UPS and the Teamsters said they had reached a tentative agreement on a new contract. The labor agreement is still subject to a ratification vote by more than 300,000 workers. The preliminary agreement includes wage increases for full-time and part-time employees. A United Parcel Service (UPS) driver pushes dolly packages toward a delivery van on a street in New York. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Good pictures On Tuesday, the union representing more than 300,000 workers at UPS and the package carrier said it had reached a preliminary labor agreement, narrowly avoiding a strike that was ..read more

Typhoon Toxuri is forecast to make landfall in southern China on Friday The storm is expected to pass over Taiwan and the Philippines Toxuri may affect autumn cereal crops inland in China BEIJING/TAIPEI, July 25 (Reuters) – China urged fishing boats to seek shelter and farmers to speed up their harvests as Taiwan suspended annual military exercises as super typhoon Toxuri neared East Asia and made a deep dive into China. Doksuri will be the most powerful typhoon to make landfall in China so far this year’s typhoon season. China narrowly escaped Typhoon Mawar, one of the strongest tropical ..read more

The Obama family’s personal chef died over the weekend after he was found struggling in the water while paddling near the former first family’s home on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts State Police said Monday. The body of Dafari Campbell, 45, of Dumfries, Va., was found by Massachusetts Environmental Police about 100 feet from shore in Edgartown Great Pond just before 10 a.m. Monday in about 8 feet of water. It sent sonar from a boat during an hour-long search that began Sunday night and involved several law enforcement agencies. Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama were not home ..read more

The bill restricts the Supreme Court’s power to overturn government decisions Political groups, labor unions challenge program changes People’s protests spread to the military JERUSALEM, July 24 (Reuters) – Israel’s parliament on Monday approved the first judicial overhaul bill sought by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after months of failed reconciliation efforts to end the country’s constitutional crisis broke down. The amendment, which limits the Supreme Court’s powers to overturn certain government decisions deemed “unfair”, was passed by a 64-0 vote after opposition lawmakers walke ..read more

Twitter owner Elon Musk announced on Sunday that the app’s world-famous bird logo will be replaced by an “X”. Musk had said the change would happen on Monday, but he tweeted a few hours later that the “interim X logo will be live later today.” Earlier Sunday, Musk posted a video of a flashing “X” and later answered “yes” in a Twitter Space audio chat when asked if the logo would change. “Yeah, we’re cutting the Twitter logo off the building with blow torches,” he told an unidentified speaker. On Sunday afternoon, the web address is x.com, A domain returned to Musk in 2017 PayPal was redirecte ..read more

Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press/AP A truck was abandoned in flood waters following a heavy rain event in Halifax on Saturday. CNN — Three months of rain have left the Canadian province of Nova Scotia inundated since Friday night, flooding streets, forcing evacuations and leaving at least four people missing — including two children. across a province Emergency Halifax Regional Municipality and neighboring East Hants, West Hants, Lunenburg and Queens have been notified. “We’ve had biblical amounts of rain overnight and during the day,” Halifax Mayor Mike Savage said Saturday. Prime ..read more

OTTAWA, July 22 (Reuters) – Four people, including two children, are missing after floods caused “unimaginable” damage in the Atlantic Canadian province of Nova Scotia after the heaviest rains in more than 50 years, officials said on Saturday. The storm, which began on Friday, dumped more than 25 cm (10 inches) of rain in some areas in just 24 hours – the same amount that usually falls in three months. The resulting floods washed away roads, weakened bridges and submerged buildings in swamps. “We have a terrible, significant situation,” said Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, adding that at lea ..read more

By Walter Beckwith, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) July 22, 2023 Detailed analysis of GPS time-series data suggests a precursory phase for fault slip occurring two hours before major earthquakes. However, the current inability of monitoring instruments to detect such slips at the scale of individual earthquakes poses a significant challenge to practical earthquake prediction. A systematic global analysis GPS Time-series data from nearly 100 large earthquakes indicate that there is a precursory state for fault slip that occurs two hours before seismic rupture. An ..read more

SYDNEY, July 22 (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy ship entered active duty in a foreign port for the first time as the two close allies stepped up their military ties in response to China’s expanding territorial reach. The Independence-class littoral frigate – named after a Royal Australian Navy ship sunk in support of the US Marine landings at Guadalcanal in 1942 – officially joined the US Navy’s active fleet in a ceremony at the Australian Naval Base in Sydney Harbour. “Designed in Western Australia by local industry and named after HMAS Canberra, Australians can be proud to be commissioned here for ..read more

He recorded albums honoring musicians such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday. On the 2006 album “Duets: An American Classic,” he performed “If I Ruled the World” with Ms. Dion, “Smile” with Barbra Streisand and “For Once in My Life” with Stevie Wonder, and revisited his first Columbia single, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” with Sting. Five years later, on “Duets II,” Aretha Franklin, Queen Latifah, Willie Nelson and Mrs. Winehouse were his collaborators. As the century turned, he toured again, giving 200 shows a year and making numerous recordings. In 2007, Mr ..read more