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NSA Cyber Specialist, Army Doctor Charged In US Spying Cases

Editorial Bureau September 30, 2022

A cyber specialist who worked at the US National Security Agency and an army doctor and her wife were charged Thursday in separate cases with seeking to sell US secrets to foreign governments. In one case, cybersecurity expert Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, spent less than four weeks working at the

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US rolls out red carpet to Pacific Islands amid China inroads

Editorial Bureau September 29, 2022

President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday rolled out the red carpet for Pacific Island leaders in the face of rising Chinese influence in the region and said it expected a united front, despite friction with one nation — the Solomon Islands. In a first-of-a-kind summit in Washington, the United States promised greater aid and diplomatic […]

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NASA strikes asteroid in key test of planetary defence

Editorial Bureau September 27, 2022

NASA’s DART spaceship on Monday (Sep 26) struck the asteroid Dimorphos in a historic test of humanity’s ability to prevent a cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. Impact occurred at 7.14 pm EDT, 10 months after the Double Asteroid Redirection Test probe blasted off from California to carry out its first-of-a-kind experiment. “We’re embarking

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NASA gears up to deflect asteroid, in key test of planetary defense

Editorial Bureau September 26, 2022

Bet the dinosaurs wish they’d thought of this. NASA on Monday will attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship […]

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Strong winds hit Bermuda as Hurricane Fiona heads for Canada

Editorial Bureau September 24, 2022

Bermuda assessed damage Friday after Hurricane Fiona brushed past the island overnight, causing flooding and leaving most of the population without power as it set course for Canada. Hurricane conditions were expected to hit Nova Scotia province by evening, with the US National Hurricane Center saying Fiona had again strengthened to a Category 4 storm […]

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Indigenous activists raise climate awareness on sidelines of UNGA

Editorial Bureau September 24, 2022

Uyukar Domingo Peas, an Ecuadorian Indigenous activist, says if there are still “reservoirs of natural resources” in the world, it is “because we have protected them for thousands of years.” Peas has been fighting against the destruction of forests for three decades and regrets that states and companies continue to destroy the Amazon despite the

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Strengthening Hurricane Fiona heads north toward Bermuda

Editorial Bureau September 21, 2022

Hurricane Fiona continued its slow and devastating march northward after slamming the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday and leaving a trail of destruction in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Wednesday morning that the storm had grown stronger, registering maximum wind speeds of 130 miles per hour […]

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American, Russians to blast off for ISS as war rages in Ukraine

Editorial Bureau September 21, 2022

A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are set to blast off to the International Space Station Wednesday on a Russian-operated flight despite soaring tensions between Moscow and Washington over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. NASA’s Frank Rubio and Russia’s Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin are scheduled to take off from the Russia-leased Baikonur

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Ad spending shows Dems hinging midterm hopes on abortion

Editorial Bureau September 20, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are pumping an unprecedented amount of money into advertising related to abortion rights, underscoring how central the message is to the party in the final weeks before the November midterm elections. With the most intense period of campaigning only just beginning, Democrats have already invested more than an estimated $124 million […]

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California ‘chameleon’ awaits 2016 kidnapping hoax sentence

Editorial Bureau September 19, 2022

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Northern California mother of two faces up to eight months in jail Monday for meticulously faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to a former boyfriend, prompting an intensive three-week, multi-state search before she resurfaced on Thanksgiving Day in 2016. Sherri Papini, 40, pleaded guilty last spring under a […]