10:47 PM ET ESPN News Services The New York Yankees made the first of what could be a flurry of moves ahead of next week’s trade deadline, acquiring All-Star outfielder Andrew Benintendi from the Kansas City Royals, it was announced on Wednesday night. The Yankees are sending three minor league pitching prospects to the Royals
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Rivian (RIVN) announced this week that it is laying off 6% of its workforce in order to focus on its electric pickup truck production ramp. Over the last few months, many tech companies have announced layoffs in reaction to the changing economy that points toward a recession. In the EV industry, Tesla announced it is
Contractors install SunRun solar panels on the roof of a home in San Jose, California, on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Solar stocks jumped on Thursday after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., said they’ve reached a deal on what would be the
The 2021 major championship season has come and gone, but the three FedEx Cup Playoffs events are just around the corner. While Scottie Scheffler, the only four-time winner on the PGA Tour this season, remains No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking, he is no longer at the top of these rankings. With the
On 9 October 2019, a modern-day whodunnit was thrust into the world, complete with warring celebrities, alleged betrayal, social media traction and perhaps the most famous ellipses of the last century… At the heart of the case are footballers’ wives Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney, with Vardy suing Rooney for libel over allegations she made
Alphabet’s DeepMind unveiled its AlphaFold software in 2020, and it has since been used to create the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AlphaFold DB). It includes highly accurate protein structures predicted by the software. This database has been accessed by researchers to tackle real-world problems like plastic pollution, antibiotic resistance, and more. DeepMind has now partnered
Last week’s record-breaking heatwave in the UK was made at least 10 times more likely by climate change, according to a new study. Hundreds of people are expected to have died during the scorching weather, though official figures are yet to emerge, the rapid analysis by the World Weather Attribution group (WWA) said. There have
Everybody needs good neighbours – but alas, it’s finally time to say goodbye once and for all to the residents of Ramsay Street. After 37 years and 8,903 episodes, Neighbours is no more – the emotional final episodes having aired in Australia ahead of the UK broadcast. Ever since it was announced that the soap
The Blue Frontier founding team testing a prototype at Oak Ridge National Labs. From left to right: Matt Graham (VP of Engineering), Daniel Betts (CEO) and Matt Tilghman (CTO). Air conditioning has the potential to keep people cool as climate change keeps making the planet hotter. At the same time, conventional air conditioning technology uses
The world’s largest economy has contracted for a second consecutive quarter, although the downturn is yet to be officially termed a recession. The US recorded a 0.9% decline in output on an annualised basis between April and June when economists had forecast an increase of 0.5%. The early data would meet the international criteria for
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tells CNN’s Jake Tapper he doesn’t understand why some Republican senators plan to vote against a same-sex marriage protections bill and responds to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) calling the bill a “stupid waste of time.” #CNN #News
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said one of his shadow ministers was sacked yesterday for making up policy “on the hoof” as he stood on a picket line during rail strikes. Sam Tarry was dismissed from his role as a junior shadow transport minister after he disobeyed orders for frontbench Labour MPs to not
A union has revealed plans for a strike next month that it says will bring operations at the UK’s largest container port to a “standstill”. Unite made the threat while revealing the results of a ballot among its members at Felixstowe, ultimately employed by international ports operator CK Hutchison. The union said workers backed industrial
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation may provide high-speed Internet to mobiles phones in near future, as suggested by a report. The Elon Musk-founded company has filed an application to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seeking permission to use the 2GHz spectrum to provide “mobile satellite service.” The space company has over 2,600 Starlink satellites in
In a historic televised first – cameras have been allowed in court to show a judge sentence a 25-year-old man to life imprisonment for stabbing his grandfather to death. Ben Oliver, who had been cleared of murder, admitted the manslaughter of 74-year-old David Oliver, in Mottingham, south-east London, on 19 January last year. Making legal
North Korea is ready to mobilise its nuclear war deterrent “accurately and promptly”, leader Kim Jong Un has claimed. He said the country was ready for any potential military conflicts with the United States as well as South Korea, criticising it’s new president Yoon Suk-yeol for the first time and warning Seoul was pushing towards
Back in April, NASA chose Canoo to build the electric vehicles that will bring astronauts to the launchpad for the Artemis program. Since then, Canoo and NASA have brought the vehicles around Kennedy Space Center, from the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout building to the launchpad that will return astronauts to the Moon. Over the
Construction on the China-Russia eastern natural gas pipeline project has moved far beyond provinces on the border, and extended to the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, pictured here on March 12, 2022. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — China and Russia are in the final stages of building the first pipeline
The US has offered Russia a prisoner swap deal, in an effort to bring home two jailed Americans, including basketball star Brittney Griner. The Women’s NBA player was arrested at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow on 17 February as she made her way back to Russia to play for UMMC Yekaterinburg, during the US Women’s National
Former Senator Al Franken (D) discusses the January 6 hearings and the outtakes video from Trump’s speech the day after the violent riot at the Capitol. #cnn #News