Health officials say the 65-year-old was hospitalised after contact with an infected flock of back-yard birds. A 65-year-old in the southern state of Louisiana has been hospitalised in critical condition as the result of the bird flu, becoming the first severe case reported in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., locked horns with a CNN reporter on Wednesday after he learned the “good news” that lawmakers would potentially be getting a pay raise. The proposed spending bill in Congress will give lawmakers their first pay raise since 2009, something which has received mix reaction across the political spectrum. Durbin was asked…
Workers setting up the TuSimple booth for CES 2022 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Jan. 3, 2022. Alex Wong | Getty Images News | Getty Images Embattled Chinese autonomous trucking company TuSimple has rebranded to CreateAI, focusing on video games and animation, the company announced Thursday. The news comes as GM folded its…
A Google Street View image of a man loading a large white plastic bag into the boot of his car has helped unravel a murder case in a northern Spanish town, police say. The Google app allows users to see images of streets around the world – filmed by cars mounted with cameras. It captured…
The tablet sold by Sotheby’s is the oldest known inscription in stone of the ancient text in Paleo-Hebrew script. The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments has sold for more than $5m at an auction in the United States. The New York-based auction house Sotheby’s said the 52kg (115lb) marble slab was…
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Exterior view of the entrance to Merck headquarters on February 05, 2024 in Rahway, New Jersey. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Merck on Wednesday said it has snagged the rights to an experimental weight loss pill from Chinese drugmaker Hansoh Pharma, in a deal worth up to $2 billion. The oral drug has not yet…
Syria’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said his country is exhausted by war and is not a threat to its neighbours or to the West. Speaking to the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen in Damascus, Sharaa said sanctions on Syria should be lifted and that his group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), should be de-listed as a terrorist…
Search-and-rescue operations continuing after an Indian naval boat hit a passenger ferry with more 100 passengers. At least 13 people died when an Indian naval boat hit a passenger ferry which then capsized off the coast of financial capital Mumbai, officials have said. More than 100 people have been rescued, Maharashtra state Chief Minister Devendra…
Slower progress on inflation translates into a slower pace of rate cuts, especially as economic growth is brisk. The United States Federal Reserve has cut interest rates but signalled it will slow the pace at which borrowing costs fall any further, given a relatively stable unemployment rate and little recent improvement in inflation. “Economic activity…
Getty Images China’s United Front Work Department is an arm of the Communist Party The People’s Republic of China has a “magic weapon”, according to its founding leader Mao Zedong and its current president Xi Jinping. It is called the United Front Work Department – and it is raising as much alarm in the West…
Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of Micron Technology Inc., speaks during an interview with CNBC on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., April 26, 2024. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Micron shares plunged 13% in extended trading on Wednesday after the chipmaker issued weak second-quarter guidance despite an earnings beat…
The co-leaders of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have circled the wagons against a stopgap spending bill that has drawn the ire of conservatives in Congress. “Unless @DOGE ends the careers of deceitful, pork-barrel politicians, the waste and corruption will never stop,” Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk posted on X…
Police in Aurora, Colorado, have detained five more migrants in an armed home invasion and kidnapping that occurred early Tuesday morning. This brings to 19 the number of migrants detained in the incident, which involved two victims being beaten, bound and kidnapped in a Denver suburb A spokesperson for ICE told Fox News Digital 16…
U.S. Treasury yields jumped on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced its latest interest rate cut, but signaled fewer could be on the horizon. The yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed nearly 12 basis points to 4.504%, and has hovered around the key 4.5% level in afternoon trading. The 2-year Treasury yield surged more than…
Russian general assassinated in Moscow in sophisticated Ukrainian operation. A Russian general has been assassinated by Ukraine in Moscow. Kyiv accused him of using chemical weapons on the battlefield. The attack comes as Russian forces are gaining more ground in Ukraine, and the US President-elect Donald Trump is calling for the war to end. Presenter:…
Rendering of a proposed Oklo commercial advanced fission power plant in the U.S. Courtesy: Oklo Inc. Nuclear startup Oklo aims to deploy 12 gigawatts of power over the next two decades through a framework agreement with data center operator Switch, the companies announced Wednesday. Oklo would deploy what amounts to a fleet of small nuclear…
Multiple Missouri lawmakers are reportedly preparing legislation to name several highways after President-elect Trump in the new year. The most expansive reported bill would bestow Trump’s name on carriageways of the Missouri state highway system not yet designated otherwise before next August, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. That bill, from state Sen. Mary Elizabeth…
On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out a terrorist attack in Israel, killing more than 1,200 people out of a population of 9.5 million, including over 800 civilians and at least 33 children, and injuring 5,400 more. The attack also led to the capture of 248 hostages, around 100 of whom are still held in…
The de facto leader of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has said the country is exhausted by war and is not a threat to its neighbours or to the West. In an interview with the BBC in Damascus, he called for sanctions on Syria to be lifted. Sharaa led the lightning offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad’s regime…
