Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
3 mn readIt’s the story you never want to have to cover as an aviation reporter. Last week, we saw the first fatal crash of a U.S. airliner in almost 16 years when an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines regional jet over the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport. Nearly 70 people died […]
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< 1 mn readThe U.S. Postal Service will temporarily suspend accepting inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong Posts until further notice, the USPS website showed. The change, effective from Feb. 4, will not impact the flow of letters and flats from China and Hong Kong, according to the website. USPS did not immediately comment on whether this […]
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2 mn readA winter storm is forecast to spread ice and snow across portions of the central and eastern U.S. today, bringing widespread travel troubles and also the threat of power outages. Although snow is expected in some spots, most of the precipitation is expected to fall as a mix of freezing rain and sleet starting later […]
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2 mn readThe Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO), National Construction and Al-Jawf companies have warned of negative consequences due to the continued delay in disbursing their operational budgets, considering this issue a major obstacle to projects aimed at increasing production. The warning came during the first session of the General Assembly of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) […]
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6 mn readVladimir Syromiatnikov’s bold attempts to light up Siberia with a space mirror captured global attention. The BBC’s Tomorrow’s World reported on an ambitious experiment that was launched on 4 February 1993. It sounds like a scheme a James Bond villain might hatch: launching a giant mirror into orbit to harness the Sun’s rays, then redirecting […]
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2 mn readCapital One is being sued by the US government’s consumer watchdog agency for “cheating millions of consumers” and not paying more than $2 billion in interest to holders of its high-interest savings accounts. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) accuses Capital One of freezing the interest rates of its flagship “360 Savings” accounts at low […]
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