Body-cam footage shows indicted ex-police officers laughing at man who died in custody
Body-camera footage shows former police officers who were indicted by a Mississippi grand jury laughing about a man who died in their custody.
Day: May 26, 2023
Landslide prompts trek for Mount St. Helens observatory supplies
Outdoor adventurers ascended Mount St. Helens to retrieve supplies from the Johnston Ridge Observatory that are necessary for summer operations during the landslide closure.
IBM Wants To Build a 100,000-Qubit Quantum Computer
IBM has announced its goal to build a 100,000-qubit quantum computing machine within the next 10 years in collaboration with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago. MIT Technology Review reports: Late last year, IBM took the record for t…
Inflation pushes Germany into recession with Europe’s largest economy shrinking in first few months of year
INFLATION has pushed Germany into recession in the first three months of the year.
Europe’s largest economy shrank by 0.3 per cent from January to March — after contracting by 0.5 per cent in the last three months of 2022.
Leader of opposition pa…
Minnesota governor vetoes higher pay for Lyft, Uber drivers
Gov. Tim Walz has vetoed a bill that would have mandated higher pay and job security for Lyft and Uber drivers in Minnesota.
Noticeably thinner Russell Wilson says he’s excited to play again
Wilson was light on specifics when asked exactly how much weight he’d lost.
How one family turned a job loss into an opportunity to sail the world
For Lisa Terauchi-D’Rozario and her family, change was abrupt. Within a year of her husband losing his job, her family was sailing the Mediterranean full time.
Migrants bear the brunt of rising nationalism ahead of Turkey’s presidential runoff
As Turkey enters the final stretch to Sunday’s crunch presidential runoff, politicians are turning up the heat on migrants. In Istanbul’s immigrant neighbourhoods, the political discourse is driving migrants and new Turkish citizens into President Rec…
“There Will Be No Default”: Joe Biden On US Debt Crisis
President Joe Biden declared Thursday the United States would avoid a disastrous credit default even as lawmakers went on a 10-day break without a deal on raising the nation’s borrowing limit to keep paying the bills.