The U.S. Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon, which is being retrofitted aboard the first of its three stealthy destroyers. The USS Zumwalt is at a Mississippi shipyard where workers have installed missile tubes that replace twin turrets from a gun system that was never…
The three men were on their way to a wedding when the accident took place [Anoop Mishra] Can a navigation app be held responsible if a user gets into an accident? That is the question being asked in India after three men died when their car veered off an unfinished bridge and fell on to…
The return of Donald Trump to the White House could bring changes to global trade, with proposed tariffs raising alarms across markets and sparking urgent questions about the future of economic relations between the US, UK and EU. At the heart of these concerns is Trump’s pledge to introduce universal tariffs of 10% to 20%…
Vice President Kamala Harris’ first video to her supporters after the election stunned social media users Tuesday. The video, shared by the Democratic Party’s official X account, featured Harris speaking directly to followers discouraged by the recent election. “I just have to remind you, don’t let anybody take your power from you. You have the…
By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine at the fastest rate since the early days of the 2022 invasion, taking an area half the size of Greater London over the past month, analysts and war bloggers say. The war is entering what some Russian and Western officials say…
More than 100 years ago, a ship left a Nova Scotia harbor carrying a precious cargo that few today would recognize as valuable. The crew, full of optimism, was bound for Wales hoping that the metal they carried would lead them to riches. Unfortunately, they never made it. A German U-boat lurking in the cold…
He may or may not be buying MSNBC, but Elon Musk isn’t taking any put-downs from Neil de Grasse Tyson on his Mars ambitions. The entrepreneur responded today to deGrasse Tyson’s barbed comments on Friday’s Bill Maher “Overtime” regarding the feasibility of going to Mars. The two have long warred over the Mars question. Musk…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday rejected the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s request to sanction Elon Musk after he failed to appear for court-ordered testimony for the regulator’s probe into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in San Francisco said sanctions over Musk’s Sept. 10…
First the towering, weathered sign disappeared on State Street weeks ago. Now the entire building could be turned to rubble? I scarcely believe it myself, but Merritt’s Family Restaurant, 6630 W. State St., has filed paperwork with the city of Boise proposing to tear down the nearly century-old structure. Then rebuild. The work is “necessitated,”…
