Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee
admin
Look back on the best-performing stocks in a given year and you’re likely to see a mixed bag: some mainstays, some breakouts and maybe even a meme stock or two. Not so in 2022. Each of the 10 top-performing stocks in the S&P 500 index belonged to the same sector: energy. In a year in
Rishi Sunak is backing plans to give wider powers to the police to tackle “highly disruptive and dangerous protests”. In an announcement on Monday, the government will pledge to amend the already controversial Public Order Bill to “broaden the legal definition of serious disruption”. A statement from Number 10 said it would give officers “greater
The energy watchdog must step in to penalise price-gouging behaviour by energy suppliers, according to the head of the lobbying group representing thousands of pubs, restaurants, hotels and gyms across Britain. In a letter to the chief executive of Ofgem from Kate Nicholls, the boss of UK Hospitality, which has been seen by Sky News,
Suspects in a shooting outside a church in north London yesterday fired a shotgun from a moving car at the crowd of mourners, police investigating the attack have said. Superintendent Jack Rowlands of the Metropolitan Police described the shooting on Saturday afternoon as a “senseless act of violence” and said officers were looking for a
The transport secretary has given rail operating companies “permission” to make a new offer to railway unions this week as the government hopes for an end to months of strikes. Mark Harper told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge that he had given the companies a “revised mandate” to go into negotiations in the coming days, saying
Sky’s defence and security analyst, Professor Michael Clarke, looks at how uranium was found at Heathrow Airport and whether it posed a security risk to the public. Was the nuclear material being smuggled into the UK by terrorists or is there a more innocent explanation? Read the full story: https://news.sky.com/story/uranium-detected-in-package-at-heathrow-airport-as-counter-terror-police-launch-investigation-12784017 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel
CNN’s Jamie Gangel reports a male Republican strategist alleges that Matt Schlapp, the influential chairman of the American Conservative Union, groped and fondled him. Schlapp through his attorney denies these allegations. Schlapp’s attorney says “we are evaluating legal options for response.” #CNN #News
A plane carrying 72 people has crashed in Nepal, killing at least 68, officials have said. Video on local media showed thick black smoke billowing from the crash site as rescue workers and crowds gathered around the wreckage of the aircraft. Footage on social media showed the plane flying low before beginning to spin. At
A woman has been charged with attempted murder after stabbing a student several times in the head while on a bus in a suspected racist attack. Billie Davis, 56, is in custody following the attack in Bloomington, Indiana, last week, which was reported to police by shocked passengers who watched her begin to strike the
The O2 Academy in Brixton will remain shut for three more months after two people were killed in a crowd crush. Owners Academy Music Group (AMG) said it had “reflected deeply” on the incident and had decided to stay closed regardless of an impending licensing decision by the local council. Security guard Gaby Hutchinson, 23,
This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time that includes new electric bikes from the consumer electronics brand RCA, a new electric trike from Lectric eBikes, Honda revealed its E-Cub for the Chinese market, a high power hubless wheel
In this article GOEV FFIE RIDE RIVN FSR LCID TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pedestrians walk past the Tesla Motors official authorized car dealer store in Hong Kong. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Is the first electric-vehicle recession here, or coming soon? As electric-car stocks plummeted in late 2022, the rout
At least 30 people have been killed in a Russian missile strike on a residential block in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, as part of a massive wave of attacks targeting civilians and energy infrastructure alike. A further 30 to 40 people could still be trapped under debris. Rescue teams worked through the night in
More nurses strikes that would see twice as many workers take action will be announced for February if talks with the government do not progress soon, union bosses have warned. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) union said that new walkouts would be announced should negotiations over pay remain stalled by the end of January.
Lawyers for Joe Biden have said five additional pages with classified markings were found at the president’s home in Delaware on Thursday. White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement on Saturday that a total of six pages of classified documents were discovered during a search of the president’s private library. Previously, the White
Retired Air Vice-Marshal Sean Bell takes a closer look where the two Britons missing in Ukraine where operating when they disappeared. Get the latest on the war in Ukraine here: https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-russias-pro-war-military-bloggers-dispute-kremlin-claim-that-strike-killed-600-ukrainian-troops-12541713 #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #britisharmy #aid #nato SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews
Former FBI agent Tracy Walder argues that the suspect arrested in connection to the killings in Idaho didn’t learn enough about criminal investigations while studying criminal justice. #CNN #News
The nephew of a British-Iranian national who was put to death by hanging in Iran has spoken of his shock, describing the execution as a “political game”. Official Iranian news sources reported on Saturday that Alireza Akbari, the country’s former deputy defence minister, had been executed on charges of spying for Britain, but did not
A seven-year-old girl is in a life-threatening condition, while four women and another girl were also taken to hospital, after a shooting outside a funeral near Euston station in central London. The Metropolitan Police said officers were called to Phoenix Road at 1.30pm on Saturday to reports of a shooting. Police initially said the seven-year-old