The chair of the Suez Canal Authority has confirmed to Egyptian state TV that Ever Given, the vessel responsible for blocking the waterway last month, has been impounded over a compensation dispute with its owners. Read Full Article at RT.com

Amidst the protests following the shooting of Daunte Wright at the hands of police, conservatives got Ashli Babbitt’s name trending again, asking why the officer who shot her during the Capitol Riot was never publicly identified. Read Full Article at RT.com

President Joe Biden in his first days in office issued an executive order seeking to put the U.S. on track to welcome 125,000 refugees in the first full fiscal year of his administration, from a historic low of 15,000 set by the previous occupant of the Oval Office. Until that first full fiscal year, Biden also proposed quadrupling the current fiscal year’s cap, to 62,500 refugees.  Daily Kos’ Laura Clawson noted at the time that Biden’s subsequent visit to the State Department “sen[t] an unmistakable message ... that priorities have changed in the federal government.” But two months later, CNN reports that Biden has yet to sign the presidential determination, which would begin to put his plan into motion. Lacking that final signature, hundreds of refugees in recent weeks have seen their flights to the U.S. cancelled. 

A group of investors including former Germany and English Premier League star Mesut Ozil, Hollywood star Eva Longoria and top model Kate Upton are reportedly planning a bid to take a 50 percent stake in Liga MX club Necaxa. Read Full Article at RT.com

Dozens of marines have been arrested by Mexican police for allegedly playing a part in forced disappearances in 2014 in the northern city of Nuevo Laredo, the navy has said. The border area has been plagued by cartel drug wars. Read Full Article at RT.com

White US voice actor Hank Azaria has drawn the ire of Simpsons fans who accuse him of being ‘woke’ and participating in cancel culture after he apologized for his portrayal of the show’s Indian shopkeeper Apu. Read Full Article at RT.com

Score Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order for $20 and true wireless earbuds for $8.40. Wait, what?

The updates are slim, light and come in a broad range of sizes and configurations starting at $299.

Six people developed rare blood clots within two weeks of vaccination, adverse effects that «appear to be extremely rare,» the officials say.

Apple is expected to upgrade the screens of its iPads with a Pro-inspired design. Rumored AirTags may show up too.

The young programmers started out wanting to help their parents, but the reach of their free tool quickly expanded beyond home.

Previously, people could only appeal to restore content that was taken down from Facebook and Instagram.

Apple only dropped info about WWDC two weeks back, but the company just announced another event – this one happening much sooner. After Siri spilled the beans this morning, the company has officially confirmed its next event for April 20. Invites for its “Spring Loaded” event went out just now, sporting what appears to be […]

In light of the Microsoft-Nuance deal, we dug into the AI venture capital market. What’s happening on the startup side in the artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) space?

SpaceX is set to send a payload to the Moon in 2023, using its larger (and infrequently used) Falcon Heavy launch vehicle. The mission will fly a lander built by space startup Astrobotic, which itself will be carrying NASA’s VIPER, or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (this is the agency that loves torturing language to […]

Atlassian’s Jira is an extremely powerful issue tracking and project management tool, but it’s not the world’s most intuitive piece of software either. Spreadsheets, on the other hand, are pretty much the de facto standard for managing virtually anything in a business. It’s maybe no surprise then that there are already a couple of tools […]

A third of Antarctica's vast offshore ice shelves would risk collapse into the ocean if the world warms by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.

After his last startup, Framed Data, was acquired by Square, Thomson Nguyen began exploring new ideas. While an entrepreneur-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins, Nguyen interviewed hundreds of small business owners and realized that many pay hundreds of dollars in fees to maintain a business checking account. “Most small businesses are low margin, high cash flow, so […]

Boeing orders picked up in March, fueled by a major deal with Southwest Airlines that helped to offset another round of cancellations for its 737 Max airliner. Boeing said Tuesday that it received 196 orders in March, including the previously announced 100 from Southwest, while losing 156 to cancellations. Turkish ...

Whether depicting a birthday party or a child’s first steps, the expressive murals by Mohamed L’Ghacham (previously) enlarge sincere, unposed moments into monumental celebrations of everyday life. The Moroccan artist recreates vintage photographs as wall-sized artworks in locations across Europe that portray a woman readying for bed or the chaotic minutes before a family portrait at a massive scale. L’Ghacham tells Colossal that his relationship to the original images has evolved in recent years from a simple juxtaposition of the site and the quiet, unassuming beauty of the domestic scenes to a more complex understanding. More

HONOLULU (AP) - A bill proposed by Hawaii lawmakers would significantly increase fines for tour bus companies that repeatedly break state law. Hawaii politicians this year have sought to crack down on tourist buses that illegally take up rows of parking spots, block residential driveways and drop visitors off in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Georgia Szpilman’s soprano voice resounds beautifully in the apartment’s small living room, though the space lacks the acoustics of where her choir used to sing - Rio de Janeiro’s majestic municipal theater, which has been closed for over a year because of the pandemic. ...

In 2020, I was looking forward to leaving Los Angeles for a socially distanced vacation in San Diego. I had stocked up on food, hand sanitizer, wipes and masks. To stay safe and distant, I had booked two cottages near the beach with my travel credit card. My friend ...

PUERTO RICO DE GRAN CANARIA, Spain (AP) - When hotel director Calvin Lucock and restaurant owner Unn Tove Saetran said goodbye to one of the last groups of migrants staying in one of the seaside resorts they manage in Spain’s Canary Islands, the British-Norwegian couple didn’t know when they would ...

The United States' delayed second chance at qualifying for the Olympic baseball tournament has been moved to the spring training home of the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals and the exhibition ballpark of the New York Mets. The Baseball Americas Qualifier will be played on the east coast of ...

Late in Sunday’s rain-delayed Cup Series race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, Gibbs got his most recent hold-your-breath moment as Martin Truex Jr. patiently ran down JGR teammate Denny Hamlin, with the two running side-by-side for at least two laps.In the end, Truex cleared Hamlin with 15 of 500 laps remaining and held off Chase Elliott to become the Cup Series’ first two-time winner of ...Keep reading

Major League Baseball preferred to have the 4 p.m. ET deadline fall on a day where afternoon games aren’t scheduled to take place, so as to avoid scenarios where players head out to the field as the hours until the deadline dwindle.

James has played an instrumental role in creating and implementing many of the technical systems and processes that have helped make F1 such a global hit – including the establishment of its state-of-the-art broadcast centre.As well as helping ensure the sport remained at the cutting edge of technology and never missed a beat during his near three-decade involvement, he helped see it through ...Keep reading

Yesterday, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Twins, and Wild all postponed their games following the protests and aftermath of the police shooting of 20-year-old Black man Daunte Wright in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center during a traffic stop. The officer that fired the gun has since been placed on administrative leave while the shooting is being investigated. Hear what Shannon Sharpe has to say about the tragedy in Minnesota.

Steph Curry has surpassed Wilt Chamberlain as the all-time scoring leader in Golden State Warriors history last night in the first quarter with 21 points. He would go on to finish with 53 on the night that included a win over the Denver Nuggets. Skip Bayless discusses Steph's legacy.