Good morning. I first heard about the occult practice of water divining in Australia. There, much like in California, heat, drought and wildfires ravage the landscape. In the country’s most recent drought, farmers contended with shrinking aquifers and drying-up rivers, while cities came close to running out of water. The impacts of climate change wreaked […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – President Joe Biden and senior United States officials will meet private sector leaders on Aug 25 to discuss ways to beef up cyber security, a White House spokesman said on Wednesday (July 21), underscoring the need for collective action. Members of Mr Biden’s national security team and officials from across the administration […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – US climate envoy John Kerry called on China to step up its efforts to reduce carbon emissions, or put the world at risk of missing international targets. Without sufficient curbs by the world’s biggest producer of greenhouse gases, limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is “essentially impossible”, Kerry said during a […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – The Biden administration disclosed previously classified details on Tuesday (July 20) about the breadth of state-sponsored cyberattacks on American oil and gas pipelines over the past decade, as part of a warning to pipeline owners to increase the security of their systems to stave off future attacks. From 2011 to 2013, […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – The Biden administration disclosed previously classified details on Tuesday (July 20) about the breadth of state-sponsored cyberattacks on American oil and gas pipelines over the past decade, as part of a warning to pipeline owners to increase the security of their systems to stave off future attacks. From 2011 to 2013, […]
In October 1971, a rifle made during the Revolutionary War was stolen from a display case at the visitor center at Valley Forge State Park in Pennsylvania. The case was thought to be theft-proof, but someone used a crowbar to pry it open in broad daylight, soon after the museum, about 20 miles northwest of […]
Haiti’s national police announced on Tuesday they had arrested three police officers in connection with the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, suggesting there may have been an infiltration of their force ahead of the killing. The police named the three as Boni Gregoire, Clifton Hyppolite and Elie Jean Charles, but did not elaborate on the […]
The transit agency that runs New York City’s subway, buses and two commuter rails will hold off on a fare increase for the rest of the year as it struggles to lure back riders. After raising fares on a regular cycle, the agency, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, will not move on what had been a […]
New York City awoke this morning to a view of the Western wildfires: a red sun in the sky. Smoke from the blazes burning in the Western United States and Canada made its way across the continent, contributing to the morning haze in the city and elsewhere on the East Coast, said John Cristantello, a […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The world’s richest man Jeff Bezos, his brother, a Dutch teenager who is now the youngest ever astronaut and a barrier-breaking female US aviator who is now the oldest have now been to space. Here is a brief look at the crew of Blue Origin’s historic first human flight on Tuesday (July […]