Saturday, August 18, 2018

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  National Geographic News



  • As the Trump Administration calls for a new military branch, get the plan's pros and cons and learn the rules governing off-world soldiers.
  • The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy—and we’re tracking them here as they happen.

    • Big wildfires, like those tearing through Northern California, can actually benefit some animals—while others escape, and many are hurt.


      Reuters: World News




  • Iran will unveil a new fighter jet next week and continue developing missile capabilities as a top priority, the defense minister said on Saturday, defying new U.S. sanctions aimed...
  • German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat, has threatened to make pensions a central theme in the next national elections in 2021 unless Chancellor Angela Merkel's...

    • Sudanese-born British national Salih Khater was charged with two counts of attempted murder on Saturday and will appear in court on Monday after a car careered into people and a barrier...


  • Boeing recently gave journalists a behind-the-scenes look at the company's new Starliner capsule, which could start carrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station...
  • Scientists have worried for years now that climate change will free carbon trapped in frozen soil in the Arctic, triggering faster climate change — but now they believe abrupt thawing...

    • Take a look inside the CST-100 Starliner hangar, where Boeing is building the private space capsules that will fly NASA astronauts and more into space!...

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