Magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits Japan off Fukushima coast
María Branyas Morera, born in 1907, now in Guinness record books after death of Lucille Randon, 118, in French town of Toulon María Branyas Morera has lived through two world wars, the Spanish civil war, the 1918 flu pandemic and Covid. Now the California-born woman is the world’s oldest living person. Branyas, 115, became the…
The State Department has yanked the first visa of a foreign student linked to “Hamas-supporting disruptions” after President Trump vowed to crack down on those involved in anti-Israel protests on college campuses. “We revoked the first visa of an alien who was previously cited for criminal behavior in connection with Hamas-supporting disruptions,” a State Department…
WARSAW, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Poles vote in a parliamentary election on Sunday which the opposition says will determine the country’s democratic standing and place in the European Union, after a bitterly contested campaign dominated by issues of sovereignty and security. Since coming to power in 2015, the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party has…
The sky is falling — at least on Boeing. A second whistleblower has died under mysterious circumstances, just two months after another one allegedly shot himself in the head — and the attorneys for both men hope their deaths don’t scare away the at least 10 more whistleblowers who want the company to clean up…
(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker said he expects the central bank to slow the pace of interest-rate hikes in upcoming months as US monetary policy approaches restrictive levels. “In the upcoming months, in light of the cumulative tightening we have achieved, I expect we will slow the pace of our…
Korea’s ‘artificial sun’, KSTAR, recorded a plasma operation with a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds, a new step in nuclear fusion research. Korea’s “artificial sun” broke its own record during a plasma operation in which temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius were supported for 48 seconds, a promising new step toward…