WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic has slowed work on the first ViaSat-3 broadband satellite, making a launch in mid-2021 unlikely, Viasat CEO Mark Dankberg said Aug. 7. Speaking during an earnings call for the quarter ended June 30, Dankberg said the pandemic continued to weaken demand for inflight connectivity services, but did not have as
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President Donald Trump was abruptly evacuated from a press briefing on Monday evening just minutes after he began speaking because of a shooting outside of the White House. “There was an actual shooting, and somebody has been taken to the hospital. I don’t know the condition of the person,” Trump said after he returned to
Exclusive Kanye West is firing back at the Wisconsin Democratic Party, and now officially beefing with it … accusing the Dems of spying on his presidential campaign. Kanye’s responding to a complaint in the Badger State asking officials to block Ye from the ballot due to allegedly submitting fake signatures and failing to get signatures
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, August 8, 2020. Joshua Roberts | Reuters President Donald Trump on Monday urged Americans to stop politicizing the coronavirus, only to blame the outbreak in the United States on China
The Rogue One Prequel series has cast 6 Underground actress Adria Arjona in a lead role. Arjona joins series leads Diego Luna and Alan Tudyk, who were both in the 2016 prequel to A New Hope. Genevieve O’Reilly, Denise Gough, Stellan Skarsgard, and Kyle Soller are also starring in the upcoming Disney+ live-action Star Wars
Everything is right in the world when we get snippets of Kenmando in Mexico. At this rate, after the events of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way Season 2 Episode 11, they’re the only couple who will get their happy marriage. We’re manifesting that positive energy, dammit. Sadly, one can’t say the same about Brittany
Since the discovery of the Higgs Boson (or, more infamously, the “God Particle”) in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) based at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), particle physicists have sought to expand their ability to probe Nature’s deepest secrets. Although the Higgs was the last missing piece of the Standard Model
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Raven Leilani’s debut novel, Luster confronts what it means to be hungry and desperate as a Black artist. The novel is about
The good news: The United States has a window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 before things get much, much worse. The bad news: That window is rapidly closing. And the country seems unwilling or unable to seize the moment. Winter is coming. Winter means cold and flu season, which is all but sure to
Richard van Leeuwen is a senior lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Amsterdam. This year, he won the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Arabic Culture in Other Languages category for his book The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings, which reveals how the collection of Arab tales supplied
A man wearing a mask walks past the U.S. Federal Reserve building in Washington D.C., the United States, on April 29, 2020. Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images The Federal Reserve in July bought up more bonds from blue chip companies including Microsoft and Coca-Cola, while it added to its positions in junk debt and
The Spacepower document is the Space Force’s first capstone doctrine WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force on Aug. 10 issued a new guiding document for the use of space in military operations. The document titled “Spacepower” lays out a vision for what the space branch of the armed services will do, and explains why the
The Trump administration is open to resuming coronavirus aid talks with Democratic leaders and would offer more aid money to try to reach a compromise, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday. “The president is determined to spend what we need to spend. … We’re prepared to put more money on the table,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk on the
Moses Sumney is the latest artist to perform a concert for NPR, whose “Tiny Desk Concert” series is now set in the artists’ homes. Set up in North Carolina, Sumney played “Bless Me,” “Me in 20 Years,” and “Polly” off 2020’s græ, as well as “Rank & File” from 2018’s Black in Deep Red, 2014
David Marcus, vice president of messaging products for Facebook Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the Wall Street Journal D.Live global technology conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Facebook is bringing in former PayPal executive Stephane Kasriel
We’re bored in the house and in the house bored, but that doesn’t mean we can’t dress up. Take it from Wan-Ji Chang, 83, and Sho-Er Hsu, 84, owners of the Wansho Laundry in Taiwan. The octogenarian couple went viral on Instagram for their quarantine ‘fits and expert modeling, bringing a much-needed bright spot to
Another legend of the wrestling business is gone as James Harris, better known to wrestling fans as Kamala the Ugandan Giant, has sadly passed away. Famous for portraying the body-painted pro wrestler across the world in a variety of wrestling promotions, Kamala had multiple runs in the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) in the ’80s
Ever since it was announced that a revival of CSI was in the works at CBS, fans have been wondering which beloved cast members will be reprising their roles. According to a new report by TV Line, two fan-favorites are already in advanced talks to appear. William Petersen and Jorja Fox are in talks to,