SYDNEY—Elon Musk’s social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon as “part of public discussion,” rejecting a regulator’s order to take down the content on grounds it is offensive and violent. In a post overnight, X’s “global government affairs” account said the video taken by an […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The two NASA astronauts assigned to Boeing’s first human spaceflight arrived at their launch site Thursday, just over a week before their scheduled liftoff. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will serve as test pilots for Boeing’s Starliner capsule, which is making its debut with crew after years of delay. They flew from Houston […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y.—President Joe Biden traveled to upstate New York on Thursday to promote his administration’s efforts to bring chip manufacturing back to America. He announced that Micron, an American memory chipmaker, would receive $6.14 billion in federal grants through the CHIPS and Science Act, which he signed into law in 2022. Besides the direct funding, […]
PARIS—The sails of the landmark red windmill atop the Moulin Rouge, the most celebrated cabaret club in Paris, fell to the ground overnight in the early hours of Thursday, much to the sorrow of tourists. “The Moulin Rouge, in 135 years of history, has experienced many adventures but it is true that for the wings, […]
WASHINGTON—Magnetars are among the universe’s most extreme objects—a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that possess immensely strong magnetic fields. Once in a while, they produce enormous eruptions of gamma rays in the strongest nondestructive release of energy known in the cosmos. Scientists have now detected the most distant-known instance of one […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense. The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory […]
Tech giant Oracle is moving its headquarters for a second time, this time to Tennessee, leaving Texas. Oracle CEO and founder Larry Ellison made the comment onstage on Tuesday with former Tennessee Senator Bill Frist, while discussing health care technology at the Oracle Health Summit in Nashville. In 2021, a Tennessee panel approved $65 million […]
Just 12 hours after the Senate gave its late-night approval, President Joe Biden signed the contentious $95 billion national security package that sends more foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific. The legislation also includes a measure that forces TikTok to sever ties with its Chinese parent company and authorizes the seizure of Russian […]
TOKYO—Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said Wednesday after receiving an image from the device three months after it landed on the moon. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the lunar probe responded to a signal from the earth Tuesday night, confirming it has survived another weekslong […]
The Assyrian Christian bishop who was attacked during a live-streamed sermon has said he does not want footage of the incident removed from the internet. The video of the multiple stabbing attack, is at the heart of an ongoing war of words and a legal battle between Australian authorities and X owner Elon Musk. On […]
UnitedHealth Group said on Monday that hackers stole health and personal data of potentially a “substantial proportion” of Americans from its systems in February, as the largest U.S. health insurer scrambles to contain the damage. The intrusion at its Change Healthcare unit, which processes about 50 percent of U.S. medical claims, was one of the […]
X owner and tech billionaire Elon Musk has probed Australian prime minister on whether his government is attempting to “censor” content worldwide. In response to a post from Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Mr. Musk wrote, “Just want to understand clearly. “Are you requiring this platform to censor content globally, even when that content is […]
Former President Donald Trump is poised to make over $1 billion from Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), as he stands to gain an additional 36 million shares in the firm. After TMTG went public in late March, President Trump held 78.75 million shares in the company. At the time, his […]
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has highlighted the advancements the United States has made in semiconductor manufacturing, and said she believes American and Taiwanese manufacturers have now “out-innovated” China. Ms. Raimondo, who previously served as the Democratic governor of Rhode Island, has been spearheading efforts to advance the technology—a strategic measure repeatedly pushed by the Biden […]
CAIRO—Egypt welcomed home a 3,400-year-old statue depicting the head of King Ramses II after it was stolen and smuggled out of the country more than three decades ago, the country’s antiquities ministry said on Sunday. The statue is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo but not on display. The artefact will be restored, the […]
The total solar eclipse has come and gone, but sky-gazers have reason to keep looking up—a meteor shower will peak this week right before a full moon rises. The bright orb may steal some of the Lyrids’ thunder, but experts have some tips on how best to view the celestial spectacle. The Lyrid meteor shower […]
An unusually hot summer has been predicted for most of the United States this year, according to weather forecasters. Warmer-than-average temperatures are expected from June through August. A summer forecast map released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on April 18 shows most of the United States bathed in shades of red or […]
NASA has warned that China could be disguising secret military operations as civilian programs in an attempt to take over parts of the moon. “We believe that a lot of their so-called civilian space program is a military program,” the space agency’s administrator Bill Nelson said. “And I think, in effect, we are in a race.” […]
In a strategic move to amplify her latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” Taylor Swift is embarking on a promotional journey through TikTok, potentially granting the social media powerhouse access to a vast array of global user accounts and their corresponding personal data. Following the release of her album at midnight Eastern time Friday, Ms. […]
