WASHINGTON– The Senate took the first steps toward passing a sweeping Russia sanctions bill Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Capitol Hill, advancing legislation to penalize countries that continue to buy Russian oil, gas and other exports after more than a year of negotiations. The bipartisan 86-12 procedural vote came hours after the funeral
Universal’s hit release “The Odyssey” maintained its hold on the UK and Ireland box office, securing a second consecutive weekend at No. 1. Christopher Nolan’s epic spectacle added £11.8 million ($15.7 million) in its second run, marking a remarkably slight drop and bringing its domestic take to £35.3 million ($46.9 million) after 10 days of
First test, Tarouba (day three of five) West Indies 311 (Hope 92; Ali 4-50) and 126-7 (Chanderpaul 35, Abbas 3-14) Pakistan 282 (Masood 109; Greaves 5-27) West Indies lead by 155 runs Scorekeeper West Indies all-rounder Justin Greaves took five wickets without conceding a run in an incredible spell of bowling on the third day
Citizen Vigilante was applauded by many far-right activists in X, even though others criticized the film, not only for its politics but for its weak plot, cheap-looking special effects and abundance of gore. After the publicity push, Boll estimated that the film grossed around $600,000 from streaming, against a budget of $2 million. Critics were
On July 3, one of NASA’s two Mars-bound ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft captured photographs of the Earth and Moon in visible and thermal infrared light. At the time, the spacecraft was 584,600 kilometers (363,250 mi) from Earth and 186,100 kilometers (115,600 mi) from the Moon, making the Moon appear relatively
Chipmaker AMD is taking aim at competitor Nvidia with its latest hardware release: a rack-scale system designed to meet the computing needs of the world’s largest artificial intelligence labs. At the company’s sold-out Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su promoted the new AI rack system known