It’s become a sadly familiar American routine. The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., bore many of the hallmarks of the other school shootings that have shocked the nation over the course of the last weeks, months and years. Among those similarities was the weapon used […]
Daily Archives: February 16, 2018
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After a former student armed with an AR-15 assault rifle allegedly murdered 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Wednesday, adult politicians offered predicable responses. Sen. Marco Rubio, the 46-year old Florida Republican who has benefited from more than $3 million in NRA campaign spending, […]
England striker Vardy headed home on 66 minutes from a cross by Riyad Mahrez, who was welcome back by Leicester fans from his self-imposed 10-day exile. Mahrez made his first home appearance since skipping training and two games in a stand-off over Leicester’s refusal to sell him to Manchester City. […]
Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday indicted 13 Russians, and three Russian organizations, with meddling in the 2016 US election. The charges centered on the alleged use of social media to sow political discord, via inserting politically charged messages into the stream of American electronic discourse. But they dealt with […]
A Russian Internet agency and more than a dozen Russians interfered in the 2016 US election campaign in a multi-pronged effort to support Donald Trump and disparage rival Hillary Clinton, the US Special Counsel said in an indictment today. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote in a post on […]
“Single Atom in an Ion Trap,” by David Nadlinger. More An Oxford University student who captured an image of a single atom has won a top science photography prize. David Nadlinger captured the winning photo of an atom suspended between electric fields using a standard digital single-lens reflex camera, the council that […]
WASHINGTON — NASA has certified the current version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch some categories of science missions, a milestone needed for the upcoming, but delayed, launch of an astronomy spacecraft. NASA disclosed the certification in its full fiscal year 2019 budget proposal, released Feb. 14, in a […]
President Donald Trump and the White House on Friday lauded the indictment of 13 Russian nationals on charges of interfering in the 2016 presidential election, insisting it showed there was “no collusion” between Moscow and his presidential campaign. The statements, however, did not address some of the most alarming allegations […]