Senior Olympic official John Coates has reiterated that Tokyo must stage a simplified summer Games next year with the health and safety of athletes the most important consideration in the planning. Coates, an Australian, heads up the International Olympic Committee’s coordination commission for the Tokyo 2020 Games, which have been […]
Daily Archives: July 23, 2020
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Differences between the House and Senate versions of the NDAA will be negotiated in a conference some time this fall. WASHINGTON — The Senate on July 23 passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 by a vote of 86 to 14. The NDAA authorizes […]
By Michael Le Page A Viking burial ground in Öland, SwedenStuart Black / Alamy The DNA of ancient smallpox viruses has been found in the bones and teeth of a dozen or so people who lived in northern Europe during the Viking age. Unexpectedly, these smallpox strains are quite different to […]
Ilker Serdar Yildiz is an illustrator from Turkey who has worked on games like Gwent and Mount & Blade 2. Read more… source: gamezpot.com
Ghislaine Maxwell was involved in a lawsuit from 2015, and a federal judge recently demanded the files be laid out for all to see once again. Judge Loretta Preska permitted the unsealing of court documents from a seven-hour deposition several years ago. Reportedly, the lawsuit was filed against the British […]
Beijing has promised to retaliate to the Houston closure, with state media pointing to the potential shuttering of one of the US’ numerous diplomatic missions within China. CNN’s David Culver reports. source: cnn.com
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday made public the federal government’s first proposal to control planet-warming pollution from airplanes, but the draft regulation would not push the airlines beyond emissions limits they have set for themselves. President Trump is still pressing forward on his three-and-a-half-year rollback of environmental standards, […]
In an interview, Mr. Toussaint said that his father sent him to military school to help him avoid jail or worse, and that he has been pulled out of his car at gunpoint by police “because they are afraid of the color of my skin.” He hoped to awaken students […]