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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – The commercial cargo ship Dragon returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing back nearly 2 tons of science experiments and old equipment for NASA.
SpaceX’s Dragon splashed into the Pacific, just five hours after leaving the orbiting lab.
“Welcome home, Dragon!” the California-based company said via Twitter. Continue reading “SpaceX Dragon Returns to Earth From Space Station”
Texas Tribune – by John Reynolds
Gov. Rick Perry continued to work to get Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmbergto resign even after following through on the threat to veto money for the public integrity unit. The Tribune’s Terri Langford reported Tuesday night — citing unnamed sources — that Perry through emissaries offered to restore the money if Lehmberg would leave:
The sources said the offer was made to Lehmberg through several back channels: If Lehmberg — a Democrat whose office was in charge of investigating state officeholders — would resign, Perry would restore the two years in state funds, about $7.5 million, that he had vetoed following her April 12, 2013, arrest and subsequent guilty plea. Continue reading “The Brief: Perry Worked to Get Lehmberg Resignation Even After Veto”
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to help Central American farmers fight a devastating coffee disease – and hold down the price of your morning cup.
A fungus called coffee rust has caused more than $1 billion in damage across Latin American. The fungus is especially deadly to Arabica coffee – that’s the bean that makes up most high-end, specialty coffees. Continue reading “A&M Set to Help with Brewing Troubles From Coffee Fungus”
This pisses me off.
Donations have been pouring in from across the state, nation, even the world for former Hearne Police Officer Stephen Stem. He was fired by the Hearne City Council on May 10, four days after he shot and killed 93-year-old Pearlie Golden.
The Go Fund Me account set up by a police officer in Alabama reached its goal of raising $5,000 late Friday night. Continue reading “Fundraiser For Fired Hearne Officer Reaches Its Goal”
New York Post – by Jamie Schram and Natalie O’Neill
The only thing missing are the smocks.
The NYPD is arming its cops with cans of spray paint and giving them art-class-style lessons to tackle the scourge of urban graffiti, The Post has learned.
Shootings are on the rise across the city, but the directive from Police Headquarters is to hunt down street art and cover it with black, red and white spray paint, sources said. Continue reading “NYPD told to carry spray paint to cover graffiti”
Examiner – by Mark Whittington
A Thursday story in the International Business Times suggeststhat the main beneficiary of the Russian rocket engine embargo against the United States may be Elon Musk’s SpaceX. SpaceX, an entrepreneurial space launch company has been keen to penetrate that defense space satellite market for quite some time. The company is already a major NASA contractor with its Dragon cargo ship and has launched a number of commercial satellites.
As the Washington Post notes, SpaceX is conducting a law suit with the federal government over a contract for 36 military launches that has been granted to United Launch Alliance, the company’s main competitor. SpaceX is involved with a lengthy certification process with the Department of Defense that would allow it to compete for military contracts. It would like the military to cancel the ULA contract and put it out to competitive bid once SpaceX gets the certification. Continue reading “Russian rocket engine embargo could benefit Elon Musk’s SpaceX”
Stars and Stripes – by Tony Capaccio
WASHINGTON — The Air Force is spending about $60 million and using as many as 100 people to certify billionaire Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. for launching military and spy satellites, according to the service’s top uniformed acquisition official.
“We’ve got folks busting their butt to get SpaceX certified despite what everything in the media seems to say,” Lt. Gen. Charles Davis said in an interview. Continue reading “Air Force spending $60 million to certify Musk’s SpaceX”
Huffington Post – by Ece Toksabay
SOMA, Turkey, May 16 (Reuters) – Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse several thousand protesters on Friday in a Turkish mining town still grieving the death of some 300 workers in the nation’s worst ever industrial disaster.
Anger has swept Turkey as the extent of the disaster became clear, with protests aimed at mine owners accused of ignoring safety for profit, and at Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government, seen as too cozy with industry tycoons and insensitive in its reaction to the tragedy.
Continue reading “Turkish Police Fire Tear Gas At Protesters In Soma”
Huffington Post- by David Lohr
A Virginia man is facing a number of criminal charges following a weekend run-in with police that ended in a cringe-worthy stun gun hit that a witness captured on video.
The three-minute video of the incident is causing a stir online and in Isle of Wight County, where some feel excessive force was used in the arrest of 50-year-old Ervin Laws. Continue reading “Police Confrontation Ends In Cringe-Worthy Tasing”
International outrage is mounting over the death sentence a Sudanese judge ordered for the pregnant wife of an American citizen — all because she refuses to renounce her Christian faith.
Meriam Ibrahim, 26, was sentenced Thursday after being convicted of apostasy. The court in Khartoum ruled that Ibrahim must give birth and nurse her baby before being executed, but must receive 100 lashes immediately after having her baby for adultery — for having relations with her Christian husband. Ibrahim, a physician and the daughter of a Christian mother and a Muslim father who abandoned the family as a child, could have spared herself death by hanging simply by renouncing her faith. Continue reading “International outrage grows for Sudanese woman sentenced to death for apostasy”
Yahoo News – by Charlene Sakoda
Duncanville High School in Texas was the scene of a mass uprising Wednesday after 170 students were sent home for violating the dress code and anadditional unknown number were given in-school suspensions. As reported by KDFW Fox 4, administrators even called upon local police to help control the situation.
According to The Dallas Morning News, Duncanville students were found in violation of the dress code in the morning and administrators instructed those violators to gather in the cafeteria before being sent home. Some of the items listed in the Duncanville Independent School District’s dress code policy include a requirement that students wear belts, shirts free of logos and designs, and it prohibits denim. Continue reading “Texas high school sends 170 students home for violating the dress code”
Southern California –-(Ammoland.com)- Dear radicals.
I support liberty, and I know the tree of liberty has many branches.
That said, I’ll condemn you if you do stupid things in public that undermine the growth of liberty.
Continue reading “Friends, Don’t Do Stupid Things in Public”
Southern California –-(Ammoland.com)- Our gun laws are crazy and I think legislators in gun-grabbing states made them that way on purpose.
Their laws make criminals out of honest and responsible gun owners. Now what are we going to do about it?
Continue reading “We Will Not Comply with Ridiculous Gun Laws”
Huffington Post – by Simon McCormack
NEW YORK — The family of a Riker’s Island inmate who was allegedly beaten to death in an altercation with corrections officers is demanding justice after the district attorney’s decision not to press charges in the case.
“The family is extremely disappointed,” Zoe Salzman, a lawyer representing the family of Ronald Spear, told The Huffington Post. “This is a case that’s worthy of criminal prosecution. This is a homicide, and there should be criminal charges.” Continue reading “Guards Won’t Face Charges For Death Of Inmate Ronald Spears”
The Little Rebellion – by Hobie Ramin
It was an ethical dilemma straight from the textbooks: Imagine you and two of your friends find a small fortune of cash inside a crummy old couch you bought for cheap at a second-hand shop. Would you trace the money back to its owner, or would you keep it to spend on your heart’s deepest desires? A SUNY New Paltz student and two friends dealt with this dilemma first hand early March 2014.
Third-year geology student Reese Werkhoven, Mount Holyoke College graduate Cally Guasti and SUNY New Paltz graduate Lara Russo were getting cozy on their new couch for the first time, when Werkhoven ruffled himself a plastic envelope from under the couch’s patchy arm.
A video showing a household cat saving a young boy from a stray dog attack is gaining steam across the web after the child’s father posted a video of the incident to YouTube.
Roger Triantafilo says his son was riding his bike when a dog came out of nowhwere and attacked him. Within seconds the family’s cat jumped into action and ran the dog off before any more damage could be done. Continue reading “Cat saves young boy from stray dog attack”
FARMINGTON, Mo. — Authorities in southeast Missouri are searching for a stolen Hummer—a one-time military vehicle taken from the St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department.
The Daily Journal newspaper in Park Hills, Mo. reports that the sheriff’s department acquired the camouflaged Hummer through a Defense Department program. It turned up missing last week and was used in a smash-and-grab crime at a restaurant in neighboring Ste. Genevieve County. Continue reading “Hummer stolen from St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department”
Los Angeles, CA – -(Ammoland.com)- When Obamacare operatives aren’t busy trashing the private health insurance market and squandering billions on useless technology, they’re busy … being idle.
File the latest example of government health care profligacy under “Caution: Your tax dollars not at work.” Continue reading “Cash for Obamacare Shirkers”
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