Two astronauts stepped outside the International Space Station Thursday for the first of two spacewalks, one week apart, to install a final pair of roll-out solar blankets that will complete a complex, years-long upgrade of the lab’s aging power system. Floating in the station’s Quest airlock, NASA’s Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua…
Walmart on Tuesday debuted a discounted joint membership with Sam’s Club, the retailer’s warehouse club, in a bid to attract inflation-weary customers. Walmart said it’s offering a combined Walmart+ and Sam’s Club Plus membership for $120 a year, saving shoppers who buy them individually about $100 annually, according to the company. The joint membership gives…
Apple is seeing strong demand for its new foldable iPhone, with supplies quickly selling out after pre-order sales opened on Friday. “Apple opened iPhone Duo pre-orders this morning, and the early read looks robust in our view, with demand for Cupertino’s first foldable running well ahead of supply out of the gates,” Wall Street analyst…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosted an unpiloted Dragon cargo ship into orbit Tuesday, setting up a rendezvous with the International Space Station early Thursday to deliver more than 6,300 pounds of research materials, spare parts and crew supplies. Also on board are two new roll-out solar array blankets, the final sets in a major…
President Trump campaigned in 2024 on promises to lower Americans’ cost of living, vowing to push gasoline prices below $2 a gallon and to deliver 2% mortgage rates. Two years later, consumers face sharply higher costs for many of the necessities he pledged to make more affordable. Less than a month before the midterm elections,…
A statement by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani that recognized three years since Hamas’ “horrific” attack on Israel — and extensively criticized Israel’s “ongoing genocide” in the Gaza Strip — has drawn fury from some Democrats. Mamdani is a longstanding and vehement critic of Israel’s actions during its war with Hamas in Gaza, and…
Digital fraud is skyrocketing due to artificial intelligence, which is boosting criminals’ ability to separate Americans from their money, new research shows. Cyberattacks and scams have targeted nine in 10 Americans, with 17% of consumers saying they’ve lost money to a digital security breach, according to a new report from Consumer Reports, Aspen Digital and…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off on a flight to the International Space Station Thursday carrying two NASA astronauts, a cosmonaut and a Canadian crew member whose wife plans a launch of her own later this year, giving birth to the couple’s third child while her husband is in space. Strapped into a SpaceX…
Hong Kong — With his teenage daughter and possible successor by his side, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watched on Sunday as his country tested a purported new hypersonic weapon designed to evade missile defenses. North Korean state media said Kim had lauded the weapon as an “irresistible force” that would be an “incurable headache”…
7m ago Trump says he has a “big decision coming up” on whether to “annihilate” Iran’s ruling regime President Trump said Thursday that he is poised to make a “big decision” on whether to “annihilate” the Iranian regime. “I have a big decision coming up,” Mr. Trump told Axios. “Do I want to go…
