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The 8-year-old told ABC News on Monday that after Hurricane Maria hit the U.S. territory in September, he and his family started sending donations of food and toiletries. He wanted to do more, however, after his mother’s boss gave him…
Automaker Volkswagen has suspended a top executive in response to widespread public criticism over experiments in which monkeys were exposed to diesel exhaust. The company said in a statement Tuesday that Thomas Steg, head of government relations and sustainability, was…
Regulators want to make emergency alerts on cellphones more useful by requiring wireless carriers to distribute them less widely. The Federal Communications Commission says carriers must transmit the alerts to more specific locations, rather than broadly. That could help make…
In 1857 a ship laden with gold from California went down in a hurricane, triggering a financial crisis in the United States. Sputnik spoke to Quintin Lindsmith, an attorney who explained why the investors who funded the salvage of the…
The US’ Kremlin Report sends an unambiguous signal to Russia’s foreign partners and domestic financial elites not to deal with Moscow, Turkish political observers told Sputnik. However, they believe that Washington’s recent initiative is largely doomed to failure. The so-called…
Governor of Ankara Ercan Topaca has announced in an interview with Turkish NTV channel that the gas leak was behind the blast that rocked one of the prestigious districts of the Turkish capital. According to Topaca, the blast took place in a…
