Day: June 20, 2023

Operation underway: Timeline of OceanGate’s missing Titanic tour submarine and the mission to save its crew

6:39 pm June 20, 2023

News of OceanGate Expedition’s missing submarine exploded on Monday as the U.S. and Canadian coast guards sprang into action with search and rescue missions. Here is the timeline of how OceanGate’s Titan submersible went missing during its descent to the wreckage of the Titanic. JUNE 17: U.K. billionaire Hamish Harding, one of the tourists aboard […]

Ukrainian refugees helped push German population up 1.3% last year

6:13 pm June 20, 2023

Large numbers of refugees from Ukraine fleeing Russia’s war fueled a 1.3% rise in Germany’s population last year, helping push up the number of inhabitants in the European Union’s most populous country to more than 84.4 million, official statistics showed Tuesday. Germany’s population expanded by 1.12 million in 2022, the Federal Statistical Office said. That […]

Tropical Storm Bret approaches eastern Caribbean, prompting preparations for heavy rains

6:12 pm June 20, 2023

Tropical Storm Bret chugged toward the eastern Caribbean on Tuesday as the region prepared itself for an unusually early storm and the torrential rains that are forecast. Bret had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was moving across the Atlantic Ocean at 21 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, which warned […]

Coast Guard says 40-41 hours of ‘breathable air’ left on missing sub

6:10 pm June 20, 2023

The Coast Guard estimated Tuesday that there are 40 to 41 hours of oxygen left onboard OceanGate’s missing Titan sub, which vanished during a dive to the Titanic wreck site. Capt. Jamie Fredrick, U.S. Coast Guard First District Response Coordinator, told reporters in Boston that an ongoing search with the assistance of the Canadian Coast […]

Random murder of pregnant Seattle restaurant owner leaves community on edge: ‘shattered’

6:10 pm June 20, 2023

A pregnant Seattle woman was shot to death in broad daylight in front of her husband by an ex-convict in what the mayor described as an “unimaginable tragedy.” Cordell Maurice Goosby, 30, who has a history of mental health issues, has been charged with first-degree murder for the death of Eina Kwon, 34, and first-degree […]