OAKLAND — Dozens of supporters gathered Sunday near the Rockridge BART station to back embattled Mayor Sheng Thao and oppose the upcoming recall election.

“Oakland has endured enough instability in recent years — COVID, crime, encampments,” Thao told the crowd at noon. “What we need now is stability and experienced leadership to guide...Read more

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ repeated warnings about the perilous state of the U.K.’s public finances have been so successful she has turned her budget this month into an inflection point for the economy.

Reeves is barreling toward a career-defining fiscal statement on Oct. 30 facing a broad and sharp decline in sentiment ...Read more

U.K. salaries increased at the slowest pace in three-and-a half years in September in a fresh sign that the labor market is loosening ahead of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s first budget, according to a survey watched by the Bank of England.

The Recruitment & Employment Confederation and KPMG said an increased number of candidates and reduced ...Read more

Candidates backed by Jair Bolsonaro are pulling ahead in municipal elections that are considered a barometer of political sentiment in Brazil, two years before a presidential vote in which Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will likely seek another term.

The conservative former president, who’s banned from seeking public office until 2030, helped ...Read more

The consensus among surveyed voters asked who won the debate between the Republican and Democratic vice presidential candidates is that Ohio’s U.S. Senator JD Vance out performed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Though Walz continues to enjoy a higher level of likability than Vance, the younger politician made a better show of presenting himself to ...Read more

The state of Michigan has picked a team from the University of Michigan's Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering department for nearly $200,000, yearlong project to develop a maritime strategy for the state.

The project awarded by the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is part of moving toward Michigan's goal of being 100% ...Read more

A much-needed agreement between the federal government and the Bay State to replace the Sagamore Bridge has been reached, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The Corps owns both the Bourne and Sagamore bridges, a pair of aging spans that cross the Cape Cod Canal, and has determined that the bridges will need to be replaced lest the ...Read more

Hurricane Milton is threatening to grow even stronger, possibly reaching Category 4 power, and may spark the largest evacuation in seven years as it aims for Florida’s Gulf Coast and Tampa.

The storm has the potential to cause billions of dollars in damage and heap more misery on a state and region still reeling from Hurricane Helene less ...Read more

Florida’s west coast is preparing for a potentially massive evacuation ahead of a strike from Milton, which rapidly intensified into a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday afternoon.

The Gulf coast, still reeling from massive coastal flooding from Helene — Tampa Bay’s worst hurricane in a century — remained in the crosshairs of Milton, a ...Read more

A rash of threats made to school districts across Western Pennsylvania mirrors a national trend taking a toll on staff, students and parents.

For years, the number of mainly non-credible threats made against schools have ticked up, including "swatting," a form of harassment intended to deceive an emergency service provider into sending police ...Read more

Blue Origin has had only one working New Shepard rocket booster since a 2022 explosion took out one of the two it had been using. A replacement booster along with a new crew-capable capsule is set to debut as early as Monday.

Slated to fly on the NS-27 mission, the new booster topped with the capsule named the RSS Kármán Line is targeting ...Read more

BioLab said this weekend the company regrets the impact of a fire at a Rockdale County warehouse and has launched an website to keep the Georgia community informed.

“At BioLab, we take our role in the Conyers community very seriously, and we deeply regret the impact of the fire at our warehouse,” a message posted on the new website states. ...Read more

Milton intensified into a Category 1 hurricane, threatening to grow even stronger as it aims for Florida’s Gulf Coast, including the Tampa Bay area.

The storm has the potential to cause billions of dollars in damage and heap more misery on a state and region still reeling from Hurricane Helene less than two weeks ago.

Milton’s top winds ...Read more

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene pushed the Gulf of Mexico into tens of thousands of living rooms along Florida’s west coast, a new storm is threatening a repeat. But this time, streets and yards and parks are filled with all of the detritus scraped from those flooded homes — fridges, cabinets, bookcases, drywall and lamps.

All of...Read more

Get ready for Stop the Steal 2.0 — Republican supporters of former President Trump are gearing up for a fresh effort to undermine the vote count in 2024 if he loses to Democrat Kamala Harris.

In some battleground states, notably Georgia, MAGA extremists are pushing for new rules that could permit them to delay ballot counts or even invalidate...Read more

The Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday announced it was approving just one SpaceX Falcon 9 mission, although SpaceX has submitted its mishap report into why the second stage from last week’s Crew-9 mission failed to hit its planned target on reentry.

The FAA is giving the OK for the launch of the European Space Agency’s Hera mission,...Read more

Florida’s west coast is preparing for a potentially massive evacuation ahead of a strike from Milton, which rapidly intensified into a hurricane on Sunday afternoon.

The Tampa Bay region, still reeling from massive coastal flooding from Helene — its worst hurricane in a century — remained in the crosshairs of Milton, a small but fast-...Read more