Worries as Trump DOT repeals Obama-era railway rules

Published time: 8 Dec, 2017 20:00 Federal regulators announced they are rolling back regulations on “bomb trains,” arguing they are too costly. Under the rules, trains carrying high explosive liquids were supposed to have electronically-controlled pneumatic brakes by 2021. The US Department of Transportation said it will rescind the mandate for the pneumatic brakes in […]

Pokemon Go event news: Thanksgiving 2017 update reveal, Niantic quell Harry Potter worries

Niantic have confirmed that they will be making a new Pokemon Go event announcement next week. The development confirmed the news via a blogpost, revealing that they will make a big reveal on what’s coming next to the popular AR title. The news comes with the added incentive that Niantic are looking to placate Pokemon […]

Ukraine’s return to the debt markets worries economic reformers

MUCH has changed since Ukraine last tapped global debt markets in 2013. The next year the “Maidan revolution” drove out the corrupt regime of Viktor Yanukovych; and Russia annexed Crimea and stoked a war in Ukraine’s east. The economy languished, with GDP contracting by 16% in 2014-15; only an IMF rescue staved off collapse. Unable […]

Colony's Sarah Wayne Callies Worries, 'I've Never Survived a Season 3!'

Never mind what Season 3 of Colony is actually about — Sarah Wayne Callies merely hopes that Katie Bowman makes it out alive. After all, the Prison Break and Walking Dead alum reminded Michael Ausiello during the USA Network drama’s visit to TVLine’s Comic-Con interview suite, “I’ve never survived the third season of a television […]

Bangladesh worries about falling remittances

IT IS a mystery. Last year Bangladesh’s army of migrant workers abroad increased by a record 750,000, to reach 8m-odd. They travel to earn money for their families. Yet the statistics suggest they are sending less money home. In the fiscal year that ends this month, recorded remittances will have fallen for the second consecutive […]

Inside North Korea’s Unit 180, the cyber warfare cell that worries the West

AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s main spy agency has a special cell called Unit 180 that is likely to have launched some of its most daring and successful cyber attacks, according to defectors, officials and internet security experts. North Korea has been blamed in recent years for a series of online attacks, […]

‘Outside the realm of normal,’ ‘crazy’: James Comey is said to have expressed worries about Trump before his firing

AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Former FBI director James Comey was reported to have been at odds with President Donald Trump, long before his abrupt dismissal on Tuesday.  The New York Times reports that after Trump had made the widely discredited allegation that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower prior to his inauguration, an astonished Comey […]