Uber has now laid off more than 7,000 employees. Angela Lang/CNET For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. Less than two weeks after laying off thousands of employees, Uber said Monday that it’s letting go of 3,000 more staff members and closing or consolidating […]
Daily Archives: May 18, 2020
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WASHINGTON — Ousted State Department Inspector General Steve Linick was investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to greenlight arms sales to Saudi Arabia against the will of Congress when he was abruptly removed from his post, congressional officials tell NBC News. The probe into the Saudi arms sale is […]
Scientists have made a surprising discovery about Mars by playing with muck in the laboratory. An international team of researchers wondered how volcanoes that spew mud instead of molten rock might look on the Red Planet compared with their counterparts here on Earth. In chamber experiments, simulated Martian mud flows […]
Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images The government watchdog who was fired last week had been investigating the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, for sidestepping Congress to approve arms sales to the Gulf and using staffers for personal errands, according to congressional sources. Donald Trump declared his intention to fire […]
Florian Wirtz, an attacking midfielder who only turned 17 earlier this month, makes his first-team debut for Leverkusen. He becomes the youngest player to appear for Leverkusen in the Bundesliga, a record that was held by Kai Havertz, and the third youngest for any record. Nuri Sahin, who holds the […]
On April 30, NASA announced the award of close to $1 billion in funds split between three companies to develop human landing systems for its Artemis moon base program. The companies were SpaceX, which proposed a variant of its Starship reusable launch system, and teams led by Blue Origin and […]
By Sam Wong , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool A trial participant receives a shot in the first-stage safety study of the Moderna Inc. clinical trial for a vaccine against coronavirus.Ted S Warren/AP/Shutterstock Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 18 May Mixed progress on coronavirus […]
Ecologist Charlie Crisafulli in front of Mount St. Helens during an August 2019 research trip Courtney Talak By Warren CornwallMay. 18, 2020 , 1:20 PM Charlie Crisafulli first visited Mount St. Helens 2 months after the 18 May 1980 eruption that ripped the top off the volcano, obliterated 600 square […]