As teams frantically searched areas of Southern California smothered by rivers of mud and boulders, officials on Thursday increased the size of the evacuation zones. The immediate areas where at least 17 people were killed by Monday’s mudslides are under mandatory evacuation, Santa Barbara Sheriff Bill Brown said. “We know that this a terribly inconvenient […]
At least 13 people were killed Tuesday when a rainstorm sent mud and debris coursing through Montecito neighborhoods and left rescue crews to scramble through clogged roadways and downed trees to search for victims. The deluge that washed over Santa Barbara County early Tuesday was the worst-case scenario for a community that was ravaged by […]
The Trump administration said Tuesday that it would not seek to bring oil and gas drilling to the waters off Florida, conceding to vocal opposition from the Republican governor of the tourism-driven state. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke last week unveiled a proposal that would roll back offshore drilling restrictions and open dozens of sites for […]
SpaceX usually provides ample details on its launch schedule and the cargo it carries into space. That’s not the case when its cargo is of the top secret variety, and that can leave us guessing about mission details. The recent “Zuma” launch appeared to go off without a hitch, but now there’s reason to think […]
A tanker carrying Iranian oil and run by the country’s top oil shipping firm was ablaze and spewing cargo into the East China Sea on Sunday after colliding with a Chinese freight ship, leaving the tanker’s 32 crew members missing, the Chinese government said. Thick clouds of dark smoke could be seen billowing out of […]
SpaceX lofted the super-secret Zuma spacecraft for the U.S. government tonight (Jan. 8), successfully executing a mission that also featured yet another landing by the first stage of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon 9 lifted off at 8 p.m. EST (0100 GMT on Jan. 9) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on Florida’s […]
Winter Weather Advisory from 3 to 9 PM on Monday BWI (1°) and Dulles (-1°) both broke their daily record low temperatures today in what could be the coldest morning of 2018. Many other locations also fell below zero or into the single digits in what the National Weather Service described as the “coldest morning […]
He won’t be killing his own food or learning Mandarin. Zuckerberg wants to focus on his company. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sets a personal challenge each year, a kind of public New Year’s resolution that he posts about all year long. A few years ago he set out to learn Mandarin. He also built a […]
Omaha, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett remains optimistic about the U.S. economy and the nation’s prospects for the future. Buffett wrote an essay for Time magazine that appeared online Thursday, part of an issue edited by Bill Gates that was dedicated to “The Optimists.” In his essay, Buffett explained why he often says that […]
Singapore Airlines Flight 26 from Frankfurt, Germany, was bound for JFK. The winter storm has diverted dozens of flights. The passengers are disembarking at Stewart, and the airline said it is working to provide ground transportation for them. A massive winter storm forced an Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger jet, to divert to a […]
After battering the South and whipping up the Mid-Atlantic coast, a blizzard propelled by hurricane-strength winds lashed the Northeast on Thursday, grounding flights, shuttering schools, flooding buildings and sending squalls of snow into the tunnels of New York City’s subway system. In downtown Boston, a three-foot tidal surge flooded a subway station and turned a […]
Google recently released its list of the year’s top trending topics and it may come as little surprise that “how to buy bitcoin” was one of the tasks people searched for most in 2017. In recent months, cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ethereum and litecoin have captured the attention of many people who are contemplating the risks […]
