May, 2019

Presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo told a media briefing in Manila Thursday that Canada’s timeline isn’t good enough and that the Philippines government will have 69 containers of mislabelled Canadian trash headed back across the Pacific no later than next week...

The lawsuit, a redacted version of which was released on Wednesday, claims that US Air Force catered to the needs of the nation's largest and longtime spacecraft launch service provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) when it awarded lucrative contracts to the ULA and two other competitors. This gave the ULA, which itself a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, an unfair advantage, the lawsuit alleges, since the other two favored companies – Blue Origin owned by Elon Musk's rival billionaire Jeff Bezos, and Northrop Grumman – both produce "major components" for the ULA...

Lindh converted to Islam as a teenager after seeing the movie “Malcolm X,” went overseas to study Arabic and the Quran and eventually made his way to Pakistan and Afghanistan and joined the Taliban. He met Osama bin Laden and was with the Taliban on Sept. 11, 2001, when al-Qaida terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Lindh was captured in a battle with U.S.-allied Northern Alliance fighters in late 2001...

In the event of a ban, one of the most important backstops would be America’s Mountain Pass mine... “By far the cheapest and fastest way to bring more material into the market — if there was a disruption — is just sitting there in California,” says Gholz. “It’s not like starting from scratch.”...

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced Thursday that grapes, tree nuts and cranberries will be added to the list of crops that are eligible for direct payments from the federal government to compensate for losses in the trade war with China...

The e-commerce giant's hardware research and development group Lab126 and the voice software team behind Alexa are collaborating on the device... It's described internally as a health and wellness product, Bloomberg said... signaling another big leap by a major tech company into health. Amazon has previously indicated its interest in the sector with its $753 million deal to buy the online pharmacy PillPack...

The Pentagon on Thursday will present plans to the White House to send up to 10,000 more troops to the Middle East, in a move to beef up defenses against potential Iranian threats , U.S. officials said. The officials said no final decision has been made yet, and it’s not clear if the White House would approve sending all or just some of the requested forces. Officials said the move is not in response to any new threat from Iran but is aimed at reinforcing security in the region.

investors dumped technology shares amid worries a growing number of Chinese firms in the hi-tech sector could bear the brunt of an escalating trade war with the United States...

There were no immediate reports about fatalities. But two local hospitals were treating a total of about 100 people for unspecified injuries, according to a report... According to the National Weather Service, a “confirmed large and destructive tornado” was observed over Jefferson City, at 11:43 p.m., moving northeast at 40 mph. The twister appeared to have traveled through the center part of town, the Jefferson City News-Tribune reported.

The symbols and their connection to the term 'Jew' had apparently been submitted by a user for sharing and was approved without the employee noticing the link. It went unnoticed until stunned users stumbled across it by accident and reported it to Telegram. The glitch has now been corrected.

...the “truth about the Steele dossier has to come out...The American people need to know how this hoax began, who perpetrated it, and whether any foreign governments or intelligence services were involved,”

Typical walk times between the two locations can now take a person up to 15 minutes. However, once The Boring Company’s high-speed underground public transportation system is in place, a trip will take only around one minute aboard the Loop’s modified Tesla vehicles...

The Pacific Vanguard exercise near the U.S. island of Guam takes place ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to Japan this weekend, as Washington looks to allies in Asia to help counter China’s military might in the region...

According to Interpol, the materials originated from a subscription-based website with nearly 63,000 users worldwide. Each week, the site would publish new abusive material. The victims’ identity would be masked to allow only a few visual and audio clues.

CHILDREN LURED BY MEALS, INTERNET ACCESS...

The wreck of the last ship known to bring enslaved people from Africa to the United States has been located by researchers off the northern Gulf Coast, the Alabama Historical Commission said Wednesday. Remains of the Gulf schooner Clotilda were identified and verified along the Mobile River, near 12 Mile Island and just north of the Mobile Bay delta... The Clotilda, captained by shipbuilder William Foster, sailed into Mobile Bay with 110 African men, women, and children and young adults... The ship illegally transported the people from Benin in Africa to Mobile from February to July of 1860. The Clotilda was then taken into delta waters north of the port and burned to avoid detection.