NEW YORK CITY – The NYPD is taking a new step to fight illegal parking, using a special device that’s redefining what it means to “boot your car.” The device is called the “barnacle” – and it’s made to suck onto the windshield of cars whose owners aren’t paying their parking tickets. Over the past […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities have deployed more than 100,000 police and paramilitary forces at mosques and marketplaces across the country ahead of the massive Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said Tuesday. Eid al-Fitr, which means feast, will be celebrated in Pakistan on Wednesday, subject to sighting of the moon. The three-day holiday marks the end […]
(Bloomberg) — Latvia wants to improve the enforcement of European Union sanctions against Russia by deploying the tools it’s used to stamp out illicit financing. Most Read from Bloomberg The EU’s Baltic members have been among the most aggressive in criticizing Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. But they’ve struggled to police a flow of trade […]
Danish offshore energy firm Maersk Supply Service is deploying a new type of vessel that it is calling the “next-generation Wind Installation Vessel” to help build more wind turbines at sea, as the company posted on Instagram and has been reported in detail by CleanTechnica. The Wind Installation Vessel will be hauled out to wind […]
Amid the chaos and violence taking place in Haiti, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced steps he’s taking to “stop potential influx of illegal immigration” from the Caribbean nation. Located southeast of Florida, Haiti is about 600 miles from Miami. Boats of immigrants fleeing the country are common on Florida shores. On Feb. 29, a boat […]
SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on Sunday. Update: SpaceX said it successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink satellites Sunday night. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 7:05 p.m. READ: 2024 Academy Awards: ‘Oppenheimer’ dominates with 7 Oscars The first stage booster of the rocket then […]
By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL, March 11 (Reuters) – South Korea will start deploying military physicians and doctors from public health centres to strike-hit hospitals on Monday to help care for patients affected by the walkout of nearly 12,000 trainee doctors from 100 hospitals over government reform plans. Twenty military surgeons along with 138 public health […]
Move over, “Sleepy Joe.” Fox News’ Sean Hannity traded his usual derogatory nickname for President Joe Biden for the “Jacked-Up Joe” moniker and received a round of applause from Democrats. Hannity has for months suggested on his prime-time show that Biden is in cognitive decline and not fit for office. But he took a different […]
NEW YORK — Following a series of violent incidents in the New York City subway system, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday announced a new five-point safety plan that includes bringing in hundreds of National Guard troops and adding new security cameras. Hochul announced that a combined 1,000 personnel — including 750 National Guard troops, along with MTA […]
ALBANY, New York — Gov Kathy Hochul is putting forward her most ambitious plan yet to strengthen safety on New York City subways less than a week after a subway conductor was slashed in the neck while on the job. The governor announced Wednesday that she will deploy 750 National Guard members to patrol the […]
Tennessee will deploy two waves of National Guard troops to the border through the spring as Republican governors across the country continue to back Texas in its ongoing feud with federal authorities over immigration enforcement. Gov. Bill Lee and first lady Maria Lee met with deploying National Guard members in Millington, Tennessee on Saturday, weeks […]
The Russians have deployed experimental 3M22 Zircon missiles in Ukraine at least twice – one of them crashed in Kyiv’s Dniprovskyi district and the other in the city of Vyshneve near Kyiv. Source: Oleksandr Ruvin, Director of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, in an interview with Vechirniy Kyiv media Details: Ruvin reiterated […]