Month: June 2024

Firing up the robots Members of the Firebots, a FIRST Robotics team from Fremont High School, demonstrated their robot at the Pacific Hackers’ annual DEFCON and CTF challenge on Saturday, June 22, in Mountain View. The Firebots were hosted by local Meet-up group Hacker Dojo, which also gave tours to prospective members. “The Hacker Dojo

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Alex Pereira first became a champion kickboxer and then moved to the UFC and won title belts in the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions. And, after Saturday night’s convincing victory over top-ranked challenger Jiri Prochazka in UFC 303, he might not be done. Pereira could move up to heavyweight and do

The regression to the mean couldn’t have been meaner. After three straight wins in which the Colorado Rapids beat their opponents by a combined score of 9-1, a trip to LAFC was straight in the other direction. While the Rapids’ defense looked solid and stood its ground for much of the game, Mateusz Bogusz and

By the end of this coming week, the United Kingdom will almost certainly have a new prime minister, Keir Starmer of the Labour Party. That will also bring an early end, in all probability, to the political career of Rishi Sunak, the Conservative Party’s current whiz-kid prime minister, who at 44 is just about young

Sports News “It’s like a new mountain in my life. And I’m ready to climb it.” Fred Richard reacts after competing on the pommel horse on Day Three of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Gymnastics Trials at Target Center on June 29, 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Elsa/Getty Images By WILL GRAVES, Associated Press June 30,

After a debate performance that seemed to confirm suspicions of mental non-acuity, everyone’s talking about whether Joe Biden drop out of the presidential race. Many approach it from the heart and not the head: We feel like we know our politicians, some of us like Biden, and we don’t want to make him sad. But

DARTFORD, England — Distrust has settled over the campaign trails in the United States and United Kingdom ahead of July 4 like a soggy summer haze. On that day, British voters will choose a new Parliament in an election expected to finish with a Labour government after 14 years under the Conservatives. Americans, polarized by

The accused drunken driver who killed NYPD Officer Emilia Rennhack and three others at a Long Island nail salon should “rot in hell,” the officer’s mother-in-law told the Daily News. “He was drunk mid-afternoon, 64 years old, drunk and I hope he rots in hell,” said Holly Rennhack, whose NYPD detective son is married to

Can Americans’ trust in the Supreme Court be restored? – CBS News Watch CBS News Polls show Americans’ trust in the Supreme Court has never been lower, especially in light of ethical lapses that lead observers to question the impartiality of justices. Correspondent David Pogue talks with experts who explain why initiatives at the nation’s

This past week, the Supreme Court handed down a series of major opinions: on the powers of federal agencies, on homeless encampments, and on the January 6 storming of the Capitol. But when it comes to the Supreme Court, Americans have some major opinions of their own – that our confidence in the Court, the

At least 18 people were killed and 30 injured, including 19 seriously, in coordinated attacks by suspected female suicide bombers in the northeastern Nigerian town of Gwoza on Saturday, local authorities said. The first suicide bomber detonated an explosive device during a marriage celebration at about 3 p.m., Barkindo Saidu, director-general of Borno State Emergency

Redefining old age – CBS News Watch CBS News CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook talks with experts about the distinctions between normal and abnormal aging as it affects memory issues, a workforce continuing beyond traditional retirement age, and the testing of surgeons who currently work without age limits. (This story was originally

USS Carney returns from Red Sea engagement – CBS News Watch CBS News For the crew of the USS Carney, the war between Israel and Hamas turned a routine seven-month deployment to the Middle East into a fight against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who launched drones and missiles in support of Hamas. CBS News

Rediscovering the photos of Paul McCartney – CBS News Watch CBS News Paul McCartney recently uncovered photographs he’d thought were lost – ones he took during The Beatles’ first tour of America in 1964. The pictures – candid shots from the vantage point of newly-anointed superstars – are the basis of the book, “1964: Eyes

Paul McCartney used his Pentax camera the same way he used his guitar: with total freedom. And in early 1964, the 21-year-old took his new camera on perhaps the most momentous musical journey of the 20th century: The Beatles’ invasion of America. On The Beatles’ first visit to the United States, Paul McCartney brought his