Categories
Selected Articles

American Airlines lifts ground stop that froze Christmas Eve travelers

American Airlines passengers across the U.S. endured a sudden disruption of service on Christmas Eve as a “technical issue” forced the airline to request a nationwide ground stop of its operations.
Categories
Selected Articles

Meet the power players at Elon Musk’s xAI, the startup taking on OpenAI with its Grok chatbot

Meet the key figures at Elon Musk’s xAI, the $50 billion startup behind the chatbot Grok that’s taking on ChatGPT.
Categories
Selected Articles

Major storm pounds California’s central coast, blamed for man’s death and partially collapsing pier

A major storm pounded California’s central coast on Monday, bringing flooding and high surf that was blamed for fatally trapping a man beneath debris on a beach and later partially collapsing a pier, tossing three people into the Pacific Ocean.
Categories
Selected Articles

Donald Trump’s tough talk—Buy Greenland! Take back Panama Canal!—sparks defiance from many Republican rebels

President-elect Donald Trump’s tough talk about Greenland and the Panama Canal shows that he’s most comfortable playing offense, even if nothing much comes of it.
Categories
Selected Articles

US reports airstrikes on targets in Syria

The US military carried out airstrikes on the positions of militants in Syria. As a result of the operation, two members of the jihadist terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) were eliminated, according to the US Central Command (CENTCOM). The US military reported that on December 23, a precision airstrike was carried out in Syria’s Dayr az Zawr Prov…
Categories
Selected Articles

Portion of the Santa Cruz Wharf collapses after waves hit amid high surf warning

Categories
Selected Articles

Woke carols are the latest sign of a church that’s lost faith in its convictions

If you’re planning to attend a carol service tomorrow night, you might want to check out the hymn sheet first – make sure you don’t end up bellowing out: O Come, All Ye Wokeful. You see, priests have been told to edit popular carols this Christmas in order to avoid (I really need to create a custom keyboard shortcut for this phrase) “causing unnece…
Categories
Selected Articles

New York Subway Attacker Is Migrant Who Was Deported, Elon Musk Reacts

Hours after a woman aboard the New York subway was set on fire, billionaire Elon Musk reacted to the news of the suspect being an immigrant from Guatemala who had been previously deported.
Categories
Selected Articles

Person dies after being trapped by debris at Santa Cruz County beach

The death follows a warning about large westerly swells along the Central Coast.
Categories
Selected Articles

1 dead, 2 missing as Northern California coastline hit by large waves

One person died on a Santa Cruz County beach and two went missing in Monterey County Monday after large waves battered the Northern California coastline amid a high surf warning.