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By John Antczak The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A tiny spacecraft orbiting Earth appeared to successfully unfurl a solar sail Tuesday to test the potential of using only sunlight for propulsion, mission officials said. Deployment commands were sent to the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 from mission control at California […]
By Wayne Parry The Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — There she is. Here she isn’t. Miss America is leaving Atlantic City for the second time, trading one casino town for another in a move that caps a whirlwind of change at the nearly century-old pageant. This year’s pageant will […]
By Christopher Reynolds The Canadian Press MONTREAL — Crude-by-rail and container traffic drove Canadian National Railway Co. to its highest ever quarterly revenue and adjusted earnings per share, shoring up confidence in its EPS forecast of low double-digit growth for 2019. The country’s largest railroad operator saw revenues rise nine […]
By Raf Casert The Associated Press Brussels is bracing for Boris and Brexit. Three decades ago, journalist Boris Johnson wrote stories for London’s Daily Telegraph playing up stereotypes about bumbling bureaucrats in the European Union wasting money and tying up U.K. businesses in red tape ‚Äî articles the European officials […]
By Dee-Ann Durbin The Associated Press OpenTable is getting into the food delivery business. The world’s biggest online restaurant reservation service ‚Äî which was founded 21 years ago ‚Äî has been watching warily as more and more diners opt for delivery. Between May 2018 and May 2019, U.S. restaurant visits […]
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Older U.S. east coast cities are leaking nine times as much natural gas into the air ‚Äî from homes or pipes heading into houses ‚Äî than the federal government had thought, a new airborne monitoring study finds. It’s probably not a safety […]
