Coast Guard personnel and FBI agents boarded a commercial oil tanker bound for Texas last month before it could reach a port after determining that the ship’s network may have been compromised by a foreign actor while crossing the Atlantic, the Coast Guard said Tuesday. On Aug. 21, a specialized team of Coast Guard law … Read more
‘Thieves will take anything’: Life in a theft hotspot BBC England’s shoplifting problem and the prolific criminals who fuel it BBC ‘Shoplifting has become completely normalised’: Crime plaguing communities across England BBC Shops see ‘teenagers and old ladies’ stealing Yahoo News New Zealand Shoplifting ‘out of control’, shopkeepers say BBC
Lane Kiffin’s security was stepped up ahead of his return to Ole MissBATON ROUGE, La. —Louisiana officials are taking Lane Kiffin’s safety seriously ahead of his return to Ole Miss this weekend. LSU will travel to Oxford, Mississippi, this weekend for a primetime matchup against Ole Miss, and both teams will enter the game undefeated … Read more
A narrow ribbon next to an ultra-diffuse galaxy has become the strongest evidence yet for a globular cluster stellar stream beyond the Milky Way. The feature appears in deep Hubble images of UGC 9050-Dw1, a faint galaxy about 115 million light-years away, and extends from a compact object that is likely the cluster that is … Read more
An investigation into a teen’s death from a “brain-eating” amoeba points to a water feature in Durham as the likely point of exposure. While the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services cannot conclusively determine where the teen was exposed, a state investigation identified a water feature at El Futuro as “the most likely … Read more
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday that the European Union is opening the door for Canada to become the first associate member of the 27-nation bloc. In her annual State of the European Union address in Strasbourg, France, the EU chief said the bloc wants to take the relationship with Canada “to … Read more
An NBC Los Angeles-affiliated helicopter crashed while covering a fatal bus collision Tuesday night, killing the photojournalist and pilot on board and one person on the ground, the station and officials said. The plane crashed in a parking lot at or near a storage facility in the Chatsworth community, which is in Los Angeles’ San … Read more
Beijing, China – China will open its first modern river-sea canal for shipping on Wednesday, a project that aims to dramatically reduce shipping distances between the country’s hinterland and Southeast Asia, a region that serves as a critical trading partner. The Pinglu Channel is located entirely in Guangxi, the region in the far south of … Read more
President Donald Trump berated Jerome Powell for years as he tried to pressure Powell, then chairman of the Federal Reserve, to lower interest rates. So far, he has given a pass to new Federal Reserve chief Kevin Warsh, whom he nominated this year. Now, just four months into Warsh’s term, the honeymoon may be over. … Read more
The original Wo Long is an overlooked gem. Fast-paced, brutal, and compelling, the game made a name for itself among action RPG fans due to its key gimmick: that basically all attacks could be deflected. While some criticized this for making the game “repetitive”, I thought it was interesting and well-executed enough to last a … Read more