Biologists in Utah airlifted three deer from the wild for a routine medical checkup. The line of deer being airlifted looked like Santa’s sleigh from the ground, but the aim was to investigate the migration pattern.
A Russian Su-27 fighter jet intercepted a US RQ-4B Global Hawk surveillance drone in the Black Sea. The encounters between Russian fighter jets and US drones have become frequent amid increasing tensions over the war in Ukraine.
Heavy rains have flooded New York City with roads and subways entirely blocked. The city’s governor imposed a state of emergency and urged citizens to stay indoors to avoid casualties. The rain started pouring intensely after 7 am but the situation has calmed down slightly, authorities said.
A Danish court has ordered an artist to repay the funding after he presented empty frames as artwork. The court ordered the artist named Jens Haaning to repay £61,500 which the museum provided for the artwork. The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Denmark took legal action when the artist declined to repay the funds.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk came under fire by the Scottish football team for stealing their logo. The football team’s goat logo looks almost similar to SpaceX logo, with just a few minor exceptions. The Haddington Town AFC in Scotland took to X and shared similarities between their logo and that of SpaceX and found out that it was a complete copy.
The Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three of his cabinet members were seen enjoying lunch on Wednesday. The lunch meeting was an obvious effort to ease the rift between the government and the people over nuclear wastewater.
Israel has categorically said that any attempt to open diplomatic representation to Palestine. Much has been happening behind the closed doors between the US and Saudi Arabia to shape the geopolitics of the Middle East. Meanwhile, Saudi recently appointed Nayef bin Bandar Al-Sudairi as an ambassador to the Palestinians and consul-general in Jerusalem.
Death toll from the wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui jumped to 80, as per the latest reports. Wildfire authorities are still shocked at the rapid devastation caused by the wildfires in a short span of time on the island. The death toll is expected to rise further as the fires are still blazing in multiple places.
Tesla’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has stepped down paving the way for the Indian-origin Vaibhav Taneja to become the new CFO. Zachary Kirkhorn stepped down after spending 13 years with the company including 4 years as CFO.
US President Joe Biden has finally publicly acknowledged having his seventh granddaughter after repeated refusals to do so. Biden has repeatedly refused to acknowledge Hunter Biden’s daughter for years citing privacy reasons.
Ex-twitter employee Esther Crawford has said that Elon Musk is destroying twitter after he rebranded the platform recently. Crawford, the product manager, went viral for her photo last year when she slept at twitter office to show her hard work. Crawford has come out as a critic of the new changes Musk has introduced in the platform after she was fired in February.
Over 400 mass shootings have occurred in 2023 alone, according to a website that tracks firearms related deaths and violence. Just the past weekend, 9 mass shootings were recorded that killed 3 people and injured more than 30, according to Gun Violence Archive. 2023 is expected to surpass 2019 and 2021 in terms of mass shootings, a record without any meaningful legislation in sight.
