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A US government source told The Diplomat this week that China has conducted flight tests of a missile equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). Two tests of the HGV, a model known as the DF-17, took place in November and China is understood to have conducted a number of other tests of experimental HGVs […]
US Marine Corps Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer made a special holiday appearance with troops deployed in Afghanistan. An image of him with a holstered sidearm drew some concern, due to his civilian status. It would not be out of the ordinary to see a uniformed senior military official carrying a pistol in a combat […]
Bud Light Marketers have started using legal cease-and-desist letters as viral marketing stunts. In recent months, companies such as Netflix, TGI Fridays and Bud Light have taken potential trademark infringements and turned them into marketing opportunities. The tactic not only lets these companies show off their personalities, but ideally helps improve their favorability scores among […]
In this edition of Sequel Bits: Lethal Weapon 5 is close to being a real thing The Halloween reboot gets a new leading lady Regina Hall joins the sequel to Shaft A new poster for The Strangers: Prey at Night Kingsman 3 apparently already in the works I don’t know if anyone is really excited about the […]
Thomson Reuters As special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation ramps up, President Donald Trump’s allies have doubled down on claims that Mueller’s team is biased against him. Right-wing figures latched onto new reports last week that two investigators on Mueller’s team expressed views favoring former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. FBI veterans refute that characterization, […]
OTTAWA — Some athletes find a way to deliver under pressure. Others crumble when the moment becomes too big. Adam Kingsbury’s obsession is finding out why some are better than others at making the game-winning shot. For the past two years, he’s been the head coach of Rachel Homan’s curling team — even though he doesn’t have much […]
General Motors plans to use costly but lightweight carbon fiber to make the beds on premium versions of large pickup trucks as the auto maker aims to stay competitive in the crucial category while also satisfying tightening fuel-economy standards. WSJ.com: What’s News US
Disney/Lucafilm Disney is preparing for a full-scale rivalry with Netflix. That means Disney needs all the programming it can get as it plans for a direct-to-consumer, digitally-dominated media future. Disney’s first shot in this war may be to buy a collection of assets from 21st Century Fox. More deals are sure to follow. Disney may be […]
It was, by any measure, an epic celebration, its scope befitting a country that just months earlier had been on the verge of revolution. On March 21 and March 28, 1969, some 500,000 Czechoslovakian citizens poured into the streets to celebrate — and thumb their noses at occupying troops from the Soviet Union, Poland, East […]
President Donald Trump has pushed his Twitter account to somehow new extremes this week. On Tuesday, he inflamed Democratic congressional leaders, leading them to pull out of a meeting planned to talk over how to avoid a government shutdown. And on Wednesday morning, he smashed the retweet button on anti-Muslim videos shared by an ultranationalist […]
