study by researchers…Continue Reading
BOISE, Idaho (AP) – A Canadian mining company hoping to build an open-pit gold mine in Idaho west of Yellowstone National Park can resume exploratory drilling, the U.S. Forest Service said Friday. The agency said it had approved Excellon Idaho Gold’s Kilgore Gold Exploration Project in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest in Clark County. Excellon Idaho…Continue Reading
House Democrats celebrated the passage Friday of President Biden’s massive social welfare and climate bill, brushing aside threats that vulnerable members will be hammered over the vote by Republicans in next year’s midterm elections. Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, a leader of the moderate faction in the Democratic caucus, said he won’t pay a…Continue Reading
Former President TrumpDonald TrumpPennsylvania’s GOP-controlled Senate to spend up to 0K on election investigation Trump congratulates Rittenhouse on acquittal The Memo: Rittenhouse verdict reverberates across polarized nation MORE congratulated Kyle Rittenhouse after a jury found him not guilty of all charges at the conclusion of his homicide trial in Kenosha, Wis., Friday afternoon. A jury in…Continue Reading
Many Americans reacted with rage — and many others with delight — on Friday after 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all counts relating to the shooting deaths of two men during protests in Kenosha, Wis., last year.The verdict, and the split-screen reaction to it, served as the latest example of how deeply the nation…Continue Reading