LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — A former top official in U.S. nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories has died from injuries after an automobile crash in New Mexico, authorities said. He was 69. Charles McMillan, an experimental physicist, spent nearly 23 years in various positions at Livermore in California and…
The world will have to wait a little longer to see Blue Origin’s massive New Glenn rocket fly for the first time. That rocket had been scheduled to launch two spacecraft to Mars for NASA during an eight-day window that opens on October 13. But NASA announced on Friday that it was pushing the mission,…
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe spoke about Elon Musk and Tesla on the “Grit” podcast.Phillip Faraone/Chesnot/Getty Images Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe spoke about Elon Musk and Tesla on the “Grit” podcast. Scaringe said Tesla is “inspiring,” but Rivian did not follow Musk’s playbook. He said it’s important that Rivian wasn’t “covering the same ground as Tesla.”…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Despite her well-paying tech job, Li Daijing didn’t hesitate when her cousin asked for help running a restaurant in Mexico City. She packed up and left China for the Mexican capital last year, with dreams of a new adventure. The 30-year-old woman from Chengdu, the Sichuan provincial capital, hopes one day…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his forces have no immediate plans to leave Russia’s Kursk Oblast, which they entered in a surprise attack on Aug. 6. The roughly 500 square miles Ukraine claims to have seized so far is a bargaining chip, he told NBC News in an exclusive interview. “Our operation is aimed to…
NEW YORK — New York City has agreed to pay $12 million to a former Wall Street trader paralyzed in a June 2020 pandemic-era police-involved shooting in Manhattan’s East Village, the Daily News has learned. Peyman Bahadoran has been permanently confined to a wheelchair without the use of his legs since he was shot by…
Tension over the violence in the Middle East spilled into a WME chat thread this weekend when the agent to Matthew McConaughey, Jason Momoa, Kevin Hart and more, lashed out following the Hamas killing of six Israeli hostages wrote, “Screw the left kill all,” TheWrap has learned. Top WME agent Brandt Joel deleted the text…
Ricky Pearsall is reportedly in stable condition after his shooting. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez) Ricky Pearsall, the San Francisco 49ers’ first-round pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, was shot during an attempted robbery at San Francisco’s Union Square, per a statement from San Francisco police. Pearsall is reportedly in stable condition and the suspect is…
As the presidential candidates head into the most heated phase of the election year so far, former President Donald Trump has made a distinctive shift in tone on his Truth Social profile, lashing out in increasingly vulgar, misogynistic and vindictive posts. Just this week, he’s reposted messages calling for his political opponents to be jailed,…
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more After 12 weeks in space, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is finally set to return home from the International Space Station on September 6 — albeit without its two-person crew. The troubled spacecraft will undock from the…
