On 13 January, the Pentagon’s director of operational test and evaluation has released his 2020 annual report on major Defense Department weapon systems, highlighting the identified issues with new fully composite blades of Chinook CH-47F Block II helicopter. Developed by Boeing and the U.S. Army, the ACRB is a new fully composite blade with a swept-tip design. The Pentagon’s independent tester reports that The most recent Advanced Chinook Rotor Blades (ACRB) design produces excessive vibrations in-ground, hover, and forward flight that may cause a safety of flight risk. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – According to the report, Chinook aircrews reported prolonged fatigue […]
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The U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps are on heightened alert and increase patrols over Iraq to respond to a potential Iranian attack at U.S. troops in Middle East region. Pentagon officials are concerned about movements of Iranian-backed militias amid heightened tensions on the eve of the liquidation anniversary of Iran’s top commander General Qasem Soleimani that been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad on 3 January 2020. Specifically, the Pentagon is closely watching “troubling indicators of potential attack preparations” from Iranian militias in Iraq, the official said. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – “It is worrisome,” one […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/13/1080820779_0:0:3146:1770_1200x675_80_0_0_332ebd836db7f197a3d23e5e7c1872bf.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202010191080820811-khartoum-thanks-us-for-potential-exclusion-of-sudan-from-terrorism-sponsors-list/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The head of the Sudanese Sovereign Transitional Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, on Monday expressed his gratitude to US President Donald Trump who said the African country might be excluded from the US’ State Sponsors of Terrorism list. Earlier in the day, Trump announced that the United States would take Sudan off its State Sponsors of Terrorism list after Khartoum pays $335 million to US terrorism victims and their families. “I want to express my deepest gratitude and gratitude of all the Sudanese people to President Donald Trump and the US administration […]
British hospitality venues will reportedly challenge the legality of the government restrictions imposed on the sector as London is about to announce new measures that are likely to affect the industry in Northern England. Lawyers representing more than 10 hospitality organizations, including such major associations as the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) and the British Beer and Pub Association, are expected to file a legal challenge to the latest round of anti-coronavirus restrictions with the Downing Street on Monday – the day when the government plans to outline new measures to slow down the rising infection rate, The Guardian reported. The […]
The virtual event invest: ethereum economy takes place on Wednesday, Oct. 14. CoinDesk’s Christine Kim spoke to colleagues Michael J. Casey and Aaron Stanley about the most compelling and under-discussed topics about Ethereum 2.0 headlining next week’s conference. For free, early access to new episodes of this and other CoinDesk podcasts subscribe to CoinDesk Reports with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, iHeartRadio or RSS. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic. From the dynamics of staking to the architecture of sharding, there haven’t been many topics Ethereum 2.0 core developers have shied away from discussing over the past five […]
US President Donald Trump’s campaign did not contact Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s campaign to notify them of potential exposure to COVID-19 after the president revealed Friday that both he and his wife, Melania, have contracted the disease. “PBS NewsHour” correspondent Yamiche Alcindor and CNN’s Sarah Mucha both tweeted Friday that there was no communication from the Trump campaign to alert the Biden campaign of potential exposure. “There was no contact from the Trump campaign or the White House to alert the Biden campaign of possible exposure. The campaign learned of the situation from the news reports, a Biden campaign aide tells […]
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Forbes‘ journalist Dan Alexander writes about the president’s potential conflicts of interest in White House, Inc. “You can’t have a blind trust and have a building that says ‘Trump Tower’ on the outside of [it],” Alexander says. “How blind is that?” Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Forbes‘ journalist Dan Alexander writes about the president’s potential conflicts of interest in White House, Inc. “You can’t have a blind trust and have a building that says ‘Trump Tower’ on the outside of [it],” Alexander says. “How blind is that?” Scott Olson/Getty Images Past occupants of the White House […]
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg raises the possibility of a thoroughly conservative court that will not defend the civil liberties won through decades of struggle, Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, told Radio Sputnik’s By Any Means Necessary Monday. “The problem now is you have a [US President Donald] Trump base, 63 million-strong, represented in the US Senate by Mitch McConnell, who in 2016 said a president should not be allowed to make a Supreme Court appointment [in an election year] … and he’s done a 180-degree […]
As some German politicians have voiced calls to draw a line under or temporarily suspend the $10.5 billion Russian-European pipeline venture over the alleged poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, Angela Merkel has weighed in, urging the international community to look upon the mutually profitable project in isolation from the incident. Friedrich Merz, a candidate for the presidency of the Christian Democratic Union party and a possible successor to Angela Merkel as German chancellor, has called for a two-year suspension to the construction of Nord Stream 2, speaking at an event of the CDU youth organisation in the federal state of […]
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is urging residents of 10 of the state’s counties to cancel or postpone outdoor events after dusk to prevent people from contracting the rare and dangerous mosquito-borne illness eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) after an adult from Barry County is believed to have come down with it. “This suspected EEE case in a Michigan resident shows this is an ongoing threat to the health and safety of Michiganders and calls for continued actions to prevent exposure, including aerial treatment,” Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, chief medical executive and chief deputy for health at the MDHHS, […]
President Trump arrives Tuesday to talk about the environment in Jupiter, Fla. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images President Trump arrives Tuesday to talk about the environment in Jupiter, Fla. Joe Raedle/Getty Images President Trump has released an additional 20 names he would select from if any Supreme Court vacancies arise during his remaining time in office, including the president’s rival-turned-Senate ally, Ted Cruz. The list also includes Sens. Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley as well as two former U.S. solicitors general. The president’s running list, which he first compiled in 2016, already included more than a […]
Bitmain’s appeal to recoup $30 million in alleged lost revenues from Poolin has been denied, Digital Currency Group has acquired a retail-focused exchange and Venezuelan officials appear to have blocked access to Coinbase. Top shelf Bitmain bustA court in China has denied an appeal by bitcoin mining giant Bitmain seeking $30 million in damages from the three co-founders of Poolin, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining pools, CoinDesk’s Wolfie Zhou reports. The mining giant Bitmain claims Poolin’s founding executive broke non-compete agreements in starting its BTC mining operations, leading to millions in lost revenue. While the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court found Bitmain […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202009051080371844-eu-demands-potential-veto-on-britains-post-brexit-laws-regulations—report/ EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier is reportedly insisting that the government must agree not to make any changes to British legislation that could somehow undermine its trade with the EU without first consulting with the bloc. The European Union is demanding a potential veto on Britain’s post-Brexit laws and regulations to be inscribed in the trade agreement, The Times reported on Saturday, citing senior government officials. According to the newspaper, the UK’s chief negotiator Lord Frost has dismissed this approach. Since the negotiations have been hampered by Britain insisting on full autonomy after the divorce, […]
US Punishes ICC For Investigating Potential War Crimes By Susan M. Akram, The Conversation. September 3, 2020 US Punishes ICC For Investigating Potential War Crimes2020-09-032020-09-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/file-20200831-18-1tm241n-e1599101018528.jpg200px200px Above photo: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the ICC’s pending probe into U.S. officials in Afghanistan ‘reckless,’ March 5, 2020. Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images. The Trump administration has sought to weaken or abandon various international agencies since 2016. Now it’s taking aim at the International Criminal Court, a global tribunal that investigates and prosecutes war crimes, torture and genocide. Claiming the ICC’s investigation into alleged war crimes by U.S. forces in Afghanistan poses a national security threat, President […]
On 28 August 1859, a series of sunspots began to form on the surface of our stellar parent. The sunspots quickly tangled the Sun’s magnetic field lines in their area and produced bright, observed solar flares and one — likely two — Coronal Mass Ejections, one major. The massive solar storm impacted our planet on 1-2 September 1859, causing widespread disruption to electrical and Telegraph services and spawning auroras visible in the tropics. Officially known as SOL1859-09-01, the Carrington Event as it has become known colloquially showcased for the first time the potentially disastrous relationship between the Sun’s energetic temperament and […]
According to estimates by the economic research agency Fitch Solutions, the future looks particularly bright for Russia’s gold reserves, which may see the country soon lead the rating of the top producers of the precious metal. Russia is likely to step up its gold production in the next couple of years amid increasing risks of more US sanctions that could push the Russian Central Bank to boost the existing precious metal reserves, as follows from a Fitch Solutions report cited by CNBC. The potential economic restrictions will “paradoxically” support the gold market in the country, the report said. “The rising risk […]
Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, decided to resign Friday ostensibly because of his health, but also because he fears the unpleasant and unhealthy conditions of a Japanese prison. At a press conference, he cited his painful stomach condition ulcerative colitis as the reason for stepping down, but he leaves at a time when his ratings are plummeting and he is under at least one criminal investigation, with the public clamoring for the reopening of other cases. Abe is not resigning; he is escaping. He is under investigation by the Japanese prosecutors for violations of election laws, similar to those his former […]
Anthony Fauci, a top federal health expert, has warned that rolling out a coronavirus vaccine under an emergency approval could make testing for other immunizations “impossible,” arguing it might rob the trials of participants. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Reuters in an interview on Monday that a vaccine should not be given an emergency use authorization (EUA) “before you have a signal of efficacy,” saying it could jeopardize the other various vaccines under testing. “One of the potential dangers if you prematurely let a vaccine out is that it would make it difficult, […]
Italy on Monday launched human trials of GRAd-COV2, a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed by Rome-based biotechnology company ReiThera. The trial is being conducted by Rome’s Lazzaro Spallanzani Hospital, which specializes in infectious diseases. Over the next few weeks, 90 volunteers will receive the vaccine, Reuters reported. Francesco Vaia, the hospital’s health director, told Reuters the first patient to receive the vaccine was a 50-year-old woman who was monitored for four hours before being permitted to go home. The unidentified woman will remain under observation for 12 weeks at home to determine if she produced any antibodies to the novel coronavirus or […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107844/22/1078442243_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_22205869d5802b23973380421d1d8a95.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Lilia Dergacheva. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202008201080229311-who-is-jill-biden-from-teacher-turned-second-lady-to-potential-first-one/ Joe Biden’s wife, the mother of his daughter and step-mother of his two sons, has been vehemently supporting the Democratic presidential candidate during his 2020 campaign, standing by his side during rallies, as well as throwing fundraisers and other events. “For all of you out there across the country, just think of your favourite educator who gave you the confidence to believe in yourself. That’s the kind of first lady… Jill Biden will be”, Joe Biden said, singing praise to his wife after he was officially announced as the Democratic presidential nominee […]
The “extensive” cybersecurity exercise was said to have involved some 2,000 participants representing fields of US private industry and the federal government, as well as groups from several ally countries, and to have covered an “all out attack on different sectors”. The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) concluded on Friday a three-day simulated cybersecurity exercise dubbed “Cyber Storm” aimed at preparing the United States and ally nations to stand against potential real attacks on critical systems, Brian Harrell, CISA first Assistant Director for Infrastructure Security, said in a Friday statement. Harrell described the three-day Cyber […]
Utah Protesters Face Charges With Potential Life Sentence By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press. August 8, 2020 Utah Protesters Face Charges With Potential Life Sentence2020-08-082020-08-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/utah-e1596892544903.jpeg200px200px Above photo: In this July 9, 2020, photo, protesters gather in front of district attorney’s office in Salt Lake City. AP Photo/Rick Bowmer. Salt Lake City, UT – Some Black Lives Matter protesters in Salt Lake City could face up to life in prison if they’re convicted of splashing red paint and smashing windows during a protest, a potential punishment that stands out among demonstrators arrested around the country and one that critics say doesn’t fit the alleged crime. […]
Microsoft has said they would “move quickly” in their talks with ByteDance to buy TikTok, after CEO Satya Nadella discussed the issue with US President Donald Trump, who threatened to ban the popular Chinese app. In a statement on its official blog on Sunday, Microsoft has confirmed that the discussions between them and the owner of TikTok, Chinese company ByteDance, have been underway, vowing to complete them “no later than September, 15” whatever the outcome. Microsoft said that if a “preliminary proposal” communicated to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) between the companies to be made final, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202007201079935504-putin-says-nuclear-powered-submarines-will-boost-russias-combat-potential/ During an address to the Federal Assembly in 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Poseidon nuclear-powered underwater drones were being developed in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that nuclear-powered submarines will boost the country’s combat potential. He also added that around 60 Russian Navy vessels are currently sailing in the world’s oceans. Russia’s largest shipbuilding enterprise Sevmash is now working on two nuclear-powered submarines with hypersonic weapons, according to the statement. The statement comes after President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexei Rahmanov stated in June that the Russian Navy […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/13/1079926536_0:216:3072:1944_1200x675_80_0_0_4fd997f668e0231f20f79fd606150205.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202007191079926575-north-korea-holds-large-scale-military-meeting-addressing-potential-threat/ SEOUL (Sputnik) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held a large-scale meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, discussing “deterrence” measures, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. The meeting was held on Saturday and was followed by a closed-door session. KCNA said that North Korea’s military commission discussed strategic goals and readiness for mobilizing troops in view of the complex situation on the Korean peninsula. Key issues relating to “further bolstering a war deterrent of the country” and addressing a “potential military […]
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has released images of people believed to have been involved or who may have witnessed the murder of Jessica Doty Whitaker, the young mother killed for saying that “All Lives Matter.” Police are seeking the public’s help identifying the people seen in the footage, saying that they may have witnessed something or be persons of interest. “The people depicted in the pictures may be witnesses and/or persons of interest in the death of Jessica Doty-Whitaker,” the department said in a press release. TRENDING: BREAKING: Joe Biden and Barack Obama’s Twitter Accounts HACKED… Along With Jeff Bezos, […]
Bitcoin Core contributor Jeremy Rubin has revealed his work on a new smart-contract language for Bitcoin, which he hopes will increase the “financial self-sovereignty” of users. Rubin demoed the new language, Sapio, on Saturday at a RecklessVR meetup presentation in virtual reality, with many audience members joining the talk in VR headsets. He plans to release the programming language as a part of his new research organization, Judica. Stateful smart contracts allow users to lock up money so funds can’t be spent until certain conditions are met or a series of interactive steps have been taken. These contracts are most commonly […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Indian government banned 59 Chinese apps, citing them as a “threat to the integrity and sovereignty” of the country in the wake of the border clashes with China. While new Indian apps have been launched to fill the space to promote ‘self-reliant’ India, global players are also looking to enter the lucrative new market. Several popular Chinese apps, including Tik-Tok, UC Browser and ShareIt, left the Indian market soon after the government imposed the ban. Investors lined up to back made-in-India alternatives to these apps, which had garnered millions of downloads within a day of launch. Talking about […]
Mice that exercise produce more of an enzyme that can improve memory and other brain functions. Clemens Peters / EyeEm/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Clemens Peters / EyeEm/Getty Images Mice that exercise produce more of an enzyme that can improve memory and other brain functions. Clemens Peters / EyeEm/Getty Images Scientists say they’ve identified an enzyme that could help explain how exercise can slow or even reverse some signs of aging in the brain. “Exercise in a bottle” isn’t around the corner, but it’s not out of the question, either. The idea builds on an observation a few years ago […]
In case you thought one pandemic wasn’t enough for humanity this year, scientists warn that a second one could arrive soon. The potentially dangerous strain of influenza is thought to be a blend of three flu strains and has already leapt to humans. A new strain of swine flu that scientists fear could trigger a new pandemic has been discovered in China. The influenza virus, dubbed G4 EA H1N1, is genetically descended from A/H1N1, which caused the 2009 swine flu pandemic. A 7-year-long study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, has identified the G4 strain […]
Pluto is an icy dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, orbiting the sun from the edge of our solar system and boasting a surface temperature of around minus 378 degrees Fahrenheit. It was observed in greater detail in a brief flyby on July 2015 by the New Horizons spacecraft – the first and, to date, only spacecraft to do so. A new study has suggested that currently frigid dwarf planet Pluto may have originally started off as a hot world. According to the report, “Evidence for a hot start and early ocean formation on Pluto”, published on 22 June in Nature […]
Credit: CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAMS Understanding the potential of COVID-19 convalescent plasma by Military Health System Communications Office The Department of Defense has set a goal to collect more than 8,000 donated units of plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 by Sept. 30, 2020. This blood will be used to treat critically ill patients and support the development of an effective treatment against the disease. Like a missile locking on its target, antibodies attack invaders inside the body with a singularity of purpose: search and destroy. Typically, infection-fighting white blood cells produce antibodies as an appropriate […]
Russian military doctors have administered the first trials of a potential homegrown coronavirus vaccine. According to the Ministry of Defence, volunteers have had no complications or adverse reactions. Eighteen people have been given an experimental vaccine, developed by the Russian Ministry of Defense, in collaboration with academics from Moscow’s Gamalei Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. Conducted at a military hospital in the capital, participants were divided into two groups of nine, with each receiving a different vaccine component. “The first group of participants, consisting of 18 people who were vaccinated on June 18, were selected from the volunteers who stayed in […]
Two months into her first term as a member of Congress, Florida Democrat and former police chief Rep. Val Demings was asked on national television whether “all lives matter.” “When we hire law enforcement to do the job, we need to let them do their job, sit back, and not let, when a group of society feels like they’re being mistreated, let them go in there and tear up a city or town,” declared Randy, a Virginia Democrat who called in to Demings’ inaugural appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal with more of a comment than a question. “Because once you do […]
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, MarylandNIAID Study identifies potential approach to treat severe respiratory distress in patients with COVID-19 NIH News Release What Early data from a clinical study suggest that blocking the Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) protein provided clinical benefit to a small group of patients with severe COVID-19. Researchers observed that the off-label use of the cancer drug acalabrutinib, a BTK inhibitor that is approved to treat several blood cancers, was […]
In a recent paper entitled ‘Tomorrow’s Arctic: Theatre of War or Cooperation?’ I introduced readers to the US-Russian grand design which shaped not only the sale of Alaska in March 1870 to the USA for $7.5 million, but also Russia’s involvement in the American Civil War as Czar Alexander II arranged the deployment of Russian military fleets to San Francisco and New York. Even though President Lincoln and Czar Alexander II were both known as great reformers and emancipators for their common commitment to free slaves and serfs, both leaders were assassinated before their grand visions could come to fruition. In this article, […]
Ethics Groups Call On Coronavirus ‘Vaccine Czar’ To Disclose Potential Conflicts By Soo Rin Kim, Olivia Rubin, Katherine Faulders and Matthew Mosk, ABC News. June 1, 2020 Ethics Groups Call On Coronavirus ‘Vaccine Czar’ To Disclose Potential Conflicts2020-06-012020-06-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/trump-and-moncef-slaoui-by-ap-e1591036364543.jpg200px200px Above photo: President Donald Trump, left, listens as Moncef Slaoui, a former GlaxoSmithKline executive, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 15, 2020, in Washington. By Alex Brandon/AP.. Increased scrutiny comes with rising general concerns about profiteering. The Trump administration’s decision to hire its new “vaccine czar” as a private contractor, rather than a government employee, has alarmed some ethics experts who say […]
World 01:13 GMT 02.06.2020Get short URL On Saturday, US President Donald Trump announced the postponement of the scheduled Group of Seven (G7) summit, from the end of June until possibly September, revealing that he is intending to invite Russia, South Korea, Australia, and India. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday said that Ottawa is opposed to a potential return of Russia to the G7 proposed by US President Donald Trump, over Moscow’s “continued disrespect and flaunting of international rules”. “Russia was excluded from the G7 after it invaded Crimea a number of years ago, and its continued disrespect and flaunting […]
Baton Rouge Inmates Sue For Release Due To COVID-19, Potential ‘Death Sentence’ Lea Skene, The Advocate. May 28, 2020 Baton Rouge Inmates Sue For Release Due To COVID-19, Potential ‘Death Sentence’2020-05-282020-05-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/inside-a-louisian-state-penitentiary-from-pinterest-e1590688770232.jpg200px200px Above photo: Inside a Louisiana State Penitentiary from Pinterest. A group of inmates in Baton Rouge’s jail filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday seeking their release to home confinement because the coronavirus is spreading through the lockup. Clifton Belton, who relies on a wheelchair to get around because of fluid in his lungs and partial foot amputation, is among several plaintiffs who argue their continued incarceration places them at high risk for serious […]
Leah Callon-Butler, a CoinDesk columnist, is the director of Emfarsis, a consulting firm focused on the role of technology in advancing economic development in Asia. The recent update to the Libra white paper has re-ignited debate around Facebook’s digital currency ambitions, albeit not to summer-2019 temperatures. “Haven’t read it yet” or “not been following for a while” are common responses when I ask my peers how they feel about the latest developments. Given how many of them believe Facebook’s original ambitions have been muzzled under government hostility and regulatory pressure, the declining interest from the blockchain community is perhaps not that […]
World 21:49 GMT 11.05.2020Get short URL TORONTO (Sputnik) – Canadian authorities are investigating the origin of three of the firearms believed to have originated in the United States used in the deadly rampage in the province of Nova Scotia in April, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said in a statement on Monday. Of the two semi-automatic handguns and two semi-automatic rifles used by the shooter, identified as Gabriel Wortman, 51, only one is of Canadian origin, the country’s federal police agency said. “The remaining guns that were recovered are believed to have been obtained in the United States. The RCMP […]