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The US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for engineers to develop new, innovative materials to construct hypersonic vehicles that don’t heat up while traveling more than five times the speed of sound. In a press release…
Scores of US Army veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan had their class action lawsuit challenging their “bad paper,” or less-than-honorable discharges approved on Friday. Such discharges deprive veterans of military benefits like mental health care, disability benefits and scholarships, even…
The governor of Mexico’s state of Puebla has died in a helicopter crash, local media report. MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) — Martha Erika Alonso, governor of the Mexican state of Puebla, died on Monday in a helicopter crash. According to Mexico’s Televisa TV channel, the governor was…
The number of people without homes in the United States has increased for the second time since 2010 following 2017’s spike, according to a new report from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Nearly 553,000 people are…
Two of the world’s less-prominent reserve currencies, the yen and the Swiss franc, have rallied against their major peers amid the elevated political tensions on Capitol Hill, in Westminster, and intra-EU relations. Kristian Rouz — The ongoing political stalemate on Capitol Hill,…
Officials at the international oil cartel OPEC say they might consider additional measures to support global oil prices in case the most recent round of output cuts doesn’t work; meanwhile, oil prices are showing signs of recovery amid fears of…
