AUGUST 15, 2021
Trader John Panin, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. Stocks rose in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday as energy companies and banks clawed back some of the ground they lost a day earlier. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Stocks rose to fresh highs Wednesday to extend gains from a...
AUGUST 11, 2021
Danilo Lima Flower of Triantha occidentalis in a bog at Cypress Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.
An unassuming herb found on the western coast of North America known as Triantha occidentalis, or western false asphodel, has now joined the ranks of carnivorous plants.
Scientists affixed fruit flies to the sticky stems of T. occidentalis growing in a bog near...
AUGUST 10, 2021
The long-feared era of disastrous climate change has arrived.
Fire burns during a wildfire near the village of Schinos, Greece, on May 19, 2021. - Valerie Gache/AP Photo
For the first time, the planet's top scientists said in a monumental report released on Monday they have definitively linked greenhouse gas emissions to the type of disasters driven by...
AUGUST 9, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Democrats released an outline of the $3.5 trillion antipoverty and climate plan on Monday, further detailing their ambitions for a major overhaul of the nation’s education and healthcare systems that they hope to advance alongside a bipartisan infrastructure bill.
The antipoverty plan is set to offer universal prekindergarten, two free years of community college,...
AUGUST 9, 2021
Philly paid $5 million to a man who said he was jailed for murder because of…
Public health experts and state officials are raising alarms about a surge in COVID hospitalizations among children -- now at their steepest and seeing the most significant increase since the onset of the pandemic.
After declining in the early summer, child COVID-19 cases...
AUGUST 9, 2021
Gigabyte has been the victim of a cyberattack, which was reportedly the work of a ransomware outfit called RansomEXX. According to The Record, the attack didn’t have an impact on any of the company’s production systems, but it did affect some internal servers. Currently, some parts of Gigabyte’s website, including its support section, are down, giving customers...
AUGUST 8, 2021
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach declared the 32nd Olympic Games in Tokyo closed on August 8. The closing ceremony was held in a nearly empty stadium, at the end of a 16-day event that was held under strict COVID restrictions. The festivities began in front of VIPs after the Japanese flag was raised at the 68,000-seat venue, where fans are...
AUGUST 8, 2021
PF Rules 2021: Reminder! The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) subscribers must note that the last date to link your Aadhaar card to your PF account is nearing and you have to do it by September 1. The EPFO (Employees Provident Fund Organisation) has made it mandatory for all employees to link Aadhaar with PF UAN (universal account...
AUGUST 7, 2021
A case of Eta variant of SARS-COV-2 was confirmed in Karnataka’s Mangaluru on Thursday in a sample taken four months ago. The Eta variant (B.1.525) was detected in a Mangaluru man who had travelled to Qatar, according to the state bulletin on Thursday.
As Karnataka Confirms a Case of Eta Variant of Coronavirus, Here's All You...
AUGUST 7, 2021
Tokyo (Japan) : Neeraj Chopra on Saturday rewrote history as he won the Gold medal for India in Javelin throw at the Tokyo Olympics 2020. This is the first time in nearly 121 years when India has won a Gold medal at field and track events. Before Neeraj, British-Indian athlete Norman Gilbert Pritchard had won a medal...
