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 […]
The federal government shutdown will have a negligible effect on the U.S. economy if it’s resolved within a few days but a prolonged standoff could take a toll, economists say. Of 2.2 million federal employees, excluding the separately funded U.S. Postal Service, about 850,000 nonemergency workers likely would be furloughed, according to Oxford Economics. That […]
Bitcoin is the entry point for those who are unaware of what cryptocurrency is but just heard of its growth and great earning potential for traders and investors. By the next stage, when a person is already familiar with the concept of cryptocurrency and is ready to open up the new representatives of it, they […]
Ignore the above picture. And try not to worry about the skyscraper-sized asteroid that is currently hurtling towards Earth at over 100,000 kilometres an hour. As noted by The Washington Post, although British tabloids have been indulging in a little fear-mongering, NASA says we have nothing to worry about. The Daily Mail and The Sun […]
Meteorite hunters in Michigan found six rocks Thursday (Jan. 18) that they say came from a spectacular fireball that lit up local skies earlier this week. The team of Larry Atkins, Robert Ward and Darryl Landry made the finds on an isolated Michigan lake — they declined disclosing the exact location so as not to […]
