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The United States Consumed a Record Amount of Renewable Energy in 2020

In 2020, consumption of renewable energy in the United States grew for the fifth year in a row, reaching a record high of 11.6...

New Cold War ‘in nobody’s interest’: Biden sees ‘genuine prospect to improve relations’ with Russia after Putin summit

Russia’s Vladimir Putin says he and US President Joe Biden have agreed to return their ambassadors to their respective posts in an attempt to...

Politics

PM’s plan to quit, ‘rambling stories’ and ‘hopeless’ Hancock – what Cummings has claimed

Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser has published a 7,000-word blogpost including a series of claims about the prime minister and Health Secretary Matt Hancock....

Sports

What we learned from Euro 2020’s first round of games

8:55 AM ET What have we learned after the first round of games at Euro 2020? Gab Marcotti offers up his impressions of the...

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The supply chain is disrupted. Automatic electric yard trucks would help fix that

Roughly 10 billion tons of freight move through supply chains in the US each year, almost all of which pass through distribution yards –...

Environment

GM ups spending on EVs and autonomous vehicles by 30% to $35 billion by 2025 on higher profits

In this article GM GM CEO and chairman Mary Barra speaks during an “EV Day” on March 4, 2020 at the company’s tech and...

Technology

Alphabet’s self-driving car company Waymo announces $2.5 billion investment round

Close-up of self driving minivan, with LIDAR and other sensor units and logo visible, part of Google parent company Alphabet Inc, driving past historic...

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Love Island stars to be offered minimum of eight therapy sessions after show

Love Island contestants taking part in the latest season will be offered a minimum of eight therapy sessions following the show, ITV has said....

Manchester Arena bomber should have been identified as threat on night of attack, inquiry finds

Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi should have been identified as a threat on the night of his attack – and it is “highly likely”...

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‘A huge error of judgment’: Tom and Giovanna Fletcher apologise for using furlough scheme

McFly star Tom Fletcher and his wife Giovanna have apologised for using the government furlough scheme during the pandemic, saying it was “a huge...

Politics

Cummings reveals WhatsApp message which appears to show PM calling Hancock ‘totally f****** hopeless’

Boris Johnson’s former chief aide has shared a WhatsApp message in which the prime minister appears to call Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s efforts “totally...

25 COVID variants being monitored – and without restrictions Delta could push R to 7, PHE chief says

There are 25 coronavirus variants “under monitoring”, Public Health England’s strategic COVID-19 response director has told MPs. Dr Susan Hopkins told the Science and...

Science

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Shares Video Showing Aerial View of Starbase High Bay

Elon Musk on Tuesday shared a stunning video on Twitter of Starbase High Bay, the launch site of SpaceX rockets in South Texas, US....

Business

Rate of inflation passes Bank of England target as economy gets back in gear

The surge in the rate of inflation of the past couple of months showed no sign of slowing in May, hitting 2.1% as the...

Environment

Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk Can Move Markets

Over the years, Elon Musk has disrupted entrenched players in the aerospace, energy, and automotive industries. He’s also had a hand in trying to...

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Cruise receives $5 billion credit line from GM to purchase Origin EVs

In a Tweet earlier today, autonomous rideshare company Cruise, announced it has secured a multi-year credit line of $5 billion from GM financial, to...

Environment

China is kicking out more than half the world’s bitcoin miners – and a whole lot of them could be headed to Texas

Technicians make repairs to bitcoin mining machines at a mining facility operated by Bitmain in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017....

World

Putin hopes for ‘productive’ meeting as US-Russia summit gets under way

The American and Russian presidents will meet today in Geneva for a summit at a moment of deeply strained relations between the two countries....

Technology

MacKenzie Scott gives away another $2.7 billion to charity

In this article AMZN MacKenzie Scott attends the SEAN PENN J/P HRO GALA: A Gala Dinner to Benefit J/P Haitian Relief Organization and a...

Politics

COVID jabs to be made ‘compulsory’ for care home staff – Whitehall sources

The government is to make coronavirus vaccinations compulsory for care home staff who work with elderly and vulnerable people, Whitehall sources say. Ministers are...