As families and residents gather to enjoy Wauwatosa’s Fourth of July Parade Thursday, people who are sensitive to loud noises, flashing lights and other effects that might cause sensory overloads can attend from a new space hoping to cater to their needs. Organizers of this year’s Fourth of July parade are trying out a Sensory […]
Swimming pools? Good. Pools of sweat? No thanks, especially when they’re the kind you find yourself engulfed in after a particularly sweltering night. Some people, like myself, sleep hot year round — but once the temps start creeping up to 80°-plus? Oof, it’s a whole nother level of icky. If you count yourself among us […]
Riding the continuing tsunami of artificial intelligence, Nvidia (NVDA) soared back onto this month’s list of new buys by the best mutual funds. And while Palantir (PLTR) disappeared from this screen in June, fellow defense, intelligence and AI player Parsons (PSN) stock remains on these savvy investors’ radars. ↑ X NOW PLAYING Find Top Growth Stocks […]
On Everest’s sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their dream to summit the world’s highest mountain. Among those scaling the soaring Himalayan mountain this year was a team not aiming for the 8,849-metre (29,032-foot) peak, but risking their own lives to bring […]
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — A police officer was frank with a driver who is accused of going nearly 50 miles per hour above the posted speed limit. “Sir, you’re gonna kill yourself driving that fast,” the officer stated during the course of a traffic stop, video of which the Fairfax County Police […]
A man who admitted to fatally shooting a bystander who attempted to intervene in a Delaware County robbery and paralyzing a man in another robbery will spend at least 46 years in prison before being eligible for parole. Zackeyis Davis, 23, pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated murder and attempted murder charges in Delaware County. Judge […]
They’re baaaack! The Electronic Speed Safety Program — better known by most as speed cameras — will return to Delaware’s current largest infrastructure project: the I-95/Route 896 interchange south of Newark. The safety program will start July 8 and will last until the completion of the project, which is slated to end October 2025, according […]
Barcelona, one of Europe’s most visited cities, said Friday it aims to ban apartment rentals to tourists by 2029 to ease the housing shortage in Spain’s second largest city. The licences for the 10,101 apartments currently approved as short-term rentals which are available on platforms such as Airbnb and Homeaway will not be renewed when […]
The Shell Island barrier island stands between the Gulf of Mexico and Barataria Bay on August 22, 2019, in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) NEW ORLEANS — The “dead zone” forms in the Gulf of Mexico every summer. It’s caused by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, largely from farm fertilizer and municipal runoff, […]
The North Korean military has breached the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the communist nation from South Korea multiple times this month. North Korean soldiers were spotted inside the DMZ on Tuesday morning, apparently laboring on a project in the forbidden area. South Korean military officials published photos of the incursion by North Korean troops around […]
North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the heavily-fortified military demarcation line with South Korea in the second such incident between the two hostile countries in less than two weeks, Seoul said on Tuesday. After South Korean border patrols fired warning shots, the North Korean soldiers immediately retreated across the border again, said the Joint Chiefs of […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin says nearly 700,000 soldiers are currently fighting in his war on Ukraine. “There are almost 700,000 of us in the zone of special military operations,” he said on Friday as he met soldiers who are being trained for a leadership position. This is significantly more than six months ago, when he […]