Environment

Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,

Passengers on an NJ Transit train said their train bumped into an Amtrak train in Penn Station at the height of Friday's morning commute, damaging the side of the NJ Transit train and possibly knocking the Amtrak one slightly off the tracks, NBC New York reports.

While New Jersey Transit has said nothing about a possible sideswipe yet, it advised that it was suspending service in and out of the Manhattan transit hub because an Amtrak train had derailed in the station. Amtrak had no immediate comment.

Authored by George Friedman via MauldinEconomics.com,

As we wrote about in “China’s Strategy,” East Asia is split into four parts: The Pacific archipelago, the Chinese mainland, the Korean Peninsula, and Indochina. East Asia holds the second and third largest world economies: China and Japan. The relationship between them and the US define modern East Asian geopolitics.

Several times over the past two months we've written about the historic floods that have descended upon California during the 2016-2017 rainy season (see here and here for some examples).  In fact, the flooding was so severe that it very nearly caused the complete failure of a major dam in Northern California and resulted in the evacuation of 200,000 residents in neighboring cities (see "Nearly 200,000 People Are Evacuating Over "Imminent Failure" Of California's Oroville Dam - Live Feeds"). 

President Trump has vowed to make NASA great again, by approving a bill that will give $19.5 billion to allow the agency to send astronauts to Mars.  The NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017, or [...]