A record-breaking tunnel is being built under the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Germany, which will slash travel times and improve Scandinavia's links with the rest of Europe. Running for 18km (11 miles), the Fehmarnbelt will be the world's longest pre-fabricated road and rail tunnel. It's also a remarkable feat of engineering, that will see segments of the tunnel placed on top of the seafloor, and then joined together.
A contract for a sprawling tent city at the Fort Bliss military base in Texas has been terminated, according to a government document reviewed by NBC News.
Three of the Manhattan federal prosecutors who worked on the criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned Tuesday, accusing the Justice Department of trying to force them to admit wrongdoing in connection with their resistance to dropping the charges. "The Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions of Washington," the prosecutors wrote in a letter to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. "That is wrong." read more
Over the last month, the Trump administration has ramped up its promise to carry out "mass deportations." ... Since then, hundreds of international students across the country have had their student visas revoked for a variety of alleged infractions, ranging from traffic violations to pro-Palestinian speech. In mid-March, the administration also deported more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants -- many with active asylum cases before courts -- whom it alleges to be gang members to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, pointing to the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as justification for bypassing the usual due process of law. Among them was Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was unlawfully deported due to an "administrative error." Despite acknowledging the error and the Supreme Court ruling in favor of his return, the Trump administration has refused to bring Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. read more
With stress levels rising across the U.S., reportedly driven by inflation, health concerns, and work-life imbalance, new research reveals which states are managing stress better than others in 2025.
@#11 ... Earnings were announced on April 22nd - and the stock is up since then. ...
Because of the [lack of] earnings or because Mr Musk has said he will start focusing more on Tesla, instead of DOGE, next month?
It is interesting that your current alias seems to find the need to go back five years in order to find a positive delta.
That says a lot, in and of itself.
OK, let's look at the current quarter's report ...
Tesla Q1 Net Income Plunges 71% Amid Sales Slump
www.autobodynews.com
...The EV maker attributed the disappointing results to a combination of trade-related uncertainty, increased competition and political backlash tied to CEO Elon Musk. ...
Wow, wait, what?
Trade-related uncertainty?
You mean Tesla Corp is actually saying that Pres Trump's capricious tariff policies are having an effect upon Tesla's quarterly results?
Oh-nos. The horrors!
... In an op-ed for Forward this week, author Terrence Petty likened Trump's demonization of his self-declared enemies to Hitler's attempt to blame Jewish people for Germany's loss in World War I. The tactic was known as the Dolchstosslegende, or stabbed-in-the-back legend. ...
This is news to me.
OK, reading this news reminds me of ...
Donald Trump's Past Comments About 'Mein Kampf' Resurface (December 2023)
www.newsweek.com
... Donald Trump's past comments about Mein Kampf have resurfaced after he referenced the book penned by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in a speech in Iowa last night.
Trump has earned criticism for his speech in the Hawkeye State after he said immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our county" during a rally in New Hampshire over the weekend. He doubled down on the comments yesterday.
He said: "It's crazy what's going on ... They are destroying the blood of our country, that's what they are doing. They are destroying our country.
"They don't like it when I said that and I never read Mein Kampf. They say 'Oh, Hitler said that' in a much different way." ...
Maria Brenner wrote a 1990 Vanity Fair article, which included an interview with Trump's first wife Ivana Trump, and referred to Trump keeping a book by Hitler by his bed.
The article was published amid the couple's divorce following his affair with Marla Maples. Ivana died on July 14, 2022.
The article said: "Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.
"Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade."
Referring to this, Trump is quoted as saying: "It was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he's a Jew."
In response, Davis is quoted as saying he did give his friend a book about Hitler, but that it was actually My New Order A Collection of Speeches not Mein Kampf. ...
@#4 ... Trump really wants to lift sanctions on Russia.
Everything he does with Ukraine is window dressing to that end....
My view i that anything Pres trump does is for the benefit of citizen Trump.
So, how will Pres Trump sucking up to Pres Putin benefit citizen Trump?
Trump Tower Project in Moscow Might Be Offered by Putin: Report
www.newsweek.com
Funny thing about Tesla vehicles.
It was the liberal Democrats that pushed the company to prominence.
Stated differently...
How many MAGA Republicans have bought non-petrol vehicles these past few years?
Asked from a different angle ...
Now that Tesla has seem a 71% sales decline, how many Republicans will be buying a Tesla to help bail out Mr Musk? Really, how many?
As Tesla profits plunge 71%, Elon Musk says he'll spend less time on DOGE
www.wgbh.org
Too little, too late?
Time will tell.
Well, yeah.
If you believe what Pres trump says, you are likely screwed.
I mean, even the word "believe" has the word "lie" embedded in it.
OK, that aside ...
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
en.wikipedia.org
... Donald Trump has made tens of thousands of false or misleading claims, including during his first and second terms as President of the United States. Fact-checkers at The Washington Post documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during his first presidential term, an average of 21 per day.[1][5][6] ...
@#8 ... More tariffs should take care of the problem. ...
Yeah, separate the US from the rest of the world.
Is there hope?
Well, there's this ...
Scott Bessent's gentler message: America First' does not mean America alone'
www.marketwatch.com
Are Sec Bessent's opinions now presiding over Mr Navarro's opinions on tariffs?
But to the point of Sec Bessent's message.
When I managed a technology team back in the day, I used to say at the start of each meeting, ~none of us is as smart as all of us.~
That seems to be something that Pres Trump has failed to grasp in his ~I am the smartest, most awesome person~ mantra.
And that failure to grasp that may be his downfall.
But, who knows?
@#2 ... Trump was a Russian agent back in 2015 ...
But how much earlier was he targeted for recruitment as a Russian agent?
Links between Trump associates and Russian officials
en.wikipedia.org
... Since Donald Trump was a 2016 candidate for the office of President of the United States, multiple[1] suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials were discovered by the FBI, a special counsel investigation, and several United States congressional committees, as part of their investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[2] ...
Yeah, that's the "RussiaGate" thing the GOP complains about.
But there's more, from the same citation...
...Overview
1977 -- 1987 alleged cultivation and recruitment of Trump by KGB ....
Woof.
@#1 ... #1 It's running and they just showed it can be refueled while running. ...
If so, ... amazing.
Here's what I found ...
China Just Powered Up the World's First Thorium Reactor -- and Reloaded It Mid-Run
www.zmescience.com
... They used declassified US documents to develop the technology.
China just pulled off a feat no nation has managed before: it kept a nuclear reactor running while swapping out its radioactive fuel. That reactor, quietly humming away in the Gobi Desert, isn't powered by uranium. It runs on thorium -- a silvery metal that offers safer, cleaner, and more abundant nuclear energy with far less waste and no bomb-making potential.
This marks the first time anyone has successfully reloaded fuel in an operational thorium molten salt reactor (MSR) without shutting it down. And it puts China ahead in a race that, until recently, most countries didn't even know had restarted. ...
So, how does this affect Pres Trump's assertion that he will be deporting ten million illegal immigrants?
How would Trump's promise of mass deportations of migrants work? (November 18, 2024)
www.bbc.com
... US President-elect Donald Trump has doubled down on his campaign promise of the mass deportation of illegal immigrants, saying he plans to declare a national emergency and use the US military to carry out his plan.
The cost of doing so will not be a deterrent, Trump said, noting his priority upon taking office in January would be to make the border "strong and powerful".
"It's not a question of a price tag. It's not - really, we have no choice," Trump told NBC News earlier this month.
But how would Trump's campaign pledge of mass deportations of migrants actually work and what are the hurdles he may face? ...
Was there a plan?
Or just words?
@#14 ... Birthrates for US citizens will result in a collapse eventually. ...
How so?