Hello! My last name might end in a vowel, but I still learned something from this Michelin-starred chef pointing out red flags to look for at nice Italian restaurants. (Although, I take issue with calling it “sauce” instead of “gravy.”) In today’s big story, we’re looking at President Joe Biden showing no signs of giving […]
Last week, after braving a field of sand dunes and traversing the desiccated remnants of an ancient river, NASA’s Perseverance rover reached the shining rock outcropping on the Martian horizon that the rover’s operators have named “Bright Angel.” Perseverance has now begun its scientific investigation of a very unique place in its surroundings. Its first […]
The ancestors of Alaska Native people began using local copper sources to craft intricate tools roughly 1,000 years ago. Over one-third of all copper objects archaeologists have found in this region were excavated at a single spot, named the Gulkana Site. This is the site I’ve studied for the past four years as a Ph.D. […]
Jun. 16—The pressure is on New Mexico’s freshman congressman leading up to the November general election as the GOP seeks to expand its majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and reclaim a seat that has flipped back and forth between Democrats and Republicans in recent years. Considered one of the most competitive House races […]
MIAMI (AP) — When Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry filled the void left by the assassination of the country’s president in 2021, he did so over the protest of wide segments of the population but with the full-throated support of the Biden administration. Now, almost three years later, Henry’s grip on power is hanging by […]
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden‘s personal attorney said Sunday he went to both the special counsel and the attorney general to register concerns over what he viewed to be pejorative and unnecessary digs at the president’s memory. “This is a report that went off the rails,” Bob Bauer said on CBS’ Face the […]
WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday threw cold water on the idea of striking an immigration deal with Democrats that could revive stalled legislation to send aid to Ukraine, hours before a meeting in which President Joe Biden planned to make a renewed push for the plan. “I don’t think now is the time […]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average made a meager gain despite negative economic news. Bitcoin was sharply off highs as ETFs started trading, while fund manager Cathie Wood bought a diving stock. Meanwhile, Microsoft (MSFT) closed with a lower market cap than Apple (AAPL) despite briefly surpassing its old rival. X A trio of stocks moved […]
A 9.8 million-pound machine dubbed Mary keeps on boring through sediment as it makes its way under the harbor from Norfolk to Hampton. The $101 million tunnel boring machine, named after Hampton aerospace engineer Mary Winston Jackson, recently hit a major construction milestone in the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion project. Mary has dug halfway through […]
By Kiyoshi Takenaka WAJIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Hotel chef Makoto Wakabayashi was among those in Wajima hoping for a banner year as visitors returned to the scenic, seaside town that weathered more than two years of pandemic gloom. Those dreams came apart in minutes of violent shaking on New Year’s Day, when the strongest earthquake […]