(Reuters) – The United States has a responsibility to lead in the Pacific and “will not give up an inch” to other countries that think their political system is better, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said in a thin veil on Wednesday. China. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Defense …

Hurricane Laura made landfall in southwestern Louisiana as a fierce Category 4 monster with 150 mph winds early Thursday, sweeping a low-lying coastline with ocean water that forecasters said could be 20 feet deep and unbearable. The National Hurricane Center said the storm, which intensified rapidly Wednesday before plowing ashore, …

The storm grew nearly 24% in power in just 24 hours to a magnitude that the National Hurricane Center called “extremely dangerous.” Explore‘Huge storm’ awaited Laura as catastrophic Category 4 Laura had maximum sustained winds of 140 mph, as it winds about 200 miles from Lake Charles, Louisiana, and northwest …

The American satellite SpaceX Starlink 5 will be seen in the night past in the sky above Svendborg on South Funen, Denmark, on April 21, 2020.Photo: MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP (Getty Images) Elon Musk’s dream of an earth surrounded by cooperating clouds of satellites with a …

Forty minutes after Kevin Gausman was to throw the first pitch to Mookie Betts at Oracle Park, the Giants and Dodgers, longtime rivals, issued a rare joint statement. Their game was postponed. Instead of playing, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts posed for cameras in the hallway outside the visiting clubhouse at …