NEW YORK (Reuters) – A succession of women who said Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused them at a young age voiced anger and defiance in a packed New York courtroom on Tuesday, some lamenting that the financier’s suicide deprived them of the opportunity to obtain justice. “The fact that I will […]
Daily Archives: August 28, 2019
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Image copyright Johs. Boe When Long Litt Woon lost her husband, she was overcome by grief. She rediscovered happiness in an unlikely place – in the woods, among the mushrooms. Long Litt Woon had just finished showering and was about to have breakfast when the phone rang. It was her […]
State attorneys general and lawyers representing local governments said Tuesday they are in active settlement talks with Purdue Pharma, the maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin that is facing billions of dollars in potential liability for its role in the nation’s opioid crisis. Purdue has been cast by attorneys and […]
Netflix still ships a million discs each week. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images It’s no secret that the major focus of the home entertainment business is streaming, but many may be surprised to learn that people still rent DVDs and Blu-ray discs. So much so that Netflix shipped its 5 […]
After a number of false starts the rocket, dubbed “Starhopper”, blasted 150 meters into the air above the Gulf coast on Tuesday. The single-engine version of the SpaceX Starship was air bound for almost a minute. It returned back to earth with a soft landing at the coastal site in […]
China has implemented its controversial “nine-dash line” policy which has laid claim to several territorial waters in the area. As a result of that policy, China has had fraught relations with the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan. Despite those incredibly tense relations, China had accused the US of carrying out “coercive […]
Satellite photos indicate North Korea is building a ballistic missile submarine and may be making preparations to test a submarine-launched missile, according to an analysis of the commercial images by experts at a Washington-based think tank. The photos of Sinpo South Shipyard taken Monday appear to confirm reports by North […]
Zhukovsky (Russia) (AFP) – Russia is set to unveil on Wednesday its new passenger plane MC-21, billed as a competitor to Boeing and Airbus even as the project is overshadowed by sanctions and setbacks with its predecessor, the Superjet. President Vladimir Putin formally opened the MAKS air salon outside Moscow […]
This article originally appeared in the Aug. 19, 2019 issue of SpaceNews magazine. When the Aerospace Corp. launched the Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration in 2017, one mission objective was to test water-fueled thrusters. At the time, the idea was fairly novel. Two years later, water-based propulsion is moving rapidly […]
A plant being vaccinated with molecules identified by a new technique MLU/Markus Scholz By Eva FrederickAug. 26, 2019 , 3:20 PM Few things are scarier to a pumpkin farmer than the letters CMV. They stand for cucumber mosaic virus, a pathogen that lays waste to entire fields of pumpkins, cucumbers, […]