Naomi Osaka’s first Wimbledon campaign in five years was emphatically halted by a swift second-round defeat to world number 17 Emma Navarro. Wild card Osaka entered Centre Court buoyed by her first victory at the All England Club since 2018 following a mixture of injury and mental health struggles, plus the birth of daughter Shai. […]
A federal bankruptcy judge has stopped an effort by the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to begin collecting some of the 50 million dollars (£39.5 million) they won in a lawsuit against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his false claims that the massacre was a hoax. Lawyers for […]
A fast-moving wildfire near Roseville sent up a large column of smoke Monday afternoon in Placer County and burned vegetation at a dangerous, “critical” rate of speed before its progress was halted, Cal Fire officials said. The vegetation fire started as a series of roadside spot fires that were driven by wind and burned rapidly […]
Months after a rare midtrial appeal halted a case against two former Cook County assistant state’s attorneys charged with misconduct, lawyers Tuesday sparred before a panel of appellate court justices judges over the legal issues that brought the case to a halt in October. Nicholas Trutenko, 69, and Andrew Horvat, 48, are accused of wrongdoing […]
A South Side alderman temporarily halted his publicity campaign to have the city address an open-air drug market in his ward after a weekend shooting occurred a block from where he was camping out in a vacant lot in West Englewood. Ald. David Moore, 17th, said he resumed his efforts Monday, one day after the […]
The severe rain bomb that triggered an “exceedingly rare” flash flood emergency — meant for catastrophic showers — in multiple South Florida cities has led to the closure of universities, government agencies and transit systems on Wednesday. The National Weather Service issued the emergency alert for portions of southern Broward and northern Miami-Dade Counties. Four […]
Authorities in Athens have announced the closure of the Acropolis for a number of hours due to heatwave temperatures. The ancient site in the Greek capital – which drew nearly four million visitors last year – was closed from midday until 5pm on Wednesday as the temperature was set to reach 39C. Some school classes […]
(Bloomberg) — Turkey’s exports to Israel all but ground to a halt in May, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government stopped trade until Gaza receives enough humanitarian aid. Most Read from Bloomberg Shipments to Israel dropped 99% on an annual basis to $4.4 million, preliminary data from Turkey’s main exporters association showed on Monday. The […]
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) -Amazon.com’s cloud services unit said on Tuesday that it has not halted any orders of Nvidia’s most advanced chip on the market, but has instead decided to purchase the company’s newer state of the art chip for an upcoming supercomputer project between the companies. Earlier, the Financial Times had reported that […]
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) -Amazon.com’s cloud services unit said on Tuesday that it has not halted any orders of Nvidia’s most advanced chip on the market, but has instead decided to purchase the company’s newer state of the art chip for an upcoming supercomputer project between the companies. Earlier, the Financial Times had reported that […]
The federal government’s inspection system for public housing suffered a major technical failure that forced inspections to be canceled for two weeks, according to groups representing housing providers. The Department of Housing and Urban Development stopped conducting mandatory health and safety inspections from May 6 until Monday, according to staff members of the Public Housing […]
(Reuters) – The United Nations is planning new routes to distribute aid from a U.S.-built pier in Gaza, a spokesperson said, after crowds of needy residents intercepted trucks, causing a halt to deliveries that continued for a third day on Tuesday. The temporary, floating pier is meant to help ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, […]