HMS Trenchant breaks through a metre of ice in the Arctic in a show of Britain’s military strength. The Royal Navy submarine is taking part in Ice Exercise 18, a major operation in conjunction with US forces. It is the first time in a decade a Navy submarine has practiced beneath the ice amid increasing […]

Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry has rejected a Russian proposal to revisit its visa-free regime for U.S. citizens. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Moscow on March 15 that the existing agreement which allows Americans to travel to the Central Asian country without a visa should be “coordinated” with the Eurasian Economic Union (EES). Both Russia and […]

RuPaul has officially — and physically — cemented his mark on Hollywood. The RuPaul’s Drag Race host received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday and was presented the honor by a member of Tinseltown royalty: Jane Fonda. “I feel like I’m being knighted,” the drag queen said of the accolade on Friday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. […]

A video leaked on Thursday that allegedly showed Apple’s upcoming iPhone SE 2 for the first time ever. The handset pictured in the video bears a striking resemblance to Apple’s iPhone X, but it appear to be smaller. In place of the rounded stainless steel that wraps around the perimeter of the iPhone X, this phone has […]

If ever a human being seemed capable of living forever, that human was Stephen Hawking. In 1963, when Hawking was twenty-one, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the degenerative neurological disorder, and given three years to live; he died this past Wednesday, at the age of seventy-six. For five decades, he used an electric wheelchair and, […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Steel and aluminum users that depend on imported products not available from U.S. producers may have to wait up to 90 days for an exclusion from the Trump administration’s new metals tariffs, according to a Commerce Department document. The draft Federal Register notice, which is expected to be published later on Friday […]

While Long Island Rail Road workers feast on overtime, its service is the worst it’s been in nearly two decades, according to a state report released Thursday. Nearly 21,400 LIRR trains were late, canceled or terminated mid-run in 2017, a 20 percent increase over 2016 and the poorest numbers in 18 years, State Comptroller Thomas […]

Celsius, a community-based borrowing and lending platform, aims to put members’ interests as the priority instead of profits. They are creating new financial products with the aim of achieving this goal. In the current financial world, banks and other money lending institutions charge far more in loan interest than they return to customers in deposit […]

Russian voters go the polls on March 18 to choose a president, but there’s not much to truly decide. Vladimir Putin will win his fourth term after 18 years in power. But behind the scenes of an election with a foregone conclusion — an event that should be drama-free — a more complicated picture emerges. […]

President Trump had some goofy exchanges with Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Thursday, but “it was at least a relief to see Trump making nice with an ally,” Seth Meyers said on Thursday’s Late Night. Audio surfaced on Thursday of Trump admitting to “outright lying to Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, about the U.S.’s trade relationship with […]