Chaos continues to reign at Newark Liberty International Airport, where, in the last few weeks, there have been hundreds of flight cancellations, diversions, and delays, a handful of ground stoppages, and life-threatening technical glitches. Exhausted and over-extended air traffic controllers say they are working six days a week, 10 hours at a time, to ensure…
Misery loves company, as they say. Friday’s announcement that two of the three biggest cable-broadband firms, Charter Communications and Cox Communications, are combining is a logical next step in the consolidation of a stagnant but still significant industry. Charter, whose biggest shareholder … Source link
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it has cleared Fujirebio Diagnostics’ blood test to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, making it the first of its kind to detect the condition. Blood testing is initially likely to be used to rule out Alzheimer’s, with positive results … Source link
The US has lost its last perfect credit rating, as influential ratings firm Moody’s expressed concern over the government’s ability to pay back its debt. In lowering the US rating from ‘AAA’ to ‘Aa1’, Moody’s noted that successive US administrations had failed to reverse ballooning deficits and interest costs. A triple-A rating signifies a country’s…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The board of Florida’s only public historically Black university has chosen a lobbyist with ties to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to be the school’s next president, alarming students, faculty and alumni who are outraged by the governor’s efforts to restrict the teaching of African American history and ban public colleges from using…
The chief culprit, if I’m honest, was the song. A manic mish-mash of musical styles, it sped up in the verses, and slowed down for the choruses, with all the consistency of a jelly in a heatwave. That’s not to say it’s a bad piece of writing. Indeed, all of the UK’s 88 points came…
Almost 36 years after Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their parents with shotguns in a crime that captivated the nation, they appeared via video to address the Los Angeles judge who would decide whether they could ever be freed from prison. “I killed my mom and dad,” Lyle Menendez, now 57, said at a resentencing…
Warner Bros’ “Final Destination: Bloodlines” pulled in an impressive $21 million in its debut Friday, on its way to what is projected to be a record-breaking opening weekend. Insiders predict the horror flick will breeze past the franchise’s best opening weekend to date, which brought in $41.3 million adjusted for inflation for 2009’s “Final Destination 4.”…
An eye-opening recent image from the International Space Station (ISS) revealed the enormous extent of China’s distant-water fleet of fishing vessels. This is captured by astronaut Don Pettit and uploaded to the internet by his son, A. Pettit, the photo shows a breathtaking number of bright spots scattered against the blackness of the sea, each…