FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. - Daniel Leal-Olivas/WPA Pool/Getty Images
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has won a privacy claim in her case against a tabloid newspaper that published a handwritten letter to her estranged father, Thomas Markle.
The judge in the case issued a summary judgement, which will avoid a full trial.
Markle sued newspaper publisher Associated Newspapers Limited after...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was prepared to plead guilty to third-degree murder in George Floyd's death before then-Attorney General William Barr personally blocked the plea deal last year, officials said.
The deal would have averted any potential federal charges, including a civil rights offense, as part of an effort to quickly resolve the case to...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
A photo taken on August 25, 2014 shows a crater on the Yamal Peninsula, northern Siberia. Photo: Vasily Bogoyavlensky (Getty Images)
The Siberian tundra is still out here exploding. A new study from the Woodwell Climate Research Center has identified three new craters in the region’s increasingly volatile permafrost, and the climate crisis is to blame.
Researchers have been...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Rep. Stacey Plaskett speaks at Trump's Senate impeachment trial over the Capitol insurrection. Screenshot via C-SPAN
House Impeachment managers argued Wednesday that Trump's lies were responsible for the Capitol siege.
They showed a trove of new video clips from inside the Capitol on January 6 to highlight the danger.
Security footage revealed how many...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued new guidance that people who have been fully vaccinated for the coronavirus no longer need to quarantine if they are exposed to someone who is infected with COVID-19.
"Fully vaccinated persons who meet criteria will no longer be required to quarantine following an exposure to someone with COVID-19,"...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
W. M. Keck Observatory Chief Scientist John O’Meara (left) and Professor J. Xavier Prochaska of UC Santa Cruz (right) are among the authors awarded the 2020 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize. (Image: W. M. Keck Observatory)
Two scientists at the W. M. Keck Observatory have received the 2020 Newcomb Cleveland Prize that is annually awarded to authors of outstanding...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
A team of astronomers made a blockbuster claim in the fall. They said they had discovered compelling evidence pointing to life floating in the clouds of Venus.
If true, that would be stunning. People have long gazed into the cosmos and wondered whether something is alive out there. For an affirmative answer to pop up on the planet...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of the Uttarakhand disaster, PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday said enhancing disaster management capabilities was one of the areas which needed attention and it could be done through human resources development and technology. He said, “The road to fighting climate change is through climate justice…”
“The sad reality is — changes in the...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
NEW DELHI: India’s information and account removal requests to Twitter shot up exponentially between Jan-June 2020 and Jan-Jun 2019. During the same period, legal information requests made to Facebook also jumped. So did the number of hours lost to internet shutdowns.
Information requests made to Twitter leapfrogged by 451%. Following such requests, the company has to reveal who...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (ANI Photo/ RSTV Grab)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed on Wednesday that the new farm laws passed in September were optional and not binding on farmers, who, he said, can still sell their produce wherever they earn more profits and not necessarily to corporate entities.
The PM invited protesting farmers to resume a dialogue,...
