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Commercial flight carrying hundreds of Americans and others allowed to leave Kabul

The Taliban says it will allow 200 Americans and other civilians to leave Afghanistan on charter flights, according to a US official. The official,...

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Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence is expecting her first child with art dealer husband

Oscar winning actor Jennifer Lawrence is expecting her first child, a representative for the star said. Lawrence, 31, is pregnant and expecting the baby...

Environment

The Role of Solar in Cleaning Up the U.S. Electricity Grid

Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released the Solar Futures Study detailing the significant role solar will play in decarbonizing the nation’s power grid....

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Quick Charge Podcast: September 8, 2021

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and...

Environment

Fusion gets closer with successful test of new kind of magnet at MIT start-up backed by Bill Gates

The CFS and MIT teams working on the magnet. Credit: Gretchen Ertl, CFS/MIT-PSFC, 2021 Fusion took a key step forward in its movement from...

Boy, 3, killed after nearly 150 bullets fired at house in North Carolina

A three-year-old child has been killed and his sister injured after nearly 150 rounds were fired into a home in North Carolina. Eleven people...

Technology

Prosecutors call Elizabeth Holmes a liar and a cheat as her fraud trial begins

Prosecutors called Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes a liar and a cheat on Wednesday while her attorneys argued that the company’s failure was...

Growing numbers of pupils at risk exclusion and ‘falling off the radar’ as schools return to normal

Growing numbers of children are at risk of being excluded and “falling off the radar” as schools return to normal following the pandemic, experts...

Sports

The U.S. Ryder Cup team has a new look in hopes of eliminating the losing that was getting old

2:01 PM ET Steve Stricker called himself old school. He is, after all, a big part of the U.S. Ryder Cup effort over the...

Business

Staff shortages and supply disruption threaten to derail recovery – BCC

Britain’s economic recovery is expected to slow over coming months thanks to staff shortages and supply chain disruption, according to a new forecast from...

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Tesla is building a team of energy traders

Some people trade stocks, but Tesla wants to trade energy capacity. The company is building a new team of traders to do just that...

Environment

White House calls for solar to be nearly half of electricity supply by 2050

choja | E+ | Getty Images The White House on Wednesday outlined a plan for solar energy to supply nearly half of the nation’s...

Politics

UK ‘really not taking the lead at all’ on climate action after dropped trade commitments revealed

Boris Johnson’s government has reneged on key promises it has made in the efforts to combat climate change, according to one of the most...

‘I was burning alive’: Survivors of 9/11 attacks describe how they narrowly avoided being killed

It’s almost 20 years since the September 11 attacks but for many survivors, the pain and trauma are still raw. Some were left with...

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‘I’m feeling pretty good’: Tom Parker announces The Wanted comeback after brain tumour diagnosis

The Wanted have announced their comeback – with bandmate Tom Parker telling Sky News he is feeling “pretty good” following treatment for a brain...

Environment

Invest and get stock in CleanTechnica!

CleanTechnica has been actively educating people about cleantech for more than a decade now. I don’t know about you, but I genuinely feel it’s...

Technology

Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores

In this article AMZN A Whole Foods locaton in downtown Denver. John Leyba | Denver Post | Getty Images Amazon is bringing its automated...

World

Paris attacks suspect tells court he is ‘a soldier of Islamic State’

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has told a court he is “a soldier of Islamic State”. Abdeslam is among 20 men on trial accused...

How 9/11 continues to shape the US and the world 20 years on

To look at the front page of the New York Times of Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 is to reach back into another era –...

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Trump’s deal with Taliban a ‘catastrophe’, former NATO head says in new Sky documentary

Donald Trump’s deal with the Taliban was a “catastrophe”, according to a former secretary-general of NATO. Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Sky News that agreeing...