U.S. warplanes intercepted Russian bombers and fighter jets off the Alaskan coast for the second day in a row Tuesday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command confirmed early Wednesday morning. The U.S.-Canadian airspace defense agency said two Russian bombers accompanied by two Su-35 fighter jets entered the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone and were intercepted by two NORAD F-22s.
Don't bet on seeing a Harriet Tubman $20 bill anytime soon. The redesigned bill bearing Tubman's face, which was supposed to debut in 2020, will not be coming out for nearly a decade, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said. Tubman, who was born into slavery and became a noted abolitionist and political activist, would be the first black woman to have her face on U.S. currency.
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is not among the 24 Democratic cadidates vying for the presidency, but she's rumored to still be considering a run. CBSN political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns joined "Red & Blue" to discuss if, or when, Abrams will enter the race.
Just watched a documentary about homeless alkies in Vancouver who collect bottles and cans for the deposits using shopping trolleys. Some of them have turned it into a sport racing down hills at 60kmh +
Worth a watch
Two people, including a child, were feared dead Tuesday in a mass stabbing attack that also injured 17 people in the Japanese city of Kawasaki, the local fire department said.
Went and looked at it today but I'm not even sure what it is. Not decals other than the headbadge. Seems to have Triomphe components on it. Two bottle brazes and a pump peg are throwing me off from the supposedly late 80's day. Freewheel vs freehub. Paint has a lot of issues with a couple of...
With the holiday now kaput, the newest now is everybody who’s anybody in theater is doing everything. Kelli O’Hara’s leaving America. To Japan. Four weeks of “The King and I,” which is about Thailand . . . LAURIE Metcalf, not unemployed since age 11, is already set for B’way next season. A “Virginia Woolf” revival. And there...
On Monday, CNN’s Anderson Cooper ripped President Donald Trump after he spent the memorial weekend attacking 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden. Trump sided with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un after he said that Biden had a low IQ. He continued to rant about Biden on Twitter and argued tha...
The Latest from Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final
The Arkansas River has swelled way beyond its normal banks. The difference is large enough that you can easily see it from space! LEFT: April 20, 2019 – near normal levels RIGHT: May 27, 2019 – record breaking levels In some flood plains, the Arkansas River has more than tripled in spatial size. -Matt
Analysts at the Brookings Institution have called extending the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) a "no brainer." In reality, the United States is better off letting New START expire.
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A man wielding a knife attacked commuters waiting at a bus stop just outside Tokyo during Tuesday morning's rush hour, killing as many as three people and wounding at least 19, including 13 children
Jake Patterson, 21, will spend the rest of his life in prison for kidnapping Jayme Close and killing her parents. Jamie Yuccas reports.
Frazier’s Don and Logan Hartman remember last year’s softball title game vs. Laurel last season all too well.
Leo Tolstoy famously wrote in “Anna Karenina” that “all happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” A new report titled “The Ties That Bind: Is Faith a Global Force for Good or Ill in the Family?” from the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institution challenges Tolstoy’s wisdom....
A barbershop visit the Socceroos shot-stopper is unlikely to forget anytime soon
Daryl Kimball
Security, Americas
The baffling non-answers from the senior administration officials strongly suggest that the president’s impulse for a grand U.S.-Chinese-Russian arms control bargain is not backed up with a realistic plan.
On May 14, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Sochi, Russia to discuss what the State Department called a “new era” in “arms control to address new and emerging threats” with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin. Читать дальше...
Daryl Kimball
Security, Americas
The baffling non-answers from the senior administration officials strongly suggest that the president’s impulse for a grand U.S.-Chinese-Russian arms control bargain is not backed up with a realistic plan.
On May 14, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Sochi, Russia to discuss what the State Department called a “new era” in “arms control to address new and emerging threats” with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin. Читать дальше...
Roughly five and a half hours after the Royals and White Sox got underway, they finished. Well, they finished for the night. They’ve still got four more innings to go … Click to Continue »
The soldier was home on a weekend leave from the military when the incident occurred near the Yitzhar settlement.
Edmunds Brikainis, from Latvia, was also listed as the owner of two firms on Companies House, despite having no knowledge of the businesses
The Brexit Party's EU elections success has made Nigel Farage the UK's most talked-about politician again.
David Shedd
Security, Americas
It is only a matter of time.
Although the long-suffering people of Venezuela have endured much, and interim president Juan Guaidó is recognized by more than fifty countries, their ordeal is not over.
The illegitimate regime of Nicolás Maduro averted its demise on April 30 after a showdown with the democratic forces of that nation under Guaidó. Americans cannot trivialize the apparent short-term success of the despot Maduro and his cohorts to continue to plunder Venezuela’s country.