Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time' 2019 person of the year
New York (AFP) – Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who became the voice of conscience for a generation facing the climate change emergency, was announced Wednesday as Time magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year. The 16-year-old first hit the headlines for her solo strike against global warming outside Sweden’s parliament last year. “We can’t just…
Former Head of Mexican Police Charged with Drug Trafficking
The former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna was charged Tuesday with drug trafficking and receiving bribes from the notorious Sinaloa Cartel. Garcia Luna’s position made him the head of Mexican police. He served in the office from 2006 to 2012, and was arrested on Monday by federal agents in Dallas, Texas. “Garcia…
The architect of Mexico's war on cartels was just arrested in Texas and accused of drug trafficking and taking bribes
LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images Genaro Garcia Luna, who was Mexico’s public-security secretary between 2006 and 2012, was arrested in Texas on Monday. Garcia Luna, the architect of Mexico’s campaign against organized crime in the late 2000s, is the latest Mexican official accused of corruption and involvement in drug trafficking. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for…
US charges: Mexico ex-security chief took bribes from cartel
NEW YORK (AP) — Mexico’s former top security chief has been indicted in New York City on charges he accepted a fortune in drug-money bribes from kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s notorious Sinaloa cartel to let it operate with impunity in Mexico. Genaro Garcia Luna, 51, was charged in federal court in Brooklyn with three…
Meet the Seawolf: America's "F-22-Like" Stealth Submarine
Key point: These submarines are excellent but were too costly to build many of. The Seawolf-class submarines were envisioned as the best submarines ever built. Designed to succeed the Los Angeles–class attack submarines and maintain America’s edge in the underwater domain, the class suffered from cost overruns and the collapse of the Soviet Union. While still some of…
History's Mystery: What Sank the Navy Submarine USS Thresher?
Key point: Bad parts were most likely to blame for the sub’s untimely demise. What sank Thresher? The best available theory is the extensive use of silver brazing on piping throughout the ship. An estimated three thousand silver-brazed joints were present on the ship, and the theory goes that up to four hundred of them had been…
Why Can't Russia Replace Its Old Submarines Fast Enough?
Robert BeckhusenDecember 11, 2019 Key point: Moscow doesn’t have the means and capacity to build its subs quick enough. In March 2017, Russia’s new Yasen-class nuclear attack submarine Kazan launched at the northern port city of Severodvinsk. Perhaps the quietest Russian submarine ever, the event was further evidence the Kremlin can still build capable and lethal…
Emotions and motion: On the bus with Biden in Iowa
Former Vice President Joe Biden holds the lead among the 18 early states for the 2020 presidential Democratic primary season, according to the latest after being accused of selling access to President Obama through his son’s role involving a gas company in Ukraine. “So this is really unlike any exchange of the past the campaign…
Biden Suggests He Would Only Serve One Term: Report
Former vice president Joe Biden has reportedly suggested that he would only serve one term if elected president but has stopped short of publicly pledging not to run again. Click Here:
Trump rips into Democrats for coupling impeachment with trade deal at raucous rally
HERSHEY, Pa. (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted House Democrats for announcing an agreement to pass a revamp of the decades-old North American trade deal on the same day they unveiled articles of impeachment against him. Speaking to a boisterous crowd in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Trump said House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi…