Imagine a world without quick calls across continents, no video calls with your loved ones, no urgent work calls, no whispering sweet nothings from a distance. On 10 March 1876, in a cluttered Boston lab, Alexander Graham Bell shattered that silence with nine simple words to his assistant Thomas Watson: “Mr Watson, come here, I…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Thursday. The Memorial Day travel period got off to a bumpy start yesterday: Flyers at New York’s LaGuardia Airport faced delays after a sinkhole — yes, a sinkhole — shut down a runway. Stock futures are ticking lower this morning following…
Since his return, Shybalov and Duman relocated from Kyiv to the small town of Mykolaiv in Ukraine’s western Lviv region, where Duman is from. The couple keeps to themselves. Shybalov had heard about Volodymyr Srebrodolskyy, whose village denied him a final resting place on the land where he was born. It enraged him. “Russian propaganda…
For years, Shruti Haasan had carried a fear that motherhood might not be possible for her. She had been told from a young age that PCOS could make conception difficult, a message that stayed with her and eventually made the subject of having children difficult to approach. Now, at 40, the actor says a conversation…
The Anduril company logo is displayed on an exhibition hall during the Farnborough International Air Show 2026 at Farnborough International Exhibition Centre on July 20, 2026 in Farnborough, England. John Keeble | Getty Images Defense tech startup Anduril will give employees a chance to sell stock through a tender offer that would value the company…
Monday’s nationwide outage was the third this year and comes on top of state-imposed rolling electricity cuts aimed at conserving the little remaining fuel. Some rural areas are plunged into darkness for up to 70 hours at a time, while urban areas have seen planned outages of up to 30 hours. The state electricity company…
Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) said Friday that it’s investigating a data breach, making it the second organization that hosts Americans’ driver’s license information to be hacked this month. The Florida announcement comes on the heels of another incident, in which a vendor that scans Americans’ driver’s licenses for private companies,…
The last patient being treated for Ebola in Uganda has been discharged from hospital, leaving the country with no active confirmed cases of the deadly disease. A 42-day countdown now begins before Uganda can officially be declared Ebola-free, as long as no new infections emerge. The first case in this outbreak of the Bundibugyo species…
Donald Trump has said he may ask European countries to release some of their diesel reserves as he considers banning US exports of the fuel. The US President’s comment comes after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged Europe to get ready to release diesel supplies immediately, arguing that US farmers, truckers, and businesses “should not be…
Camels are famously known as the ships of the desert, but even these hardy animals are not being spared from the extremes of rising temperatures in Africa. The Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia is one of the hottest and driest places on Earth, where nomads often lead camel caravans carrying salt through the desert. “I…