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Mark Esper says US isn’t looking ‘to start a war with Iran, but we are prepared to finish one’
“We are not looking to start a war with Iran, but we are prepared to finish one,” Esper said during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. Earlier Tuesday, CNN reported that US forces and air-defense missile batteries across the Middle East were placed on high alert overnight Monday to possibly shoot down Iranian drones as …
GE Is Touting Its Health-Care Business, but It Isn’t Helping the Stock
Industrial conglomerate General Electric hosted an investor “teach-in” in Chicago at a medical conference on Monday. The company reviewed its health-care franchise in a “post-biopharma” world. GE is selling its biopharma business to Danaher for $21 billion. Now investors have to evaluate the growth and margin potential of what is left. “GE Healthcare is a …
No, Apple isn’t opening a new manufacturing plant in Texas
Enlarge / Donald Trump speaks at Apple’s Mac Pro manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas. MANDEL NGAN / Getty President Donald Trump toured Apple’s Mac Pro manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas, with CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday. “We’re seeing the beginning of a very powerful and important plant,” Trump said during the visit. “I want to …
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is gone, but the terrorist group isn’t dead yet
ISIS established a horrifying standard of brutality, re-establishing slavery, practicing what amounted to genocide against the Yazidis, carrying out mass executions and beheadings — all caught on camera — and demolishing religious sites and antiquities. The United States, with the help of its coalition allies, Iraq and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), destroyed the Islamic …
The GM workers’ strike probably isn’t worth it (opinion)
In fact, the UAW’s members appear to have lost this fight. It’s difficult to calculate the exact impact on the typical GM employee, but it’s possible that many of them will only net a small financial gain from the new deal. Consider that employees had to go without a paycheck for more than four weeks. …
Experts say sex education isn’t keeping up with technology
Posted October 07, 2019 06:21:56 Child safety experts say school-based sex education programs aren’t keeping up with the times, or the technology when it comes to sexting, despite research showing one in three teens is engaging in the practice. Key points: Experts say more needs to be done to educate young people about sexting, not …
Technology To Protect Pedestrians From Crashes Isn’t Doing The Job, Study Says
New tests showed that pedestrian detection systems consistently under performed and in some cases failed completely. (AAA) Helping drivers spot people in order to prevent or lessen the severity of collisions is the goal of automatic emergency braking systems with pedestrian detection, but new tests show that those systems consistently under perform and in some …
Nostalgia Isn’t Going To Save ‘Jurassic World 3’
Don’t ever change, Jeff. (Photo by Michael Tran/FilmMagic) FilmMagic Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, and Sam Neill are officially set to return to Jurassic Park, or rather, Jurassic World, according to Collider. Alarmingly, so is Colin Trevorrow, director of Jurassic World and co-writer of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Trevorrow will return to direct the threequel, and …
Global pandemic risk is growing — and the world isn’t ready, WHO says
In a report published on Wednesday by a panel of international health experts and officials, they pointed to the 1918 influenza pandemic as an example of a global catastrophe. That killed as many as 50 million people — if a similar contagion happened today, it could kill up to 80 million people and wipe out …
John Dingell attack: Lindsey Graham tells Trump that comment ‘isn’t funny’
“The bottom line is, it’s not a funny joke and you’re not helping yourself,” Graham, speaking to reporters following a meeting with the President at the White House, said he told Trump. Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said that there’s “no personal animosity” between Trump and Dingell, arguing that Trump had “made sure” that Dingell …