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Jamal Khashoggi

President Trump vetoes bills that would have blocked Saudi weapons deal

Lawmakers are grilling the State Department on President Donald Trump's move to sell Saudi Arabia arms without Congressional review. (June 12) AP, AP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Thursday vetoed three bills aimed at blocking his administration fro…

bubmagJuly 25, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Tesla Posts Record Deliveries in Q2 2019, But Still Lost $408 Million

Electric car giant Tesla had its stock plunge over 10 percent in after-hours trading after posting a $408 million loss in Q2 2019despite shipping record numbers of cars, CNBC reported on Wednesday. The company produced about 87,000 cars in the quarter and sh…

bubmagJuly 25, 2019

Electric Car

Tesla Moves Closer to Profitability

Despite shipping and selling a record number of vehicles in Q2, Tesla(NASDAQ:TSLA) posted another loss during the period. However, that loss was narrower than it was in the year-ago quarter, highlighting how the company is moving closer to profitability. The…

bubmagJuly 25, 2019

SpaceX

Why is India sending humanoid robots into space?

Image copyrightEPAImage caption The GSLV Mark III rocket is going to be used for the flight Before humans headed up there, animals were the first living creatures that were sent into space. But India will now become the first nation to fly a spacecraft wit…

bubmagJuly 25, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Trump uses veto to unblock $8bn weapons sale to Saudi Arabia – BBC News

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption President Trump, pictured with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, holds a chart showing US military sales to the kingdom The US president has vetoed resolutions in Congress to block the sale of $8.1bn (£6.5bn) worth of we…

bubmagJuly 25, 2019

Super Komachi

1 year out from Olympics and Tokyo is bursting at the seams and boiling over – AsiaOne

It was the perfect antidote for the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Three years out from the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, myriad headaches were already mounting in Brazil. Craving stability, IOC delegates gathered at their 2013 congress to choo…

bubmagJuly 25, 2019

Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s main worry about the record-setting Tesla Model 3

Tesla delivered a record number of its electric cars in the past three months: 95,356 vehicles. But what that number doesn't show is how many of those cars were the car company's newest Model 3 sedan: 77,634 cars. That means only 17,722 Model X and S were o…

bubmagJuly 25, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Enes Kanter Forced to Cancel Basketball Camp After Threats From Turkish Government

Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter has been forced to cancel a free basketball camp in Long Island due to increasing pressure from the Turkish government, Kanter announced on Wednesday. In an email obtained by the New York Daily News, Kanter said his decision…

bubmagJuly 25, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

President Trump’s asylum plan blocked by federal judge

A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's plan to deny most asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border, dealing a major blow to the administration's latest attempt to deter migration to the U.S. Interested in Immigration? Add Im…

bubmagJuly 25, 2019

SpaceX

SpaceX untethered StarHopper ‘hop’ test flight aborted after engines briefly flare

SpaceX encountered a snag in an attempted test key to the development of its next-generation Starship spacecraft. Specifically, the StarHopper sub scale demonstration and testing craft it’s using to work on the Starthip’s propulsion system fails to undertake …

bubmagJuly 25, 2019

President Trump vetoes bills that would have blocked Saudi weapons deal

Tesla Posts Record Deliveries in Q2 2019, But Still Lost $408 Million

Tesla Moves Closer to Profitability

Why is India sending humanoid robots into space?

Trump uses veto to unblock $8bn weapons sale to Saudi Arabia – BBC News

1 year out from Olympics and Tokyo is bursting at the seams and boiling over – AsiaOne

Elon Musk’s main worry about the record-setting Tesla Model 3

Enes Kanter Forced to Cancel Basketball Camp After Threats From Turkish Government

President Trump’s asylum plan blocked by federal judge

SpaceX untethered StarHopper ‘hop’ test flight aborted after engines briefly flare

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