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schwit1 shares a report from NPR: In a blow to tribes, a U.S. appeals court has denied a last ditch legal effort to block construction of what’s expected to be the largest lithium mine in North America on federal land in Nevada. In a decision Monday, t…
US aviation regulators are turning to a small Swiss technology startup to rethink how helicopter pilots are trained. From a report: The Federal Aviation Administration will evaluate virtual reality technology in flight simulators for the first time, ta…
Rome (AFP) – Tens of millions of people were battling dangerously high temperatures around the world on Sunday as record heat forecasts hung over parts of the United States, Europe and Asia, in the latest example of the threat from global warming. A p…
Bank of America “will pay more than $250 million in refunds and fines,” reports the Washington Post, “after federal regulators found the company systematically overcharged customers, withheld promised bonuses and opened accounts without customer approv…
“The Biden administration announced Friday that 804,000 borrowers will have their student debt wiped away, totaling $39 billion worth of debt, in the coming weeks…” reports CNN.
That’s an average of $48,507 per borrower, each of whom has “been payi…
Chinese military accuses the Pentagon of another provocative move as a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft transited the Taiwan Strait on Thursday. On its English-language website, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused the U.S. milita…
A Russian Aerospace Forces surveillance aircraft was spotted over the at-Tanf garrison in eastern Syria, a senior defense official said. The An-30 surveillance aircraft repeatedly flew over the at-Tanf garrison in eastern Syria, where U.S. forces train…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Newly raised concerns about lead-covered telephone cables installed across the US many decades ago are putting pressure on companies like AT&T and Verizon to identify the locations of all the c…
A luxury horse barn in Florida is primed to be the world’s largest 3D-printed building. From a report: Once it’s complete, the 3D-printed luxury equestrian barn in Wellington, Florida will overtake a building in Oman as the world’s largest 3D-printed s…
Lina Khan, the progressive head of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), faced tough questions on Thursday from a Republican-led House committee about court fights over multi-billion dollar mergers the agency opposed and lost. From a report: Represe…