Daniela Rus, Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, joins Yahoo Finance’s Kristin Myers to discuss the development of a new robotic system that neutralizes aerosolized forms of the coronavirus.
Trump could ultimately decide not to create a special envoy for the conflict in Ukraine, although he is strongly considering doing so, sources said.
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares for the White House again, USA TODAY spoke with people across the country to discuss their hopes and fears.
A new small study suggests that athletes will perform better if they soak in a hot tub rather than a frigid one, especially if there are breaks in their workouts.
Negotiators were struggling to reach a deal Saturday at UN climate talks in Baku."In Copenhagen, there was no longer anything to eat or drink on Saturday," he said, referring to the day after the talks' official end, even though COPs rarely finish on time.
At least 11 people have been killed and several others injured after an Israeli strike flattened a multi-story residential building in central Beirut overnight, Lebanese officials said.
Pope Francis will travel to the Mediterranean island of Corsica on Dec. 15, making yet another visit to France that avoids the capital and all the pomp and protocol that accompanies a proper state visit. The one-day visit to the French island region, confirmed Saturday by the Vatican, is to close out a diocesan conference on popular piety in Ajaccio, the capital. While Francis will meet with President Emmanuel Macron at the airport before returning to Rome, the trip is in some way a snub of the French leader who had invited Francis to travel to Paris the previous weekend to preside over the grand reopening of Notre Dame.
Ukraine has lost over 40% of the territory in Russia's Kursk region that it rapidly seized in a surprise incursion in August as Russian forces have mounted waves of counter-assaults, a senior Ukrainian military source said. The source, who is on Ukraine's General Staff, said Russia had deployed some 59,000 troops to the Kursk region since Kyiv's forces swept in and advanced swiftly, catching Moscow unprepared 2-1/2 years into its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
This week, the man accused of killing a 22-year-old college student Laken Riley while she was out for a run on the University of Georgia campus was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Six top blue-state law enforcement officials tell POLITICO about their early strategies to counter the incoming president.
Poland's ruling centrists picked liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski as their candidate on Saturday for next year's presidential vote, in hopes of regaining control of the post that is crucial to justice reforms required by the European Union. Outgoing Andrzej Duda, an ally of the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party which lost power a year ago, has been blocking the government's efforts to undo a court overhaul Brussels says contravened democratic norms. Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Coalition, which is fielding Trzaskowski, 52, hopes his progressive credentials will help the party capitalise on anti-PiS anger among young voters that propelled it to power after eight years of PiS rule.
Pope Francis will visit the French Mediterranean island of Corsica on December 15, just days after skipping the reopening of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral which was ravaged by a fire in 2019, the Vatican said Saturday.French President Emmanuel Macron had invited the 87-year-old pontiff to attend the Notre Dame reopening ceremony in Paris on December 7.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and the head of NATO have met for talks on global security, the military alliance said Saturday. In a brief statement, NATO said Trump and its secretary general, Mark Rutte, met on Friday in Palm Beach, Florida. “They discussed the range of global security issues facing the Alliance,” the statement said without giving details.
This past week has seen the most significant escalation in hostilities that Ukraine has witnessed since Russia's full-scale invasion and marks a new chapter in the nearly three-year war — one tinged with uncertainty and fear. It began with U.S. President Joe Biden reversing a longstanding policy by granting Kyiv permission to deploy American longer-range missiles inside Russian territory and ended with Moscow striking Ukraine with a new experimental ballistic weapon that has alarmed the international community and heightened fears of further escalation. Washington eased limits on what Ukraine can strike with its American-made Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, after months of ruling out such a move over fears of escalating the conflict and bringing about a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO.
Lost your umbrella, keys, or perhaps a flying squirrel?- Flying squirrels, iguanas - But dogs, cats and even flying squirrels and iguanas have been dropped off at police stations, where officers look after them "with great sensitivity" -- consulting books, online articles and vets for advice.
Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski has been selected by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centrist Civic Coalition as its candidate in next year's presidential election, beating out Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski. Tusk announced the decision at a party gathering on Saturday, a day after more than 22,000 party members voted in a primary. Tusk said that Trzaskowski won nearly 75% of the votes, and Sikorski slightly over 25%.
Bitcoin may be at a record high, recapturing public attention as it crests six figures. But despite Coinbase climbing the App Store and Google Trends showing higher interest in "buy bitcoin," key sentiment metrics are showing things are fairly calm.
The massive financial mess that Musk has created at X hasn’t gotten anything like the attention it deserves. Here's a reminder via Allan Sloan.
President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia will continue to test and start mass-producing the hypersonic ballistic missile that it fired at Ukraine Thursday.
Canada’s Tilray Brands built itself into one of biggest craft brewers in U.S.—“I’m either real smart or real dumb,” its CEO said.
Some industry giants are building so-called super clusters of computer servers that cost billions of dollars and contain unprecedented numbers of Nvidia’s most advanced chips.
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