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Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee this month, CENTCOM commander General Joseph L. Votel set about talking straight on Syria. Votel, in a colloquy with Senator Lindsey Graham that was refreshing for its brevity and candor, acknowledged that the…
What is marriage for? As cohabitation and singleness are on the rise, we increasingly struggle to answer that question. In 2010, 39 percent of Americans said they believed marriage was becoming obsolete. Those who do marry often cite “love” and…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom’s TVEL Fuel Company is planning to introduce to market its new accident tolerant fuel for nuclear power plants (NPP), Natalia Nikipelova, the president of TVEL, told Sputnik in an interview.…
IRKUTSK (Russia) (Sputnik) – Russia has completed assembling of the second MC-21 passenger aircraft at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant and the flight tests of the plane will take place in May, a spokesman of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant told Sputnik…
Originally expected to last just two years, NASA’s long-running Marsbound Curiosity rover has just passed its 2000-solar day mark on the surface of the fourth planet and is still running strong. The 1982-pound solar-powered Curiosity landed on Mars in August of 2012 and…
The new head of China’s central bank shrugged off fears of an economic meltdown at the hands of new Washington tariffs, suggesting that financial risks from a trade war with the US will be minimal. Yi Gang, recently appointed to run…
