The long-held dream of a successor to Concorde just got a little farther away as one of the major contenders in the race to build a supersonic passenger jet appears to have run out of financial fuel. Aerion, based in Reno, Nevada, had been developing the AS2 (pictured top), an 8-12 passenger business jet capable
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THIS MORNING: Mostly cloudy and dry, starting off with temperatures in the low 60s. TODAY: Temperatures will continue falling throughout the day into the mid-50s. Cloudy skies stick around with less humidity behind the rain. EXTENDED: We remain cooler than normal to kick off the weekend with sunshine and highs in the mid-60s on Saturday. Rain stays
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Mask mandates are being lifted across the US. Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are dropping. People are getting vaccinated. All these promising signs suggest the summer of 2021 could be very different from a year ago. Half of the adult population is fully vaccinated, according to data published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control
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The mother of Ronald Greene, the Black man who died in an encounter with Louisiana State Police in 2019, led a crowd dressed in green on a march from the state Capitol building to the governor’s mansion in Baton Rouge on Thursday. Marchers chanted “Black lives matter” and “justice for Ronald Greene” at the event
Continue Reading Nine navy blue uniform caps sat above nine photos of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employees killed in a San Jose rail yard as loved ones and community members gathered at the City Hall on Thursday to remember the latest victims of a mass shooting. The nine who lost their lives — Abdolvahab Alaghmandan,
Continue Reading A raid on a remote village in Afghanistan kills an ageing al Qaeda leader wanted by the FBI. Messages to the group’s cells around the world are seized. Two drone strikes on militants in northwest Syria swiftly follow. Details of a little-publicized October raid targeting a senior al Qaeda militant, Husam Abd-al-Rauf, in the Afghan
Continue Reading It had all the hallmarks of a Hollywood premiere: Excited crowds, a giant screen, even a red carpet. But the high-octane, big budget film making its debut at the Barthélemy Boganda stadium in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), recently wasn’t the latest episode in a star-studded action movie franchise. Instead, the
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A Trump appointee serving on West Point’s advisory board has repeatedly spread a conspiracy that the Biden administration is bringing in non-White immigrants as part of a “grand plan” to have them outnumber White Americans of European ancestry in the United States. In another interview, he also attacked women serving in the military in combat
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President Joe Biden’s instructions to the US intelligence community to redouble its efforts in investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic came on the heels of intelligence officials informing the White House that they possessed unreviewed evidence necessitating greater computer analysis that could potentially provide answers, The New York Times reported Thursday. The paper cited
Continue Reading A raid on a remote village in Afghanistan kills an ageing al Qaeda leader wanted by the FBI. Messages to the group’s cells around the world are seized. Two drone strikes on militants in northwest Syria swiftly follow. Details of a little-publicized October raid targeting a senior al Qaeda militant, Husam Abd-al-Rauf, in the Afghan
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The biggest names in tech are locked in an increasingly tense stand-off with India over strict new social media rules they fear will erode privacy, usher in mass surveillance and harm business in the world’s fastest growing market. This week’s events underscore the challenges facing Facebook, Twitter and Google as they try to navigate an
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A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. “This weekend poses the first real test of the summer box office,” Brian Lowry writes, “with a pair of complementary titles based on proven intellectual property: ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ and ‘Cruella.’” Box Office
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Joint Communications is reporting a wreck on Interstate 70 Dr. southwest between Clinkscales and Spencer is shutdown. BCJC is asking driving to avoid area if possible. ABC 17 News will have more information on the wreck as it becomes available.
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Senate Republicans are expected to block a bill creating a commission to investigate the pro-Trump riot at the US Capitol on January 6, preventing a high-profile probe into the attack that led to the deaths of five people and about 140 police officers injured. The timing of the vote is uncertain. Senators had expected to
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The gunman who authorities say killed nine coworkers in San Jose, California, had a hatred for his workplace that he expressed in notes discovered when he was searched almost five years ago, a Department of Homeland Security official told CNN on Thursday. Samuel James Cassidy was taken into secondary inspection after returning from a trip
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Former House Speaker Paul Ryan criticized former President Donald Trump and his hold on the Republican Party during a speech Thursday night as he warned the GOP about drifting from the “core principles of conservatism.” Ryan, a critic of the former President in the past, said at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley,
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The mother of fallen US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick met with more than a dozen Republican senators Thursday, urging them to vote to establish a commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection. But even after those meetings, which two sources familiar said were cordial, most of the senators told her they wouldn’t be changing
Continue Reading Documents due in DC Superior Court on Friday could clear the way for the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer to be deposed as part of a DC attorney general lawsuit that alleges former President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee abused non-profit funds. The CFO, Allen Weisselberg, is already at the center of two investigations in
Continue Reading Lawmakers in Louisiana sent a bill that would prohibit transgender girls and women in the state from competing on girls’ and womens’ public elementary, secondary and college sports teams to the state’s Democratic governor on Thursday, who will likely issue a veto of the measure, which he previously called “unnecessary and discriminatory.” The state’s Republican-led
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