Category: Business

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart in 2019 is expected to accept a plea deal to avoid the death penalty

Extraterrestrial rocks, recently delivered by a space probe, could answer the big questions about alien lifeforms and human existence Several billion years ago, at the dawn of the solar system, a wet, salty world circled our sun. Then it collided, catastrophically, with another object and shattered into pieces. One of...

Don Pettit became septuagenarian hurtling towards Earth after seven-month mission at International Space Station Cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens celebrate their 70th birthday. But Nasa’s oldest serving astronaut, Don Pettit, became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards Earth in a spacecraft to wrap...

Away from street lights, observers can expect to see about 15 to 20 bright and fast meteors an hour The peak of the world’s oldest known meteor showers will grace the skies this week. The Lyrid meteor shower is active from 16-25 April but is at its height on Monday...

Maura Healey says president targeting universities hurts US ‘competitiveness’ and affects research and hospitals Massachusetts governor Maura Healey said on Sunday that Donald Trump’s attacks on Harvard University and other schools are having detrimental ripple effects, with the shutdown of research labs and cuts to hospitals linked to colleges. During...

Progressive icon and former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee is the new mayor of troubled Oakland, California, a city she represented for more than two decades in Congress

Missouri State has announced the death of football player Todric McGee

Three former senior advisers to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are decrying what they called “baseless attacks” after each was escorted from the Pentagon in an expanding probe on information leaks

An Oregon community college softball player and a coach have been killed when their team bus was hit by a pickup

A single-engine aircraft has crashed in a field in central Illinois, killing all four people on board