Month: January 2020

President Trump knows business. He knows the stock market. And he thinks he knows what should be happening to your “409K’s” right about now. After stock market indexes rose to record highs early Thursday, Trump sent a tweet asking “HOW ARE YOUR 409K’S DOING?” If they’re “only 50 percent up,” he continued, well, “What are…

Jerusalem (AFP) – The Israeli defence ministry has hailed a “breakthrough” in the development of cheaper laser-based air defences, as tensions soar in the region after Iran hit US targets in retaliation for a high-profile assassination. The lasers, still under development, would be capable of intercepting “everything” fired at Israel, including long and medium range…

A police detective who fabricated a fake assault and lied under oath in order to imprison an innocent man has been spared jail time. Former NYPD officer Michael Bergmann, 34, filed a criminal complaint claiming that a burglary suspect – whose car he had reportedly been pulling over for months in order to find grounds…

Question: Recently, there were at least three incidents of planes skidding off runways or taxiways. In freezing conditions, with ice on the runway, how safe is the anti-skid braking system on a modern jet? Answer: Though landing in icy conditions is challenging, it can be done safely.  The modern jet’s anti-skid system is very good.…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran is believed to have deliberately avoided U.S. military casualties during retaliatory missile strikes on bases housing American troops in Iraq, following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general, according to U.S. and European government sources familiar with intelligence assessments. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Wednesday the Iranians…

YouTube/Frontline PBS | Official A Border Patrol agent says separating migrant families in the spring of 2018 was “the most horrible thing I’ve ever done.” The officer, Wesley Farris, told PBS’s “Frontline” that he had to separate a devastated two-year-old boy from his family, and that he refused to do it again afterwards. “The world…

KELLOGG, Idaho (AP) — One skier remains missing at an Idaho resort where an avalanche on Tuesday killed two skiers and injured four others. The Silver Mountain Resort was closed Wednesday “to focus all available resources on the search,” the resort said on Facebook. The resort said it received a telephone call Wednesday morning from…

Idaho teen helps rescue avalanche survivor trapped 9 feet under snow originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Rescue efforts concluded on Tuesday after an avalanche trapped inbound skiers at Silver Mountain Resort, Idaho. Two people were killed but five were rescued. Among those scouring the slopes as part of the rescue effort was 17-year-old Blaine Goodner, who…

Buried under about 10 feet (3 meters) of snow after an avalanche this week at an Idaho ski resort, Bill Fuzak made peace with his predicament and prepared for death. “I had already relegated myself to the inevitable as I knew the air would not last long,” Fuzak, 62, wrote on a public Facebook page…

Key Point: China understands that in a maritime conflict with virtually any nation but the United States, its carriers would be would be a powerful combat advantage. China’s recent release of its first strategic white paper signals its official emergence as a maritime—and therefore global—power. Little in the document should surprise those who have monitored China’s…