Your next corporate event could have you flying drones
Drone manufacturer DJI this month is opening its first ever DJI Arena -- an event space for training seminars, UAV clubs and corporate events.
Drone manufacturer DJI this month is opening its first ever DJI Arena -- an event space for training seminars, UAV clubs and corporate events.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. Virgin Islands announced Tuesday it is stepping up its fight against mosquitoes amid what officials in the U.S. territory say is a significant Zika outbreak. Health officials said a company hired by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will use an organic larvicide and eliminate any
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On July 17, 2015, Donald Trump received a caps lock–heavy campaign memo from one of his advisers containing instructions on how to communicate with a voter species that was especially exotic to the candidate at the time.
“The audience is CHRISTIAN SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES,” the Trump adviser wrote on the eve of the the 2015 Family Leadership Summit in Iowa. “They are open to your candidacy but NEED TO KNOW that their issues are IMPORTANT TO YOU.”
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Anton Yelchin received the recall notice for his Jeep Grand Cherokee in the mail seven days after his death, the Yelchin family lawyer revealed during an emotional press conference on Tuesday (August 2). “The safety recall was way too little and way too late,” attorney Gary Dordick said. “They should have never used this device.” [...]
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Before she started college, runner Morolake Akinosun made a bold prediction: That someday she would make the US Olympic team.
On July 28, 2011, she decided to make that prediction official by posting it on Twitter. That day, she tweeted: "In 2016, I will be 22, graduated from a school I have not chosen yet, and going to the olympics (:"
Lo and behold — five years later — she has made that dream a reality. On July 30, she took to Twitter again, linking... Читать дальше...
Toymaker Lego has created a large model of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro, to celebrate the host city of the 2016 Olympic Games.
Swansea City turn down a £10m bid from Premier League rivals Everton for Wales captain Ashley Williams.
One artist is taking Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s signature phrase ― #ImWithHer ― and turning it into a brilliant new tongue-in-cheek anti-Trump campaign that pays homage to one of the biggest queer icons of all time: Cher.
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Bookmakers are hit by a major gamble as Irish trainer Charles Byrnes and jockey Davy Russell pull off a treble at Roscommon races.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, one of the most prominent figures in American policing, is stepping down. Crime declined in the city after Bratton's early enthusiasm for the broken windows policy.
For many French Islamist terrorists, radicalization started while serving time in French prisons. Sociologist Farhad Khosrokhavar says some young Muslims see radicalism as a way to strike back at a secular society.
Janet Webster Jones recommends Why Grow Up? by Susan Neiman, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson and A History Of Food In 100 Recipes by William Sitwell.
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The ultimate quiz for Boy Meets World fans.
The collection of ice cores from around the world will be housed in an Antarctic ice cave.
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton is resigning his post. Bratton led the department through a challenging time for policing in America.
After the recent attack in Nice, two Muslim sisters wanted to help the French army. What happened when they tried to volunteer says a lot about France and young French Muslims.
Alabama officials will consider the early release of Birmingham church bomber Thomas Blanton. The 78-year-old Ku Klux Klansman was convicted in 2001 of murdering four girls in the 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church. Family members of the victims oppose his parole.
Confusion surrounds many Russian athletes in Rio, whose status to compete in the Olympics remains unclear. Individual sports federations are trying to determine who's eligible to compete with only days left before the games begin. Some athletes have appealed their suspensions.
Among the first-time Olympians for team USA is Jackie Galloway. The 20-year-old college student thinks she can take home gold in taekwondo.
During a meeting Tuesday with the prime minister of Singapore, President Obama touted the benefits of the Trans-Pacific trade deal. But with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both on record against the deal, Obama faces a narrow path to ratification.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine accepted $160,000 worth of free travel and gifts while serving as governor and lieutenant governor of Virginia. It was all legal and disclosed. NPR explores if it is still a campaign issue.
A federal judge on Monday blocked North Dakota from enforcing its strict voter ID law. Similar laws in North Carolina and Wisconsin have also been recently struck down. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Richard L. Hasen, a professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine, about the future of voter ID legislation.
NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Pavel Felgenhauer, a columnist for Novaya Gazeta, about how the U.S. presidential election is being covered in Russia and how the Russian public views Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
