British Airways passengers spent seven hours on an airplane only to end up back where they started. Flight 54 departed Johannesburg last Saturday, bound for London, a journey that typically lasts around 10-and-a-half hours. It took off more than five hours behind schedule, at 2:45 a.m. local time. While it isn’t clear how many people
The Trump administration is moving ahead with its efforts to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, two months after the Supreme Court allowed her to retain her job while she fights the president’s effort to terminate her over mortgage fraud allegations that she has denied. The justices in a 5-4 decision in June said Cook, who was
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“Wild Inside” is an enchanting movie, and a haunting one too. It’s a documentary about Flaco, the owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo and spent a year living in the wilds of New York City. Since that story was widely covered when it happened in 2023, turning Flaco into an international media sensation,
At least 40 million people were under extreme heat warnings in the central and southern United States on Sunday, as high temperatures and extreme humidity gripped large swaths of the country for the second day in a row. Heat indices well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) extended from Minnesota to Mississippi, extending westward to
At least 11 people have died after strong thunderstorms hit cities in central China’s Hubei province, state media reported. Videos of tornadoes, taken from the neighboring cities of Ezhou and Huanggang, have been circulating online. A student from the city of Huanggang told the BBC he had thought it was “just a normal storm” until