News aggregator

Starliner Astronauts Say What They’ll Miss During Extended Stay in Space

NY Times Home Page - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 7:11pm
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore of NASA spoke from the International Space Station for the first time since their Boeing orbital transport returned to Earth uncrewed.
Categories: News

Harris Visits Red Areas of Pennsylvania, Hoping to Cut Into Trump’s Edge

NY Times Home Page - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 7:09pm
The vice president, who appeared in Johnstown and Wilkes-Barre, pledged to remove “unnecessary degree requirements” for some federal jobs, aiming to compete in conservative-leaning areas.
Categories: News

Source: Auburn to make QB switch, start Brown

ESPN - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 6:56pm
Auburn redshirt freshman quarterback Hank Brown will start for the Tigers against New Mexico on Saturday, a source confirmed to ESPN's Pete Thamel on Friday.
Categories: Sports

Boeing’s Strike Halts Airplane Production at Key Plants

NY Times Home Page - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 6:28pm
Thousands of union members began the first walkout at the company since 2008. Federal mediators said the company and the union would meet early next week.
Categories: News

Missouri Bird Flu Case Raises Prospect of Human Transmission

NY Times Home Page - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 6:27pm
A close contact of someone with bird flu became ill on the same day, the C.D.C. reported. But the second person was not tested, and the cause of the illness is unknown.
Categories: News

Trump Divides Arizona’s Crucial Mormon Vote

NY Times Home Page - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 6:21pm
Traditionally Republican members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints balked at Donald Trump in 2020, helping Joe Biden win a key swing state. Will they do so with Kamala Harris?
Categories: News

Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook

National Hurricane Center - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 6:13pm

000
ABNT20 KNHC 132312
TWOAT

Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 PM EDT Fri Sep 13 2024

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical
Storm Gordon, located over the central tropical Atlantic Ocean. The
Weather Prediction Center is issuing advisories on Post-Tropical
Cyclone Francine, located inland over northeastern Arkansas.

Offshore the Southeastern U.S.:
A non-tropical area of low pressure could form this weekend along a
frontal boundary and gradually acquire subtropical or tropical
characteristics a few hundred miles off the southeastern U.S.
coastline. Thereafter, a subtropical or tropical depression could
form early next week while the system moves generally northwestward
toward the coast. Additional information on this system can be
found in products issued by your local National Weather Service
Forecast Office and High Seas Forecasts issued by the National
Weather Service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...40 percent.

&&

High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service
can be found under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01
KWBC, and online at ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.php

$$
Forecaster Roberts
Categories: Weather

With Russia in Mind, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer Goes to Washington

NY Times Home Page - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 6:12pm
A trip to Washington by Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, came after President Vladimir Putin of Russia warned that the allies’ next step could mean war for NATO.
Categories: News

W.H.O. Authorizes Mpox Vaccine, Clearing Way for Use in Africa

NY Times Home Page - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 6:05pm
The decision is a crucial step in getting shots to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the center of the outbreak.
Categories: News

Pep backs Poch in 'fascinating' USMNT coach role

ESPN - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 5:55pm
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has backed the decision by the USMNT to hire Mauricio Pochettino as their head coach while also branding the job as "fascinating."
Categories: Sports

Springfield, Ohio, Disrupted by Trump’s False Claims About Migrants

NY Times Home Page - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 5:49pm
Springfield, Ohio, is caught in the middle of the nation’s political wars after former President Donald J. Trump made a debunked claim about Haitian immigrants and pets.
Categories: News

Pope Says Both Trump and Harris Are ‘Against Life’

NY Times Home Page - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 5:48pm
He said American Catholic voters had to choose the “lesser of two evils” because of Donald Trump’s cruelty toward immigrants, and Kamala Harris’s support of abortion rights.
Categories: News

College football's rise of the small-school coaches

ESPN - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 5:46pm
Coaches like DeBoer, Klieman and others are bringing small-school lessons to the biggest places.
Categories: Sports

The Pac-12 is back (sort of)! What to know about the latest round of conference realignment

ESPN - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 5:46pm
With the Pac-12 adding four new members, what are the biggest questions surrounding the conference?
Categories: Sports

'It's pretty much ruined': How a viral clip sidelined a coach's best trick play

ESPN - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 5:42pm
The 2013 clip of the fake punt has been viewed just under 3M times on social media.
Categories: Sports

Martino: Messi to return for Miami vs. Union

ESPN - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 5:33pm
Inter Miami head coach Gerardo "Tata" Martino confirmed Lionel Messi will be available to play against the Philadelphia Union on Saturday.
Categories: Sports

Source: Fernández set to avoid FA ban over chant

ESPN - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 5:33pm
The English Football Association have no plans to investigate Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernández after his racist and anti-gay chanting, a source has told ESPN.
Categories: Sports

Three Americans Sentenced to Death for Failed Congo Coup

NY Times Home Page - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 5:25pm
The punishments were handed down months after the Democratic Republic of Congo lifted a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty.
Categories: News

3 Americans sentenced to death in failed coup attempt trial in DRC

NPR World - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 5:10pm

A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced U.S. citizens and dozens of others for their role in a failed coup attempt in May.

(Image credit: Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

Categories: News

Britain Is Prodding Biden to Allow Kyiv to Strike in Russia

NY Times Home Page - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 4:53pm
Also, have some patience on election night. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
Categories: News
Syndicate content