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 […]
President Donald Trump said Thursday he is “very disappointed” following a report that China may have run afoul of international sanctions by providing oil to North Korea. In a tweet, Trump warned that “there will never be a friendly solution” to North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs “if this continues to happen!” A South Korean […]
BEIJING — China said on Thursday that it would temporarily exempt foreign companies from paying tax on their earnings, a bid to keep American businesses from taking their profits out of China following Washington’s overhaul of the United States tax code. There is, however, a catch: To be eligible, foreign companies must invest those earnings […]
An important provision of the tax cut legislation passed by Congress this week allows the American people to finally benefit from abundant petroleum resources that experts predict will be found in a very small area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) on Alaska’s northern coast. The legislation directs the Interior Department to hold at […]
Oh, by gosh, by golly, it’s time for the Santa rally. According to “Stock Trader’s Almanac,” the Santa rally officially begins Friday, the start of the final five trading days of 2017, and ends at the close Jan. 3, the end of the second trading day of the new year. Some strategists are saying humbug […]
