MAY 27, 2022
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) in April, 2022. Hogan vetoed 18 bills late Friday, including some that offered tax breaks to union members, staved off eviction for tenants awaiting rental assistance and allowed voters to fix mistakes on mail-in ballots. - (Brian Witte/AP)
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed 18 bills late Friday, including legislation that would have let...
MAY 27, 2022
Mumbai: For Shah Rukh Khan's son, Aryan Khan, Friday (May 27, 2022) brought a big relief as he was given a clean chit in the Mumbai drugs-on-cruise case by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). NCB director-general SN Pradhan said it was a case of "underwhelming evidence" as compared to the golden principle of gathering "overwhelming evidence" against...
MAY 27, 2022
The metaverse is the future, says Facebook, which since late October has called itself Meta Platforms .
For now, more questions than answers are emerging around this concept, of a virtual world in which we will interact via technological tools, like virtual-reality headsets, powered by technology such as augmented reality.
But Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of the social-media giant,...
MAY 27, 2022
Actress Ketaki Chitale (left) was arrested over a derogatory post against NCP chief Sharad Pawar (right).
A Magistrate court in Thane rejected the bail plea of Marathi actor Ketki Chitale who was arrested for allegedly uploading a social media post against Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar. Support for the young actor is growing online with #ketakichitale...
MAY 27, 2022
A stock photo shows a cheetah looking off-camera. Researchers have identified extinct cheetah fossils in the Grand Canyon. - LuCaAr/Getty
Snow leopard-like cheetahs roamed America tens of thousands of years ago, hunting mountain goats across tricky terrain, according to fossilized remains.
The big cat, called the American cheetah (Miracinonyx trumani), has long been extinct. But a study has...
MAY 27, 2022
Chris Kemp, founder and CEO of Astra, speaks during the Skybridge Capital SALT New York 2021 conference in New York REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Astra CEO Chris Kemp said the space industry will enable new technologies on Earth.
Kemp compared the growing industry to the internet boom in the '90s.
He said the industry will need a global governance...
MAY 26, 2022
The Justice Department has released portions of a previously unseen alternative version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on ties between former President Donald Trump and Russia.
However, the 37-page report prepared at the direction of Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann and released this week under the Freedom of Information Act is heavily redacted. Justice Department officials withheld large...
MAY 26, 2022
The US Navy lent Tom Cruise F/A-18 Super Hornets for the new “Top Gun” movie. The only catches: The studio paid as much as $11,374 an hour to use the advanced fighter planes -- and Cruise couldn’t touch the controls.
The “Mission Impossible” star, famous for performing his own stunts, insisted that all the actors portraying pilots on...
MAY 26, 2022
Ukraine Slams Idea of Swapping Land for Peace. - Serhii Korovayny/WSJ
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed suggestions that his country should cede territory to Russia in return for peace, comparing them to attempts to appease Nazi Germany, as Russia stepped up its attacks in Ukraine’s east.
With the war in Ukraine now past...
MAY 26, 2022
Elon Musk is the most influential CEO in the world.
And he knows it.
The mogul with 95 million followers on Twitter is determined to use his platform to weigh in on public debates, whatever they may be.
In recent months, the CEO of the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla has thus imposed his voice on subjects such as the Russian...
