Month: June 2024

  • Maps show dengue fever risk areas as CDC warns of global case surge

    Maps show dengue fever risk areas as CDC warns of global case surge

    [ad_1] As dengue cases break international records, U.S. health officials warned doctors Tuesday to be alert for the mosquito-borne virus, prompting questions about where exactly the disease has been detected. Officials note there is no evidence of a current outbreak, but so far this year there have been three times more cases than at the…

  • Boeing sanctioned by NTSB for releasing details of Alaska Airlines door blowout investigation

    Boeing sanctioned by NTSB for releasing details of Alaska Airlines door blowout investigation

    [ad_1] Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun testified in front of US senate Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun testified in front of US senate 02:19 Boeing is being sanctioned by the National Transportation Safety Board after breaking an agreement by disclosing non-public details of the agency’s investigation into the Alaska Airlines mid-air door panel blowout.  The NTSB on…

  • Miller claims KTM blindsided him with 2025 MotoGP seat U-turn –

    Miller claims KTM blindsided him with 2025 MotoGP seat U-turn –

    [ad_1] Jack Miller said KTM told him it would keep him somewhere within its ranks until 2025 and then gave him just hours’ notice that it had signed Ena Bastianini and Maverick Vinales for its remaining MotoGP championship seats instead. Miller lost his factory ride when KTM promoted Pedro Acosta to its lineup alongside Brad…

  • Revisit SNL Season 49’s Most-Watched Live Sketches

    Revisit SNL Season 49’s Most-Watched Live Sketches

    [ad_1] After nearly half a century on the air, Saturday Night Live is still making headlines with its hilarious sketches. And in a new video shared by the show following the May 18 finale, SNL has compiled the top five most-watched live sketches from Season 49 in 2023-2024. Sketches starring Hosts Shane Gillis, Sydney Sweeney, and…

  • Oklahoma set to execute Richard Rojem for kidnap, rape, murder of ex-stepdaughter, 7

    Oklahoma set to execute Richard Rojem for kidnap, rape, murder of ex-stepdaughter, 7

    [ad_1] Oklahoma City — Oklahoma plans to execute a man Thursday who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 7-year-old girl in 1984. Richard Rojem, 66, has exhausted his appeals and is scheduled to receive a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. During a clemency hearing earlier this month, Rojem…

  • Biden campaign, DNC highlight democracy, Jan. 6 in lead-up to debate

    Biden campaign, DNC highlight democracy, Jan. 6 in lead-up to debate

    [ad_1] Scenes on a moving billboard circling the site of the first 2024 presidential debate in Atlanta will feature former President Donald Trump’s 2020 phone call to Georgia’s top election official about finding enough votes to put him ahead of Joe Biden, press conferences with two Republican former officials backing Biden and citing democracy as…

  • Pramac poised to announce Ducati MotoGP split –

    Pramac poised to announce Ducati MotoGP split –

    [ad_1] Even the Abu Dhabi Auto Racing League Pramac, the reigning MotoGP champion, is preparing to formally part ways with Ducati in 2025, ending a 20-year relationship to join Yamaha’s rebuilding project. News that the switch will be confirmed soon was first reported by Sky Italy. The race team learned that Pramac made its final…

  • MBARI’s Underwater Robots Find New Squid Species with Giant Eggs

    MBARI’s Underwater Robots Find New Squid Species with Giant Eggs

    [ad_1] In the mid-’90s, NBC’s seaQuest DSV (now streaming on Peacock) took viewers into the deep in an experimental research submarine. Set in the near future (though, that near future was 2018 when the show first aired), a planet rocked by climate disasters and resource shortages sends humanity underwater. The seaQuest deep-submergence vehicle (DSV) operates under the…

  • One murder charge, but at least 20 other clients of Arlington businesswoman dead: “It’s very disturbing”

    One murder charge, but at least 20 other clients of Arlington businesswoman dead: “It’s very disturbing”

    [ad_1] At least 19 other deaths may be tied to Arlington home care operator charged with murder, police say At least 19 other deaths may be tied to Arlington home care operator charged with murder, police say 01:53 ARLINGTON — Police uncovered at least 19 additional deaths that may be connected to an Arlington businesswoman already…

  • Kenya’s president drops support for tax hikes after deadly protests

    Kenya’s president drops support for tax hikes after deadly protests

    [ad_1] Kenya’s president drops support for tax hikes after deadly protests – CBS News Watch CBS News Kenya’s president says he will not sign a controversial finance bill into law. The reversal comes a day after dozens of people were killed and injured in clashes with police while protesting the measure, which included hefty tax…