Amazon’s Project Kuiper will directly compete with SpaceX’s Starlink. Business Wire The space race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos is heating up, with Amazon unveiling plans to launch internet satellites that would directly compete with SpaceX’s “Starlink” service. Amazon said it will partner with three companies to conduct as many as 83 launches over…Continue Reading
On April 5, 1994, the Knicks’ 15-game winning streak was snapped in South Beach by the Miami Heat, who topped New York, 100-86. The Knicks defeated 13 teams during this stretch, including a 110-87 win over the Heat at Madison Square Garden a few days earlier.Continue Reading
A visual representation of Bitcoin cryptocurrency.Edward Smith | Getty ImagesThere’s a new and low-cost way to quickly send U.S. digital dollars around the world without a bank. And it’s built on bitcoin.Blockchain start-up Lightning Labs announced Tuesday that it’s launching the Taro protocol, a technology that will route fiat-pegged stablecoins and other digital assets through…Continue Reading
California just experienced its driest January and February ever, and the snowpack is dangerously low. As the West enters its third year of drought, water sources are drying up, and restrictions on the Colorado River are now hitting all sectors of the Western economy, inculding homebuilding.While there is a shortage of water, there is also…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for a Nuremberg-style tribunal to investigate and prosecute Russian war crimes in a Tuesday speech before the United Nations Security Council.”The Russian military and those who gave them orders must be brought to justice immediately for war crimes in Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said in a nearly 20-minute speech before the…Continue Reading
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for the EU to ban Russian coal as part of a wave of new sanctions to further isolate the Kremlin.Frank Rumpenhorst | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesLUXEMBOURG — The European Commission on Tuesday proposed banning Russian coal as part of a new round of sanctions against the Kremlin for…Continue Reading
Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Tuesday that he believes the U.S. this spring will avoid a “national wave” of infection related to the more contagious omicron BA.2 subvariant.However, the former Food and Drug Administration commissioner said on “Squawk Box” that he thinks cases are being “dramatically” underreported in some parts of the country. Given…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jury selection resumed on Tuesday in the trial of a former Virginia police officer charged with storming the U.S. Capitol with a fellow officer who could be a key witness for federal prosecutors.The federal judge presiding over former Rocky Mount police officer Thomas Robertson’s trial in Washington, D.C., questioned prospective jurors for…Continue Reading
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The jury that will decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz gets a death sentence will tour the blood-stained, bullet-pocked building where he murdered 17 people four years ago, a judge has ruled.Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer rejected a defense argument that a jury tour of the three-story building at Marjory…Continue Reading
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are squabbling over the process of endorsing candidates for the fall election, with the state party considering a “no endorsement” option for the first time in more than a decade. The divide within the GOP comes as Republicans are trying to win back the governor’s office and reelect U.S.…Continue Reading
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