David Axe
Security,
And why Washington wishes it had more of them.
Here’s what we do know. In March 2011 Seawolf’s sister ship Connecticut was tapped for the rare honor of operating under the Arctic ice for tests.
Connecticut and the brand-new Virginia-class sub New Hampshire sailed north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, for one of the Navy’s infrequent “ICEX” exercises, begun after the submarine USS Nautilus, in 1958, became the first undersea boat to reach the North Pole. Читать дальше...
(AP) — A team working to match photos with each of the 58,315 names on the Vietnam Memorial wall in Washington, D.C., is looking for a photo of a soldier from the Casa Grande area. Janna Hoehn, a member of a group called Faces Never Forgotten, is searching for a photo of Harold Joseph Marrietta, the Casa Grande Dispatch reported (http://bit.ly/2qqfZh1). Once Hoehn has Marrietta's photo, it will be added on the "Wall of Faces" website at www.vvmf.org/thewall, as well as being used in the future... Читать дальше...
The Cannes Film Festival is gearing up to award its prestigious Palme d'Or at a glitzy award ceremony.
New French President Emmanuel Macron is promising tough talk at his first meeting with Vladimir Putin on Monday, following an election campaign when his team accused Russian media of trying to interfere in the democratic process. Macron, who took office two weeks ago, has said that dialogue with Russia is vital in tackling a number of international disputes. Nevertheless, relations have been beset by mistrust, with Paris and Moscow backing opposing sides in the Syrian civil war and at odds over the Ukraine conflict. Читать дальше...
Move over, Cannes: a first-year film festival in Fargo, North Dakota that is part of an annual drone conference “aims to highlight the possibilities of art from above,” according to the Associated Press. The film festival attracted 42 entries from 21 countries with categories including narrative, landscape and architecture, showreel, lifestyle and work by students. According to the festival’s website, “The Drone Focus Film Festival is looking foster the growth of the drones and UAS industry by... Читать дальше...
They say it's the best milk you'll ever drink.
The SEAL's parachute failed to open properly, official says.
The Twins first baseman reached base seven times Sunday in an 8-6, 15-inning loss to Tampa Bay.
The Philippines’ military discovered the bodies of executed civilians dumped on the streets of the city of Marawi over the weekend, raising the total death toll over six days of fighting to nearly 100.
The Philippines’ military discovered the bodies of executed civilians dumped on the streets of the city of Marawi over the weekend, raising the total death toll over six days of fighting to nearly 100.
Top-seeded Kerber knocked out of French Open
A movie about Jean-Luc Godard? At the Cannes Film Festival? While the master himself is still around?
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Fire officials say a brush fire on a Los Angeles hillside above Brentwood was accidentally started by someone clearing brush with a weed trimmer. Firefighters have also made gains on a brush house in the desert town of Mecca, southeast of Palm Springs, that chased about 50 people from their homes in an apartment complex. Firefighters are gaining the upper hand on a 30-acre brush fire in a Los Angeles canyon near a winding road with large homes. [...] a brush fire in the desert town of Mecca southeast... Читать дальше...
Bernhard Langer is loving middle age.
Takuma Sato becomes the first Japanese driver to win the Indy 500, as he held off Helio Castroneves and denied him a chance at a fourth win at "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing."
Ken Ackerman, whose classic, stentorian radio announcer’s voice graced Bay Area airwaves for more than five decades, has died. Mr. Ackerman is best remembered as the soothing announcer on the overnight music program “Music ’Til Dawn” on KCBS. Mr. Ackerman, who was born in 1922 and raised in Sacramento, got into radio while attending Grant Union High School, announcing a student program that aired on KROY. In a 2009 column about KCBS, The Chronicle’s Carl Nolte wrote that Mr. Ackerman “sounded like polished wood.” KQW became KCBS in 1949... Читать дальше...
Southern rock pioneer Gregg Allman was as gifted as he was unpredictable, leading a life marked by band shakeups, breakups and short-lived marriages...
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