A hiker found himself stranded in a precarious spot on top of a “hoodoo with a sharp, catastrophic drop on all sides” in Utah, rescuers said. The man in his 60s injured his ankle and had leaped over a 5-foot chasm onto the rock spire — and then couldn’t get back across the gap, Grand […]
Shut It Down A NASA contractor is urging the space agency to suspend the upcoming Boeing Starliner launch over major safety concerns with the aerospace company’s wares. In a press release, the president of ValveTech, a NASA contractor that supplies the agency with parts, warned that the buzzing sound heard during the now-scrubbed Starliner launch […]
The Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas has sharply criticized the start of Israel’s evacuation of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, ahead of a military operation. Israel is damaging all efforts to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza war, Mahmoud Mardawi, a senior Hamas official, told dpa on Monday. The move would have […]
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — The death toll rose to 56 in southern Brazil Saturday with dozens still missing as historic floods continue to cause region-wide devastation. Brazilian authorities say another 74 have been injured and 67 remain missing. Overall, the floods are affecting over 420,000 people in the Rio Grande do Sul state, with over […]
Ongoing rain in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul caused a ferry boat to capsize after hitting a bridge on the swollen Taquari river on May 2. Footage by Matheus Hinterholz shows the boat being carried away by the current and hitting the submerged bridge. The impact caused the vessel to capsize […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The last thing standing between Ashnaelle Bijoux and her college dream is the FAFSA form — a financial aid application that’s supposed to help students go to college, but is blocking her instead. She has tried to submit it over and over. Every time, it fails to go through. “I feel overwhelmed […]
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) – When drivers traveled on I-55 south of Springfield on May 1, 2023, they faced more than just typical traffic: a wall of dust blanketed the highway. “In my experience, I have seen certain instances such as this,” Ryan Starrick, the Illinois State Police (ISP) southern region command major, said. “That […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The torrential rains and deadly floods that have hit Kenya since March have been some of the most catastrophic in the country in recent years. At least 169 people have died due to the heavy rains, with more than 91 missing, according to the latest government figures. In the most tragic […]
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi on Thursday rejected the displacement of Palestinians from the neighbouring Gaza Strip as Israel prepares for an impending military operation in Rafah. Cairo is worried that a planned push into the southern border city of Rafah, the last remaining Hamas stronghold in Gaza after months of Israeli raids in the north […]
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi on Thursday reiterated his country’s firm stance against the displacement of Palestinians from the neighbouring Gaza Strip as Israel prepares for an impending military operation in Rafah. Cairo is worried that a planned Israeli push into the border city of Rafah, the last remaining Hamas stronghold in Gaza, would trigger a […]
* Putin speaks to Iranian President Raisi * Putin says: all sides must show restraint * Putin warns: a new confrontation could be catastrophic * Putin says Palestinian-Israeli conflict needs to be solved * Raisi: we do not want to escalate after strikes on Israel (Adds Iranian readout I paragraphs 7-8) By Guy Faulconbridge and […]
The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge Tuesday after a collision with a massive container ship could have been mitigated with simple “fenders” that have been standard issue on new bridges since the 1990s. Today these fenders are standard to be installed around supporting beams for new bridges to help blunt potential impact from […]