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Jennifer Ouellette reports via Ars Technica: Back in 2012, a crowdfunding effort on Indigogo successfully raised the funds necessary to purchase the Wardenclyffe Tower site on Long Island, New York, where Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla once tried to build an ambitious wireless transmission station. The goal was to raise additional funds to build a $20 […]
By Elodie Mazein / AFP, NEW YORK At first glance, the spotted lanternfly, or Lycorma delicatula, looks like an elegant butterfly, speckled with black spots on white wings with a splash of bright red, but the insect native to parts of Asia is attacking plants and trees in the US, and officials are moving quickly […]
Vincent Thian/AP US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin arrives for the opening dinner for the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s annual defense and security forum, in Singapore, on June 2. Singapore CNN — A war over Taiwan would be “devastating” and affect the global economy “in ways we cannot imagine,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has […]
Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki is issuing a dire warning to Americans, saying that the country is likely to witness one crisis after another as BRICS nations send their dollars back to the US. In a new video on The Rich Dad Channel, Kiyosaki tells his 3.1 million subscribers that the US is […]
The U.S. — including the Defense Department — has multiple efforts underway to provide assistance to Turkey following devastating earthquakes, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said today. “In coordination with USAID [U.S. Agency for International Development], the State Department and the interagency, the Department of Defense has responded to the government of Turkey’s […]
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The Russian armed forces’ continued attacks against Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure, are a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and are endangering the lives of civilians with freezing temperatures setting in, Amnesty International said today, as it calls for Russia to end its unlawful targeted assaults on civilian infrastructure. “As many countries across the world […]
The Russian armed forces’ continued attacks against Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure, are a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and are endangering the lives of civilians with freezing temperatures setting in, Amnesty International said today, as it calls for Russia to end its unlawful targeted assaults on civilian infrastructure. “As many countries across the world […]
The IUCN Red List now includes 150,388 species, of which 42,108 are threatened with extinction. Over 1,550 of the 17,903 marine animals and plants assessed are at risk of extinction, with climate change impacting at least 41% of threatened marine species. “Today’s IUCN Red List update reveals a perfect storm of unsustainable human activity decimating […]
PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct 15 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said testimony and video from a Jan. 6 committee hearing two days ago, featuring congressional leaders in tense phone calls with Pentagon and White House officials during the assault on the U.S. Capitol, was “devastating.” Biden was speaking to reporters during a stop at an […]