Large parts of the Western United States are expected to face their most critical wildfire risk so far this season over the next few days. Utah, where multiple fires were already burning on Wednesday and filling skies with smoke, was at the center of an area where forecasters were most concerned about the potential for…
SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS, Brazil — Brazilian aerospace firm Embraer plans to nearly double its output of the KC-390 Millennium airlifter by the end of the decade, according to a company executive. “As demand is growing, not only to meet the current commitments we have with customers, but also looking to the future, looking ahead…
Kazuo Ishiguro, the feted Nobel laureate behind Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day, has announced his next novel. Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger—a spy caper set in the 1930s—will be published by Knopf (US, Canada) and Faber (UK) on March 9, 2027. As The Guardian reports, “the novel follows Richard Hadley as…
Denmark’s Den Gamle By (National Open-Air Museum of Urban History and Culture) is celebrating after winning the coveted European Museum of the Year Award. The Aarhus based arts centre collected the title on Saturday night at the EMYA award’s ceremony in Bilbao, Spain. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Presenting the prize, EMYA’s co-chair and jury member Daniëlle Kuijten…
Friday marks one year since a deadly Air India Boeing crash, which killed 260 people in a densely populated suburb of the city of Ahmedabad in India’s western state of Gujarat. Families of those killed gathered at the site on Friday to mark the anniversary of the disaster, but they are still waiting for answers…
Sadie Soverall and Matt Cornett lead the cast of romantic drama Every Year After. Based on the novel Every Summer After by Carley Fortune, the series follows Percy Fraser, who returns to her hometown of Barry’s Bay and reunites with her childhood best friend and ex-boyfriend Sam Florek. A synopsis reads: “Told over the course…
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told CNBC on Monday that the new world screwworm is a “little pest.” In the past, she called the parasite “terrifying.” The discrepancy in messaging before and after the flesh-eating pest was detected in the U.S. offers a window into how Rollins is managing the screwworm threat now that it has…
The conflict in the Middle East, which is significantly disrupting the world’s supply of energy and other critical commodities like fertilizer, will slow economic growth this year and raise inflation through 2027, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Wednesday. The global economy’s growth will slow to 2.8 percent this year from 3.4…
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday invited Pope Leo XIV to visit his native Chicago next year during a private meeting with the pontiff at the Vatican. In a letter that Johnson handed to the pontiff, the mayor recalled Pope John Paul II’s visit to Chicago and Mass in Grant Park on Oct. 5, 1979, “forever remembered…
Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, said on Wednesday that his artificial intelligence company had planned for growing about 10 times as big this year, only to reach a growth rate that could make it 80 times as big this year instead. Mr. Amodei, 43, made his remarks at Anthropic’s annual developer conference in…
