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SpaceX

Update: In-Flight Abort Static Fire Anomaly Investigation

On Saturday, April 20, 2019 at 18:13 UTC, SpaceX conducted a series of static fire engine tests of the Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort test vehicle on a test stand at SpaceXs Landing Zone 1, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Crew Dragons design includ…

bubmagJuly 15, 2019

Hrant Dink

Kim Kardashian is going to make recognition of the Armenian Genocide her mission

Thank you @RepSpeier! WSJ reports (behind paywall) about Rep. Jackie Speier's outreach to @KimKardashian West in support of legislation ensuring honest US recognition/remembrance of the #Armenian#Genocide, as per H.Res.296 & S.Res.150.#EndTheGagRule | ht…

bubmagJuly 15, 2019

Julian Assange

Reports detail how Assange rocked the 2016 US election from inside Ecuador’s Embassy

Watch this story on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer at 6 p.m. ET and on Anderson Cooper 360 at 8 p.m. ET. Atlanta (CNN)New documents obtained exclusively by CNN reveal that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received in-person deliveries, potentially of h…

bubmagJuly 15, 2019

Solar Storm

Space Weather Monitoring Satellite DSCOVR Has Been Offline for Weeks

Currently, the Deep Space Observatory (DSCOVR) has been placed in a "safehold" position as engineers are working to fix an issue in the system. During this time, it won't be able to send any measurement data which helps us to monitor trends or events in space…

bubmagJuly 15, 2019

Water Pollution

Taps Run Dry for Half of Zimbabwe’s Capital City, Affecting Millions

More than 2 million people in and around Zimbabwes capital city, Harare, are currently without access to municipal drinking water, the result of a years-long drought and high water pollution levels, Climate Change News reported. With their taps running dry, r…

bubmagJuly 15, 2019

Refugees

Border Patrol investigating 62 employees, 8 ex-employees over racist CBP Facebook group

Some 9,500 members were in the racist 'I'm 10-15' CBP Facebook group A U.S. border official told the Associated Press today that 62 Customs and Border Patrol employees, and 8 ex-employees, are all under investigation over that racist and violent CBP Faceboo…

bubmagJuly 15, 2019

Times Square

New York facing ‘Russian roulette’ with future power outages, governor says

New York City is facing "Russian roulette" with future power outages, the governor warned Monday in the wake of this weekend's massive blackout that left a swath of Manhattan in the dark. Interested in New York? Add New York as an interest to stay up to dat…

bubmagJuly 15, 2019

Nukes

Radiation Levels at the Marshall Islands Remain Disturbingly High

An analysis of soil samples, ocean sediment, and fruits from the Marshall Islandsthe site of nearly 70 nuclear weapons tests during the 1940s and 1950shas revealed alarmingly high levels of radiation, with some regions at levels exceeding areas affected by th…

bubmagJuly 15, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Listen Up: Amazon Putting Alexa Into More Automobiles

Amazon is striving to put Alexa, the home assistant/listening device, into more automobiles in the coming years. As a result, the company is working feverishly to enhance her vehicular-related capabilitiesÂ â including wriggling her way into the embedded so…

bubmagJuly 15, 2019

Barack Obama

E.P.A. Broke Rules in Shake-Up of Science Panels, Federal Watchdog Says

Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. WASHINGTON The Trump administration failed to follow ethics rules last year when it dismissed academic members of Environmental Protection Agency advisory boards and replac…

bubmagJuly 15, 2019

Update: In-Flight Abort Static Fire Anomaly Investigation

Kim Kardashian is going to make recognition of the Armenian Genocide her mission

Reports detail how Assange rocked the 2016 US election from inside Ecuador’s Embassy

Space Weather Monitoring Satellite DSCOVR Has Been Offline for Weeks

Taps Run Dry for Half of Zimbabwe’s Capital City, Affecting Millions

Border Patrol investigating 62 employees, 8 ex-employees over racist CBP Facebook group

New York facing ‘Russian roulette’ with future power outages, governor says

Radiation Levels at the Marshall Islands Remain Disturbingly High

Listen Up: Amazon Putting Alexa Into More Automobiles

E.P.A. Broke Rules in Shake-Up of Science Panels, Federal Watchdog Says

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