A campaign bus belonging to Jeff Sessions’ opponent for Alabama’s Senate seat burst into flames on a highway Wednesday night. The driver of Tommy Tuberville’s bus escaped injury after the vehicle caught fire heading northbound on Interstate 59, according to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office. No other injuries were reported. Photos posted to the department’s...
White House and President Donald Trump closely monitoring India-China situation
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While much about the COVID-19 pandemic remains uncertain, we know how it will likely end: when the spread of the virus starts to slow (and eventually ceases altogether) because enough people have developed immunity to it. At that point, whether it's brought on by a vaccine or by people catching the disease, the population has developed herd immunity.
Competition made its official return for the first time since the COVID-19 shutdown, and the Vermont Summer Baseball League took center stage.
Antonio Conte insisted he was not overly worried about Lautaro Martinez's struggles in front of goal as he again failed to find the net.
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Ever tried defrosting your dinner by popping it in one identical freezer after another? Strange as it sounds, recent studies of indefinite causal orderin which different orders of events are quantum superposedsuggest this could actually work for quantum systems. Researchers at the University of Oxford show how the phenomenon can be put to use in a type of quantum refrigeration.
At the core of the bioeconomy thinking is the necessity to transcend sectors and build bridges between stakeholders that would traditionally be very far from each other. Marine biomaterials will break out only if the sector can engage significant (and market-visible) efforts to build those bridges with trend setters.
Daniel Oberhaus, Wired
The basic idea behind all nuclear power plants is the same: Convert the heat created by nuclear fission into electricity. There are several ways to do this, but in each case it involves a delicate balancing act between safety and efficiency.
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The Indian and Chinese armies are locked in a bitter standoff in multiple locations in eastern Ladakh for the last seven weeks, and the tension escalated manifold after 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a violent clash in Galwan Valley on June 15. The Chinese side also suffered casualties but it is yet to give out the details.
Well, this is a new one. On Wednesday, the Republican operatives behind the Lincoln Project released another ad attacking President Trump — in fact another one tied to the growing scandal over Russian bounties for slain U.S. troops in Afghanistan, indirectly — though this one's a little different: It's entirely in Russian. In case you were curious, the ad "is actually in good Russian and voiced over by a good Russian actor," says Russian-born U.S. journalist Julia Ioffe.
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In 2015, Paras Arora (left) and Lavesh Bhandari teamed up to found Qdesq, a tech-enabled aggregator of co-working spaces whose target was as much startup founders and young entrepreneurs as established businessmen and
The explosive reports on "Russian bounties" offered to Taliban-linked militants to kill US soldiers are slowly turning into some kind of a saga, as now US media has offered new "details" on the claims.
Sanjana Sanghi’s cryptic Instagram story on Wednesday sparked rumours that she might be giving up her acting career. She has now clarified that it was misinterpreted.
Tuesday, Twitter reminded NFL player-turned-actor Terry Crews that Jack Dorsey's social media app taxes its popular users for expressing Christian values. Crews, a co-star on the NBC sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, tweeted polite concern regarding the direction and messaging of the Black Lives Matter Movement. He wrapped his concern in his Christian beliefs, tweeting: If you [...] More
Issue over 1.5 times more challans in the past two months than the total challans in 2019.
President Donald Trump's reelection campaign announced Wednesday that the campaign and the Republican National Committee had taken in $131 million in June, bringing the amount raised in the second quarter of the year to $266 million.
In locally- transmitted cases, health authorities are finding it difficult to pinpoint the source of infection in many cases. The state’s proven track, trace and treat strategy is under deep stress due to this, admit health officials.
At the end of his press conference Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted a reporter's question left him completely stumped for the first time during the pandemic.
Linked with Manchester United, Raul Jimenez said he was happy at Wolves.
One wanted guidance on placing her unicorn picture, while the other just needed cookies.
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The incident echoes the killing of 12-year-old Palestinian child Muhammad al Durra in September 2000, whose father, tried his best to shield him from Israeli gunfire, taking several injuries. The boy's killers were never brought to justice
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