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New York (AFP) July 12, 2019
Volkswagen and Ford are teaming up on a massive $7 billion project to attack the new frontier in the global auto market: electric and self-driving vehicles, the companies announced Friday. The German and US auto giants announced they were expanding their alliance, accelerating cooperation among otherwise competing global automakers as they face enormous costs in developing new technologies.

Washington (AFP) July 12, 2019
US officials will soon resume face-to-face trade talks in China, a White House official said Friday, reviving negotiations that had verged on collapse in May. President Donald Trump and China's leader Xi Jinping agreed to "fully engage" on trade when they met in Osaka at the end of June, and since then trade officials have spoken by phone, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said on CNBC

Washington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2019
India will try to become just the fourth country to make a soft landing on the moon, after its Chandrayaan 2 mission takes off Monday. India's space agency is making final preparations over the next three days before liftoff from an island in the Bay of Bengal, officials said. The spacecraft will take two months to get to the moon, first going into orbit 60 miles above the lunar surf

Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 13, 2019
NASA has awarded a $73.7 million contract to Made In Space, Inc. of Mountain View, California, to demonstrate the ability of a small spacecraft, called Archinaut One, to manufacture and assemble spacecraft components in low-Earth orbit. The in-space robotic manufacturing and assembly technologies could be important for America's Moon to Mars exploration approach. The contract is the start

There are two teams in the East worse than the Fire and they are both in Ohio. The Fire play one tonight, the expansion team from the land of crap chili.

If the Fire win, the Fire could leap frog into the 7th Playoff position, depending on what NE, Toronto and Orlando do.
If the Fire lose, it will be another humiliation in a season of humiliation.

I know almost nothing about their team, except that one of their most experienced players is former Chicago Fire "legend" Corben Bone and that...

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Loki, Thor's (adopted) brother and the god of mischief, is getting his own TV show on Disney+. Here's everything we know so far.

WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence toured two detention facilities on the Texas border, including a Border Patrol station where hundreds of men were crowded in sweltering cages without cots.

1. Man charged over pregnant woman and baby killings  Sky News
2. Kelly Mary Fauvrelle: Man charged over mother and baby deaths  BBC News
3. Man, 25, charged with murder of pregnant woman and manslaughter of her baby son  Mirror.co.uk
4. Man charged with murder of heavily-pregnant Kelly Mary Fauvrelle - Daily Star  Daily Star
5. Man, 25, charged with murder of heavily pregnant Kelly Mary Fauvrelle whose baby son Riley later died  The Sun
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A 43-year-old man from Brighton in Sussex has told a local newspaper that he is slowly developing such an intense dislike for a man on his friends list who makes inane comments on his every post, that he now feels comfortable with the idea of murderi...

In their first match as a team, The Undertaker and Roman Reigns defeat Shane McMahon & Drew McIntyre in a No Holds Barred match at WWE Extreme Rules.

Iran Calls on Britain to Release Oil Tanker, Avoid ‘Dangerous and Unclear Game’

Iran Calls on Britain to Release Oil Tanker, Avoid ‘Dangerous and Unclear Game’ by Erin Cunningham and Michael Birnbaum – Washington Post

Police can now name the man who died following an assault on Thrush Street, Taihape, yesterday morning.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The suspect behind the leak of confidential memos penned by former UK ambassador in Washington Kim Darroch last week has been identified, yet not named by UK police, local media reported on Sunday.

CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Saturday, July 13, 2019

Read Yet another bullpen disaster sends spiraling Phillies down to defeat and more Phillies news and rumors at PhilliesNation.com

It was July 20, 1969, and as the world followed the spacecraft’s progress, it briefly lost radio contact with mission control in Houston.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday predicted that states such as Assam and Meghalaya are likely to receive heavy rainfall today as well.It also added that isolated places over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh may also witness heavy downpour during the day.Notably, the villagers in Assam are forced to migrate to safer areas as the situation in the state worsened on Saturday due to the floods caused by heavy fall in the region. The parts of the Brahmaputra... Читать дальше...

So tired.
I have been tired and sleepy for weeks now. Which is weird as my CLL is in a deep deep deep remission.
I first blamed it on stress- have a googol of problems weighing on me, but I usually cope well with pressure. 
Been traveling >100,000 miles in the last 6 months including 2 hectic sleep robbing trips to Europe to lecture on chronic lymphocytic leukemia or CLL in June so I thought maybe jet lag. But I’ve been home for 10 days now, so that should have resolved by now.
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LOS ANGELES, USA — Disney's blockbuster 3D remakes of animated classics have rampaged through box offices in recent years, but the studio is banking on its latest — The Lion King — to climb right to the top of the food chain.

Let’s fight hate with love. We can go to the North Korean Doughboy who fed his uncle to starving dogs, auguring that scene in Game of Thrones, and tell him, “Go ahead and build those nuclear bombs — because we...

Delhi: No rain relief before Tuesday for the capital