Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, president of Mexico, stated on Friday that the U.S. government does not want to construct new sections of wall along its frontier with Mexico and expressed skepticism that the planned construction would be carried out. “It’s pure publicity,” Lopez Obrador said at a routine morning press conference after the Biden administration…
Friday, the imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless advocacy for women’s rights, democracy, and against the death penalty. Mohammadi, 51, has maintained her activism despite multiple arrests by Iranian authorities and years spent in prison. The death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody prompted nationwide women-led…
Jon Fosse is a master of spare Nordic literature. He has written plays, stories, and children’s books. On Thursday, he won the Nobel Prize in literature for works that “give voice to the unsayable.” The head of the Nobel literature committee, Anders Olsson, said that Fosse’s work is based “in the language and nature of…
Early this morning (Oct. 5), SpaceX sent 22 more of its Starlink internet satellites into orbit. This was the company’s 70th trip into orbit this year. The Starlink spaceship took off tonight at 1:36 a.m. EDT (5:36 a.m. GMT) on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The rocket was supposed…
Metro Bank’s stock dropped 25% this morning as the City processed the lender’s latest setback: a request to raise £600 million to shore up its finances. When the company launched in the United Kingdom in 2010, it pledged to alter the face of banking by introducing new consumer-friendly branches. It worked at first, until an…
More than 75,000 unionized Kaiser Permanente employees, one of the nation’s largest non-profit health providers, walked off the job on Wednesday, marking the largest health care worker strike in U.S. history. The striking employees in California, Colorado, Washington, Virginia, Oregon, and Washington, DC are represented by a coalition of unions that account for 40 percent…
The 2030 World Cup will be held in Morocco, Spain, and Portugal. However, the first three games will be played in Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay. As part of the 100th anniversary of the first World Cup, South America put in a bid to host the whole thing. On Wednesday, FIFA said that the decision to…
Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexei I. Ekimov were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery and refinement of quantum dots, nanoparticles whose size determines their properties. Quantum dots, which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences describes as the “smallest components of nanotechnology,” are utilized in LED lights and television displays…
On Tuesday, a federal judge said that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission couldn’t review her recent decision about Ripple Labs. This is seen as a big loss for the SEC’s efforts to keep cryptocurrency markets safe. In her ruling on July 13, U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan said that the sale of…