Month: November 2019

Click:cnc routing machines LOS ANGELES (AP) — Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish girl who accused international leaders of standing idly by as global warming threatens to destroy the planet in a speech shared around the world is joining young activists in Los Angeles for a protest aimed at getting California out of the oil-drilling business.…

STOCKHOLM, Sweden ― Greta Thunberg grabbed the world’s attention when she cruised into New York City on a zero-emissions yacht in August, after sailing two weeks across the Atlantic Ocean rather than spend one day flying. The 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, who has inspired hundreds of thousands around the world to strike for the climate, gave up…

WASHINGTON – Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to lead a turbulent field for the Democratic presidential nomination, a national USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, but his margin over Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been slashed in half. And most Democratic voters say they could still change their minds. Almost exactly one year before Election Day – and 96…

Key Point: Iran would use these missiles to hold American forces and bases hostage during a crisis or war. Like the rest of the Iranian Armed Forces, the Iranian Air Force was crippled by postrevolution purges. Although numerically and technologically superior to the Iraqi Air Force, Iran was unable to achieve air superiority and unable to…

Hong Kong democracy activists went to court on Thursday to challenge an emergency law that bans protesters from wearing masks, as demonstrators vowed to use Halloween parties to defy the restrictions once more. The international finance hub has been upended by nearly five months of huge, often violent, pro-democracy protests in which participants routinely use…

Hong Kong (AFP) – Hong Kong on Thursday confirmed it had plunged into its first recession since the global financial crisis as months of seething pro-democracy protests and the US-China trade war exact a heavy toll on the financial hub. The semi-autonomous Chinese city has been upended by nearly five months of huge, often violent,…

HONG KONG (Reuters) – As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and…

Diligent work by a team of 500 goats has helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from wildfires that are ravaging parts of California. The library deployed the goat squadron during the spring in order to munch their way through around 13 acres of scrubland around the library that could’ve provided tinder-like fuel to a wildfire.…

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Wednesday that if he were elected president in 2020, he would create a White House Office of Reproductive Freedom to ensure access to safe, legal abortion.  The presidential candidate told Cosmopolitan magazine that the recent attacks on abortion rights are what spurred him to create the idea for an executive-run office. The office…

By Chris Prentice and Rozanna Latiff NEW YORK/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has struck a deal to recoup $1 billion (£773.10 million) in funds allegedly looted from a Malaysian state investment fund by fugitive financier Jho Low, in a record capture for a U.S. anti-corruption probe. U.S. authorities say about $4.5 billion…