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NASA: Parker Solar Probe spacecraft gets closer to the Sun than ever before

 

The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft got closer than ever to the Sun to study its atmosphere.

The US space agency’s (NASA) unmanned spacecraft began a seven-year mission in August 2018 to uncover the secrets of the Sun – for example, solar storms that impact our communications.

Early Projections Show Trump Gaining in Battleground States, Senate Flips Republican

As results roll in from the 2024 US presidential election, Republican candidate and former president Donald Trump is projected to win North Carolina, a crucial battleground state that could play a decisive role in securing the 270 electoral votes needed to reclaim the White House. Trump's North Carolina win grants him all 16 of the state's electoral votes, edging him closer to victory.

US Elections 2024: Key dates, timeline for vote counting, and when final results are expected

It will, in any case, be an outcome of historic importance: America decides today whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will be the new occupant of the White House, after an incredibly tense campaign that remains in doubt until the last minute.

US Elections 2024: Washington State puts the National Guard on alert

The governor of the US state of Washington (Northwest), Jay Inslee, announced yesterday Friday that he is activating “proactive” elements of the National Guard and putting them on alert because of “general and specific” intelligence and concerns about the outbreak of violence just 24 hours before the controversial presidential election on Tuesd

An Afghan ISIS operative who was planning a terrorist attack on the day of the Presidential Election is arrested in the US

 

An Afghan man was arrested in Oklahoma on suspicion of planning “terrorist attack” on the day of the Presidential Election, the US Justice Department announced yesterday (Tuesday).

Turkish Cyprus rules out federation talks at upcoming informal UN meeting

The tripartite meeting with the U.N. chief will not entertain the idea of a federation, said the top diplomat of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) on Wednesday.

"The secretary-general invited the two leaders to a dinner," Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu told reporters in Washington, D.C. "They will meet at a three-way dinner in New York on Oct. 15."

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