The Paris region is planning for a small fleet of electric flying taxis to operate on multiple routes when it hosts the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games next summer.
Alex McCann
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Summer starts this week, and it’s going to feel like it in Maine
After what seems like weeks of gloom and doom and a cool Juneteenth, things are about to change drastically in the weather pattern.
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Shooting in St. Louis kills 1, injures 9 young people
Officials say an overnight shooting in downtown St. Louis killed one teenager and wounded nine others
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1 killed, 19 wounded in shooting at parking lot party in suburban Chicago
Authorities say one person is dead and at least 19 more are wounded in suburban Chicago after a shooting early Sunday during a gathering in a parking lot
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U.S., China remain at odds on many issues as Blinken finishes 1st day of Beijing meetings
Both sides said advancement on the issues that divide them remains a work in progress, while the Chinese foreign ministry said “the China-U.S. relationship is at the lowest point since its establishment.”
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James Watt, sharp-tongued and pro-development interior secretary under Reagan, dies at 85
Watt was admired by conservatives but ran afoul of environmentalists, Beach Boys fans and eventually the president.
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George Maharis, star of TV’s ‘Route 66’ in the 1960s, dies at 94
The handsome actor became an icon to American youth on the hit 1960s TV series.
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Chas Newby, fill-in bassist who rejected a full-time gig with the Beatles, dies at 81
Chas Newby, an English rock bassist and brief member of the Beatles in the early 1960s, died May 22 at 81. Friends and members of the Liverpool rock scene confirmed Newby’s death, with many remembering him as “the first left-handed bass guitarist in the Beatles.” Paul McCartney became the second when he eventually moved over […]
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Queen Elizabeth faced assassination threat during 1983 San Francisco visit, FBI reveals
The documents detailing the threat were released this week, a little over 40 years after the queen’s trip to the West Coast.
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Extreme weather caused 2 million deaths, $4 trillion in losses over last 50 years, UN says
The World Meteorological Organization said most of the economic damage between 1970 and 2021 came in the U.S. – totaling $1.7 trillion – but 9 in 10 deaths worldwide took place in developing countries.