LES CAYES, Haiti — Haitians resumed services at damaged churches Sunday, sometimes for the first time since the devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake on Aug. 14, as the country’s Civil Protection Agency raised the death toll to 2,207. The new toll comes at a time when relief operations are expanding, but […]
Daily Archives: August 22, 2021
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A young man rides a bicycle past a betting shop A fifth of all gambling premises in the UK are now located in the poorest areas of the country, new research has found. Betting shops are ten times more likely to be found in deprived towns than in affluent areas, […]
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — With midterm election season rapidly approaching, Republicans and Democrats have something in common when it comes to recruiting candidates they hope will deliver majorities in Congress: a preference for military veterans. Both parties anticipate a significant number of races where veterans will be opposing each other, […]
Arsenal fans: honestly, what did you think was going to happen? Probably, in fairness, exactly that. Indeed, had you simulated this game several thousand times in advance, “an easy 2-0 milking for Chelsea with Romelu Lukaku running riot” would probably have been among the more common outcomes. All the same, […]
COLORADO SPRINGS – The 36th annual Space Symposium expects to attract 7,500 to 8,000 attendees to the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs and a virtual platform streaming presentations and discussions. In spite of travel restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, people from 25 countries and the leaders of at least […]
Image: u/antonyjeweet Imagine this. You’ve just paid a ton for a new RTX 3090 Founders Edition GPU. You plug the card in, boot everything up and … wait, why is my super-expensive GPU running at 230 degrees? Reddit user antonyjeweet asked themselves that very same question. Given that GPUs shouldn’t be […]
Rachel Maddow is staying at MSNBC — but not in the same role she has held for the past thirteen years. Maddow has signed a new multi-year deal with MSNBC’s parent NBCUniversal, as Insider’s Claire Atkinson first reported on Sunday. Mark Shapiro of Endeavor, the talent agency that repped Maddow […]
When the coronavirus surfaced last year, no one was prepared for it to invade every aspect of daily life for so long, so insidiously. The pandemic has forced Americans to wrestle with life-or-death choices every day of the past 18 months — and there’s no end in sight. Scientific understanding […]