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DENVER (AP) — Once the province of activists and stoners, the traditional pot holiday of April 20 has gone mainstream in the first state in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana.
Partygoers dance to live music and smoke pot on the first of two days at the annual 4/20 marijuana festival in Denver, Saturday A... |
Story highlights Tens of thousands turn out for first 420 celebration since Colorado began legal pot sales
"420 Rally," Cannabis Cup competition, Snoop Dogg concert among highlights
Many traveled from out of state, even abroad, to buy and smoke marijuana legally
CannaBUS takes hundreds to dispensaries; expo... |
Reuters Health - Parents who delay or skip childhood vaccinations even when kids have no medical reason to avoid their shots are contributing to U.S. outbreaks of measles and pertussis, a research review suggests.
A vial of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and an information sheet is seen at Boston Children's Hos... |
Importance Parents hesitant to vaccinate their children may delay routine immunizations or seek exemptions from state vaccine mandates. Recent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States have drawn attention to this phenomenon. Improved understanding of the association between vaccine refusal and the... |
Colorado's governor asked the nation Sunday for prayers for the 17-year-old girl who was critically wounded by a classmate at her suburban Denver high school.
Sharon Adams looks through a 2013 Arapahoe High School yearbook at her home near the school in Centennial, Colo., on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013. The Adams daugh... |
Students at Arapahoe High School should have been studying for finals Monday, powering through their last week of classes before Christmas break.
Instead, authorities continue to walk the school's hallways, piecing together the 80 seconds that terrified a community and left Claire Davis in a coma, fighting for her ... |
NBC News Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson holds a picture of Claire Davis the 17-year-old student that was shot during a briefing Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo.
The 17-year-old girl shot point-blank in the head at a Colorado high school — who is being described as "one... |
Kristen Wiig turns 40 on Thursday, Aug. 22, and to celebrate the "Saturday Night Live" alum's big birthday, we've collected her funniest moments. From yelling alongside Will Ferrell at the Golden Globes to her best Suze Orman impression, here are 20 of Wiig's most memorable bits. |
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's main opposition coalition will not join a national dialogue on Monday called by President Mohamed Mursi because the proposal was not genuine and the group will only attend future talks if a list of conditions are met, members said.
Mursi invited his allies and rivals to talks at 6 p.m. (16... |
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• President Mohamed Morsi has announced a state of emergency in three cities along Egypt's Suez Canal, following four days of civil unrest that have left at least 40 dead and over 500 injured. Port Said, Suez, and... |
PORT SAID, Egypt — The police fired indiscriminately into the streets outside their besieged station, a group of protesters arrived with a crate of gasoline bombs, and others cheered a masked man on a motorcycle who arrived with a Kalashnikov.
The growing chaos along the vital canal zone showed little sign of abati... |
Police have fired tear-gas at protesters in downtown Cairo, just hours after President Mohamed Morsi declared a state of emegency and a curfew in three Suez Canal cities.
Monday was the fifth consecutive day of street violence in Egypt. There were reports that one person was killed; he was not taking part in the pr... |
Meriam Ibrahim’s case sparked international outrage after she was sentenced to death for “apostasy” and imprisoned while heavily pregnant with her second child.
When the 27-year-old went into labour she was refused access to a hospital, instead placed on a table with her legs still shackled.
Speaking for the fi... |
(CNN) -- What a week it's been for Mariam Yehya Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian woman who initially faced a death sentence after refusing to renounce her faith.
She thought she was finally free Monday after a higher court ordered her release. A day later, she was back in police custody.
Now she faces a new char... |
Ibrahim said she gave birth chained to the floor of her cell and could not open her legs
Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for apostasy, has said the baby daughter she gave birth to while shackled to the floor of her prison cell could be disabled.
Talking for the first time... |
A systematic sampling of the complete arthropod fauna in the interior of homes and an understanding of the role that interior microhabitats play in determining the assemblage of arthropod communities are the first steps toward revealing ecological dynamics in a vastly understudied system ( Baz & Monserrat, 1999 ; Dunn ... |
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If only they paid rent. There are on average 100 species of creepy-crawly in every house, according to the first comprehensive census of house-dwelling arthropods.
Some are part of an intricate ecosystem that relies on crumbs and nail clippings for food. Others are accidental visitors trapped in th... |
How many insects do you think are in your home? None? One? A hundred? Some new research suggests you need to step that number up by a factor of 10. Or more. But don't panic: Insects and their relatives are living peacefully in your home. They aren't bothering you. Well, except psychologically, now that you know hundred... |
Forget the rain forest—your home is brimming with bugs. More than 500 kinds of them.
Spiders, flies, beetles, ants, and book lice are among the critters detected in a new study, the first to evaluate arthropod diversity in U.S. homes.
Arthropods—a huge group that includes insects, spiders, and their relatives—h... |
Obama spokesman: That Romney birth certificate joke is “gutterball politics”
posted at 4:17 pm on August 24, 2012 by Allahpundit
In case you’re wondering what it takes to offend a campaign whose allies have accused Romney of tax evasion based on anonymous “sources” and blamed him for leaving a steelworker’s wif... |
Romney says "birther" joke wasn't a swipe at Obama
(CBS News) In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley on Friday, Mitt Romney played down the remarks he made about President Obama's origins, arguing that they amounted to a joke and not a "swipe" at the president.
"No, no, not a swipe," Romney s... |
COMMERCE, Mich. — In a speech to thousands of supporters at a family orchard outside Detroit Friday afternoon, Mitt Romney tried a joke as he touted his family roots in the state — and got himself in trouble in the process.
After he and Mrs. Romney both took turns talking about how excited they were to be “home” in... |
Today, the U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice Program is increasing to $25 million its reward offer for information leading to the location, arrest, or conviction of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, also known as Ibrahim ‘Awwad Ibrahim ‘Ali al-Badri, also known as... |
A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi making what would have been his first public appearance, at a mosque in the centre of Iraq's second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet on July 5, 2014, in this still image taken from video. REUT... |
President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday for the first time since declaring relations between Washington and Moscow at an all-time low.
The White House said the U.S. and Russian leaders will speak on the phone at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time. They last spoke a month a... |
Russian President Putin To Meet Merkel, Talk To Trump By Phone
Vladimir Putin on Tuesday meets with Germany's chancellor for the first time in two years. Their relationship was strained after Russia's intervention in Ukraine. Putin then speaks to President Trump.
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FILE PHOTO: A combination of file photos showing Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, January 15, 2016 and U.S. President Donald Trump posing for a photo in New York City, U.S., May 17, 2016. REUTERS/Ivan Sekretarev/Pool/Lucas Jackson/File Photos
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have spoken together by telephone for the third time since Trump took office in January.
The scheduled phone conversation on May 2 was the first between the two leaders since the United States carried out a missile strike against a Syrian air base in ... |
You may have heard of “Movember”, a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for prostate cancer and other men’s health issues, such as depression. The event was conceived in 1999 by a group of Australian men from Adelaide.
While the event is a great way for men... |
This holiday season, Feministing.com, an “online community for feminists,” is encouraging women to opt out of eyebrow waxing appointments in favor of looking like “Frida,” the girlfriend of Marxist Diego Rivera.
In response to “Movember,” a charity effort to raise awareness and money for prostate and testicular can... |
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What do nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs do?
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) effectively reduce inflammation (swelling) and relieve pain. Inflammation is... |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – For the last several years, the FDA has warned that ibuprofen, Naproxen and other NSAID-type painkillers may cause an increased risk for heart disease and stroke.
Now the FDA has strengthened its warning for these drugs and says that these agents absolutely do raise the risk for heart att... |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is strengthening an existing label warning that non-aspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) increase the chance of a heart attack or stroke. Based on our comprehensive review of new safety information, we are requiring updates to the drug labels of all prescript... |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The city agreed Wednesday to spend up to $30 million to settle a lawsuit that challenged widespread injunctions that restrict the movements of thousands of suspected gang members.
The City Council voted to fund nonprofit organizations to provide job training, counseling, tattoo removal and other ... |
After more than five years of war, Syrians appear to be using the wildly popular Pokémon Go in a desperate effort to draw attention to their country’s conflict.
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A campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokémon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones.
Several children have been photographed holding up printouts with popular Po... |
Labor and business leaders have agreed in principle on the details of a new visa program for low-skilled foreign workers, clearing the last major hurdle for a bipartisan Senate proposal to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, a person involved in the negotiations said Saturday.
The agreement came late Friday aft... |
The accord between the influential business and labor groups all but assured that the bipartisan group of senators would introduce their broad immigration legislation in the next few weeks. Their bill, which they have been meeting about several times a week since the November election, would provide a path to citizensh... |
A new project seeks to kickstart a revival for the world’s largest rainforest by planting new trees — tens of millions of them.
The project, announced Friday at the “Rock in Rio” music fest in Brazil, aims to restore 73 million trees in the Brazilian Amazon by 2023. Spanning 30,000 hectares of land (about 74,000 ac... |
There are more habitable planets in our galaxy than humans living on planet Earth. But the nearest one is about 70 trillion miles away , which means that, for now, and for the foreseeable future, Earth is the only life-supporting rock hurtling through infinite space we’ll ever know. It’s really not the best idea to let... |
Assuming everything goes to plan, over the next six years, the Amazon rainforest will get 73 million new trees. The mass planting is part of a project sponsored by Conservation International, the Brazilian Ministry of Environment, and a number of other NGOs and corporations. As John Converse Townsend at Fast Company re... |
CAIRO (AP) — The war in Yemen has pushed the country to the brink of famine, with both commercial food imports and aid deliveries held up by the fighting and millions of hungry women and children facing possible starvation, the United Nations said Wednesday.
In this picture taken Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, a child get... |
The conflict in Yemen has killed nearly 400 children since the end of March, and a similar number of children have been recruited by armed groups, according to a new report by the UN children's agency.
UNICEF's report released on Wednesday, says that 398 children have been killed and 377 others have been recrui... |
SANA’A/ADEN - Seeing first-hand the challenges facing millions of people affected by the crisis in Yemen, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Ertharin Cousin, warned that lack of immediate and unhindered access to people who urgently need food assistance and the shortage of funding create the possibili... |
Image copyright AFP Image caption More than 21 million people in Yemen are in need of help, according to the UN
Yemen's conflict has left it on the brink of famine, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.
Food shortages, lack of fresh water, and low fuel stocks have created a "perfect storm" for the Yem... |
21 July 2011 For many months United Nations aid agencies have warned of an impending crisis in the Horn of Africa as drought, failed harvests and fighting in some areas led to increasing food insecurity. Now conditions are so grim that the UN has turned to a word it uses sparingly and specifically – famine.
Yeste... |
Everyone, and I do mean everyone, is raving about how funny Saturday Night Live‘s ‘Black Jeopardy’ sketch was this week. If you like blacks being mocked for every stereotype under the sun, I guess you’ll find the 6 minutes a real howl worth gittin’ down wit.
The Washington Post headline read: “Forget Trump and Clin... |
This SNL Black Jeopardy skit with Tom Hanks is as good as everyone says it is. And it’s not just funny either…it’s the rare SNL skit that works brilliantly as cultural commentary. Kudos to the writers on this one.
Update: Writing for Slate, Jamelle Bouie details why the Black Jeopardy sketch was so good; the title ... |
"Tom Hanks plays a Donald Trump supporter" could’ve yielded some obvious (read: lazy) jokes when he hosted Saturday Night Live on October 22. Instead, the show made him play Black Jeopardy — and found a whole new way to talk about the nuances of this exhausting presidential election cycle.
The Black Jeopardy sketch... |
Just before midnight Saturday, Tom Hanks put on a denim shirt, a goatee and a red “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” hat, and in six minutes pulled off the best political sketch of the year — and it didn’t even feature Kate McKinnon or Alec Baldwin as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
“Saturday Night Live” has staged its “... |
Tom Hanks plays a Donald Trump supporter on "SNL's" "Black Jeopardy!" NBC "Saturday Night Live" is in a shaky time right now, with veteran cast members having left, but it righted the ship for its best sketch in recent memory on Saturday night.
If you missed the relatively short "Black Jeopardy!" sketch, which didn... |
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SMITHFIELD, Va. (WAVY) - A Smithfield Foods employee is accused of urinating on the production line.
The incident happened over the weekend at the packing plant in Smithfield. 10 On Your Side was given video of the employee, who appears to ... |
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“The Postal Service is on the brink of default,” Mr. Donahoe testified. “The Postal Service requires radical change to its business model if is to remain viable in the future.”
Mr. Berry said the Obama administration would push for legislation to allow a three-month delay in the $5.5 billion payment. But he stopped... |
The Obama administration will include a financial blueprint for the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in a deficit-reduction package that will be submitted to Congress, an administration official told lawmakers Tuesday.
With the Postal Service speeding toward default, John Berry, the director of the Office... |
TEMPLE CITY, California (Reuters) - A Japanese American man thought to be the reclusive multi-millionaire father of Bitcoin emerged from a modest Southern California home and denied involvement with the digital currency before leading reporters on a freeway car chase to the local headquarters of the Associated Press.
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The day started with a possible answer to one of the digital era's greatest mysteries: Who created the bitcoin virtual currency that has become a multibillion-dollar global phenomenon?
From there, with the unlikely revelation by Newsweek magazine that it might be Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, a 64-year-old Japanese Amer... |
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has revoked a prestigious human rights award it had given to the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, now Myanmar’s civilian leader, faulting her for failing to halt or even acknowledge the ethnic cleansing of her country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, ... |
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“Your honor, we don’t know if the suspect is the killer, but we do know they both used Revlon Frost & Glow hair dye.” It sounds absurd, but a well-known chemistry technique could help authorities identify criminals based on their artificial hair color. Usually, hairs left behind at a crime scene are associated with DNA... |
Criminals with a penchant for dyeing their hair could soon pay for their vanity. Scientists have found a way to analyze hair samples at crime scenes to rapidly determine whether it was colored and what brand of dye was used. Their report appears in the ACS journal Analytical Chemistry.
Richard P. Van Duyne and Dmit... |
Google has been condemned for supporting state censorship following reports that it is working on a mobile search app that would block certain search terms and allow it to reenter the Chinese market.
The California-based internet company has engineers designing search software that would leave out content blacklist... |
Google is reportedly planning to get back into China, a lucrative market where it has a long history of tangling with authorities.
The Intercept reported Wednesday that Google plans to launch a search app in China that would block sensitive websites and search terms to comply with Chinese government censorship.
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HONG KONG — Google withdrew from China eight years ago to protest the country’s censorship and online hacking. Now, the internet giant is working on a censored search engine for China that will filter websites and search terms that are blacklisted by the Chinese government, according to two people with knowledge of the... |
The planned move represents a dramatic shift in Google’s policy on China and will mark the first time in almost a decade that the internet giant has operated its search engine in the country.
Teams of programmers and engineers at Google have created a custom Android app, different versions of which have been named ... |
Google is developing a news-aggregation app for use in China that will comply with the country’s strict censorship laws, part of a plan to re-enter the world’s largest internet market in the near future, according to three people familiar with the project.
Google has been working on the app since last year and had ... |
Michael Chamberlain, the father of Azaria, who was snatched by a dingo at Uluru in 1980, has died aged 72.
More than 30 years after being thrust into Australian folklore as a central figure in one of the country’s most notorious murder trials, Chamberlain still railed against the “gross injustice” that shaped his l... |
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Michael Chamberlain was wrongly convicted in the death of his baby daughter, Azaria, in 1980
Michael Chamberlain, who fought for years to clear his family's name after his baby daughter Azaria was killed by a dingo, has died at the age of 72.
He died in Gosford hospita... |
FILE - This October 1990, file photo shows Michael Chamberlain, right, and then his wife Lindy when Lindy launched her book on the disappearance of her baby daughter Azaria in 1980. Chamberlain, who waged... (Associated Press)
FILE - This October 1990, file photo shows Michael Chamberlain, right, and then his wife ... |
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Replying to @Bf28Edward She wasn't. As was concluded by 1st inquest. It was media & public opinion that convicted her. As we almost saw with Joanne Lees |
Before flying to Los Angeles on Sunday to be with his distraught daughter, Brown performed Saturday night, just hours after he was informed of Houston's sudden death at 48.
After professing his love for Houston onstage, Brown told the crowd, "The hardest thing for me to do is to come on this stage. Just say a praye... |
Having previously picketed services for Matthew Shepard, Michael Jackson and Steve Jobs, Westboro Baptist Church now has its sights set on Whitney Houston's funeral.
The Christian Post is reporting that members of the right-wing Christian group, known for its strong anti-gay stance, are planning to stage a protest ... |
NEWARK — They are so famous, you don't need a last name to identify them.
Oprah. Beyoncé. Stevie. Aretha. Elton.
All are expected at the private funeral in Newark Saturday for Whitney.
City officials with knowledge of the family's plans told The Star-Ledger that Bill Cosby, David Bowie and Jay-Z also will a... |
Kevin Costner, who hand-picked Whitney Houston for ‘The Bodyguard’, will pay special tribute at her final curtain Bobby Brown to attend Saturday’s funeral despite friction with Cissy Houston
He catapulted her to Hollywood superstardom as her big-screen bodyguard and now Kevin Costner will pay special tribute to Whi... |
Update Bobby Brown Performing After Attending Whitney Houston Funeral
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Not only is Bobby Brown not banned from attending Whitney Houston 's invitation-only funeral on Saturday, he is performing with New Edition a few hours later, it was just announced."He is not being banned. That's completely ... |
A rookie prosecutor knocked one out of the park Wednesday, when his first felony case resulted in a guilty verdict and two life sentences for a habitual drunk driver.
Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Kyle Crowl said, until the trial’s punishment phase, the jury had no idea 64-year-old Bobby Gene Martin... |
A Montgomery County jury sentenced Bobby Gene Martin, 64, to two life sentences Wednesday for his 10th DWI and retaliation against a police officer stemming from an Aug. 2, 2014 arrest.
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputy John Jordan had been dispatched to FM 1485 near Peach Creek in East Montgomery County after mul... |
Photo: Montgomery County Sheriff's Offi
Bobby Martin was sentenced this week to life in prison for his tenth drunk driving conviction. A Montgomery County jury gave him the sentence after finding him guilty of driving under the influence and retaliation for verbally threatening a law-enforcement officer.
Bobby ... |
Shark attack victim stitches himself up
A medical degree came in handy for one Southland junior doctor after he was attacked by a shark while fishing.
James Grant fought off what's believed to be a sevengill shark, and stitched himself up before his mates took him to hospital.
Every fisherman has a story ab... |
Shark attack doctor stitches own leg LOUISE BERWICK AND LAUREN HAYES
NICOLE GOURLEY/Fairfax NZ BITE FRIGHT: Junior doctor James Grant inspects the wetsuit he was wearing when he was attacked by a shark on Saturday. Relevant offers
James Grant had barely caught his first fish when a shark plunged its teeth into ... |
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel encountered political tension with the Afghan president and a series of security problems during his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, but he met privately with President Hamid Karzai and says they discussed the key issues.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, second left... |
KABUL—America's fraught ties with Afghanistan suffered a jarring blow Sunday, when Afghan President Hamid Karzai said during a visit by the new U.S. defense secretary that the Taliban were killing Afghan civilians "in service to America."
The remarks, in a televised speech hours before Mr. Karzai's meeting with U.S... |
State Rep. DebraLee Hovey, who represents Newtown and Monroe, posted this on her public FB page. From Florida. (Note: Hovey removed the post from her public Facebook page on Sunday afternoon).
Giffords visited local officials and Sandy Hook families Friday in meetings that were closed to the press.
She had more... |
The mayor of Stratford, Conn., is proposing to name a school for a teacher who was killed in the massacre in nearby Newtown.
Mayor John Harkins says the bravery shown by Victoria Soto in protecting her children should never be forgotten.
The 27-year-old Soto was a Stratford resident. She was killed Dec. 14 insi... |
According to TechCrunch and Daring Fireball , Apple may be planning to unveil the iPad 3 later this fall. If the rumors are true, the appearance of this next-next-generation tablet would be a surprise, especially as it would come so shortly after the iPad 2, and as Apple usually sticks rigidly to its product developmen... |
Yes, Apple Is Lining Up For A "Surprise" This Fall. And Yes, It's Likely An "iPad 3"
The following may sound a little crazy considering that the iPad 2 has not even been acknowledged or introduced by Apple yet. But from what we’re hearing, the next iteration of the iPad — let’s call it “iPad 3” to keep it simple — ... |
The software looks great, it really does, but:
Planned availability this summer.
Summer feels like a long time away. If my theory is right, they’re not only going to be months behind the iPad 2, but if they slip until late summer, they might bump up against the release of the iPad 3. And not only did they annou... |
FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2015 file photo, Taiwan's military fire artillery from self-propelled Howitzers during the annual Han Kuang exercises in Hsinchu, north eastern Taiwan. The State Department has... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2015 file photo, Taiwan's military fire artillery from self-propell... |
The decision by the United States to sell arms to Taiwan was “wrong” and violated a consensus reached when Chinese President Xi Jinping met US President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in April, Beijing told Washington.
The announcement of the US$1.4 billion deal comes a week ahead of Xi’s planned meeting with Trump on ... |
(CNN) The US' decision to go ahead with the sale of a $1.4 billion arms package to Taiwan threatens to undermine US-Chinese relations, China's ambassador to Washington said.
Speaking to the People's Daily newspaper Thursday, Ambassador Cui Tiankai said recent US moves eroded the trust built when US President Donald... |
Japan's JAXA space agency launched a cargo shuttle carrying more than four tons of food, water, and supplies to the International Space Station on Friday. And, there's a really long whip.
Japan's H-IIB rocket with a capsule called Kounotori, or stork, lifts off at the Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, southe... |
Japan Sends Long Electric Whip Into Orbit, To Tame Space Junk
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A cable that's as long as six football fields has been launched into orbit — and when it's deployed, it'll test an idea to knock out orbital debris. Japan's space agency sent the electrodynamic tether into ... |
Space isn’t so empty these days. Earth’s orbit is cluttered with more than half a million bits of debris, mostly rocket and satellite remnants that can wreck anything in their flight path.
A 106-year-old Japanese fishing net maker may have a solution. Nitto Seimo Co. is working with Japan’s space agency to develop ... |
The prospect of a North Korean missile launch is "considerably high," South Korea's foreign minister told lawmakers Wednesday as Pyongyang prepared to mark the April 15 birthday of its founder, historically a time when it seeks to draw the world's attention with dramatic displays of military power.
The missile is e... |
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