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Clint Emerson, former Navy SEAL, has written a second book titled “100 Deadly Skills: Survival Edition.” Here is an excerpt that focuses on surviving an ambush or an active-shooter situation. The state of survival isn’t what it used to be. Scroll back several hundred years, and the living was harder, but the environment was a […]
Las Vegas was the site of what is now being called the deadliest mass shooting in American history last night, as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, a local resident with no known affiliations to terrorism, opened fire on a gathering of thousands of people attending a country music festival on the Strip. More than 50 people were […]
Two attacks that took place in Edmonton, Canada on Sunday have been linked to a single suspected terrorist by local authorities, after a man who was seen driving his vehicle into a police officer, then stabbing him, later went on to drive a truck into at least four pedestrians during a chase from police. At […]
Are you freaking kidding me USAF?! For the U.S. Air Force, the case of alleged sexual harassment and assault by a senior officer was exactly the type of misconduct Pentagon leaders had promised Congress and the public they would no longer tolerate. The victim at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Alabama reported in September 2015 […]
A study reported this week in JAMA Pediatrics found that children who watched a movie excerpt in which characters used firearms were more interested in playing with a handgun than children who watched an expurgated version from which images of firearms had been excised. The researchers think their findings could be important in reducing fatal firearm accidents involving children. […]
If you are an American who is cautious, fortunate, or celibate enough to have avoided contracting yourself a sexually transmitted disease, do me a favor and play this little game. Go round-up two of your friends. Now stand between them, three abreast. Look to your left and look to your right. Chances are one of […]
Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Friday tore into a comment made the prior day by the acting homeland security secretary, Elaine Duke, that federal relief efforts in the U.S. island territory were “a good news story.” Duke, speaking outside the White House on Thursday, had said she was “very satisfied” […]
Chelsea Manning has been denied entry into Canada, according to a letter she recently posted to Twitter. According to the letter Manning received from the Canadian government, she was “inadmissible on grounds of serious criminality for having been convicted of an offense outside Canada,” the letter reads. The letter further describes Canada’s decision to bar […]
I approach movies differently if I intend to review them for an audience. When I’m invited to a critic’s screening, I bring a notebook and I approach the story as though I would any other: with intent and an analytical eye. “Spider-Man: Homecoming” wasn’t such a film. As I buckled in to watch the third […]
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling spacecraft captured this photo of Earth on Sept. 22, 2017, shortly after performing a speed-boosting flyby of our planet. On Friday (Sept. 22), OSIRIS-REx zoomed 10,711 miles (17,237 kilometers) above Antarctica, acing a “gravity-assist” flyby designed to boost its speed and set its course toward a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. The probe took the newly […]
Vice President Mike Pence sent the lawyer representing him in the federal probe of Russia’s US-election meddling to meet with special counsel Robert Mueller this summer, Politico reported on Thursday. Pence’s attorney, Richard Cullen, signed on to represent the vice president in June, about a month after Mueller’s investigation got underway. A source cited by Politico said […]
Executives from Facebook, Alphabet Inc’s Google and Twitter have been asked to testify to the U.S. Congress in coming weeks as lawmakers probe Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. election, committee sources said on Wednesday. A Senate aide said executives from the three firms had been asked by the Senate Intelligence Committee to appear […]
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