Worries abound that Mexico’s Maya Train will destroy jungle The Associated Press – en EspañolView Full Coverage on Google News
Second Chinese spy balloon flying over Latin America, Pentagon says
The Pentagon on Friday acknowledged reports of a second balloon flying over Latin America. “We now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon,” Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, said in a statement, declining to offer further infor…
Startups Capture CO2 and Store It In Concrete
A California startup using rocks to soak up carbon dioxide from the air has teamed up with a Canadian company to mineralize the gas in concrete, a technological tie-up that is a first and they say could provide a model for fighting climate change globa…
U.S. hiring surges as unemployment hits lowest level since 1969
After months of gentle but steady declines in job growth, employers unleashed an unexpected burst of hiring in January, adding 517,000 jobs.
US computing giant Microsoft said Friday that it had identified Iranian state actors as those behind the recent cyberattack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo
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Chile wildfires: State of emergency declared in two regions
More than 20 people are killed in Chile as wildfires sweep through 40,000 hectares of land.
EMTs provided no care for 19 minutes after police beat Tyre Nichols
The two emergency medical technicians who first arrived to treat Tyre Nichols after he was severely beaten by Memphis, Tennessee, police officers did not provide any care for 19 minutes after getting to the scene, a regulatory agency concluded Friday a…
Jury finds Musk, Tesla not liable in securities fraud trial following ‘funding secured’ tweets
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was found not liable in a shareholder class-action suit stemming from 2018 tweets in which he said he was considering taking Tesla private.
Bolsonaro defends tenure, questions Brazil election defeat
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro spoke to hundreds of supporters at a property owned by former U.S. President Donald Trump Friday and did not discourage them from claiming he lost his election due to fraud.