SALINAS, Calif. — This state has long been dubbed America’s salad bowl, because of the ability of California’s industrial-scale farms to produce food in mass quantities. Beginning this year, it will also begin widespread legal production of a very different crop. The grower of more than one-third of the nation’s […]
Daily Archives: January 10, 2018
249 posts
MIAMI — Lured by the charm of little Havana or the glamour of South Beach, some 15 million tourists visit Miami every year. But for a growing number of Russian women, the draw isn’t sunny beaches or pulsing nightclubs. It’s U.S. citizenship for their newborn children. In Moscow, it’s a […]
AUSTIN, Texas – The U.S. Air Force is seeking continuous improvement of its ability to understand and forecast space weather that impacts Defense Department satellites, said Ralph Stoffler, Air Force director of weather. “This is an important business area which will continue to expand over the next several years,” Stoffler […]
SpaceX launched a classified, multibillion-dollar spy satellite for the U.S. government on Sunday ― and then something went wrong. Probably. Unnamed government officials told Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal that the satellite, built by Northrop Grumman under the code-name “Zuma,” failed to reach orbit and crashed back into the atmosphere. […]
North Korea has been ramping up its threats and has refused to shut down its nuclear programme. Donald Trump has tried to apply pressure on the rogue state, but fiery rhetoric between the US President and Kim Jong-un has led to World War 3 fears. Lindsey Ford, a former senior […]
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Scientists are confident a focus issue discovered last year with an upcoming NASA exoplanet mission won’t affect its ability to meet its goals. NASA confirmed last July that the focus in the four cameras on the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) would drift once the cameras […]
The Winter Olympics helped produce the thaw as the North promised to send a delegation to next month’s spectacle in South Korea which will include athletes, cheerleaders and officials. Teams from North and South may march together at the opening ceremony in a display of reconciliation. An emergency hotline shut […]
Mr Maduro said his Government would issue nearly £4billion ($6 billion) of petros as a way to raise hard currency and to evade financial sanctions imposed by Washington. But the opposition run parliament put the breaks on its use. Cryptocurrency experts say Venezuela’s mismanagement of its own economy, combined with […]