Six people have been killed and 10 injured in an early morning mass shooting in California’s state capital. Police are hunting for at least one gunman in connection with the killings in the downtown area of Sacramento, which is packed with restaurants and bars, at about 2am on Sunday. Officers had been on patrol when
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Tory MP David Warburton has told friends he has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital after allegations about his behaviour were made in a Sunday newspaper, Sky News understands. The MP has said he is being treated “for severe shock and stress”, adding: “This has been sheer hell.” The Somerton and Frome MP has had
Atsuko Bolinguit, with tech startup company Fast, works in the office at her desk on March 24, 2021 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Starting Monday, Google is bringing most employees back to assigned physical offices three days a week. The company has said since the beginning of the pandemic that it
The government is preparing to nationalise Gazprom’s British supply arm within days amid a stand-off between the Russian state-controlled energy firm and a Wall Street banking giant. Sky News has learnt that ministers are drawing up plans to take Gazprom Marketing & Trading Retail (GM&T) into public hands if it fails to reassure financial counterparties
7:50 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. With less than four weeks left in the NHL’s 2021-22 regular season, one of the more tantalizing playoff races is for the second wild card in the Western Conference. Heading into today’s games,
KYMCO Chairman Allan Ko recently shared new plans from the company’s electric vehicle developments, including the debut of the KYMCO Ionex Smart Streetlights system. Once employed, the system would see connected streetlights and traffic lights in smart cities tied into the brand’s swappable EV battery stations. The Ionex brand is the Taiwan-based motorcycle maker KYMCO’s
Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images As gas prices have soared across the country, some politicians have floated a potential solution: temporarily halting the collection of taxes charged at the pump. That includes proposals to suspend the federal tax of 18.4 cents per gallon, as well as state taxes that average about 39 cents per
Grant Shapps has suggested the way poverty is presented can be “somewhat misleading” when put to him that rising bills could push 400,000 more children into poverty. Speaking on Sky News’ Ridge on Sunday programme, the transport secretary admitted that rising costs of living are “very substantial”, but questioned estimates of how many people could
Grant Shapps has pushed back against reported proposals to increase the number of onshore windfarms as the government prepares to unveil its energy security strategy next week. The transport secretary told Sky News’ Ridge on Sunday programme that onshore windfarms are “eyesores” and damage the environment, adding that he personally does not favour “a vast
11:31 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Bob Baffert won the sixth race at Santa Anita on Saturday, sending the Hall of Fame trainer out a winner two days before his 90-day suspension begins. Baffert was in the winner’s circle with Shaaz after the $72,000 race. He was joined by Hall of Fame jockey
Alex Crawford travels to the town of Irpin, north of Kyiv, where Ukraine says it has driven out Russian forces. The town has seen some of the heaviest fighting in recent weeks as Russian troops attempted to edge their way to Kyiv. However, Moscow said this week it was “cutting back” its operations in the
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on oil drilling… and somehow ended up warning him to “stay out of our girls’ bathrooms.” In today’s episode of The Point, CNN’s Chris Cillizza breaks down her comment. #CNN #Cillizza #MTG
More than £15,000 has been donated to a fundraiser set up by Kelsey Parker, widow of The Wanted star Tom Parker. Mrs Parker started the GoFundMe page on Saturday to “keep Tom’s memory alive forever”, saying that proceeds would go to “amazing causes in Tom’s name, to help others in need”. Parker was diagnosed with
Tesla released its Q1 2022 delivery and production results today and confirmed just over 310,000 deliveries, which is a new all-time delivery record despite a difficult quarter for several reasons. Due to supply chain issues and 2 separate shutdowns at Gigafactory Shanghai, many believed that Tesla would finally break its impressive streak of quarterly delivery
A protester holds a ‘Save Us From The Energy Crisis’ placard during a rally in London. British households face soaring energy bills from April 1 as the country’s energy price cap rises by 54%. Vuk Valcic | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The number of English households in fuel poverty will double to
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said “atrocities” in Bucha need to be investigated as war crimes after images emerged of Ukrainian civilians lying dead on the streets of the city near Kyiv. Residents of Bucha said the people were killed by Russian soldiers without any apparent provocation, while Russia has not commented on the claims.
It is a miracle 13-year-old Sophia is still alive. The schoolgirl was left with a piece of shrapnel the size of a peanut embedded in her brain following a Russian attack on her village in southern Ukraine last month. She is now recovering in the country’s top children’s hospital in Kyiv, her head shaven and
The Epicentre hypermarket in the city of Zaporizhzhia is a strange, if extraordinary place. Like any shed-like supermarket, you see people as they park, grabbing trollies and food from the aisles. Alternatively, if you have spent time there over the past four weeks, you will have witnessed thousands of people in overcrowded vehicles, pulling into
Rescue teams have carried out a search in the English Channel after a plane flying from the UK went missing. The P-28 plane, which was carrying two people, took off from Wellesbourne, in Warwickshire, on Saturday morning bound for Le Touquet in northern France. The French Coastguard said the aircraft is the “subject of a
The owners of the American basketball team the Cleveland Cavaliers have joined forces with one of the four remaining bidders for Chelsea Football Club as the auction of last season’s Champions League-winners enters its final stages. Sky News can exclusively reveal that Rock Entertainment Group (REG), which owns a string of US sports teams, has