That peculiar light in the night sky known as Tabby’s Star is at it again. After causing an uproar in the science community on several occasions as space geeks tried to figure out why it regularly grew brighter and dimmer (by as much as 20%) it mostly stabilized out for the last couple of years. But now, as Science Magazine
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One person was taken to the hospital Wednesday after the Kansas City Fire Department detected high levels of carbon monoxide at a popular County Club Plaza restaurant. James Garrett with the Kansas City Fire Department says crews responded to Buca di Beppo near West 47th Street and Central Street just before 11 a.m. In addition to
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — City leaders are meeting Wednesday to discuss ways to increase safety along metro trails, including Indian Creek Trail where four people were killed in just 10 months. By the end of the week the city plans to have 7 to 10 camera installed along the trail, but this is just the first step, they say. The
The Philippine government has imposed martial law on Mindinao after radical Islamic extremists launched attacks, but it didn’t stop the terrorists from conducting operations. The rebels took a Catholic priest and 13 parishioners and parish employees hostage this morning after attacking the church, despite a blackout in the city of Marawi in which the church was located: Muslim extremists abducted
ET CETERA Purse purgatory: We've written about Coach's increasing interest in M&A before. Today Fortune's Phil Wahba published a feature on the company's turnaround. The relevant part for Term Sheet readers: Coach itself has been the subject of takeover rumors, but in the past year executives have sent clear signals that they'd rather eat than be eaten. In April the
Arsonists have burnt down a door at a mosque in Greater Manchester in a suspected race hate 'retaliatory' attack following Monday night's bombing. The door at Jamia Qasmia Zahidia Islamic Centre on Villa Road, Oldham, was set alight at around 2am according to its imam, Mohammad Saddiq. Mr Saddiq, 60, said: 'Last night at around 2am somebody has started a
What I mean in the headline is, is it their animosity towards Russia after the election that’s mainly driving this or is it more of a tribal “whatever Trump thinks, I think the opposite” reaction? The president is America’s most famous NATO skeptic, after all. Or he was, until about a month ago. The two options aren’t mutually exclusive. It
The U.S. government’s national security requests on Apple data soared during the second half of 2016. Apple reported in a biannual transparency report released on Tuesday that it received between 5,750 and 5,999 national security orders during the second half of 2016. Apple said that those orders affected between 4,750 and 4,999 user accounts. The U.S. government doesn’t allow companies
Fans will have to wait a bit longer for Jon Stewart to make his return to television. HBO and Stewart said that they will not move forward with the comedian’s short-form animated project, according to CNN. “We all thought the project had great potential but there were technical issues in terms of production and distribution that proved too difficult given
Israel has attacked Syria again, but this time Syria actually fired back – raising concerns about this conflict blowing-out into a wider war. For the first time in 6 years, Israel officially acknowledged an airstrike in Syria, after a pre-down raid. However, according Syria’s military, an Israeli plane was downed and another hit another while carrying out strikes against Syria
