Category: US News

Code Load On Cyber Coolies

The alarm bells may have started ringing a little too soon. Indian infotech firms like Infosys began losing the confidence of shareholders last month when bills proposing changes to the H-1B visa programme, which allows nearly 1.5 million skilled Indians to work in the US, were tabled in Congress.

High school students to launch biology research into space

Govs. Mark Dayton of Minnesota and Dennis Daugaard… Addressing position needs this recruiting class was what Nebraska did with this recruiting class, and linebacker Andrew Ward fits that bill. Ward is a three-star linebacker ac… While his feud with New York Knicks owner James Dolan continues, Charles Oakley will suit up in the newly founded 3-on-3 league founded by rapper/entertaine… — President Trump is spending his third consecutive weekend away from Washington, D.C., at his luxury resort Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

Why one senator is quizzing Yellen about robots taking U.S. jobs

To say Sen. Heidi Heitkamp didn’t like the answer she received from Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen on the issue of automation taking away jobs is a bit of an understatement. Heitkamp, a North Dakota Democrat who sits on the Senate Banking Committee, asked Yellen at a hearing Tuesday about whether the central bank has studied the issue – she referenced a Bank of England study that showed up to 80 million U.S. jobs at risk – and how to draw attention to it.

When Play Drives Progress

At the 1996 Republican convention, Newt Gingrich gave what the editors of The Weekly Standard condemned as “the worst and most embarrassing speech of his career.” Pulling Olympic gold medalist Kent Steffes up on stage, the speaker of the House and leader of the Republican Revolution sang the praises of the unplanned creativity that had produceda beach volleyball.

NASA bets big on private sector to put humans on Mars

NASA will continue tapping the private sector to fund space exploration efforts under President Trump , marking a continuation in policy that first began under former president Barack Obama . “Public-private partnerships are the future of space exploration,” Dava Newman, a former NASA deputy administrator who resigned before Trump took office, told CNBC on Monday.

Prada Gets January Lift as Europe, Asia Show Revival Signs

Prada SpA  said growth resumed last month as the Italian luxury-goods maker puts more than a year of sliding sales behind it, helped by a revival in Europe and Asia. Prada joins luxury peers including LVMH, Gucci-owner Kering SA and Burberry in reporting gains after several years of ebbing demand in China and a slowdown in tourism in Europe.

Whistleblower Links NOAA Study to Climate Treaty Agendas

Former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist Dr. John Bates has gone on record that the organization knowingly released “unverified” global temperature data in violation of rules on scientific integrity which Bates had received a 2014 U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal for devising. Dr. Bates told the U.K.’s Daily Mail that a politically sensationalized 2015 NOAA “Karl study” published in the journal Science was blatantly intended to influence policy agendas favored by the Obama administration at the 2015 Paris climate conference.

Low demand, disease shrivel orange crop

Things keep getting worse for citrus growers in Florida, where crop disease and slowing demand continue to threaten what used to be a signature industry in the sunshine state. The state’s orange crop is poised to shrink to what could be the smallest harvest in five decades, according to Judy Ganes-Chase, president of J. Ganes Consulting in Panama City, Panama.

Will: Can Trump a unravela supply chain without killing Apple? Boeing?

At their post-Civil War apogee, 19th-century Republicans were the party of activist government, using protectionism to pick commercial winners and promising wondrous benefits from government’s deft interventions in economic life. Today, a Republican administration promises that wisely wielded Washington power can rearrange commercial activities in ways superior to those produced by private-sector calculations in free market transactions.

Navarrette: Will DeVos threaten power of teachers unions?

What do you suppose would happen if an education reform advocate who spent decades throwing bricks at the public school system from the outside suddenly became the ultimate insider: secretary of education? Well, much to the horror of self-serving teachers unions that sprinkle money throughout the Democratic Party to protect the status quo and make sure the interests of students who attend public schools don’t interfere with those of the grown-ups who work there, we’re about to find out.

The Man. The Myth. The Moustache.

When John Stossel was diagnosed with lung cancer in April, he announced it in the most characteristic way possible: He dashed off a column from his hospital bed with a quickie economic analysis of why nurses don’t care when your out-of-date heart monitor beeps all night long. Stossel, 69, is now cancer-free and ready to move on to the next thing.

Sentencing of hacker in $55M scam is a rare win for feds

A prolific Russian-speaking hacker behind cyberattacks that netted an estimated $55 million is facing sentencing by a U.S. judge on a conviction considered an unusual win for law enforcement officials who have identified, but failed to arrest, hundreds of others like him. Ercan Findikoglu, a Turkish national who also speaks English, pleaded guilty last year conspiracy charges that could land him in prison for up to 14 years.

View from NASA’s research lab 20,000 feet above Washington

Every air traveler knows the frustration of descending toward a busy airport – yes, Sea-Tac included – just to have the pilot circle around the runway rather than land, to stall time due to heavy air traffic. NASA is midway through a series of data collection flights over Eastern Washington that will help them improve a new Air Traffic Management technology designed to help pilots adjust their flight pattern so they arrive at the airport in an orderly stream.

10 Things to Know for Today

This Feb. 4, 2017 photo released by NBC shows Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump in the opening sketch of “Saturday Night Live,” in New York. With the return of John Oliver to HBO and Alec Baldwin’s guest hosting slot on “Saturday Night Live,” this is shaping up like a big weekend for late-night’s treatment of the new president.

US judge to sentence prolific hacker in $55M scam

A prolific foreign hacker behind cyberattacks that netted an estimated $55 million is facing sentencing by a U.S. judge in a conviction considered an unusual win for law enforcement officials who have identified hundreds of others like him but failed to put them in handcuffs. Ercan Findikoglu, a Turkish national, had gone to great lengths to avoid capture by the U.S. Secret Service, both by obscuring his cyber fingerprints but also by avoiding the reach of American law, according to court papers.

Trump Talks Aviation

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BasicMed Survey: Disappointed Resignation

Pilots should be wary when operating close to the boundaries of Class B airspace, the FAA said recently in a Safety Alert for Operators…. Years ago, new GPS approaches were commissioned at Houma, LA and the FAA King Air was flight checking them …Tower: ‘Report… In the Flytenow case, the FAA applied old thinking that doesn’t work in a world where technology moves at the speed of heat. They’ve moldered on my office shelf, unused, for more than a decade.

March 2017 Instrument Procedure Amendments Announced

On Friday, the FAA released the list of instrument procedures to be revised or cancelled in the March 2 update to the Terminal Procedures… Pilots should be wary when operating close to the boundaries of Class B airspace, the FAA said recently in a Safety Alert for Operators…. In the Flytenow case, the FAA applied old thinking that doesn’t work in a world where technology moves at the speed of heat. VFR into IMC events have a distressingly high fatality rate.

Film exposes underworld of U.S. children sold online for sex

When Mary Mazzio first heard about middle-school girls from her hometown of Boston suing a website on which they had been sold for sex, the self-described “recovering lawyer” was blown away. Soon enough, pouring over a copy of the court case, Mazzio was plunged into a corner of the internet she had not suspected even existed: the world of classified ads website, Backpage.com.