A Texas woman who was arrested last week has been charged with murdering her 15-month-old child, who died in a hot car days earlier. Frisco police said Vanessa Esquivel, 27, intentionally left the child in the vehicle on August 16. Esquivel, who was arrested on August 20, left the child in the car for more than two hours while she worked, according to KDFI. The car reportedly lacked air conditioning. It was 95 degrees in Frisco on the day Esquivel’s baby died. According to The Dallas Express,...

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An aerial view of Launch Complex 3, Rocket Lab’s Neutron launch pad at Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: Rocket Lab WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — Rocket Lab moved a step closer to the first launch of its Neutron rocket Aug. 28 with the formal opening of the vehicle’s launch site. To continue reading this article: Register now and get3 free articles every month. You’ll also receive our weekly SpaceNews This Week newsletter every Friday. Opt-out at any time. Sign in to an existing account Get unli...

Hundreds of Indonesians protested at sites across Jakarta on Friday over the death of a civilian hit by a police vehicle, triggering calls for police reform in the first major test for President Prabowo Subianto’s nearly year-old government. The civilian, a motorcycle ride-sharing driver, was hit at the site of violent clashes on Thursday near parliament as police sought to disperse demonstrators protesting about a number of issues including lawmakers’ pay and education funding. The prot...

Four months after talks began, Roqqu, a Nigerian crypto company, has listed the compliant Naira (cNGN), the stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the local currency. It joins Busha, Quidax, Xend Finance, Blockradar, and Boundlesspay, among startups that now support the token. Launched in February and distributed by the WrappedCBDC team, the cNGN stablecoin now has ₦603 million ($395,000) in circulation. While the stablecoin is minted across six blockchains—Asset Chain, Base, Bantu, Polygon, Ethereum, and...

A group of technicians works to complete final inspections and checkouts of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft inside a cleanroom at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida. Image: John Pisani / Spaceflight Now Technicians inside a pair of clean rooms at the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Florida, are busily readying a trio of spacecraft that will study the Sun and its effects on Earth and across the solar system. The primary mission among the tri...