Toys R Us is moving ahead with plans to shut roughly 20 percent of its U.S. stores, or 180 locations, and some say this is just the beginning. “We see this as the first phase of a more robust real estate clean up effort at TRU,” Jefferies analyst Stephanie Wissink said. “The move has been […]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company’s new Falcon Heavy rocket would soon launch for the first time, after months of pushing back its debut liftoff. Musk shared photos on Twitter Jan. 24 of an engine test-fire, showing clouds of smoke unfurling from underneath the rocket. “Falcon Heavy hold-down firing this morning was good,” Musk […]
Skywatchers in Alaska, the Hawaiian islands and the western part of North America will have the best view of the rare “Super Blue Blood Moon” in the early morning of Jan. 31. This spectacular lunar event features the second full moon of the month, also known as a Blue Moon. The event will coincide with […]
Two NASA astronauts embarked on a spacewalk today (Jan. 23) and successfully replaced a degraded robotic “hand” outside the International Space Station (ISS) despite a software glitch that left the team running behind schedule. Expedition 54 flight engineers Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle suited up early today and emerged from the Quest airlock at […]
Volcanic eruptions in Japan, the Philippines and Bali. Massive earthquakes in Alaska and Indonesia. The rash of natural disasters over the past two days have one common denominator: they all occurred along the so-called Ring of Fire, a sprawling horseshoe-shape geological disaster zone. At least five different events occurred on the Ring of Fire on […]
ANCHORAGE — The Alaskans, roused by a major earthquake and threatened by the specter of a tsunami, moved in the middle of the night. They shuffled into schools that had become evacuation centers. They parked their cars on higher ground at Safeway and Walmart stores. They rushed up Pillar Mountain. Then, mercifully, the big waves […]
NASA and the U.S. Air Force are expected to return to normal operations Tuesday after lawmakers passed a budget bill Monday evening, ending a government funding lapse that threatened to cut off live television coverage of an International Space Station spacewalk and interrupt SpaceX launch operations in Florida and California. Astronauts Mark Vande Hei and […]
The economy grew at better than a 3% annual pace in both the second and third quarters last year. Did it score a hat trick in the fourth quarter, taking another step toward President Trump’s promise of 3% growth for a full year (assuming his agenda is carried out)? Quite possibly, economist says. The week’s […]
DAVOS, Switzerland — Confidence levels at some of America’s largest corporations soared over the past year despite uncertainty created by President Trump’s election and the fractious geopolitical headlines his administration unleashed, according to a report published Monday on the eve of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. Professional services giant PwC’s annual CEO survey found […]
The House cleared legislation on Monday to end the three-day government shutdown, and the measure was later signed by President Trump. Lawmakers voted 266-150 to reopen the federal government and extend funding through Feb. 8, as well as provide money for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for six years. Six Republicans voted “no,” while […]
For the hundreds of thousands of people visiting New York City each day, a trip to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island became a nonstarter on Saturday because of the government shutdown. As a result of the government shutdown, the National Park Service announced that both New York sites would be closed Saturday “due […]
Republican and Democratic senators raced on Sunday to try to break an impasse and hammer out a deal that would end a two-day-old U.S. government shutdown before the start of the work week. In a flurry of negotiations, the two parties’ leaders in the Senate huddled behind closed doors following discussions by a bipartisan group […]
