Downtown LA skyline. Photo by Martin Adams on Unsplash With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games wrapping up, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass is in town to prepare the world for what the 2028 Olympics will look like in Los Angeles. And one thing she’s promising, in a big surprise to everyone’s who’s even heard about
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has acknowledged his forces are fighting in Russia for the first time. The Ukrainian president said Kyiv’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region was part of a drive to restore justice after Moscow invaded in 2022. Moscow said Ukrainian forces had pushed into the Kursk region last Tuesday and Russian military bloggers said they
The impact of the far-right riots seen across the UK could be felt for “months and years to come”, the justice secretary has warned. Shabana Mahmood made the remarks in a piece for The Observer as courts have been working extended hours to deal with rioters who were charged by police during the disorder. Far-right
Celine Dion’s team has urged Donald Trump to think twice before using her Titanic film classic My Heart Will Go On again. The Oscar-winning song from the 1997 film was played during a presidential campaign rally in Montana. Dion’s management team released a statement on behalf of her and her record label saying the use
Associated Press Aug 10, 2024, 12:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Lydia Ko completed her Olympic medal collection Saturday with the most valuable of of them all, a gold medal that puts the 27-year-old New Zealander into the LPGA Hall of Fame. Ko built a five-shot lead on the back nine at
A cooling tower at the Constellation Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station in Scriba, New York, US, on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Lauren Petracca | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tech companies are increasingly looking to directly connect data centers to nuclear plants as they race to secure clean energy to power artificial intelligence, sparking resistance from
A woman has described the “absolute chaos” she found in the medical tent at the Boardmasters music festival when she tried to get help for a 16-year-old boy who was “delirious with pain” after being hurt in a crowd surge. Ali Gaudion told Sky News her daughter had said the unnamed teenager, a friend of
Toyota launched the new, all-electric Proace Verso and smaller Proace City Verso MPVs on Thursday in the UK. Toyota’s new electric people carriers are on sale now with more range, tech, and style than ever. “Power to the people carriers,” Toyota boasted after launching its new mid-size and compact multi-purpose vehicles (MPVs) in the UK
Banksy has unveiled his latest artwork – a silhouette of a stretching cat on an empty, distressed advertising hoarding – the sixth in his new collection of animal-themed pieces. The elusive street artist posted a picture of the design in Edgware Road, Cricklewood, northwest London, on Instagram on Saturday without any caption. The creature, stretching
Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterAug 10, 2024, 08:06 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions For the most part, what we believe heading into a given season is whatever we believed at the end of the season before. Take the preseason coaches’ poll released last week: Among this
In this article MSFT MRNA EL AAPL GOOGL AMZN META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, was founded in 2015 by a number of researchers, academics and entrepreneurs, including Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Elon Musk. Altman and Brockman are still at OpenAI, serving as CEO and president,
CEO Youtube Susan Wojcicki speaks during the ‘What Matters Next’ session during the Cannes Lions Festival 2018 on June 19, 2018 in Cannes, France. Francois G. Durand | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who was also one of the most influential early Google employees, has died at the age
Russia has used a thermobaric bomb against Ukrainian forces as it announced a “counter-terrorism” operation to retaliate against Ukraine’s shock incursion into Kursk. The Russian defence ministry said fighting was continuing in the western Kursk region following Ukraine’s unprecedented attack on its territory earlier this week. The Russian army has conducted airstrikes against Ukrainian forces,
Coffee shop chain Pret A Manger has announced some staff members will wear body-worn cameras as a new safety measure. The company confirmed to Sky News that six shops across London started trialling the new technology last month, which will only be worn by team leaders and managers. It said the cameras will only be
U.S. crude oil futures staged a comeback Wednesday as the stock market rallied. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose more than 400 points while the S&P 500 gained 1.5% after steep losses earlier in the week on recession fears. Crude oil stocks in the U.S. fell by 3.7 million barrels last week, while gasoline inventories
Jorge Castillo, ESPN Staff WriterAug 9, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024. Open Extended Reactions NEW
A music-streaming service whose shareholders include Simon Cowell, Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams is racing to raise millions of pounds within weeks. Sky News has learnt that ROXi has appointed Begbies Traynor Group, the professional services firm, to work alongside Rockefeller Capital Management on the hunt for new capital. Founded in 2014, ROXi described itself
LiDAR specialist Hesai Technology has shared thoughts and data on why it believes laser sensor technology is the missing piece in the operation of Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB), especially as automotive regulators begin to implement higher safety standards for new vehicles. Table of contents Thoughts from Hesai, a market leader in LiDAR Hesai Technology, a
The parents of a six-year-old girl who was killed in Southport have paid tribute to their “precious daughter” – and revealed her older sister saw the attack and escaped. Bebe King died along with nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar and Elsie Dot Stancombe, aged seven, after the stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop in the
Dozens of people have been killed in a strike that targeted a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, Palestinian health officials have said – as the Israeli army said it had struck a “Hamas control centre”. The Hamas-run Palestinian health ministry’s ambulance and emergency service said the strike on the Tabeen school in central Gaza City killed