JANUARY 25, 2019
MELBOURNE, Australia — Scorching heat knocked out power to homes and businesses, raised wildfire risks and sent tennis fans looking for water and shade Friday in Australia's second-largest city, which recorded its hottest day in five years.
Melbourne reached 42 .8 C (109 F) by early afternoon before a sudden cooldown, though the outskirts of the city remained...
JANUARY 25, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressional leaders and President Trump have reached a tentative deal to temporarily reopen the government and continue talks on Trump’s demand for border wall money, Capitol Hill officials said Friday.
With Trump’s approval, the pact would reopen shuttered government departments for the three weeks while leaving the issue of $5.7 billion for the U.S.-Mexico border...
JANUARY 24, 2019
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) leaves the Senate floor and walks back to his office after the failure of both competing Republican and Democratic proposals to end the partial government shutdown in back to back votes on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 24, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. senators made a new...
JANUARY 24, 2019
In the hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's letter announcing she would not allow President Donald Trump to speak from the room she now controls, a flurry of suggestions and proposals emerged from Trump's advisers.
What about a speech on the US-Mexico border? Or an address at Philadelphia's Independence Hall, where the Constitution was adopted? Or a stately...
JANUARY 23, 2019
India 156 for 2 (Dhawan 75*) beat New Zealand 157 (Williamson 64, Kuldeep 4-39, Shami 3-19) by eight wickets (DLS method)
NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND - Mohammed Shami continued to challenge for India's first XI come World Cup with another lovely display of seam bowling to set up a comfortable win for India - their first in an ODI...
JANUARY 23, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will not allow President Trump to deliver the State of the Union in the House chamber next week, writing to him on Wednesday afternoon that he can give the annual speech at the Capitol once the government shutdown is over.
Pelosi said when she extended Trump the invitation earlier this...
JANUARY 23, 2019
A fleet of high-tech robots is now deployed at a northern Virginia university to serve the noble purpose of delivering pizza, doughnuts and coffee on demand to students who summon them.
Starship Technologies announced Tuesday that its delivery robots are now in use at George Mason University in Fairfax.
The company's partnership with Sodexo, which holds a catering contract...
JANUARY 22, 2019
Gita Gopinath has a knack for asking the kind of questions that, not so long ago, might have raised eyebrows inside the International Monetary Fund, where she just took over as chief economist.
What if more emerging markets actively managed their currencies, like China does? What if an influx of capital risks sapping a nation’s productivity, not boosting...
JANUARY 22, 2019
Wednesday is special in Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow, Alaska, for reasons that don’t sound particularly special. That morning, the sun will rise there — but for the first time in 66 days.
The country’s northernmost town, with a population of 4,300 people, is also one of the northernmost communities in the world, at a latitude of 71.2...
JANUARY 21, 2019
Scientist He Jiankui speaks at his company Direct Genomics in Shenzhen. - Reuters/CHINA STRINGER NETWORK
BEIJING - A Chinese scientist who said he made the world's first "gene-edited" babies intentionally evaded oversight and broke national guidelines in a quest for fame and fortune, according to a government investigation quoted in state media on Monday.
Scientist He Jiankui said in...
