(Reuters) – Thunderstorms forced Elon Musk’s SpaceX to postpone Thursday’s launch of a navigation satellite for the U.S. military, which was poised to be the rocket company’s first national security space mission for the United States. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, scheduled to launch a U.S. Air Force navigation satellite, sits on Launch Complex 40
Month: December 2018
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence tours the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39-A where the Dragon crew module and Falcon 9 booster rocket are being prepared for a January 2019 launch at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. December 18, 2018. REUTERS/Steve Nesius NEW YORK (Reuters) – Spacex said on Thursday that poor weather conditions forced the
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s AB Volvo (VOLVb.ST) has triggered its hard Brexit contingency plans, with the truckmaker building “safety stock” with its British dealers and considering alternative shipping routes to minimise disruption. FILE PHOTO: A worker holds a component for a Volvo truck at the Muller manufacturing facility in Redditch, Britain August 28, 2018. REUTERS/Darren
LONDON (Reuters) – Passengers flying in and out of London Gatwick will face at least another 24 hours of disruption after several drone sightings forced Britain’s second busiest airport to shut its runway, causing delays to thousands of Christmas travelers. Authorities at Gatwick halted flights at 2200 GMT on Wednesday after two drones were spotted
FILE PHOTO – Vehicles of Russian state-controlled broadcaster Russia Today (RT) are seen near the Red Square in central Moscow, Russia June 15, 2018. Picture taken June 15, 2018. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s media regulator Ofcom said Russian broadcaster RT had broken impartiality rules in news and current affairs programmes aired in March
Ground personnel help International Space Station (ISS) crew member Alexander Gerst of Germany to get out of the Soyuz MS-09 capsule after landing in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, formerly known as Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan December 20, 2018. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (Reuters) – Three members of the International Space Station’s crew returned safely to
SEOUL (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of South Korean taxi drivers walked off the job across the country on Thursday and held a mass rally in downtown Seoul to protest against a carpooling service that they say will destroy their jobs. Taxi drivers take part in a protest against a carpool service application launched by
NEW YORK/HAVANA (Reuters) – Major League Baseball has reached a landmark agreement with the Cuban Baseball Federation allowing Cuban players to sign with U.S. teams without needing to defect, seeking to end the practice of Cuban stars being smuggled off the island on speedboats. FILE PHOTO: Players of the Industriales team practice at the Latinoamericano
FILE PHOTO: The Union Flag and a European Union flag fly near the Elizabeth Tower, housing the Big Ben bell, during the anti-Brexit ‘People’s March for Europe’, in Parliament Square in central London, Britain September 9, 2017. REUTERS/Tolga Akmen/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – The European Commission said on Thursday it has temporarily suspended emissions trading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans are starting to wonder if they accidentally picked a Democrat to run the country’s top securities regulator. FILE PHOTO: Jay Clayton testifies at a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on his nomination of to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Capitol Hill in Washington,
(Reuters) – A 24-year-old Chicago man was charged with two felony weapons violations on Wednesday in connection with the deaths of two Chicago police officers who were hit and killed by a speeding commuter train earlier this week. Officers Eduardo Marmolejo, 37, and Conrad Gary, 31, were investigating a report of gunfire near railroad tracks
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Shortly after the release of his 2015 Wall Street drama “The Big Short,” writer and director Adam McKay was home sick with the flu and picked up a book about former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. Director Adam McKay (C) and cast members (L-R) Sam Rockwell, Amy Adams, Christian Bale and
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday and said it was keeping the core of its plan to tighten monetary policy intact even as central bank officials said they would likely slow the pace of further rate increases next year. After weeks of market volatility and calls by President Donald
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has begun what will be a total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, declaring on Wednesday they have succeeded in their mission to defeat Islamic State and were no longer needed in the country. A decision to pull out completely, confirmed by U.S. officials, coincides with the roughly 2,000
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The attorney general for Washington, D.C. said on Wednesday the U.S. capital city had sued Facebook Inc for allegedly misleading users about how it safeguarded their personal data, in the latest fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. FILE PHOTO – A 3D printed Facebook logo is seen in front of displayed cyber
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States imposed fresh Russia-related sanctions on Wednesday, expanding a blacklist of individuals allegedly involved in a Kremlin-backed campaign to meddle with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, among other misdeeds. FILE PHOTO: The United States flag flies atop the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington November 18, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Bourg The U.S.
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