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President Donald Trump on Sunday lashed out at "ingrates" criticizing the federal government's hurricane-recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, while his homeland-security adviser issued an internal memo about how the administration should shape its messaging. Tom Bossert said in the document that he hopes to "turn the corner on our public communications" after Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane on Sept.
Despite state and federal reports outlining concerns about staffing, equipment and reservoir problems at Camp Pendleton , military officials are telling the troops and their families that the water is safe to drink. On Thursday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the Marine Corps had entered into a consent decree designed to shore up deficiencies exposed during a weeklong tour of the sprawling base in late June.
Toymaker Mattel has announced plans to sell a nursery gadget that will listen to infants and watch over them, record their sleep patterns, and even play a lullaby should they awaken. Skeptics are asking if the device, similar to Amazon.com's Echo with its Alexa voice assistant, will violate children's privacy and deepen a trend of surrendering intimate human connections to technology that talks and listens.
For years, Elon Musk has been focused on building a colony on Mars. It's why he founded SpaceX in 2002, and it's been the driving force behind it ever since.
For years, Elon Musk has been focused on building a colony on Mars. It's why he founded SpaceX in 2002, and it's been the driving force behind it ever since.
From the strange but true files. Retailers are in a battle to bring consumers the most convenient and interesting variety of delivery options possible in a race for your spending dollars.
It's been a few weeks since the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe announced a landmark partnership with drug giant Allergan. Allergan, based in Ireland, makes Botox and other hugely popular medicines.
The Department of Transportation recently released revised guidelines for driverless cars, relaxing some guidelines put out during the Obama administration last year. For example, a 15-point safety assessment was trimmed to just 12 points, and the guidelines no longer apply to Level 2 vehicles with partial automation such as crash-avoidance features.
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs said Thursday they will hold a hearing with Smith on October 4. The session will be open to the public and it will be webcast live. and Smith have faced outrage over the cybersecurity breach in which hackers were able to gain access to personal information for about 143 million people.
A statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle, has been unveiled in central Moscow in a controversial ceremony that merged military pomp with religious ritual. The nine-metre monument depicts Kalashnikov clutching his eponymous automatic weapon.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, center, seen here with Gen. David L. Goldfein, right, Chief of Staff of the USAF, is opposed to the creation of Space Corps, seeing it as the purview of her service branch.
Last week, former congressman Ron Paul, an Air Force veteran, penned an op-ed for Fox News denouncing Congress' hidden agenda in pushing forward Section 1615 of the National Defense Authorization Agreement . The bill language in Section 1615 is cloaked with the appearance it would eliminate U.S. dependence on Russian rocket technology, however, the bill instead would be weakening the Air Force by cutting off all competition in the aerospace industry, creating a monopoly benefitting only one company, Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Lori Saldaa has announced that she is running for the Board of Supervisors, the fourth Democrat and second former state assembly member to enter the race for an open seat. Saldaa, who has been discussing plans to run for months, filed a candidate intention statement with the San Diego County Registrar of Voters on Friday afternoon.
If the Air Force awards the contract to Boeing, Triumph's Aerospace Structures business unit, located in Red Oak, Texas, will supply the wing, vertical tail and horizontal tail structures, with opportunities for additional work, generating 950 direct and indirect jobs. "Providing our military with the newest and most advanced training system is crucial to preparing future generations of warfighters," said Congressman Joe Barton who represents the 6th district in Texas where Triumph Aerospace Structures is located.
Mixed signals from Washington over a possible agreement to preserve protections for young immigrants are increasing anxiety and confusion on college campuses, where the stakes are high. Mixed signals from Washington over a possible agreement to preserve protections for young immigrants are increasing anxiety and confusion on college campuses, where the stakes are high.
How much is your personal data worth to you? A lot. And how much is it worth to an identity thief? Verified high-limit credit cards from countries including the U.S., Japan, and South Korea are selling on the dark web for the bitcoin equivalent of about $10 to $20, according to an annual report on cybercrime by Secureworks, a unit of Dell Inc. The dark web is "the collection of Internet forums, digital shop fronts and chat rooms that cybercriminals use to form alliances, trade tools and techniques, and sell compromised data that can include banking details, personally identifiable information and other content," as Secureworks defines it.
Credit agency Equifax traced the theft of sensitive information about 143 million Americans to a software flaw that could have been fixed well before the burglary occurred, further undermining its credibility as the guardian of personal data that can easily be used for identity theft. Equifax identified a weakness in an open-source software package called Apache Struts as the technological crack that allowed hackers to heist Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and full legal names from a massive database maintained primarily for lenders.
America's space scientists are entitled to a period of mourning after the Cassini spacecraft burns up in Saturn's atmosphere on Friday. After all, 20 years after its launch, the most expensive spacecraft ever sent to the outer planets has produced 3,948 science papers , 453,048 photographs , and a cohort of young scientists who earned their Ph.D.s and other training thanks to the mission.