Play video content A small plane carrying five passengers crashed into a vehicle on a Florida highway as it was making an emergency landing – killing two people and creating a massive fireball. Friday afternoon’s disaster was partly captured on video and air traffic control audio as the aircraft flew from Columbus, Ohio to Naples, … Read more
Israel has identified the southern Gaza city of Rafah as the next target in its military offensive against Hamas. Rafah, which borders Egypt, is normally home to 280,000 people. But its population has swelled to over 1.5 million – roughly three-quarters of Gaza’s population — as Palestinians flee fighting, destruction and hunger elsewhere in the … Read more
Mercedes-Benz’s big Sprinter van can be many things — a delivery van, a service vehicle, sometimes even a home for well-heeled #vanlifers — and today, it can be all of that and all-electric with the arrival of the 2024 Mercedes-Benz eSprinter. And while neither the specs nor the performance are exactly neck-snappers for folks familiar … Read more
The federal government’s $7,500 tax break for electric vehicle purchases has never been easier to claim. But let’s address the elephant in the room: There aren’t that many EVs that qualify for the full or partial credit right now. While the discount is substantial, it applies only to electric vehicles that meet certain requirements, mostly … Read more
gremlin/Getty Images According to the US Chamber of Commerce, small business drives the US economy. Small businesses employ nearly half of the entire American workforce and represent 43.5% of America’s GDP. They are a critical part of our economic ecosystem, where big businesses and small businesses are vendors, employees, partners, and customers to each other. … Read more
Universal Music Group wiping their songs from TikTok is going to hurt the label’s smaller artists the most … so says a musician who saw the app elevate his own artistic brand. Mareux had his 2015 cover of The Cure’s “The Perfect Girl” go viral in 2021 and it vaulted him to a Coachella performance … Read more
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Residents were evacuated from small coastal towns near Cape Town in South Africa as wildfires swept down from surrounding mountains and burned out of control for a second day on Tuesday. Authorities ordered a full evacuation of Pringle Bay, a coastal village popular with holidaymakers about 80 kilometers (50 miles) … Read more
FORT SMITH, Northwest Territories — The death toll from a small plane crash in Canada’s Northwest Territories was six, authorities said Wednesday. The plane was carrying employees from the Rio Tinto mining company. The Northwest Territories coroner’s office said that four passengers and two crew members from Northwestern Air Lease were killed in Tuesday’s crash, … Read more
French small launch developer Latitude has closed $30 million in new capital as it eyes the first flight of its Zephyr rocket in 2025. While other rocket companies are going bigger, developing even more massive rockets, Latitude is taking a different approach: light, small, and hopefully cheap enough to beat out competitors. Its first rocket, … Read more
Play video content TikTok / @georgiataylor2199 A family at Disneyland Paris was in no mood to sit tight when a famous water ride broke down — ’cause Mama Bear took her kids and walked out … defying orders to stay put. Check out this footage — it shows a woman sitting in her ‘It’s a … Read more