by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Brazil president shows symptoms 'compatible' with pneumonia
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's president remains in the semi-intensive unit of a hospital in Sao Paulo with signs of a possible pneumonia infection.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's president remains in the semi-intensive unit of a hospital in Sao Paulo with signs of a possible pneumonia infection.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The warning adds to signs that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing for a blanket ban on Chinese companies from new 5G wireless networks, autonomous vehicles and other lucrative contracts in the technology sector throughout Europe,...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence is honoring the nation's fallen astronauts during a NASA day of remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will be launched next year and search the red planet for signs of life.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The Elle editor in chief disclosed she’s opting for a preventable double mastectomy in an article posted on the web site today.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
What's being called a "Green New Deal," a wide-ranging effort to tackle climate change, with overtones of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's sweeping 1933 New Deal to counter the Great Depression, was unveiled by Democrats Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Alex...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
In 2016 some scientists suggested that with climate change so much ice in Antarctica could melt that the global sea level could rise up to a metre. There would be an "ice apocalypse". Now another group has refined the models and in a paper published...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Stanford University has started a review of interactions that some faculty members had with He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who claims to have helped make gene-edited babies.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The ANC is expected to win May's parliamentary election but analysts say Ramaphosa needs the victory to be resounding if he is to unite a party that has been deeply divided since the ousting of scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma a year ago. Eskom supplies m...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it was aware of reports of a failed Iranian attempt to launch a satellite into space last month and it called on Tehran to halt activities that violate U.N. resolutions. "I've seen the reports, and it faile...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
President Donald Trump on Thursday (Feb. 7) honored the service and sacrifice of astronauts who gave their lives in the pursuit of space exploration during NASA's annual Day of Remembrance. NASA's Day of Remembrance is a somber event when the...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
It was the first confirmation that U.S. investigators have joined a new phase of Brazil's "Car Wash" corruption probe, which has toppled presidents in two countries and sent more than 130 politicians and businessmen to jail across Latin America. The...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The federal chancellery announced a dummy run election will be held from February 25 to March 24 and invited anyone who wants to display their online piracy talents to sign up at https://onlinevote-pit.ch. The biggest single prize, 50,000 Swiss fran...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The document, unveiled by rising political star Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Edward Markey, marks the first formal attempt by lawmakers to define potential legislation to create big government-led investments in clean energy an...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Congressional Democrats on Thursday unveiled an unprecedented plan to reverse climate change and eliminate all US carbon emissions within 10 years, by taking drastic steps that would require transformational action across the economy. The "Green New...