NASA picked three companies today (Jan. 14) to operate an orbital mule train, hauling supplies and experiments to and from the International Space Station from 2017 through 2024, the end of the laboratory’s expected lifespan.
What are corrupt government officials and drug cartels to do with their ill-gotten cash? All too often, according to US officials, the answer is to buy expensive real estate through an anonymous shell corporation.
The Tea Party, or however you call the United State’s conservative populist movement, often portrays its origin story as an outraged response to the government bailout of Wall Street during the 2008 financial crisis.
“It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency — that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better.”
In a video rant released this morning, T-Mobile CEO John Legere responded to complaints about its video service from Google and open internet advocates, calling his critics “jerks” whose critiques are “bullshit” designed to bolster their companies and confuse his customers.
The CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin is 396 meters long and 54 meters wide, longer than the Empire State building is tall and wide as half a US football field. Crewed by 26 people, it can carry the equivalent of 18,000 standard cargo containers for a net tonnage of 116,000.
Ian Bremmer and Cliff Kupchan, a political scientist and veteran US foreign policy aide respectively, founded the Eurasia Group in 1998 to sell geopolitical know-how to Wall Street. They’ve seen a lot since then. So it’s perhaps saying something that 2016, as Bremmer describes it, is shaping up to be “the most volatile and challenging in terms of geopolitical risk” that the firm has ever seen.
North Korea says it tested a hydrogen bomb. It probably wasn’t a hydrogen bomb, but China is not pleased regardless. In any case, the only redeeming thing about the recent developments from this oppressive totalitarian state is its absurdist news release, published here in its entirety. We encourage your annotations.
When Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders laid out his agenda for financial reform today, he criticized the influence of banks on the government, called for limits on credit card rates and ATM fees, and, above all, promised to break up the largest banks in the country within a year of taking office:
US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ stance toward Wall Street has served as a touchstone for the socialist senator’s campaign—and his speech on the topic today (Jan. 5) in New York will offer another point of contrast with his main rival for the Democratic nomination, former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Donald J. Trump would like to sincerely wish you a very scary new year.
On Dec. 20, when CBS News asked Apple CEO Tim Cook about his company’s history using subsidiaries in Ireland to evade US taxes, he waxed indignant:
An unsecured database containing information on more than 190 million US voters has been floating around the internet, and nobody seems to know how it got there. That’s a troubling sign as political campaigns become increasingly dependent on collecting, analyzing, and utilizing personal voter information.
“It’s very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it,” Donald Trump told Fortune in 2000, during his first abortive run for president.
For the 14th consecutive year and the 20th year overall, Hillary Clinton is the woman whom Americans are likely to say they admire most—a record for anyone, male or female, in the the open-ended poll conducted by Gallup annually since 1948.
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Friendlier relations between the United States and Cuba promise lucrative payouts for nearly all involved. US businesses are eager to open up a new market, Cuban citizens are eager to see the end of an embargo and the socialism that held them back from prosperity, and even Cuban officials expect to make a buck managing the transition ahead.
Millions of Americans are celebrating Christmas or using the holiday period to visit family, and will be forced to confront reality: Their relatives are getting old, and someone has to take care of them.
By launching a cargo of satellites into orbit and returning the rocket booster to a vertical landing on earth, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has reached the next major milestone in its quest to reduce the cost of reaching space, with the potential to disrupt the entire rocket industry.
The latest SpaceX rocket is sitting on a launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying 11 Orbcomm communications satellites—and a lot of Elon Musk’s biggest aspirations.
The current US presidential campaign has seen several candidates use the specter of massive, unchecked immigration to stoke deep-rooted fears in the electorate. Undocumented immigrants, they say, are streaming into the US, taking Americans’ jobs, and driving down wages.
This week, Actuality just happens to stop by your house with a helping of holiday cheer, a glass of eggnog, and some special guests armed with well-informed cocktail chatter about five of our favorite stories in 2015.
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The Republican presidential candidates debating on CNN tonight (Dec. 15) fit right in with the trailer for Michael Bay’s Benghazi techno-thriller that all too briefly interrupted their squabbles: They were stoked for big, explosive government to take over and blow voters’ fears away.
