Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE President Donald Trump’s continuing auto trade threats raised eyebrows last week while his Commerce Secretary backed away from an August deadline for determining whether to enact stiff new tariffs on European auto imports. […]
Daily Archives: August 27, 2018
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To those who spent time with John McCain, his qualities of character are what will be remembered most. The longtime Arizona Republican senator was honest and humble about himself. He lived a life of honor and duty. His colleagues called him a maverick. In his younger days, his mother called […]
[embedded content] In a world in which we don’t think twice about having Wi-Fi on a plane several miles in the air, it’s easy to forget that there are still parts of the planet it’s difficult to communicate with. One of those is thousands of feet underwater on submerged submarines, […]
A ski resort in northern Italy was coated with 10cm of snow on Sunday as temperatures plunged to -8C. The northeast Italian town of Pordenone also experienced strong snowstorms over the weekend where residents were hit by a sudden change in temperatures. Strong winds battered the northern Italian region after […]
The opening ceremony of the Arthur Ashe Stadium in 1997, which featured Whitney Houston singing One Moment in Time. It replaced Louis Armstrong Stadium as the primary venue for the tournament. It cost $254 million to construct, and features 22,547 individual seats, 90 luxury suites, five restaurants, and a two-level […]
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from allowing the public release of blueprints for 3D-printed guns, extending an earlier restraining order. Judge Robert Lasnik of the U.S. District Court in […]
It is potentially the biggest political challenge for the Kremlin since 2005. That was the year that the government’s plans to reform the Soviet-era system of social benefits were derailed by mass disobedience from veterans and pensioners. It is probably the memory of those protests that has kept Russia from considering […]
On May 31, 2018, there was a massive auction of computer hardware and software (mostly computer games) as well as console hardware and console games. I was fortunate to be there in person – check out some of the cool stuff that was for sale!