President Donald Trump said in a speech to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly that he was considering “wiping out” Iran and taking the country “to hell.” Or, he said, Iran could reach a deal with the United States that would allow the nation to rebuild. But that won’t happen until after the … Read more
Viking shares soared Tuesday with “stellar” results from trials of its weight-loss shot, dragging down shares of rivals Eli Lilly (LLY) and Novo (NVO). The study examined weekly and monthly doses of Viking Therapeutics (VKTX) injection, VK2735, for three months as a means of maintaining weight loss with weekly dosing. Patients in the biweekly program … Read more
Obsidian Entertainment is moving under Bethesda amid a broader restructuring of Xbox Game Studios. The evolving corporate structure will see the creator of Avowed and The Outer Worlds housed alongside Bethesda Game Studios while he works on an upcoming Fallout game. Microsoft chief content officer Matt Booty wrote in a blog post on September 22 … Read more
After only three games on Monday, the schedule is much more abundant today. There are 16 games on Tuesday’s slate. All but one of the confrontations are at night. 1. Rays can take the AL East The Rays and Yankees have a day/night doubleheader available for Tuesday. Tampa Bay can clinch the American League East … Read more
A Florida wildlife clip is making people do a double take: Instead of an alligator lurking in the shallow waters, a great blue heron is the one doing the swallowing. The disturbing scene inverts a familiar food chain script and also offers a glimpse of how adaptable wildlife can be in landscapes increasingly shaped by … Read more
If you haven’t given much thought to covid-19 lately, that’s understandable. The impact of the coronavirus has “substantially diminished” since the early pandemic years, said William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. As a result, “people are perhaps less attentive to covid.”
The United States has threatened to impose sanctions on South Sudan for alleged obstruction of humanitarian assistance, accusing officials at the national, state and local levels of treating aid as a source of income.
Good day. The dispute over media access to the presidency has deepened, with major US television news outlets agreeing to suspend their video coverage of Donald Trump after the administration banned journalists from several outlets from entering the White House grounds. The president had abruptly announced his ban against CNN, MS Now and Politico, saying … Read more
The Press Room of the Holy See publishes the program, logos and mottos of the next Apostolic Journey of Pope Leo XIV to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, which will take place from November 6 to 17. Vatican News The Holy See Press Office has published the program for Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming apostolic trip to … Read more
Central to the dire warnings about the potential danger of artificial intelligence to humanity is the risk that a “swarm” of AI agents could collaborate in nefarious ways, like hordes of digital extras from “The Matrix.” Such fears have intensified following an attack by OpenAI bots this summer on another AI developer, Hugging Face, in … Read more