New filings for jobless claims in the U.S. totaled 787,000 last week, the lowest total since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting 875,000 for the week ended Oct. 17. The total reflected a decline of 55,000 from the downwardly revised 842,000 in the previous week. The […]Read More
Officials are bracing the public for the possibility that there was widespread destruction when the East Troublesome fire swept across Grand County on Wednesday night toward Grand Lake and through an area packed with homes, lodges and other businesses. “I don’t know what we’ll see in the morning, to be honest,” a distressed-looking Grand County […]Read More
Enlarge / US Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a public memorial service for former astronaut and US Senator John Glenn at Ohio State University on December 17, 2016. Paul Vernon/AFP via Getty Images On Tuesday about a dozen space officials met virtually to simulate how a National Space Council might operate during a Joe […]Read More
A budding scientist from Frisco, Texas, hopes to one day save lives with her research on a potential treatment for the coronavirus. Anika Chebrolu, 14, was named the winner of the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge, a competition for middle school scientists. The eighth-grader’s project won her a $25,000 cash prize. “I isolated a lead […]Read More
This from the Star Tribune’s Stephen Montemayor, “Calls for armed military veterans combined with a volunteer ‘Army for Trump’ to descend on Minnesota polling places have created fresh anxieties for state law enforcement and elections officials already preparing for a major election in the COVID-19 pandemic. Cybersecurity and the coronavirus pandemic dominated preparations for the […]Read More
I don’t often use this space to direct your attention to other publications, but I do recommend you check out an article Science published online on Sept. 24. Titled Singing in a Silent Spring, it adds a new entrant to the list of uplifting changes in the natural world that occurred when we humans went […]Read More
BERLIN (AFP) – Germany reported a huge jump in coronavirus cases on Thursday (Oct 22), with health experts warning of a “very serious” situation and regional disagreements hampering efforts to slow the spread. The country reported 11,287 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours – a large increase from the previous record of […]Read More
Enlarge / Ooo, snazzy. Acer Acer announced Intel-powered refreshes of several product lines today at the Acer Next 2020 online event. Notable new or refreshed products include the Swift, Aspire, and Spin general-purpose laptop lines and the high-end ConceptD 7 and Porsche Design laptops. Aspire 5, Spin 3, Spin 5 The Aspire 5 comes in both […]Read More
The Supreme Court in a 5-3 vote Wednesday evening overturned an Alabama judge’s district court ruling that allowed counties to offer curbside voting. The court gave no explanation for the decision, which The New York Times reported is typical of an emergency application. Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, a Republican, was challenged after he decided […]Read More
Like all award shows in this era, the CMT Music Awards had to find a way to stand out while following strict pandemic protocols — and it succeeded! Although maybe not in the way the producers intended, as singer-songwriter Noah Cyrus (younger sister of Miley) nearly stole the show with an outfit that scandalized many […]Read More
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