Lewis Hamilton has already been in contact with soon-to-be Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc – as Carlos Sainz, the driver forced to make way for the seven-time world champion, revealed the shock switch came out of the blue. Hamilton (39) will leave Mercedes at the end of this year after agreeing a blockbuster move to Ferrari […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York will expand its legal definition of rape to include various forms of nonconsensual sexual contact, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday. The state’s current limited definition was a factor in writer E. Jean Carroll’s sexual abuse and defamation case against former President Donald […]
Japanese flight controllers re-established contact with the robotic SLIM lunar lander Saturday, eight days after the spacecraft tipped over and lost power as it was touching down on Jan. 19, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced Sunday. An engine malfunction moments before landing caused the Smart Landing for Investigating (the) Moon, or SLIM, spacecraft to […]
At the latest meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (also known as Ramstein Group), the Netherlands has announced that it will join what is known as the IT Coalition, which aims to help build the digital and cyber capabilities of Ukraine’s Armed Forces. Source: Ukraine’s Defence Ministry, as reported by European Pravda Details: Along […]
Jan. 25—Longmont police have contacted a juvenile female student who acknowledged her involvement in a bomb threat made to Westview Middle School on Friday. In an email, Longmont Public Safety spokeswoman Robin Ericson said the student attends Westview and that the associated criminal offenses are false reporting to authorities, false reporting of an explosive device […]
I held my breath for a moment on Jan. 18, when scientists announced they’d lost contact with the Perseverance Mars rover’s helicopter friend, Ingenuity. Ingenuity had been nearing completion of its 72nd flight — a liftoff far past the threshold of “borrowed time” in this case, as the mighty craft was originally built for a […]
After a short period of worrying silence, NASA said on Saturday night that it was able to regain contact with the Ingenuity helicopter. The autonomous aircraft unexpectedly ceased communications with the Perseverance rover, which relays all transmissions between Ingenuity and Earth, on Thursday during its 72nd flight on Mars. It had already been acting up […]
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has gone incommunicado. Ingenuity‘s handlers lost contact with the 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) chopper on Thursday (Jan. 18), toward the end of its 72nd flight on Mars. “Data Ingenuity sent to the Perseverance rover (which acts as a relay between the helicopter and Earth) during the flight indicates it successfully climbed to […]
The end has apparently come for the troubled Peregrine moon lander. Astrobotic lost contact with Peregrine at around 3:50 p.m. EST (2050 GMT) on Thursday afternoon (Jan. 18), the Pittsburgh-based company announced via X (formerly known as Twitter). “While this indicates the vehicle completed its controlled re-entry over open water in the South Pacific at […]
A former Kentucky teacher’s aide has admitted having sexual contact with teenage boys, and has pleaded guilty in federal court over the offense. Ellen Phillips, 39, formerly known as Ellen Shell, pleaded guilty in federal court in Lexington on Friday to a charge of attempted online enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual […]
On Sunday, 86 combat clashes took place at the contact line. 22 attacks were repelled on the Avdiivka front, 15 on the Marinka front and 14 on the Lyman front. Source: report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Details: There were 86 combat clashes over the last day. In total, the […]
Jan. 13—MONTEVIDEO — Law enforcement in Chippewa County started efforts to make contact with Joseph Rongstad on Wednesday, or roughly a full day before he became the focus of a tense standoff in the community of Watson. Social media posts he made Wednesday, while not containing explicit threats, led law enforcement to suspect that he […]