MERSIN PROVINCE, Turkey — Rescuers say they are ready to begin the process of freeing an ill American caver stuck over 3,000 feet underground within the next few days. “With this good news, with doctors saying you can take him out now, slowly, tomorrow or the next day at the latest, we will start his rescue,”…
More than 150 rescuers are racing to reach an American stranded deep inside a cave in Turkey after he became ill. Mark Dickey, 40, is suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding — but he has been stuck several thousand feet below the ground inside the vast Morca cave since Saturday. The Turkish Caving Federation, which is assisting…
A woman suffered crippling pain after a medical device the size of a dinner plate was left inside her abdomen for 18 months after she gave birth via cesarean section, an official report has said. The unnamed woman, who is in her 20s, underwent the procedure in 2020 because of complications with her pregnancy and her…
Gov. Ron DeSantis does not plan on meeting with President Joe Biden when the man he’s hoping to challenge in the 2024 election visits Florida on Saturday to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Idalia. “We don’t have any plans for the Governor to meet with the President tomorrow,” Jeremy Redfern, press secretary for the…
President Joe Biden on Thursday said he would travel to Florida this weekend to survey the damage from Hurricane Idalia, days after it caused major flooding and power outages before weakening into a tropical storm. Biden announced the trip during a visit to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s headquarters, where he met with Department of…
For as much as dyspeptic futurists grumble that “they promised us jet-packs” whenever it comes time to measure the utopian predictions of the past century with the decidedly more mundane present, the reality, as author William Gibson famously said, is that “the future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” Consider the self-driving…
For as much as dyspeptic futurists grumble that “they promised us jet-packs” whenever it comes time to measure the utopian predictions of the past century with the decidedly more mundane present, the reality, as author William Gibson famously said, is that “the future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” Consider the self-driving…
Hawaii’s historic wildfires have caused devastation throughout Western Maui, and more than 1,000 people are missing while another 100 have died, per Axios. Because of this, locals have been vocal about restricting tourism, especially while search and rescue operations are underway, encouraging tourists to cancel their trips. However, many Hawaii natives have been against tourism in…
A P&O cruise packed full of British people has crashed into an oil tanker, leaving passengers “in tears” as they fear for their own lives. The cruise ship snapped its moorings off the coast of Palma in Mallorca after ferocious gale-force winds “suddenly hit” the Britannia, sending it hurtling into the tanker in the Belarics,…