Every day, approximately 100 ships wait offshore to unload their cargo containers while extra cars are added to trains to move the goods faster. The slow-moving trains now span 2 miles, and when they pull into the Union Pacific depot near downtown Los Angeles, they are an easy target for plunder.
CEOs from major US airlines including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and Southwest Airlines have warned that the impending deployment of new 5G spectrum on Wednesday could cause “catastrophic disruption” for flights across the country starting tomorrow.
President Joe Biden should relieve Dr. Anthony Fauci of his duties at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as chief medical adviser to the White House, and as the public face of the American government’s response to Covid-19.
A single comic book page from a 1984 issue of Spider-Man – which debuted the now-iconic black costume – has been sold at auction for $3.36m (£2.5m).
The work was drawn by Mike Zeck and featured on page 25 of Marvel Comics’ Secret Wars no 8.
“I rang up the county council and I said I think I’ve found a dinosaur,” explained Joe Davis, who works at Rutland Water Nature Reserve.
During landscaping work at the reserve’s reservoir in February 2021, he had spotted something odd poking out of the mud.
It wasn’t a dinosaur. But it was the fossilised remains of a 10m-long sea predator called an ichthyosaur.
Sidney Poitier, the first black man to win a best actor Oscar, has died at 94.
The Hollywood star’s death was confirmed to the BBC by the office of Fred Mitchell, the Bahamas’ minister of foreign affairs.
Poitier was a trailblazing actor and a respected humanitarian and diplomat. He won the Academy Award for best actor for Lilies of the Field in 1963.
Ms. Trump wasn’t immediately available for comment.
As we enter another year of the pandemic, once-taboo notions are now becoming mainstream.
A free and simple online word game that has gone viral will never become attention-grabbing or ad-laden, its creator has promised.
The U.S. reported a record 1,082,549 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Hope is not a method
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