Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE San Francisco this week began allowing undocumented immigrants to register to vote in school board races, following a handful of other municipalities that have opened up local elections to noncitizens — and it […]
Daily Archives: July 20, 2018
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Brussels has accused Germany of ignoring its rules aimed at increasing competition in the energy sector. The dispute has been rumbling on since 2015, but after years of trying to persuade Germany to implement the law, the Commission has now resorted to legal action. The complaint will now be heard […]
The bad news: Dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa — totaling a staggering 2 to 9 trillion pounds worldwide — has been almost a biblical plague on Texas and much of the Southern United States in recent weeks. The good news: the same dust appears to be a severe […]
This year at Comic-Con, Taco Bell bested every other brand and handily swaggered off with the Best Activation crown with its futuristic pop-up in San Diego. For the 25th anniversary of Demolition Man, TBell brought out the big guns and recreated the upscale restaurant from the iconic Sylvester Stallone movie. […]
Get the Mach newsletter. SUBSCRIBE NASA is teaming up with the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) to help pro football players build businesses using technologies originally developed for spaceflight, according to a federal Space Act Agreement signed in May but not previously reported. Under the two-year pact, the space agency will […]
The look on Dan Coats’s face said it all. President Trump’s director of national intelligence had just been told on live television that the White House had invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to come to Washington this fall – clearly news to Mr. Coats. “Say that again?” Coats replied, being […]
Meanwhile lava flows are creeping ever closer to a local beauty spot, with safety warnings in place about the dangers posed by toxic vapours including laze. A spokesman for the County of Hawaii said: “The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports that eruption activity continues from Fissure 8 into the lava channel […]
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE The pharmaceutical giant Bayer announced Friday it would stop selling the Essure birth control device in the United States by the end of the year, handing a symbolic victory to thousands of women […]