BERLIN — When Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the latest round of restrictions on public life, she named bars, restaurants, theaters, concert halls, gyms and tattoo parlors as institutions that would be forced to close. But missing from the list released on Wednesday were schools and day care centers — among the first to be shuttered […]
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One of the most senior leaders of Saddam Hussein’s government and the highest-ranking figure to have eluded capture after the American invasion in 2003 has died, according to Iraqi officials and the deceased dictator’s Baath Party. The party said on Sunday that Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a close aide to Mr. Hussein, had died in Iraq […]
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Tesla wants to be at your service. Nick Miotke/Roadshow Tesla reportedly plans to open a new service center every single week in 2021, as the automaker works to rectify an area even CEO Elon Musk admitted it lags in right now. According to a report from Electrek on Thursday, citing a source familiar with the […]
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Yesterday Apple released the first developer beta for macOS Big Sur 11.0.1. The latest build aims at fixing bugs and performance issues. You also get new macOS wallpapers. Most impressive of all, the beta has references to unreleased Macs. Typically Apple adds files on macOS to identify different models of Mac. The files are placed […]
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IVRY-SUR-SEINE, France — At age 42, Mehdy Belabbas embodied the French republican promise of upward social mobility: the son of a Muslim construction worker of Algerian descent, he was the first in his family to attend graduate school and served for 12 years as the deputy mayor of the working-class city where he grew up. […]
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NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins, and astronaut Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, who constitute the crew of NASA’s Crew-1 mission, inside SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. SpaceX SpaceX and NASA say they’ve sorted out a hiccup seen recently in a Falcon 9 rocket and are aiming to send four […]
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<!––> <!––> Aftermarket specialist SpeedKore has started dyno testing of a 1970 Dodge Charger outfitted with Mopar’s insane Hellephant engine. The 7.0-liter supercharged V8 Hellephant engine was unveiled a couple of years and recently started to reach the hands of customers. It has a claimed 1,000 hp and 950 lb-ft (1,288 Nm) and seems set […]
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One tweet was removed from Mahathir Mohamad’s controversial Twitter thread. Zahim Mohd/NurPhoto via Getty Images Twitter removed a tweet from former prime minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad for violating its rules banning the glorification of violence. In the tweet, which was part of a longer thread about Muslims living in France, Mohamad said that “Muslims […]
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Director Scott Derrickson’s 2012 horror hit Sinister is the scariest movie, according to the Science of Scare project. Blumhouse Productions Blood-thirsty vampires, brain-eating zombies, angry ghosts and vicious werewolves are the kinds of creatures that would make anyone’s heart beat faster from pure fright. But which classic or modern horror film featuring these monsters makes […]
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For a month, beginning in November, United Airlines will test passengers over the age of 2 for the coronavirus on select flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Heathrow Airport in London, in a trial intended to help convince government officials that testing could be a crucial part of reopening international travel. United will administer […]
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