Category: North America

When most people think of submarine periscopes, they tend to picture a shaft extending down from the ceiling the sub’s bridge, through which the captain may peer out over the surface of the water, spinning the periscope with his body, as he moves left to right.  The reality of modern periscopes, however, is quite a […]

Samuel Straface thought he was the last one out the door one recent evening at the medical-technology startup he leads in suburban Boston. But as he passed a glass-walled conference room on the second floor, Dr. Straface says he saw a man he didn’t recognize, sitting by himself in front of two open laptops and […]

Amazing aerial footage of severe flooding in Bonita Springs, Florida from Hurricane Irma. Feature image from video screen capture This article is courtesy of Fighter Sweep.

The hurricane season continues in full force adding Jose, Maria and maybe Lee! Maria is heading straight towards Puerto Rico as a category 5 storm. NOAA’s GOES-16 captured this geocolor image of Hurricanes Jose and Maria and Tropical Depression Lee simultaneously churning through the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 18. – Space.com Featured image by NOAA This article is […]

The U.S. Senate passed its own version of the new defense budget on Monday, surpassing even President Trump’s requests for an increase in funding to bolster the nation’s military.  Although the chamber is Republican controlled, the $700 billion defense policy bill received support from both sides of the aisle on its way to an 89-8 […]

Sens. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., have asked credit monitoring service Equifax to explain how it is protecting the 1.3 million active-duty servicemembers affected by a massive data breach this year. The senators sent Equifax CEO Richard F. Smith a letter on Tuesday asking the company to share its plan to help members […]

MEXICO CITY — Oh, no. Not again. This was the general sentiment across a broad area of the eastern Caribbean on Sunday as residents, some still sifting through the wreckage left by Hurricane Irma, braced for the impact of yet another powerful storm stalking them in the Atlantic Ocean. Hurricane Maria was rumbling toward the Lesser […]

A satellite engineer who sold military secrets to an undercover FBI agent he believed to be a Russian spy was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison. In handing down the punishment for Gregory Allen Justice, U.S. District Judge George H. Wu added a few months to what sentencing guidelines recommended, saying he found the crimes […]

Four American college students were the victims of an acid attack at a train station in Marseilles, southern France, on Sunday.  All four victims were female, two of whom were taken two a nearby hospital, with the other two treated for shock, according to a spokeswoman for the Prefecture of Police of Bouches-du-Rhône. According to […]

This is how he repaid the infidels: A second suspect was arrested on Saturday in connection with the subway attack at London’s Parsons Green station that left 30 people injured, officials announced on Sunday as the city’s terror threat level is downgraded to “severe.” A 21-year-old man was arrested late Saturday night in Hounslow in […]

Aerial footage from an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Dragon Whales of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28, surveying damage caused by Hurricane Irma in the Florida Keys. The Department of Defense is supporting FEMA, the lead federal agency, in helping those affected by Hurricane Irma to minimize suffering and is one component of […]

When it comes to things like hurricanes, boredom can be seen as a blessing.  First, my little home in Georgia lost power, and my wife and I resigned ourselves to board games by candlelight.  Then, as she went to sleep early (as pregnant ladies often do), I found myself alone in the dark, left to […]