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Elon Musk Returned All But $1 Of His $70,000 Salary Last Year
May 4th, 2014 by Guest Contributor
Originally published on Gas2.
By Zachary Coffey
SEC filings have revealed that Tesla founder and CEO, Elon Musk, took a pay cut of over $78 million last year, returning all but $1 of his salary.
His base salary of $33,... |
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese airlines could need between 60 and 100 Airbus (AIR.PA) A380 jets over the next five or so years as passenger traffic grows, the plane maker’s China head said on Tuesday, amid rising questions over future demand for the super jumbo.
Airbus China CEO Eric Chen speaks during a media presentati... |
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The head of a Canadian pro-choice organization is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step up and advocate for access to safe abortions abroad in light of U.S. President Donald Trump today reinstating a policy that bans groups receiving American foreign aid from advocating for safe access to the service.
The L... |
The Romney ad seems like as clear-cut a case of fair use as can be imagined. Obama's singing is a core part of the ad's message, and copyright law explicitly mentions commentary and criticism as justifications for fair use. And it's hard to imagine the ad harming the market for Al Green CDs or iTunes tracks.
Yet the "... |
× Oklahomans vote against ‘Ten Commandments’ state question
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahomans had their chance to voice their opinion on a fight over a religious monument that went all the way to the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
State Question 790 would remove a part of the Oklahoma Constitution that prohibits the use of state r... |
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A power line planned to run under Lake Champlain and link suppliers in Canada with consumers in southern New England has won a key federal permit, clearing its last big regulatory hurdle.
Transmission Developers Inc. announced Monday its TDI-New England subsidiary had received a presidential per... |
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) is working to get a revised version of the upper chamber's healthcare reform package to an independent federal agency for review by the end of the week, officials said Wednesday. Photo by Pete Marovich/UPI | License Photo
June 28 (UPI) -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel... |
The broadcaster takes preemptive action after being sent multimillion-dollar demands from Empire Distribution Inc.
In response to a demand that it pay $5 million and cast several artists in the hit TV series Empire, Fox filed a trademark lawsuit on Monday seeking a declaration that it has every right to use the show's... |
IRENA: Doubling Renewable Energy Share Could Save Trillions
March 17th, 2016 by Joshua S Hill
This is the primary conclusion from a new report published this week by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). The report, REmap: Roadmap for a Renewable Energy Future, was published Thursday at the Berlin Energy... |
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It’s hard to call tight end Colt Lyerla a former NFL player because he never really made it to the NFL. He nevertheless wants back in. Or simply in.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter tweeted on Sunday morning the link to a recent item from Tyson Alger of the Oregonian regarding Lyerla’s recent pitch to the NFL via vi... |
Newly elected Hassan Rouhani, an opponent of segregation by gender, says Iranians' freedoms and rights have been ignored
Two weeks after his sensational victory Iran's president-elect, Hassan Rouhani, has expressed relatively progressive views about civil liberties, freedom of expression and the internet.
Social netw... |
Thousands of civilians are fleeing the fighting A cross-party delegation of British MPs has held meetings with politicians and civil society figures on the first day of a two-day visit to Sri Lanka. The visit is intended to focus on the emerging humanitarian crisis in the war-torn country. Among the MPs are former defe... |
India successfully test-fired on Monday its nuclear-capable, inter-continental ballistic missile Agni 5, which has a range of over 5,000 km covering whole of China, from Abdul Kalam island off Odisha coast.
Defence sources said the successful test-firing will pave way for the user trial of the most potent Indian missi... |
If you’re facing down a gift list with a lot of vino-heads on it, it’s always fun to buy wine and there is no shortage of ways to do it. If you want something that will last a little longer, books about wine are always fun to receive. Here’s a run-down on some of the ones that have caught my eye this year. There’s real... |
Today, Paste announces a return to print with Paste Quarterly—a luxurious print magazine with the new vinyl Paste Sampler—launching March of 2017. You can subscribe now via our Indiegogo campaign. Each issue will feature insightful long-form content and a vinyl album with exclusive tracks recorded at the Paste Studio i... |
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The Russian Defense Ministry has sent fighters of the Russian Special Operations Forces to Egypt.
The Egyptian Special Forces and law-enforcement agencies’ staff will be trained in methods of combating terrorism by Russian military, the Izvestiya newspaper reported, citing several sources in the Russian milita... |
Police have charged a man with child abuse for allegedly punching a 14-year-old girl in the face Friday on Beaver Creek Mountain, Eagle County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Mike McWilliam said in a statement.
The Sheriff’s Office gave Scott Filler, 41, of Decatur, Ga., a summons to appear in court for misdemeanor child abuse, ... |
The principle of nationality does not represent the liberal solution of the international problem. The liberals urged self-determination. The principle of nationality is an outcome of the interpretation which people in Central and Eastern Europe, who never fully grasped the meaning of liberal ideas, gave to the princip... |
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Chancellor George Osborne faces a growing Cabinet revolt over “absolutely brutal” cuts due to be unveiled next month.
The Chancellor ... |
Last night, I sorted the skills of the best free agent first basemen. While there are always a large number of free agent corner outfielders, this year there are three that stand high above the rest. Justin Upton (who can opt out of the remaining 4 years and $88MM on his current deal), J.D. Martinez and Jay Bruce all h... |
Volunteers at the University of Illinois worked at the 52nd annual Dial-A-Carol, singing holiday songs to people who called in from around the world. (Published Monday, Dec. 14, 2015)
If You Call These Students, They'll Sing Carols for You
If you call up the "Dial-a-Carol" hotline any time of day or night, someone wi... |
We get a lot of questions originating from misconceptions. People ask about the cargo system, run into problems because of misplaced signals and wonder why passengers mysteriously disappear during a train ride.
Misunderstanding the game mechanics can often lead to frustration. On the one hand, we are aware of that not... |
Video shows the attackers beat a 53-year-old man as he lay unconscious on the sidewalk. View Full Caption NYPD
THE BRONX — A suspect in a gang attack callously munched on a snack as he walked away from the brutal beating of a purse vendor on a Melrose street Tuesday, NYPD officials said.
The incident started when one... |
As the year comes to a close, many graduating seniors have memories they’ll hold onto for years to come. The joy of realizing it’s chipotle chicken bowl day at Bruin Plate; the misery of sleepless nights in Powell Library during 10th week; and maybe even going on Facebook and reading through UCLA Secrets posts every da... |
Margaret Sanger's birth control clinic was located at 46 Amboy St. in Brownsville, Brooklyn. View Full Caption Alexander Sanger
On the morning of Oct. 16, 1916, a long line of Brooklyn residents and their baby carriages formed outside a Brownsville brownstone.
"Can you afford to have a large family?" read the leaflet... |
(U) The loosely organized hacking collective known as Anonymous has recently expressed an interest in targeting industrial control systems (ICS). This product characterizes Anonymous’ capabilities and intent in this area, based on expert input from DHS’s Control Systems Security Program/Industrial Control Systems Cyber... |
Following up on the recent post about Orlando some Special Correspondents sent in some information about other “ideal orgs” which I thought I would share.
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The Boston Org has now had to move out of the building they have occupied for decades and into rented facilities because in typical “ideal org style” they c... |
NASA’s asteroid sample return spacecraft successfully used Earth’s gravity on Friday to slingshot itself on a path toward the asteroid Bennu, for a rendezvous next August.
At 12:52 p.m. EDT on Sept. 22, the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) spacecr... |
It's no coincidence that more than half of the 2015 AP All-Pro team was selected in the first round of the NFL draft. That's where teams find talent, skill and athleticism rarely available later in the draft. Under the new CBA, these first-rounders no longer come at an exorbitant price, so hitting on a top pick also pr... |
Stranger Things is such a huge cultural phenomenon. What’s been the weirdest or more extreme bit of fan attention you’ve experienced so far?
[Laughs] The majority of it has been totally positive. It can get a little bit overwhelming sometimes. Because I’m a big guy, a lot of people feel they can come up to me and hit ... |
Freed Pussy Riot punk Yekaterina Samutsevich vowed to pursue every legal route to free her jailed bandmates, saying there was still a chance the Russian authorities could free the two women early.
“The main task is to get Nadya and Masha out,” Samutsevich told AFP in an interview, using the short names of bandmates Na... |
The Discmania Combine started out as an idea to help us find the next wave of disc golf talent. Little did we know the level of talent that was waiting for us and the impact the new team members would have on the disc golf scene.
The Discmania Combine is the main route to land a spot on Team Discmania and join the com... |
The island whose selling point is being stuck in time is now suffering because it is stuck in the middle of a modern-day struggle over jobs and who should be doing them. So, too, are a number of the regional industries that define the American summer but have increasingly relied on non-American workers, from vacation s... |
Demonstrators engaged in pitched street battles with police during mass demonstrations in the Venezuelan capital Caracas on Thursday. The result: one dead and several injured. Protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro are escalating.
"You are letting us starve to death!" chanted protesters. Many uplo... |
"Silent night" just got BTFO'd.
From Face of a Dying Nation:
The "Christkindlesmarkt" in Nürnberg is the oldest and most famous Christmas markets in Germany and taken place annually since as early as the 16th century. The anchor of the German State TV channel Südwestrundfunk (SWR), however, considers traditional Chri... |
By MARTAVIA WYNN
Last month, I uploaded this pregnancy pic of my growing family. My intentions were to announce to my relatives and friends that we were expecting a new baby in March 2017. It was a successful announcement, but to my surprise, it went viral and was shared hundreds of thousands of times across multiple ... |
How is it that despite compelling video evidence, justice can be so elusive for the victims of police brutality? This is a question that has to be asked after the failure of a Staten Island grand jury to indict a New York City police officer for the death of Eric Garner.
We live in an age of video. As more and more of... |
UConn basketball is in the preliminary stages of negotiations with Bridgeport’s Webster Bank Arena and the Mohegan Sun Arena, according to a report from The Courant’s John Altavilla.
Charlie Dowd, the Vice President of Operations at WBA, declined comment. A source told Hearst Connecticut that talks between the two par... |
As if Dwyane Wade and Jimmy Butler indicting their teammates for lack of commitment and work isn't enough, Fred Hoiberg also is answering questions on whether players are following his orders.
Television replays indicated Hoiberg initially telling his team to call timeout after Hawks center Dwight Howard attempted two... |
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The sudden and harsh taste of a Stephen Colbert-free late-night lineup won't last any longer, thank goodness. Comedy Central said the host is coming back to work with a new episode taping on Monday. Ann Patchett's scheduled as the guest, with new guests slated for the ... |
So after a long look at the first superhero team put together by what would eventually become DC comics I thought it would be nice to take a break and look at some of Marvel’s heroes from the Golden Age.
Now it should be noted that before Marvel Comics became the Stan Lee powerhouse publisher that we all know and love... |
The Washington State Department of Transportation today announced plans to build a wildlife bridge over a busy stretch of I-90 near Snoqualmie Pass.
According the I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition, which has been advocating for the construction of the wildlife bridge, 28,000 vehicles travel along I-90 each day. Such hea... |
On Tuesday, DHS defended the performance of the Telstra deal, saying the new technology had been deployed on its Medicare and Child Support Agency lines, but would not be put into service for Centrelink until later this year. Telstra declined to comment. DHS, which also runs Medicare and the Child Support Agency, has e... |
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Albeit still in its alpha, Blizzard's upcoming multiplayer online battle arena Heroes of the Storm has already gained some friction in the competitive gaming landscape since its introduction and is one of the hot topics to look ... |
The folks over at Android World are reporting that the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge will go up for pre-order in the Netherlands right on launch day, February 21st. It’s not the first time pre-orders will begin on the day a Samsung flagship will go official – the same happened with the Note 5 and S6 edge+ in the US (wel... |
Germany's president has signed legislation legalizing gay marriage, his office said Friday, paving the way for the bill to take effect this fall.
Lawmakers approved the bill on June 30 in parliament's last session before Germany's September election. The move became possible after Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose conse... |
Regulatory snafus have halted the production of two wind farms in Wisconsin that would have generated more than 98 megawatts of power from a renewable energy source. It’s an unnecessary jab against the wind power industry, which has been viewed as one of the most attractive options for renewable energy — and it’s for a... |
Prime Minister John Key says he's glad he won't be going out angry, when he hands in his formal resignation next week.
Mr Key announced his resignation at a news conference in Parliament on Monday afternoon, saying he can "die happy" having had the privilege of running the nation.
He told Duncan Garner on RadioLIVE i... |
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A gunman has shot dead a photo radar operator on a busy freeway near Phoenix, police said on Monday.
Police officers were called to the radar enforcement vehicle after reports of gunfire late on Sunday, and they found the employee shot several times, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said in ... |
Image caption The study offers a link between changes to the climate and the rise and fall of human societies
An extensive study of tree growth rings says there could be a link between the rise and fall of past civilisations and sudden shifts in Europe's climate.
A team of researchers based their findings on data fro... |
New rules aim to keep talent on the island following spate of defections to US in pursuit of Major League millions
In the fraught history of US-Cuban relations, baseball may not feature as prominently in the history books as the missile crisis, the Bay of Pigs incident or Washington's 50-year embargo against the islan... |
Do you want to send SMS messages from the Ubuntu desktop? Well, now you can.
‘send SMS from the desktop without needing to pick up your phone’
Indicator KDE Connect, the handy panel applet that lets interact with your Android phone from Ubuntu, has been updated with experimental support for sending SMS.
Yup, you rea... |
CANADA striker Cyle Larin is set to snub a move to England or Turkey for Borussia Monchengladbach.
The Orlando City star, who netted 44 times in his first three seasons in MLS, was on the radar of Leeds over a switch to the Championship and their push towards promotion.
USA Today Sports 2 Canada striker Cyle Larin wi... |
Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera took on a heckler who interrupted him as he delivered an on-scene report from Baltimore on Friday, calling him a worthless anarchist.
While explaining to Fox News host Sean Hannity that prosecutors were investigating a fourth unscheduled stop by the van transporting detainee Freddie Gray, Rive... |
The Montreal Canadiens made a deft move this afternoon and elected to file for team opted arbitration with netminder Carey Price.
In all likelihood the team has no intention of actually taking Price to arbitration, but this allows negotiations on a long term deal to continue past the quickly approaching date of July 1... |
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Jeb Bush is trying to pull off the mother of all chutzpah moves by blaming Hillary Clinton for today’s troubles in Iraq and the rise of ISIS.
Yes, you heard that right: The brother of the fellow who invaded Iraq on false premises, and who did so with... |
Theory of Change
I am increasingly convinced that the difference between effective and ineffective people is their skill at developing a theory of change. Theory of change is a funny phrase — I first heard it in the nonprofit community, but it’s also widespread in politics and really applies to just about everything. ... |
Hurricanes require moisture, the rotation of Earth, and warm ocean temperatures to grow from a mere atmospheric disturbance into a tropical storm. But where do these storm cells originate, and exactly what makes an atmospheric disturbance amp up full throttle?
A new study published in Geophysical Research Letters by T... |
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A 2013 study found that 7 percent of Australians aged 14 years and older reported using crystal meth (a.k.a. "ice") at some point in their lives. Numbers aren't available for 2014 yet, but we're told they're rising. So who's smoking thi... |
European Union naval forces carried out an attack in Somalia on Tuesday, using helicopters and two warships in a focused, precise and proportionate strike against known pirate supplies.
“We believe this action will further increase the pressure on [pirates], and disrupt pirates’ efforts to get out to sea to attack mer... |
NEW BRUNSWICK-- Nine days before Patrick Hobbs was hired to become the new Rutgers University athletic director, he was out on a golf course in South Carolina when a text message popped up on his phone.
Got a few minutes to talk?
The former dean of Seton Hall School of Law, Hobbs--an avid golfer who scores regularly ... |
The Challenge Cup match between Romanian club Timisoara Saracens and Stade Français was cancelled by the EPCR last weekend because of the state of the pitch.
The match was initially postponed, and later EPCR officially announced it would not be played at all, mentioning “a forecast of increasingly poor weather conditi... |
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Careful of that clickbait. Phishing, where cybercriminals try to trick people into clicking links to malware or sites that steal your personal information, is common on social networks like Twitter. Now a machine learning system that reads our past tweets to craft personalised traps coul... |
The Nebraska Democrat Party is handing new refugees voter registration cards they are ineligible to use.
In a video posted to YouTube showed the “Refugee Welcome Basket” program organized by the state’s Democrats, Conservative Review reported.
“Nebraska has, and welcomes the most refugees and immigrants on a per-capi... |
Saber-lickin' good! Make awesome lightsaber ice pops with movie accurate hilts
Hilts light up the delicious blade with LEDs!
Includes 2 Luke and 2 Vader hilts
Before Blue Milk, before Ewok Jerky, before that frog thing that Jabba eats, before even Yoda's stew, the main food of the Jedi was ice pops! Of course, a tru... |
It’s been a busy week for _Battleborn_. We’ve begun sharing the details of the upcoming Winter Update and there’s a lot to take in. Ever since [last week’s enlightening reveal stream](https://www.twitch.tv/gearboxsoftware/v/106149596) and [blog post](https://battleborn.com/en/news/view/en-battleborn-winter-update/), th... |
Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.
SAN ANTONIO — Warning that “liberals are trying to mess with Texas,” a confident Gov. Greg Abbott promised Friday he’ll fight to keep Texas in conservative hands if voters give him another four years in office.
“Every far-left liberal from George Soros to Nancy P... |
Modesty in Simplicity: CockroachDB's JOIN
CockroachDB’s JOIN: An Early Implementation
When our VP of engineering, Peter Mattis, made the decision in 2015 to support SQL, little did he know that the team would get as far as shipping the first implementation of CockroachDB’s JOIN exactly one year after that. A celebrat... |
The probing eye of the public has been turned to Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, this week. On Monday, news broke that the real estate developer will be speaking with the Senate Intelligence Committee in cooperation with its investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election. Heightened intere... |
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Buy Photo Barge-carried cranes work on the Tappan Zee Bridge project just off the Tarrytown shore May 1. (Photo: Frank Becerra Jr./The Journal News)Buy Photo
Nothing compares to seeing construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge from the water.
If you don't have acces... |
Last week Linus Torvalds suggested Linux kernel developers should hurry up and calm things down, because he worried that version 4.10 might take longer than he wanted to complete.
And this week he's all-but recanted that request, because he thinks he may not have time to finish the job.
“Hey, look at that,” Torvalds ... |
Emmanuel Macron recently resigned from the French government to mount a possible presidential bid next year | Thierry Zoccolan/AFP via Getty Images Emmanuel Macron to City: Forget financial passport after Brexit It comes with full access to single market, France’s former economy minister said.
British fund managers sh... |
South Brunswick, NJ - It was standing room-only inside the Islamic Society of Central Jersey Tuesday night, where the mosque held an open discussion on anti-Muslim feelings prevalent in America today.
About 10% of the estimated 300 people there were non-Muslims from the surrounding community of South Brunswick townshi... |
Photo via Flickr user Rich Anderson
A Blair County, Pennsylvania, resident named Joshua Brubaker got into some trouble last week after he hung an American flag upside down and painted “AIM” on it. Brubaker, who is part American Indian, was trying to make a statement after learning that the site of the infamous 1890 Wo... |
The Russian Supreme Court has upheld a conviction against a blogger who correctly noted that the Soviet Union jointly invaded Poland with the Nazi government in 1939.
The truly bizarre decision follows the conviction of 37-year-old Vladimir Luzgin earlier this year for posting "knowingly false information," under a ne... |
Researchers have made a Viking discovery that is truly one for the history books.
Just west of the Zealand town of Køge, archaeologists have uncovered a circular Viking fortress – the first such discovery in 60 years. The new find shakes up popular knowledge of the Viking Age, as researchers had assumed that the four ... |
It was Chris Copeland's time in New York several years ago that led to an opportunity he's excited about now, joining former Knicks teammate Jason Kidd in Milwaukee to play for Kidd's rapidly improving Bucks.
It was Copeland's time in New York several months ago, however, that nearly wiped out this and every other NBA... |
Host Frank Stasio talks with science writer Jennifer Ackerman about her new book, “The Genius of Birds”.
Bird brains are the size of a nut, or possibly even smaller in some cases. But a plethora of new research shows that despite their small brain size, birds are actually among the most intelligent members of the anim... |
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A lug nut is a nut with one rounded or conical (tapered) end, used on steel and most aluminum whee... |
Is Sarah Silverman Going Christian? ***UPDATED***
It all seemed so normal: A Comedy Central roast (In the crosshairs: James Franco), a dais full of seasoned comics, gay jokes and talentless jokes and jizz jokes galore. This is Sarah Silverman’s turf. She’s built a career on stunningly offensive zingers delivered in a ... |
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For the sprawling effort to restore Puerto Rico’s crippled electrical grid, the territory’s state-owned utility has turned to a two-year-old company from Montana that had just two full-time employees on the day Hurricane Maria made landfall.
The company, Whitefish Energy, said last week that it had s... |
America is graying out. The massive cohort of baby boomers are now entering retirement age at a rate of close to 10,000 per day, or roughly 300,000 per month. Many are fully unprepared for the challenges associated with retiring and living a life where work income becomes a smaller source of support. The workforce duri... |
Pope Benedict's anti-gay marriage comments have sparked a White House petition asking for the Roman Catholic Church to be recognized as a hate group.
The “We the People” petition was submitted on Christmas Day and has received nearly 2,000 digital signatures.
“In his annual Christmas address to the College of Cardina... |
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Ground-breaking research at Griffith University into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is leading the way for the development of a new screening tool for the condition.
The research team from the National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases (NCNED), Menzies Health Institute Queensland, has identif... |
During a FIBA Americas Olympic qualifying tournament game controlled masterfully by a prideful Luis Scola, Boston Celtics big man Kelly Olynyk returned from a recent knee injury to notch a double-double.
While it was not Olynyk's best performance -- he shot 4-13 from the field, missed all four of his 3-point tries and... |
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I'm working on a site that lists the various Topic Maps-related software that's out there, in an effort to make all the tools that have been released more visible. The site in question is, of course, Topic Maps-driven, and so it has, of course, topic pages for the people who created the tools. T... |
Iain Scolds Those Trying To Politicise Jo Cox Death
Iain Dale severely scolds those who are trying to politicise the death of MP Jo Cox before the facts are known in this furious tirade.
Talking on his LBC show he tore into politicians and pundits who are trying to play politics with the death of the MP, who was kill... |
A soldier from the U.S. Army's Bravo Company 2nd battalion 27th infantry regiment secures a landing zone for a Blackhawak helicopter at the Shigal district center in Kunar province on Sept. 15, 2011. (Photo11: Tauseef Mustafa, AFP/Getty Images) Story Highlights 52% majorities say the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan failed to... |
Ever since Trump got elected in November, I wanted to write an elaborate essay on him, his politics, and (alleged) election fraud. However, since then, developments happened so fast, that anything I wrote would be dated the next day. I have bookmarked dozens of topics I want to address, making it hard for me to wrap my... |
Ok. I admit. I probably shouldn't have led with the statement that, despite being ineligible, we nevertheless intend to "race," which implies that we intend to intrude. This is not our intention, which I made that clear in a follow-up e-mail to AJ Evans, the chairman of the regatta, whom I understand is also the younge... |
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If you are still in a part of the United States that actually has newsstands, or you live in a country that still has newsstands, then head over to your closest one and pick up the latest copy of Billboard Magazine! You will be pleased when you see thi... |
There are two major problems with creating nanoscale Innerspace-like craft that course through our vascular system: finding a small enough source of power — batteries are large, clunky, inefficient things — and, by association, autonomous control. We have written about nanobots before, but don’t be deceived: they are, ... |
Aitor Karanka says he has been delighted with Tomas Kalas' contribution since joining on loan from Chelsea in the January transfer window.
Kalas could play his last game for Boro at Carrow Road on Friday before his loan deal expires, and the Head Coach is pleased that all three parties have been satisfied with the dea... |
United Airlines has announced a set of 10 new policies it promises will “improve customer experience,” and, presumably, ensure that the company never repeats the incident that happened earlier this month in which a passenger was violently removed from an overbooked flight.
In the new rules, United pledges to “limit us... |
Max Holloway didn't even have the interim featherweight title wrapped around his waist before UFC president Dana White was whispering to him about fighting in Brooklyn against Jose Aldo.
The proposed bout for UFC 208 on Feb. 11 was a topic of discussion immediately after Holloway knocked out Anthony Pettis to capture ... |
Announcing the decision in a statement, Mats Åhlund, a laywer at the special prosecutor's office, said there was “no reason to believe representatives of the Police Authority committed crimes subject to public prosecution”.
Earlier this week, police were criticized after they admitted they failed to release informatio... |
11 Million Cigarettes Wash Ashore in Maersk Container on UK Beach
By MarEx 2014-02-24 10:33:00
A Maersk shipping container has washed ashore near Axmouth, containing 11 million cigarettes.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) was informed that a number of containers were lost from a Maersk cargo ship as it cross... |
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Marvel’s latest heroine fills us in on a sinister new series.
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With a professional career that spans the last 13 years – and a repertoire that has see... |
ABC reporter Michael Vincent remembers his week in Kinglake after Black Saturday Journalist Michael Vincent remembers the people he met during a week reporting on the impact of the Black Saturday fires in Kinglake.
'We were people first, reporters second': ABC news teams and broadcasters reflect on covering Black Satu... |