NEW YORK — Amazon is pausing construction of its second headquarters in Virginia following the biggest round of layoffsin the company’s history and its shifting plans around remote work.,The Seattle-based company is delaying the beginning of construction of PenPlace, the second phase o...
MOMBASA, Kenya (North American Times) — Record-breaking Cyclone Freddy made its second landfall in Mozambique on Saturday night, pounding the southern African nation with heavy rains and disrupting transport and telecommunications services.,French weather agency Météo-France warned of “destructi...
BLANTYRE, Malawi (North American Times) — An unrelenting Cyclone Freddy that is currently battering southern Africa has killed at least 56 people in Malawi and Mozambique since it struck the continent for a second time on Saturday night, authorities in both countries have confirmed.,Local police sa...
PORTLAND, Maine (North American Times) — A coalition representing the Maine lobster industry is suing an aquarium on the other side of the country for recommending that seafood customers avoid buying a variety of lobster mostly harvested in their state.,Industry groups including Maine Lobstermen’s...
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SALEM, Ore. (North American Times) — Oregon lawmakers are aiming to make the state the second in the nation to mandate climate change lessons for K-12 public school students, further fueling U.S. culture wars in education.,Dozens of Oregon high schoolers submitted support of the bill, saying they c...
NEPTUNE, N.J. (North American Times) — Coastal communities around the world are adding a tropical twist to shoreline protection, courtesy of the humble coconut.,From the sands of the Jersey Shore to the islands of Indonesia, strands of coconut husk, known as coir, are being incorporated into shorel...
CNATE CANAVERAL, Fla. (North American Times) — Four space station astronauts returned to Earth late Saturday after a quick SpaceX flight home.,Their capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico just off the Florida coast near Tampa.,The U.S.-Russian-Japanese crew spent five months at the Internation...
NEW YORK — Regulators rushed Friday to seize the assets of one of Silicon Valley’s top banks, marking the largest failure of a U.S. financial institution since the height of the financial crisis almost 15 years ago.,Silicon Valley Bank, the nation’s 16th-largest bank, failed after depositor...
REDMOND, Wash. — A longhaul truck driver from Texas who became obsessed with a software engineer in Washington state after meeting her through a social media chatroom app killed her, her husband and himself after stalking them for months, police said.,Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, and her husband, Moha...
