WASHINGTON—The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday it is opening a new special crash investigation into a fatal accident in California involving a 2018 Tesla Model 3 where advanced driver assistance systems are suspected of having been used. Since 2016, NHTSA has opened more than three dozen Tesla special crash investigations in cases where…
Webb Telescope Captures Tantalizing Evidence for Mysterious ‘Dark Stars’
WASHINGTON—Scientists for the past 15 years have been looking for evidence of a type of star only hypothesized but never observed—one powered not by the fusion of atoms like the sun and other ordinary stars but by mysterious stuff called dark matter. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope’s ability to peer back to the…
Russia Hits 2 Ukrainian Seaports in Response to Crimea Bridge Attack
July 18, 2023
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Russia has struck multiple targets in two Ukrainian port cities in response to an earlier attack—for which it blames Kyiv—on a bridge linking Crimea to the Russian mainland. “Last night, the Russian Armed Forces delivered multiple retaliatory strikes by seaborne high-precision weapons against sites where terrorist attacks were being plotted,” the Russian Defense Ministry said…
Ottawa Gives $212M Funding Boost for Housing Asylum Seekers
The federal government is announcing $212 million more in funding for interim housing for people claiming asylum in Canada, including about $97 million for Toronto. The city has been seeing asylum seekers and refugee claimants sleeping on the sidewalks, unable to get a space in Toronto’s overwhelmed shelter system. A church in Toronto is now…
George Bird Grinnell: The Father of American Conservation
July 18, 2023
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The parents of George Bird Grinnell (1849–1938) must have had great intuition when they gave him his middle name. Grinnell would become the father of American conservation with a particular affinity for ornithology―the study of birds. “Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870” (1905). (Public Domain) Born…
Lord Alton: UK Understanding of Falun Gong an ‘Imperative’ to Recognise CCP Threat
To recognise Beijing’s interference with democracy in the UK, it’s “imperative” to recognise what’s happening to Falun Gong, Lord Alton of Liverpool said on Monday. Speaking at a seminar in Parliament, Mr. Alton said the human rights atrocities happening to Falun Gong adherents are “the next big human rights crisis in China after Xinjiang.” Falun…
About One-Third of People in Normal Weight Range Are Actually Obese: Study
Body fat percentage is a more reliable indicator of an individual’s general health than body mass index, according to a new study. Researchers at the School of Public Health at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine analyzed the anthropometric data of 3,001 Israeli women and men, 20 to 95 years old, accumulated over several years, along…
Kerry Sees Climate Cooperation as Path to Redefine US-China Ties
July 18, 2023
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U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said he hopes that climate negotiations could pave the way for improved ties with China. Still, critics claim that China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses climate issues as a “bargaining chip.” On July 18, Mr. Kerry held talks with the CCP’s top foreign affairs official, Wang Yi. The discussion…
Over 10,000 Flights in US Canceled or Delayed Amid Severe Weather
More than 10,000 flights into and out of the United States were canceled or delayed on July 17 as severe weather continued to plague parts of the country, wreaking havoc on multiple airports. Approximately 8,671 flights within, into, or out of the United States were delayed Monday, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware, while 1,817 were canceled. That number…
Bumps Appear in Surfing’s Gender Equality Wave
Feminist surfer Lucy Small has just won a battle in her fight for equality. She has announced that the Kirra Longboard Klassic event now added a women’s division with equal prize money after initially erasing the division. Ms. Small is continuing to have to battle for equality in surf competitions. The fight to surf is…
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