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Skateboard

World champion Huston heads USA Skateboarding National Team

VISTA, Calif. (AP) Three-time world champion Nyjah Huston of Laguna Beach tops the 2020 USA Skateboarding National Team heading into the sport’s Olympic debut in Tokyo next summer. The 24-year-old Huston is considered the gold medal favorite in men’s street.…

bubmagOctober 21, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

Why South Africa Built Nuclear Weapons and Then Gave Them Up.

Key Point: The Republic of South Africa felt safer by disarming. Why did South Africa decide to build nukes, how did it build them and why did it decide to give them up? The answers are largely idiosyncratic, although they may hold some lessons for the futur…

bubmagOctober 21, 2019

AR-15

Synagogue massacre led to string of attack plots, Jewish group says

The ADL said its Center on Extremism provided critical intelligence to law enforcement in at least three of the 12 cases it counted. Last December, authorities in Monroe, Washington, arrested a white supremacist after the ADL notified law enforcement about …

bubmagOctober 21, 2019

Cold War

Ozymandias is the most important character in Watchmen

HBOs Watchmen isnt a direct adaptation of the famed graphic novel, but rather a sequel set more than 30 years later. Still, familiar faces abound. A couple such faces appeared in this weeks premiere, but one of them was much more mysterious than the other. …

bubmagOctober 21, 2019

Little Italy

Thomas D’Alesandro III, Maryland political prince who gave up the throne, dies at 90

Known as Young Tommy, Mr. DAlesandro was the oldest son of Thomas Big Tommy DAlesandro Jr., who had been one of Marylands dominant civic leaders in the mid-20th century as a state delegate, congressman and, from 1947 to 1959, the mayor of Baltimore. Pelosi, M…

bubmagOctober 21, 2019

Nukes

Hillary Clinton posts parody Kennedy letter mocking Trump

Washington (AFP) - Hillary Clinton on Sunday posted a joke letter on Twitter supposedly sent by John F. Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, written in the excitable style of US President Donald Trump's recent letter to Turkey. The parody letter, or…

bubmagOctober 21, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg mural in Edmonton defaced, days after emerging – CTV News

EDMONTON -- A graffiti mural of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg that emerged in Edmonton days ago has been defaced. The artwork, a portrait of the 16-year-old against a bright blue background, was painted on a free wall between 94 Street and Commonwe…

bubmagOctober 21, 2019

Refugees

Lebanon is swarming with protests that began over a proposed $0.20 WhatsApp tax but have since spiraled into chaos

Hundreds of thousands of people swarmed the streets of Lebanon over the weekend to protest governmental corruption after initially pushing back against a proposed daily tax on messaging apps like WhatsApp. People flooded the country's major cities, includin…

bubmagOctober 21, 2019

Nukes

Erdogan Ambitions Go Beyond Syria, Wants Nukes…

WASHINGTON Turkeys president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wants more than control over a wide swath of Syria along his countrys border. He says he wants the Bomb. In the weeks leading up to his order to launch the military across the border to clear Kurdish areas,…

bubmagOctober 21, 2019

Boeing 737max

Boeing Say’s it “Regrets” Instant Messages Between Senior Employees About 737MAX Technical Issues

American aerospace giant, Boeing issued a statement late on Sunday saying it regrets a cache of instant messages that came to light late last week between two senior employees who were discussing technical issues with the 737MAX two years before two deadly cr…

bubmagOctober 21, 2019

World champion Huston heads USA Skateboarding National Team

Why South Africa Built Nuclear Weapons and Then Gave Them Up.

Synagogue massacre led to string of attack plots, Jewish group says

Ozymandias is the most important character in Watchmen

Thomas D’Alesandro III, Maryland political prince who gave up the throne, dies at 90

Hillary Clinton posts parody Kennedy letter mocking Trump

Greta Thunberg mural in Edmonton defaced, days after emerging – CTV News

Lebanon is swarming with protests that began over a proposed $0.20 WhatsApp tax but have since spiraled into chaos

Erdogan Ambitions Go Beyond Syria, Wants Nukes…

Boeing Say’s it “Regrets” Instant Messages Between Senior Employees About 737MAX Technical Issues

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