North America

Last November, the tragic murder of 26 people in the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas shined a light on what appeared to be a grave error in the Air Force’s procedures regarding service members separated for committing violent crimes. The shooter, 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley, should have been barred from purchasing the firearm […]

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s newest and most expensive aircraft carrier has been touted as the most powerful warship ever to take to the seas, but issues have continued to plague the advanced vessel, now prompting the Navy to request a six year delay in shock testing intended to determine how well the […]

Two Ohio police officers were shot and killed near Columbus on Saturday, after responding to a 911 hang up. The suspect was also wounded in the incident and is currently being treated in a nearby hospital. Officers Eric Joering, 39, and Anthony Morelli, 54, arrived at the scene of the 911 call only eight minutes […]

SpaceX’s launch of the Falcon Heavy on Tuesday has been hailed by many as a significant step forward for the private space flight industry. With it’s massive 64 ton payload capacity for low earth orbit flights, and the ability to allocate some of that storage to fuel for deep space flights the human race hasn’t […]

Bedford, MA — The VA in Bedford, the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, was in need of some snow removal and some routine landscaping duties. Heather Garneau-Harvey worked at the VA, alongside her father, Dennis Garneau, and the two of them outsourced the work — to Mr. Garneau’s son’s contracting company. He charged $200,000 for the snow […]

While SpaceX was garnering headlines with the launch of its new and extremely powerful Falcon Heavy platform, another SpaceX rocket stage may have been the target of a U.S. Air Force air strike in the Atlantic Ocean. Only days before the Falcon Heavy’s inaugural launch, SpaceX launched the SES-16/GovSat-1 mission. The mission was, for the […]

Yes. That’s a real picture of Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster passing by earth. In a moment that was seven years in the making, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, the most powerful operational rocket on the planet, successfully took to the skies on Tuesday afternoon. After Elon Musk himself said he would consider the test flight a success […]

Last week, Elon Musk made headlines by selling 20,000 Boring Company branded “flame throwers” in a matter of days. The novelty item technically isn’t a flame thrower at all, and could be more accurately described as a powerful torch, but that didn’t stop the nomenclature from getting a rise out of U.S. Reps. Eliot Engel […]

In the past few months, the idea of Unidentified Flying Objects as spacecraft from another world has enjoyed a resurgence in the minds of the public, thanks in no small part to the revelation that the Pentagon has been secretly devoting millions of dollars to the investigation of just such anomalous sightings for years now. […]

Springville, Utah — It was 1:57 p.m. when a police officer (who has not been named) stopped to investigate a donation box used primarily to distribute food and supplies to those in need. A man named Paul Anderson got out of the box with his hands in his pockets. The officer directed the man to […]

Two local residents of Seattle, Washington are facing weapons trafficking charges after authorities intercepted them attempting to smuggle guns into Turkey. According to reports, the men were going to smuggle the guns over the Turkish border and into the hands of Kurdish fighters in Iraq. Paul Brunt (51) and Rawnd Khaleel Aldalawi (29 and an […]

I recently found myself traversing the American countryside once again, cruising 1,140 miles from Tampa, Florida to Gary, Indiana right up to Lake Michigan (pictured above). Travelling in this country has never ceased to amaze me — the seamless movement from state to state, the richness and variety of cultures in the peculiar corners of […]