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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., talks with reporters after a remembrance ceremony on the east front steps of the U.S. Capitol for the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Monday, September 13, 2021. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The U.S. government is taking its first step towards encouraging more high-assay
10:13 PM ET EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Dec. 24, 2020. Since then, Bubba Wallace earned his first career Cup win — making him the first Black driver to win a Cup Series race since 1963. That win came on Oct. 4, 2021, at Talladega, the same track that what was believed to
It was but two years back that Boris Johnson swept into No 10 on a Conservative majority not seen since the days of Margaret Thatcher, his foot on the neck of a broken Labour party, his position seemingly unassailable. So, to mark the anniversary of that triumph with a 100-strong rebellion from unbiddable backbenchers must
In this article GOOGL Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., gestures while speaking during a discussion on artificial intelligence at the Bruegel European economic think tank in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. Pichai urged the U.S. and European Union to coordinate regulatory approaches on artificial intelligence, calling their alignment critical. Geert
2:13 PM ET Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — NASCAR champion Kyle Larson‘s first Formula One race was the season finale, and he is as conflicted as anyone over the controversial ending of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Max Verstappen passed Lewis Hamilton on the final lap Sunday to win the title, but
1:14 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — Six Moroccan men’s tennis players, including four who played in the Davis Cup, have been banned in a match-fixing investigation, the International Tennis Integrity Unit said Tuesday. A hearing found the six players “were guilty of multiple offenses and a variety of match-fixing charges, including fixing elements of
At least 60 people were killed and dozens more injured after a petrol tanker overturned and exploded in northern Haiti. Late on Monday, the truck overturned in the coastal city of Cap-Haitien and exploded in a fireball, engulfing cars and homes in flames. Hours later, a local hospital was overwhelmed with injured people as it
12:17 PM ET Tiger Woods is returning to golf action this week. Perhaps you heard? Ten months since he rolled his SUV in a one-car crash in Los Angeles that could have cost him his leg, Woods is set to tee it up with his 12-year-old son, Charlie, at this week’s PNC Championship in Orlando.
Several West End shows including The Lion King have been forced to cancel performances due to outbreaks of coronavirus among cast and crew. The Lion King cancelled shows on Tuesday and Wednesday due to “COVID-enforced absences within our cast and crew”. Performances at the Lyceum Theatre are due to resume on Thursday – and customers
Tornadoes that ripped across Kentucky have been called ‘the deadliest’ they’ve seen and has caused a state of emergency. Authorities fear more than 100 people could have been killed. One of the storms is thought to have travelled more than 227 miles, which would be the longest continuous path for any tornado on record. Sky’s
More than a year removed from the 2020 election, Trump loyalists are conducting the fourth review of Wisconsin’s election results. CNN reporter Kyung Lah tried to track down the man in charge of this partisan review. #CNN #News
Boris Johnson has suffered the biggest Conservative rebellion since the 2019 general election as almost 100 Tory MPs opposed the introduction of COVID certificates for nightclubs and large events in England. In a House of Commons vote that immediately raised further questions over the prime minister’s leadership, more than a quarter of Tory MPs opposed
Mobility software developer Apex.AI has announced a hefty sum of Series B funding to the tune of $56.5 million, bringing its total funding to $74 million raised to date. The Series B round was led by international investment firm Orillion, among several new ventures added to Apex.AI’s investor list. Apex.AI is a software company based
In this article ALK UAL AIR-FR RY4C-IE A United Airlines airplane shortly after take off from Madrid, Spain, on September 25, 2021. Dudbrain | iStock Editorial | Getty Images United Airlines has taken an equity stake in ZeroAvia, a firm focused on powering electric motors by utilizing hydrogen fuel cells. Under the deal, United said
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to meet with the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbench MPs as pressure mounts ahead of crunch votes on Plan B coronavirus restrictions. Sky News understands that Mr Johnson will hold a “special meeting” with the committee at 5.30pm, an hour before MPs are due to vote on regulations. Plan B
All 11 countries on the travel red list will be removed as the system is “less effective in slowing the incursion” of the Omicron variant, Sajid Javid has announced. The health secretary told the Commons the countries will be removed from 4am on Wednesday, so passengers from those nations will no longer have to isolate
9:53 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — Milwaukee Bucks star Khris Middleton suffered a hyperextended left knee late in the third quarter of Monday night’s game here at TD Garden against the Boston Celtics, and was subsequently ruled out for the rest of the night by the team. Middleton suffered the injury when he landed
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Monday for new rules covering the use of autonomous weapons as a key meeting on the issue opened in Geneva. Negotiators at the UN talks have for eight years been discussing limits on lethal autonomous weapons, or LAWS, which are fully machine-controlled and rely on new technology such
The Desperate ApeWives NFT collection on display at Art Basel Miami on Dec. 1, 2021. Erika Goldring | Getty Images A non-fungible token trader reportedly sold a highly sought-after NFT for $3,000 rather than $300,000 due to a “fat-finger” error. The trader, identified only as Max or “maxnaut” online, told tech news website CNET that