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An amateur video of what appears to be a Chinese H-6N bomber carrying a previously-unseen mystery missile emerged over the weekend. The H-6N is the most advanced Chinese bomber in the H-6 family and is, according to the Pentagon, 'optimized for long-range strikes.' A missile analyst told Insider that the...BomberThe PentagonPLAChineseB-52 BombersPeople's Liberation ArmyGuamUS NavyMilitary AircraftNuclear MissilesAircraft CarriersMilitary WeaponsMaxwell Air Force BaseUS Air ForceMachRead Full Story

MAGNOLIA SPRINGS, Ala. -- Authorities: U.S. Naval aircraft crashes in Alabama; details about possible fatalities unclear.Read Full Story CrashFatalityNavyAlabamaNaval AircraftU.S. NavalAla.AuthoritiesUnclear MAGNOLIA SPRINGS

Fleeing Manhattan for the country is a tradition that wealthy New Yorkers have partaken in for centuries—and our 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt, was no exception. Starting when he was a teen, TR and his family would retreat to Long Island for the summer, and as an adult, he built his own home there: Sagamore Hill, which became his permanent home after his presidency. In honor of what would be TR’s 162nd birthday, here are 10 facts about Sagamore Hill, of which Roosevelt once wrote, “there isn't any place in the world like home—like Sagamore Hill.”Read Full Story Long IslandManhattanGovernor Of New YorkSagamore Hill (house)PhilippinesNorth BayMassachusetts BayRooseveltsNational Park ServiceNavyCowboys & IndiansLamb And RichSagamore MohannisEdithLeeholmTheodore RooseveltEleanor RooseveltTakahira KogorōHenry Cabot Lodge

Unlike most domestic animals, the goldfish is purely decorative. Humans have domesticated a large number of animals over their history, some for food, some as companions and protectors. A few species—think animals like rabbits and guinea pigs—have partly shifted between these two categories, currently serving as both food and pets. But one species has left its past as a food source behind entirely. And, in another rarity, it ended up serving not so much as a companion but as a decoration.Read Full Story GenomeDomestic AnimalsFishArs TechnicaAnimalWiredDomesticationCondé NastCat FoodCompanion AnimalsWild AnimalsPet FoodWikipediaNavyPNAS

A Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet crashed Tuesday in central California. The California Highway Patrol confirmed the crash occurred outside of Ridgecrest, near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, where the plane was stationed. However, the plane had taken off from Lemoore Naval Air Station, about 190 miles west.JetCalifornia Highway PatrolBoeingCentral CaliforniaNaval Air StationFighterUS NavyABC NewsPlane CrashPlane FireLive MunitionsWeaponsChinaLakeRead Full Story

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(CNN) — Since taking power in 2012, Chinese President Xi Jinping has helped cement China's position as a global superpower -- and pushed forward an aggressive foreign policy, making bolder moves in several key flashpoi

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain has announced plans to give the public free coronavirus vaccines, as Saudi Arabia said it approved an inoculation by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech to fight the pandemic. The island nation of Bahrain, off the coast of Saudi Arabia, made the vaccine pledge in an announcement published late Thursday by its state-run Bahrain News Agency. “A safe vaccine will be provided free of charge to all citizens and residents within the kingdom,” the statement said, without elaborating on which vaccine it would offer.Bahrain plans to inoculate everyone 18 years and older in the kingdom at 27 different medical facilities, hoping to be able to vaccinate 10,000 people a day. Bahrain, an island in the Persian Gulf home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, has a population of around 1.5 million people.A week ago, Bahrain said it had become the second nation in the world to grant an emergency-use authorization to the Pfizer vaccine after the United Kingdom. The Pfizer shots, a so-called “mRNA vaccine,” contain a piece of genetic code that trains the immune system to recognize the spiked protein on the surface of the virus. To be vaccinated, a person receives two shots over 21 days. In the time since, Bahrain has not responded to questions from The Associated Press, including on Friday. Pfizer told the AP that the details of its sales agreement with Bahrain, including the “timing of delivery and the volume of doses,” were confidential and declined to comment.Bahrain had already granted emergency-use authorization for a Chinese vaccine made by Sinopharm and has inoculated some 6,000 people with it. That vaccine is an “inactivated” shot made by growing the whole virus in a lab and then killing it. The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday described the Sinopharm vaccine as 86% effective, but provided few details and answered no questions. It marked the first public release of information on the efficacy of that shot.Earlier Thursday, Saudi Arabia’s Food and Drug Authority said it had registered the Pfizer vaccine “so that health authorities in the kingdom can then import and use the vaccine.” The kingdom said it based its decision on information given by Pfizer on Nov. 24, without elaborating. Pfizer on Nov. 18 said its vaccine is 95% effective. A major challenge for the Pfizer shot in the Mideast remains the weather, however. The vaccines must be stored and shipped at ultra-cold temperatures of around minus 70 degrees Celsius (minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit). Saudi Arabia said its Health Ministry later would announce plans on how it would distribute the vaccine in the kingdom, the biggest Gulf Arab state, with a population of 34 million people.Saudi ArabiaPfizerDubaiImmune SystemUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomAPGermanBahrain News AgencyThe U.S. Navy 's5th FleetThe Associated PressChineseFood And Drug AuthorityHealth Ministry

Supporters of President Donald Trump rally near the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times) WASHINGTON — Incensed by a Supreme Court ruling that further dashed President Donald Trump’s hopes of invalidating his November electoral defeat, thousands of his supporters marched in Washington and several state capitals Saturday to protest what they contended, against all evidence, was a stolen election. In some places, angry confrontations between protesters and counterprotesters escalated into violence. There were a number of scuffles in the national capital, where at least four people were stabbed, and the police declared a riot in Olympia, Washington, where one person was shot. In videos of a clash in Olympia that were posted on social media, a single gunshot can be heard as black-clad counterprotesters move toward members of the pro-Trump group, including one person waving a large Trump flag. After the gunshot, one of the counterprotesters is seen falling to the ground, and others call for help. In one video, a man with a gun can be seen running from the scene and putting on a red hat. Chris Loftis, a spokesman for the Washington State Patrol, said that two people were in custody in connection with the episode but that specific details about the shooting were not yet clear, including the condition of the person who was shot. State and federal courts have rejected dozens of lawsuits by Trump’s allies seeking to challenge the election results, but the pointed refusal by the Supreme Court on Friday to hear a case filed by the attorney general of Texas loomed the largest yet. By foreclosing one of the last legal avenues Trump had to potentially block Biden from succeeding him on Inauguration Day, it left many of his partisans casting angrily about for answers. Trump flags dotted the air above Freedom Plaza in Washington, where demonstrators — including many members of the far-right Proud Boys group — chanted “four more years!” and vowed not to recognize Joe Biden as the president-elect. Stephanie Lalich, 55, who traveled from Baltimore to join the protest in Washington, said voting machines had been used for widespread electoral fraud — a claim that has been proved false — and that judges had not sided with Trump because they did not want to take on the issue. “They don’t want to deal with this,” Lalich said. “It’s going to have to go nuclear, using the Insurrection Act and bringing out the military.” One of Trump’s former national security advisers, Michael Flynn, whom Trump pardoned in November, told Trump supporters near the Supreme Court building not to “get bent out of shape” by the latest setback, assuring them that there were still ways to fight back. A member of the Proud Boys shoves a police officer during a rally in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times) “We decide the election,” he said, greeted by cheers. “We’re waging a battle across America.” Trump flew over the protesters in Marine One on his way to attend the Army-Navy football game at West Point. Protesters erupted in cheers as the helicopter and its escort passed overhead. Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, a right-wing group known for inciting violence at protests, caused a stir earlier in the day when he posted a photograph taken at the North Portico of the White House and said he had received a “last minute invite.” Judd Deere, a White House spokesperson, said Tarrio had been part of a public tour and that no one inside the building had invited him. At Georgia’s Statehouse in downtown Atlanta, speakers used megaphones to cast doubt on the election as American flags and Make America Great Again hats bobbed in the crowd. Across the street, a few dozen anti-Trump activists — many dressed all in black — heckled the president’s supporters. Chris Hill, the leader of a right-wing group called the Georgia Security Force III%, rallied many of the protesters to the Statehouse. Hill said the Supreme Court had “thumbed its nose at us.” But unlike many others in attendance, he said he accepted that Trump had lost the election. “At this point, this thing is over,” he said, adding that he was turning his focus to the two runoff races in Georgia whose outcomes will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. Kim Carter, who said God had told her to drive to the Atlanta rally from Jacksonville, Florida, said she was sure that Trump would be reelected. She asked a member of Hill’s group whether it could send some armed members to Florida to protect her and her neighbors from Antifa activists after the election is finally overturned, as she believes will happen. “Four more years, because God is the one who is in control of this,” Carter said. Pro-Trump rallies were mounted in a number of other communities around the country. More than 100 people gathered at a rally in St. Paul, Minneapolis, to display Trump flags and call on the state’s Democratic governor to loosen coronavirus restrictions in the state. In Spanish Fort, Alabama, a suburb of Mobile, about 100 people demonstrated, according to footage posted by WKRG-TV. “We want to be part of the ‘Stop the Steal’ national movement,” one speaker there said. “That’s why we’re here.” The gunfire in Olympia, Washington, came after supporters of Trump and counterprotesters gathered near the state Capitol on Saturday afternoon. The groups had clashed before the shooting, with some people throwing objects and punches. The air on the street was clouded by smoke grenades and mace, and police officers in riot gear later arrived on the scene. The conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones joins a rally of supporters of President Donald Trump near the Supreme Court building in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times) Both sets of protesters dispersed later in the afternoon, and a large area at the edge of the Capitol campus was roped off with crime scene tape while a police officer and other officials assessed the situation. Several vehicles, including one with a Trump sticker, remained in a parking lot at the police scene, along with a scattering of rocks and broken glass. The Olympia police said there were four arrests and that four officers had been injured, according to the CBS affiliate KIRO. Clashes also broke out between opposing groups in Washington, D.C., where videos showed people clad in Proud Boys gear punching and kicking counterprotesters who were wearing helmets. The police stepped in and sprayed mace at some of the men involved in the fighting. Another video showed anti-police protesters scuffling with officers and tossing what appeared to be a wooden stick at them. At night, four people were stabbed near 11th Street and F Street Northwest, according to Douglas Buchanan, a spokesman for the city’s fire department. The mayor’s office said that the four were in critical condition, adding that two police officers also were hurt and taken to hospitals. Authorities did not provide any other details, including which groups of protesters the injured belonged to. Throughout the day, the police arrested at least 23 people, including six on charges of assaulting a police officer, the mayor’s office said. Earlier in the day, the pro-Trump crowd in Washington had appeared jubilant at times, despite the setbacks in the courts and the dwindling time remaining before Jan. 20 when Biden is due to be sworn in. They rewrote the refrain of the Van Halen song “Jump” to say, “Might as well Trump!” Others sold Trump-themed T-shirts and other items advertising his false claims of electoral fraud. Some demonstrators were more confident than others that Trump could secure a second term despite losing the election. Phyllis Monson, 61, who drove for several days from Tonopah, Arizona, to attend the rally, said she was not sure what steps remained available to overturn the election, but that she was convinced it had been unfair. “This election was such a fraud,” Monson said. “There needs to be a revote.” Luther Anderson, 30, said he had voted for former President Barack Obama and for Trump, but could not envision Biden as president. Trump has released Black people from prison through a criminal justice overhaul, he noted, while Biden contributed to the 1994 crime bill that lengthened criminal sentences for many people, many of them Black and some of whom remain imprisoned. “The media’s trying to make him this good guy and then make Trump the villain,” said Anderson, who lives in Washington. “It’s like the media, they’re trying to, like, brainwash.” For more stories, subscribe to The New York Times. (c) 2020 The New York Times Company. Federal CourtsBlack PeopleTrump SupportersShootingInaugurationPoliticsClashesGun ViolenceRiot PoliceGunsOne ShotCounterprotestersThe Supreme CourtThe Proud BoysMarine OneDonald TrumpJoe BidenMichael FlynnJudd DeereAlex JonesBarack Obama

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