Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg is testifying before Congress today in a 2-day session regarding manufacturing mistakes made with it's 737 Max which resulted in 2 plane crashes and 346 casualties. Investigations after the crashes concluded that design flaws within the plane were the primary reason for the crashes. CEO Muilenburg stated that "We know we made mistakes and got some things...

Protests in Baghdad started up again today after a three-week hiatus. Demonstrators continued to protest in response to high unemployment, poor public services, and political corruption. Before the re-start of the protests, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said yesterday, "People would be free to exercise their right to demonstrate at imminent anti-government protests, but violence would not be tolerated". Mahdi went...

Prime Editing, a new and revolutionary gene-editing technique, could potentially be the most efficient gene editing procedure that has been invented so far. According to a study published in the journal Nature today, a team of researchers at Harvard University was able to show that edits could be made to remove mutations within a person's DNA that cause Tay-Sachs disease...

Turkey agrees to a 5-day ceasefire as Kurdish fighters are allowed to safely evacuate the 'Safe Zone' area in Northern Syria. Vice President Mike Pence had been sent to Turkey to work on a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that would bring the violent offensive to a stop. Pence said, "It will be a pause in military operations...

25,000 teachers went on strike in Chicago today leaving 300,000 students without teachers. Some of the biggest issues that the teachers have are that the schools are understaffed, the teachers themselves are underpaid, there aren't always nurses on staff, there are not enough school librarians and the class sizes are too big. A list of the teacher's main concerns can...

The Washington Nationals beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-4 yesterday in game 4 of The National League Championship Series(NLCS) taking them to the World Series for the first time in the league's history. After a slow start with a record of 19 wins and 31 losses, no one would have believed that the Nationals would have turned themselves around to...

The U.S. put sanctions on Turkey yesterday after discovering that Turkey was committing human rights violations in its invasion of Northern Syria. Last week the U.S. had started withdrawing troops from Syria and Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham had stated that “Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria. The United States Armed forces will not...

Pacific Gas & Electric(PG&E) shut off power today to over 800K customers(2.5 million people) in California in a scheduled power shutoff. PG&E said that,"To protect public safety, PG&E has turned off power due to gusty winds and dry conditions combined with a heightened fire risk. Once the weather subsides and it is safe to do so, PG&E crews will begin...

The U.S. added 28 Chinese security companies to a U.S. blacklist yesterday. The U.S. did this after determining that the 28 companies were directly responsible for human rights violations against Muslim minorities and other ethnic groups in China. In a statement by the U.S. Commerce Department, the U.S. determined that technology from the blacklisted companies is being used in the "Implementation...

The U.S. announced they would begin removing troops from Syria that have been fighting terrorist ISIS forces. The main U.S. allies in the fight are the SDF (Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces). Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham stated the reason for the withdrawal is that "Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria....