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US Black Engineer GM’s Gerald Johnson recognized as 2021’s Black Engineer of the Year Published February 14, 2021 By : Lango Deen The 2021 Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA), held Thursday, Feb. 11 through Saturday, Feb. 13, was an all-digital event. This year’s conference theme was “Stand Up. Step Up. Make a Change,” a call to social justice action. Participants in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields had access to 24 hours of events, award shows, and enter...

by Angira Bharadwaj, Adella Beaini and Joanna Panagopoulos 9th Feb 2021 11:24 AM Premium Content Subscriber only Hours after NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman called on locals to not graffiti on Sydney streets for Graffiti Removal Day - a seven-metre honorary mural he unveiled has been left vandalised. Mr Speakman inaugurated the portrait of former Rural Fire Service boss Shane Fitzsimmons yesterday and said the artwork would rem...

By Ronald L. Ray — True to its state motto — “Sic semper tyrannis,” or “Thus always to tyrants” — the Commonwealth of Virginia has brought a $1.15 billion civil fraud lawsuit against a “banker’s dozen” of the largest international investment houses. Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced the case in mid-September, which was filed in Richmond Circuit Court. In a prepared statement, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) alleged that the big banks deliberately misreprese...

A United States B-1B Lancer heavy bomber will perform during a a fly-by-fly during the Aero India show at the Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru.

Pope Francis exchanges greetings with Ken Hackett, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, and his wife, Joan, during a meeting with ambassadors to the Holy See at the Vatican Jan. 13. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) (Jan. 13, 2014) Why would a global, democratic superpower seek out and maintain diplomatic relations with the world’s smallest monarchical theocracy? While the United States and the Holy See have enjoyed diplomatic relations for nearly four decades, theirs is a formal relationship that took the...

United States and India: Major Defense Partners at Aero India 2021 India Updated: Friday, February 5, 2021, 16:36 [IST] Bengaluru, Jan 29: United States participation in Aero India 2021 is another example of the deepening defense and strategic partnership between the United States and India. Don Heflin, U.S. Chargé dAffaires, will lead a high-level delegation of U.S. Government officials and defense industry representatives to the event. "I am pleased to head this years U.S. delegation to Aero...

Joe Biden overturns Donald Trumps ban on transgender people serving in the US military Posted MonMonday 25 JanJanuary 2021 at 7:36pm Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch s President Joe Biden says the executive order reinstates a position that previous commanders and defense secretaries have supported. Share Print text only Cancel President Joe Biden has signed an executive order overturning Donald Trumps controversial ban on tr...

Virginia moves toward banning capital punishment, in a shift for prolific death penalty state Laura Vozzella, Gregory S. Schneider © Provided by The Washington Post RICHMOND —Virginia, a state that has executed more prisoners than any other in the country, appears poised to eliminate the death penalty — a seismic shift for the state legislature, which just five years ago looked to the electric chair and secret pharmaceutical deals to keep the ultimate punishment alive. Th...

Allure of toxic leaders January 23, 2021 A modern state is made up of two imperatives: state sovereignty and national integration. It ceases to be a state in the true sense when any of the two is compromised. Leadership has critical implications for this nation-state. Its success leads to strength and prosperity; its failure to ominous fissures within the state. The US, in the guise of the Monroe and Stimson Doctrines, termed changes anywhere in the world as a challenge to US interests; 9/11 ...

Joint Chiefs send memo to troops condemning MAGA riots as sedition Associated Press and Dailymail.com Reporter © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo The militarys top leaders issued a written reminder to all service members Tuesday that the deadly insurrection at the Capitol last week was an anti-democratic, criminal act, and that the right to free speech gives no-one the right to commit violence. A memo signed by all members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff also reminded mili...