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READ MORE SEOUL/MONTREAL (Reuters) – As Air France pilots fought for control, an Airbus A330 passenger jet plummeted from 38,000 feet for four minutes, its engines running but its wings unable to seize enough air to fly. The doomed jet, weighing 205 tonnes, was in freefall after entering an aerodynamic stall. The ordeal ended in tragedy in the early hours of June 1, 2009 reut.rs/2YYR1lt , mid-way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris during an Atlantic storm, killing all 228 people on board. As relatives mark the disaster’s tenth anniversary, the aviation industry is still implementing lessons learned from Air France flight 447 even as it faces a new crisis over the two-month-old global grounding of Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft. French investigators found the crew of AF447 mishandled the loss of speed readings from sensors blocked with ice from the storm, and pushed it into a stall by holding the nose too high. The BEA investigation agency called for improved training of pilots, i...

READ MORE SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The military judge presiding over the court-martial of a U.S. Navy SEAL charged with war crimes said on Friday prosecutors who electronically tracked email communications of defense lawyers without a warrant violated the accused’s right to a fair trial. The finding came near the end of a two-day hearing that wrapped up just 10 days before Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher is due to stand trial in a case that has drawn the attention of U.S. President Donald Trump. Gallagher is charged with murdering a helpless, wounded Islamic State fighter in his custody, and with two counts of attempted murder in the wounding of two unarmed civilians, a schoolgirl and elderly man, shot from a sniper’s perch. The charges stem from Gallagher’s deployment as a platoon leader to Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, in 2017. He has pleaded not guilty to those and other charges, including obstructing justice. If convicted, the decorated career c...

READ MORE VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (Reuters) – A disgruntled public utility employee opened fire with a handgun on co-workers at a municipal building in Virginia on Friday afternoon, killing 12 people and wounding at least four before he was fatally shot by police, authorities said. The mass shooting in the coastal resort of Virginia Beach was the deadliest instance of U.S. gun violence since November 2018, when a dozen people were slain at a Los Angeles-area bar and grill by a gunman who then killed himself. Virginia Beach Police Chief James Cervera said the suspect in Friday’s carnage was armed with a .45-caliber pistol equipped with a “sound suppressor” device and “extended” ammunition magazines he used to reload repeatedly during the attack. Survivors recounted scenes of pandemonium and fear that erupted as gunshots rang out, and workers scurried frantically for cover. “We just heard people yelling and screaming to get down,” Megan Banton, ...

READ MORE WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican on the U.S. House committee that oversees trade said on Friday it was in the interest of both the United States and Mexico to reach an agreement on immigration before U.S. President Donald Trump hits Mexican products with tariffs. Trump has demanded that Mexico do more to stop illegal immigration across the border the two countries share by June 10 or else he will impose tariffs on Mexican imports. “Mexico is a valued ally and the new tariffs are not yet in effect, so there is a window here for both countries to find common ground. It is in both of our interests to do so, economically and for stronger security,” Kevin Brady, the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, said in a statement. (The refiled story adds full name and title in paragraph three.) Reporting by Makini Brice; editing by Tim Ahmann

READ MORE NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took lunch orders, served pizza and rocked the cocktail shaker on Friday to promote increased wages for restaurant servers and other tipped workers. The New York Democrat and media sensation, who famously worked as a bartender before getting elected to Congress last year, brought first-hand experience to the debate over the proposed “Raise the Wage Act,” which would raise the U.S. minimum wage to $15 an hour and guarantee that minimum for tipped employees. U.S. law exempts restaurants, nail salons and car washes from paying their tipped staff the minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, instead creating a “tip credit” of up to $5.12 per hour that allows them to pay as little as $2.13 per hour on the books. “Any job that pays $2.13 per hour is not a job, it is indentured servitude,” Ocasio-Cortez told restaurant workers, customers and reporters at the Queensboro Restaurant in her ...

READ MORE The calls between Mr. Flynn and Mr. Kislyak were referenced repeatedly in court documents and the special counsel’s report on Russian election interference but never released, and prosecutors have not acknowledged the existence of the wiretap. Judge Sullivan, who is overseeing Mr. Flynn’s case, ordered that audio recordings of his conversations with Mr. Kislyak be made public along with a voice mail message made by the president’s lawyer. The Justice Department’s refusal to comply with the judge’s order made clear that prosecutors had no interest in confirming the wiretap, which was approved by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. “This would be a rare step to make public” such intelligence collection, said Joshua Geltzer, a former Justice Department official. “What you see in today’s filing is the government trying to avoid disclosing that material.” Instead, prosecutors asserted that they did not...

READ MORE WASHINGTON — On June 15, 2015, Donald J. Trump descended an escalator inside his signature Manhattan property, Trump Tower, greeted the cheering supporters paid to attend, and announced an unlikely presidential candidacy. A little more than four years later, on June 18, President Trump will officially begin his re-election campaign inside a 20,000-person arena in Orlando, Fla., a kickoff that will be greeted this time with an understanding across the ideological spectrum of his political skills. “I will be announcing my Second Term Presidential Run with First Lady Melania, Vice President Mike Pence, and Second Lady Karen Pence on June 18th in Orlando, Florida, at the 20,000 seat Amway Center,” the president announced on Twitter on Friday . “Join us for this Historic Rally!” Mr. Trump’s incendiary announcement speech four years ago, in which he accused Mexicans of being rapists and bringing crime and drugs into the United States, was a harbin...

READ MORE Matt Carpenter hit a game-ending, bases-loaded single in the 10th inning to send the host St. Louis Cardinals to a 2-1 victory against the Chicago Cubs on Friday night. Carpenter sent a fly ball the opposite way to a largely vacant left field, as the Cubs had loaded four defenders on the right side of the infield. The hit off Steve Cishek scored Kolten Wong, who had doubled into the right field corner with one out, and secured the Cardinals’ first walk-off victory of the season. Chicago relievers Kyle Ryan, Brad Brach and Brandon Kintzler collaborated on three innings of perfect, three-strikeout relief before St. Louis’ 10th-inning rally against Mike Montgomery (1-1), Dillon Maples and Cishek. Jordan Hicks (2-2) was the winner, pitching hitless ball in the ninth and 10th with two walks and two strikeouts. Yankees 4, Red Sox 1 Aaron Hicks hit a tiebreaking two-run single in the third inning, and New York beat visiting Boston. The Yankees improved to 3-0 against the ...

READ MORE NEW YORK (Reuters) – Andy Ruiz Jr. hopes to use his extra weight as a weapon against heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua when the pair meet on Saturday at Madison Square Garden. Joshua will defend his IBF, WBA and WBO titles against Ruiz, who is looking to become the first Mexican heavyweight champion. While the 1.98m tall Briton came in at 247 1/2 pounds for his debut fight in the United States, Ruiz tipped the scales at 268 pounds during Friday’s weigh in. The 29-year-old hopes the pounds will help him overcome his height and reach disadvantage. “That was the game plan,” Ruiz told reporters. “We’re fighting someone big, someone taller than me. So I want to carry that weight well so my punches are going to hit harder.” Joshua brings an undefeated record of 22 wins, including 21 knockouts, to the ring against Ruiz (32-1, 21 KOs). He had been scheduled to fight Jarrell Miller but the New York State Athletic Commission refused to sanctio...

READ MORE The new study, published in the journal Biological Psychiatry , sheds light on the design of future pharmacological strategies — based on the modelling of specific molecular pathways — to treat depression in people with Huntington’s disease. Cdk5 Kinase: essential protein in synaptic plasticity and memory The study, led by the lecturer Silvia Ginés, focuses on the function of Cdk5 kinase, an essential enzyme in the neuronal function. In particular, this kinase is important in the expression, distribution and localization of the NMDA receptor family — essential in the physiology of the nervous system — and the modelling of the synaptic plasticity and learning and memory processes. Regarding Huntington’s disease, Cdk5 kinase has a complex involvement in the apparition of cognitive dysfunctions — according to previous studies by the research team — since it is able to alter the expression and functionality of these receptors. T...

READ MORE A team of USC and UCLA scientists found that racist experiences appear to increase inflammation in African American individuals, raising their risk of chronic illness, according to the study published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology on April 18. “We know discrimination is linked to health outcomes, but no one was sure exactly how it harmed health,” said April Thames, associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. “I looked at it as a chronic stressor. Our results showed that racial discrimination appears to trigger an inflammatory response among African Americans at the cellular level.” The survival of all living things depends on their ability to respond to infections, stresses and injuries. Such threats trigger an immune system response to fend off pathogens and repair damaged tissues. A select group of genes are key to this defense mechanism, and inflammation is a sign that those genes...

READ MORE Rockwell:   Well, good morning.  This is the Lew Rockwell Show.  And what a treat we have today to have Professor Stephen F. Cohen as our guest.  Professor Cohen is the author of many books.  I tried to count them.  I find it very difficult to get the number but it seems to me it’s probably more than the proverbial five-foot shelf of books.  Just extraordinary books on the Soviet Union, on Russia.  And he’s professor emeritus at Princeton University and at New York University.  His most recent book is War with Russia?.  And I like the quote he has at the bottom of the book, where he’s called “the most controversial Russia expert in America.”  We know what that means.  It means the most truth telling.  They don’t mean it that way but that’s what it does mean, the most truth-telling Russia expert. So it’s just tremendous to have you, sir. Cohen:   I’m ...

READ MORE “It was more or less known where deer keds are found, but very broadly,” said Michael Skvarla, extension educator and director of the Insect Identification Lab in the Department of Entomology at Penn State. “We don’t know if deer keds transmit pathogens (disease-causing microorganisms), but if they do, then knowing where they are at more precisely could be important in terms of telling people to watch out for them.” The researchers collated records of the four North American deer ked species and produced the most detailed locality map of these flies to date, documenting ten new state and 122 new county records. The researchers published their results in a recent issue of the Journal of Medical Entomology . They also provided an illustrated species-identification key. The team harnessed citizen science — collection of data by the public — to gather deer ked records from the U.S. and Canada. In addition to scouring museum databases and c...

READ MORE The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has adapted laser-induced graphene (LIG) into small, metal-free devices that generate electricity. Like rubbing a balloon on hair, putting LIG composites in contact with other surfaces produces static electricity that can be used to power devices. For that, thank the triboelectric effect, by which materials gather a charge through contact. When they are put together and then pulled apart, surface charges build up that can be channeled toward power generation. In experiments, the researchers connected a folded strip of LIG to a string of light-emitting diodes and found that tapping the strip produced enough energy to make them flash. A larger piece of LIG embedded within a flip-flop let a wearer generate energy with every step, as the graphene composite’s repeated contact with skin produced a current to charge a small capacitor. “This could be a way to recharge small devices just by using the excess energy of heel strikes during wa...

READ MORE WASHINGTON, June 1. /TASS/. The death toll in Friday’s shooting spree at a municipal center in Virginia Beach (Virginia) has risen to 12, the city’s police chief James Cervera said during a news conference aired by CNN and other leading TV channels. The initial death toll stood at 11. According to Cervera, one person succumbed to his injuries on the way to hospital. Four victims are currently being operated on, he added. According to the latest information, the gunman, who was “a longtime employee” of public utilities, entered the building and opened fire shortly after 4:00 p.m. local time on Friday afternoon. The suspect died of injuries he sustained in the shootout with police. Bodies were found on all three floors of the building, the police chief said. One of the deceased victims was discovered in a car parked outside. Cervera said the gunman was identified, but it was too early to release his name. CNN identified the shooter as DeWayne Craddock, 40...

READ MORE TOKYO, June 1. /TASS/. The Japanese government has decided to reject the idea of signing a framework agreement with Russia on a peace treaty during the G20 summit in Osaka in late June, the Asahi news paper said on Saturday citing government sources. According to the paper, the sides failed to overcome disagreements on a number of historical issues and security matters. Earlier, the Japanese side expected to prepare the framework agreement before the G20 summit due on June 28-29, where Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to have a working meeting. By signing the deal, Tokyo wanted to confirm the 1956 joint declaration by the Soviet Union and Japan, in which Moscow states its readiness to hand over the Shikotan and Habomai islands of the southern Kuril chain as a goodwill gesture once the peace treaty is signed. After that, Japan planned to engage in negotiations with Russia on sovereignty over the remaining two disputed islan...

READ MORE Haikou/China/ June 1/TASS/. More than 381,000 foreign tourists traveled to China’s Hainan visa-free from May 2018 to May 2019, which is 16.3% more than in the previous period. According to China Daily, this has to do with the introduction of a visa-free travel on the island for citizens of 59 countries, including Russia. Since May 1, 2018 the Hainan authorities have increased the number of visa-free countries from 26 to 59. These measures are aimed at attracting foreign tourists to the island and developing Hainan’s tourism industry, according to a local government representative. Groups or individuals can stay in Hainan up to 30 days if they booked a trip via travel agency.  Tourists from Russia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan and South Korea show greatest interest in the southern Chinese province. These countries’ residents make up to 85% of the total number of visa-free travellers.  Another measure to increase the island’s attractiveness for visitor...

READ MORE SANYA, June 1. /TASS/. China intends to launch four remote Earth-observation satellites Hainan-1 by the end of 2019, according to Yang TianLiang, Director of Sanya Institute of Remote Sensing in Hainan under China’s Academy of Sciences.  “At the end of 2019 we will launch four optical Hainan-1 satellites of the first series,” the Hainan Daily newspaper reports. “By 2022, our institute plans to launch six more satellites of high spectral resolution Sanya-1 and synthetic aperture radar satellites Sansha-1,” Yang said. After the successful set up of the satellite constellation, spacecraft will provide observation of the earth’s surface to ensure safe navigation and domestic fisheries. Moreover, the satellites can be used for conducting search and rescue operations at sea. Wenchang, one of China’s four cosmodromes, is located on the Island of Hainan. It is the largest, newest and the southernmost of all of them: the spaceport is ...

READ MORE A investigate of scarcely 3,000 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders ages 10-12 suggested a tie between midday asleep and larger happiness, self-control, and grit; fewer behavioral problems; and aloft IQ, a latter quite for a sixth graders. The many strong commentary were compared with educational achievement, says Penn neurocriminologist Adrian Raine, a co-author on a paper. “Children who napped 3 or some-more times per week advantage from a 7.6% boost in educational opening in Grade 6,” he says. “How many kids during propagandize would not wish their scores to go adult by 7.6 points out of 100?” Sleep scarcity and daytime fatigue are surprisingly widespread, with fatigue inspiring adult to 20% of all children, says lead author on a investigate Jianghong Liu, a Penn associate highbrow of nursing and open health. What’s more, a disastrous cognitive, emotional, and earthy effects of bad snooze habits are well-established, and nonetheless many prior inv...

READ MORE Research published in a Apr imitation book of a biography Life Science Alliance , shows that calmative drugs called FIASMAs, including desipramine, amitriptyline, and nortriptyline, hindrance a expansion or kill 4 opposite intracellular bacterial pathogens in hankie dungeon enlightenment and animal models. “Antibiotic options for diseases caused by intracellular germ are singular since many of these drugs can't dig a dungeon membranes. In essence, a germ are protected,” pronounced Jason Carlyon, Ph.D., personality of a examine and highbrow in a VCU Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Tetracycline antibiotics are many ordinarily prescribed to yield intracellular bacterial infections since they can cranky dungeon membranes to strech a microbes. However, tetracyclines can means allergic reactions in some patients and physicians advise opposite their use by profound women and children due to unattractive side effects. Additionally, antibiotic insurgency in some ...

READ MORE Americans who wish to review a commentary of a special warn Robert S. Mueller III already have a resources of options. This week, dual opposite published versions of a news seem in a tip 10 on Amazon’s best-seller list; Google around and you’ll find an infinite series of outlets (including The New York Times ) charity digital versions. There are even audiobooks . But an arriving chronicle competence be many thespian of them all. Beginning Saturday night and using by Sunday, a museum companies New Neighborhood and Slightly Altered States, along with a humanities and media association DMNDR, will horde a 24-hour open reading of a Mueller news in Queens. “Filibustered and Unfiltered: America Reads a Mueller Report” will take place during a Arc, a Long Island City venue. The executive Jackson Gay recognised a project, that started as her half-serious Facebook post though has grown into an eventuality with over 100 proffer readers. Participants are schedul...