In the foothills of the Ecuadorean Amazon, a 101-year-old farmer and a young scientist turned an amateur collection into a scientific survey of one of the most diverse snake habitats on Earth.
Christian Castro, who had been charged with assault in the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, was taken into custody Friday morning.
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) confirmed Friday that she will retire from Congress, just days after denying Axios' reporting that she had told allies she wouldn't seek another term. Why it matters: The 83-year-old had been under considerable pressure not to run for reelection after missing weeks of House votes, as she recovered from a major eye surgery. - She initially denied to local allies that she would step aside, but last Saturday she reversed course and told multiple elected officials in her district that she would indeed retire, as Axios first reported. - Wilson, in a statement to Axios later on Saturday, said: "It's a crazy rumor. A crazy crazy rumor. I'm almost distraught. It's not true. I am still planning on running."…
Online queries are more likely to turn up references to the U.S. state — a problem for the republic in the Caucasus and its people. But a move to drop the name “Georgia” has lost steam.
The superstar is part of group that has bought a basketball team in Italy, with a plan to move the club to Rome in hopes of making it part of a new league.
When newly public companies have been valued as richly as SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic seem likely to be, the outlook for ordinary investors has been poor.
Elon Musk and his bankers are working to create a self-fulfilling prophesy for SpaceX’s massive initial public offering: Make investors feel that the risks of passing up the stock outweigh those of buying into it.