American Airlines is flying high after reporting fourth quarter earnings and revenues that came in higher than Wall Street estimates. The solid results are more proof that the world’s largest airline has been transformed since its time in bankruptcy court and its 2013 merger with US Airways. Ahead of that earnings news, CEO Doug Parker […]
A federal advisory committee on Thursday recommended that the Food and Drug Administration reject a bid by Philip Morris International to market a smokeless tobacco stick in the United States as safer than traditional cigarettes. The product, called IQOS, is an electronic penlike device that heats tobacco sticks but does not burn them. It releases […]
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered the oldest fossil of a modern human outside Africa. The fossil suggests that humans first migrated out of the continent much earlier than previously believed. The scientists were digging in a cave called Misliya, on the slopes of Mount Carmel on the northern coast of Israel. “The cave is one […]
The dollar staged a powerful late-day comeback Thursday after President Donald Trump said the U.S. currency would get “stronger,” appearing to contradict comments made only the day before by his Treasury secretary. The mixed messages from the administration sent the dollar on a wild ride over the past two trading sessions, first reeling against major […]
In an earnings call last night, United Airlines said it would add more “basic economy” fares in its bid to better compete with the new crop of low-cost carriers. The announcement sent the company’s stocks tumbling, but more distressingly, it will increase the likelihood that consumers will get lured in by the rock-bottom prices without […]
An analysis of fossils including the oldest-known Homo sapiens specimen has revealed that brain shape in our species evolved over time to become less elongated and more globular, a change that appears to have accommodated key advances in its function. Scientists said on Wednesday they examined brain size and shape based on 20 Homo sapiens […]
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 […]
