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Nukes

Radioactive Hulk of Carrier USS Independence Found Off San Francisco (2015)

Sixty years after it was scuttled off the coast of San Francisco, the bomb-scarred, radioactive hulk of the World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) has been located on the seafloor near the Farallon Islands. NOAA, working with private ind…

bubmagMay 12, 2019

Scotland

Premier League: Manchester City star Bernardo Silva eyeing second treble after missing out on medals for the first

Manchester: Manchester City stand on the brink of history as they chase the second leg of what would be English football's first domestic treble but, for Portugal international Bernardo Silva, it is an accomplishment he has experienced before, even if he does…

bubmagMay 12, 2019

Panda

Baby giraffe a new star at Zoo Negara

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Zoo Negara here has a new addition following the birth of a female giraffe calf on April 18. The giraffe, with a height of about 1.4m and weighing about 50kg, was born in the morning and witnessed by visitors to the zoo at the time. …

bubmagMay 12, 2019

Super Komachi

World’s fastest bullet train Alfa-X starts test run in Japan

Japan has started testing its new generation bullet train Alfa-X, capable of reaching a top speed of 400 kilometres per hour. This version of the Shinkansen train, a network of the high-speed railway lines in Japan, began three years of test runs on Friday. …

bubmagMay 12, 2019

Putin

Trade, Colorado, Mother’s Day: Your Weekend Briefing

3. President Trump said he would tame rogue nations. Now, theyre challenging him. In the course of a week, North Korea launched short-range ballistic missiles; a standoff with Iran continued to brew; and in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro remains in powe…

bubmagMay 12, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

China’s Great Nuclear Wall

Visitors walk past China's second nuclear missile on display as they visit the Military Museum in Beijing / Getty BY: Aaron KliegmanFollow @Aaron_KliegmanMay 12, 2019 5:00 am When it comes to nuclear arms control, China is great at playing hard to get. Bei…

bubmagMay 12, 2019

Slavery Abolition

‘Heartbeat bills’ are wholesome provocations in abortion debate

WASHINGTON - While constitutional lawyers, ethicists and theologians — in descending order of importance in the abortion debate — have been arguing in the 46 years since the Supreme Court attempted to settle the debate, some technologists have been making a c…

bubmagMay 12, 2019

Belt and Road

Pakistani forces comb hotel a day after raid kills at least five

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces searched a luxury hotel in the port city of Gwadar on Sunday a day after separatist insurgents stormed in, killing at least five people, in what the militants said was a strike against Chinese and other f…

bubmagMay 12, 2019

Putin

Pompeo to visit Russia as Trump pivots to repairing relations post-Mueller report

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will make his first trip to Russia, arriving in Moscow on Monday and meeting with Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday in Sochi. The trip is an important step in President Donald Trump's pivot back t…

bubmagMay 12, 2019

Putin

US adversaries are watching us self-destruct as Trump foreign policy spins into chaos

If we take a moment to pull ourselves away from the daily melodrama of President Donald Trumps efforts to suppress a report that he claims exonerates him, we might notice that American foreign policy has spiraled completely out of control. Our trade war with…

bubmagMay 12, 2019

Radioactive Hulk of Carrier USS Independence Found Off San Francisco (2015)

Premier League: Manchester City star Bernardo Silva eyeing second treble after missing out on medals for the first

Baby giraffe a new star at Zoo Negara

World’s fastest bullet train Alfa-X starts test run in Japan

Trade, Colorado, Mother’s Day: Your Weekend Briefing

China’s Great Nuclear Wall

‘Heartbeat bills’ are wholesome provocations in abortion debate

Pakistani forces comb hotel a day after raid kills at least five

Pompeo to visit Russia as Trump pivots to repairing relations post-Mueller report

US adversaries are watching us self-destruct as Trump foreign policy spins into chaos

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