SALT LAKE CITY — Phil Lyman wanted to do something swift and stern. Within hours of Senator Mitt Romney’s vote to remove President Trump from office on Wednesday, Mr. Lyman, a freshman state representative from southern Utah who keeps an autographed “Make America Great Again” hat in a plexiglass case in his office, was at […]
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Despite the death toll, an increasing number of patients are recovering The number of people killed by the new coronavirus rose by 97 on Sunday, the highest number of casualties in a day. The total number of deaths in China is now 908 – but the number of newly-infected people
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The win has been hailed as a “historic moment” by the South Korean community Thrilled South Koreans are celebrating the best picture win for Parasite at this year’s Oscars. The comedy-thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho is the first non-English language film to win best picture. “Can’t believe I
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Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed robots that can self-assemble to form various structures. The M-Blocks can climb over and around one another, leap through the air, and roll across the ground. They are now being developed for inspection tasks and could eventually be used for disaster relief –
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The Chinese women’s soccer team has won back-to-back games in the Olympic qualifying tournament after spending almost two weeks quarantined in an Australian hotel because of concerns over the coronavirus outbreak February 10, 2020, 8:58 AM 2 min read SYDNEY — The Chinese women’s soccer team has won back-to-back games in the Olympic qualifying tournament
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Boeing’s 737 Max could be flying again before too long. The plane has been grounded since last March, after two crashes in five months killed 346 people. The crisis has cost Boeing billions of dollars and led to the ouster of its chief executive, who repeatedly offered overly optimistic assessments of when the Max would
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A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 40,600 people globally February 10, 2020, 8:21 AM 2 min read A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 40,600 people globally. The latest figures reported by global health authorities as of Monday in Beijing: — China: 908 deaths among 40,171
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This is major. For the first time in the Oscars’ 92-year history, a foreign-language film was crowned Best Picture. “Parasite,” the genre-busting South Korean masterpiece about a struggling family of four who con their way into a wealthy clan’s employ, began awards season as a long-shot contender. It won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the
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Image copyright Getty Images It has always been an emotional issue in the UK’s relationship with the European Union. Fishing: a symbol of the sovereignty that supporters of Brexit say will now be regained. The EU has already announced that an agreement on fisheries is a pre-condition for the kind of free trade deal, with
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Two Russian children have died in a collision of two speedboats off a Thai resort island February 10, 2020, 7:51 AM 1 min read BANGKOK — Two Russian children died in a collision of two speedboats off a Thai resort island Monday. The victims were a 12-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl. Twenty other passengers
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