Just a few minutes’ walk from a metro station in the northeast corner of Vienna, you might think that you were in Texas: A drilling rig more than 130 feet high looms over open land. Instead of oil, though, the wells will pump close to 1.7 million gallons a day of hot water from deep […]
LONDON — “Didn’t I already do this?” Liam Lawson has plenty to get used to as a fully-fledged Red Bull Racing Formula One driver, not least the additional media commitments. As he took his seat in the ominously named ‘War Room’ for his second media roundtable in 20 minutes ahead of F1 75 Live at […]
Georgina Rannard Climate and science reporter Getty Images A large asteroid known as 2024 YR4 has grabbed headlines this week as scientists first raised its chances of hitting earth, then lowered them. The latest estimate says the object has a 0.28% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, significantly lower than the 3.1% chance earlier in […]
Elon Musk threw federal workers into further confusion and alarm on Saturday when he ordered them to summarize their accomplishments for the week, warning that a failure to do so would be taken as a resignation. Shortly after his demand, which he posted on X, civil servants across the government received an email from the […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and opposition leader Friedrich Merz appeal to voters in the run-up to Sunday’s election. German politicians made their final appeals to voters on Saturday on the eve of crucial snap elections in which conservatives are the frontrunners and the far right is forecast to make gains. Election frontrunner Friedrich Merz from […]
The new MLS season is here and so is a new batch of kits for every team in the league. This year, we’re handing out superlatives for each new design (and lumping together all the ones that offer little more than the current template from leaguewide kitmaker Adidas). Every team has one new design this […]
The science journalist and author Ed Yong likes to joke that during the first wave of Covid-19 in 2020, the impact and reach of his reporting for The Atlantic turned him into “a character in the season of ‘Pandemic.’” Indeed, his Covid journalism — which documented the earliest stages of the pandemic and made him […]
An aid worker has died from gunshot wounds in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels who captured two key cities in recent weeks are trying to seize more territory. Jerry Muhindo Kavali, 49, was injured two days ago by a bullet that struck the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) office in Masisi where he […]
Even by Washington standards, the second Trump presidency has begun in frenetic fashion: mass firings at federal agencies, tariff threats against allies and foes alike, and haggling over how to get a Republican budget through a narrowly divided Congress. Business leaders and corporate investors are confident that things will turn out fine, at least for […]
The good news for cryptocurrency investors arrived just after 8 a.m. on Friday: Coinbase, the largest crypto marketplace in the United States, had reached a deal with U.S. regulators to dismiss a lawsuit that had hung over the industry for years. But within hours, the crypto market descended into a new crisis. At 10:51 a.m., […]