It turns out that even San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie, who once declared that the city should be a testbed for emerging tech, has his limits. Especially when that emerging tech creates a massive hours-long traffic jam that leaves thousands at a standstill. Mayor Lurie has asked state regulators to bolster rules for autonomous vehicles…
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 16, 2026. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday that Immigration and Customs…
A complaint was unsealed today charging Abdul Zahir Qadeer, also known as “Haji Abdul Zahir,” a former general in Afghanistan’s Border Force and First Deputy Speaker of Afghanistan’s National Assembly’s House of the People, with conspiring to import heroin and methamphetamine and related firearms offenses. Qadeer is expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan today…
At least 20 oil tankers have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the U.S. and Iran began to reopen the sea lane to commercial ship traffic, according to the trade intelligence firm Kpler. Tanker transits on Thursday hit the highest level since June 2, the firm said. However, traffic is still below prewar levels when…
Despite growing concerns that the war with Iran and the surge in gas prices could cool consumer spending, Starbucks said on Tuesday that so far it had not seen any signs of that happening. “We haven’t seen a lot of the macro effects trickle into consumer behavior as it relates to Starbucks,” Brian Niccol, the…
Dave Mason, the English singer, songwriter and guitarist who wrote mainstays of the classic-rock canon like “Feelin’ Alright?” and “Only You Know and I Know,” and who was a founding member of the seminal band Traffic before starting a successful solo career, died on Sunday at his home in Gardnerville, Nev. He was 79. His…
Shorouk Express Economy Materials 4 September 2025 00:38 (UTC +04:00) In August 2025, ADY, a company under AZCON Holding, transported 12 percent more passengers on domestic routes and the Absheron circular railway compared to August 2024. According to Azerbaijan Railways CJSC, passenger numbers for the first eight months of 2025 increased by 20…
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Shorouk Express While Helsinki is among the smallest EU capitals, with a little under 690,000 residents, some 1.5 million people live in and commute throughout the metropolitan area. Roni Utriainen, a traffic engineer with the city’s Urban Environment Division, told the Finnish press that the achievement was attributable to “a lot of factors … but…
Shorouk Express This week’s walkout was called by France’s second-largest air traffic controllers’ union, UNSA-ICNA; it was joined by the USAC-CGT, the third-largest union. According to AFP, some 270 controllers out of 1,400 participated in the strike on Thursday. The airlines also accused France of failing to protect planes flying over the country during these actions,…
