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Amid war, inflation and sinking approval ratings, Trump takes comfort in giving Washington a face-lift

Amid war, inflation and sinking approval ratings, Trump takes comfort in giving Washington a face-lift

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON — As they walked through the bowels of the Kennedy Center, President Donald Trump asked Sen. Lindsey Graham his opinion on something that might mean a lot one day to an audience sitting through three hours of “Les Mis.” Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Try out some of the new seats being considered for the building’s renovation, Trump told the South Carolina Republican. Graham obliged, plunking himself down in different chairs and telling Trump which one he liked best. “He couldn’t make up his mind,” Graham said of the president, recounting a trip to the performing arts center earlier this year. “I don’t know which one he [ultimately] picked, but only in America would I be picking the seats for the Kennedy Center,” laughed Graham, a Trump ally. Facing one of the roughest patches of his second term, Trump is devoting outsize energy to giving Washington its biggest face-lift in living memory. He is punctuating his public appearances with long digressions about the ballroom …

Millions of homes in London, Essex and Kent at risk of sinking as climate crisis worsens | Environment

Millions of homes in London, Essex and Kent at risk of sinking as climate crisis worsens | Environment

Published by Jenni Sidey

Millions of homes are at risk from climate-related subsidence, according toan analysis by the British Geological Survey (BGS). As hotter, drier summers driven by global heating become more frequent, the ground under houses can shrink and drag down a property’s foundations. The most vulnerable areas include London, Essex, Kent and a tranche of land from Oxford up to the Wash on England’s east coast, according to scientists, who say mitigation measures will be needed. Anna Harrison, a scientist at the BGS, said: “By combining geotechnical information about volume change potential with data about projected rainfall and temperature scenarios for the coming century, we have been able to identify the areas of Great Britain most likely to become susceptible to shrink-swell subsidence. Most are in the London area and that’s also where you’re going to see bigger changes in rainfall and temperature. It’s a double whammy.” London also has a higher density of buildings. Harrison added: “These properties might have foundations that currently can withstand the changes in moisture, but you might find in future there’s …

Millions of homes in London, Essex and Kent at risk of sinking as climate crisis worsens

Millions of homes in London, Essex and Kent at risk of sinking as climate crisis worsens

Published by Sam Flores

Millions of homes are at risk from climate-related subsidence, according to an analysis by the British Geological Survey (BGS). As hotter, drier summers driven by global heating become more frequent, the ground under houses can shrink and drag down a property’s foundations. The most vulnerable areas include London, Essex, Kent and a tranche of land from Oxford up to the Wash on England’s east coast, according to scientists, who say mitigation measures will be needed. Anna Harrison, a scientist at the BGS, said: “By combining geotechnical information about volume change potential with data about projected rainfall and temperature scenarios for the coming century, we have been able to identify the areas of Great Britain most likely to become susceptible to shrink-swell subsidence. Most are in the London area and that’s also where you’re going to see bigger changes in rainfall and temperature. It’s a double whammy.” Related: UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns London also has a higher density of buildings. Harrison added: …

Sinking From Submarines: The Rules of Naval Warfare

Sinking From Submarines: The Rules of Naval Warfare

Published by Jenni Sidey

We don’t often spend a lot of time thinking about the morality of submarine warfare. It’s a small and secretive world that rarely seeks attention. It did, however, surface recently with the sinking of Iranian warship IRIS Dena on March 4, 2026.   When looking at this incident, it is important to take a deep breath. In the age of cognitive, cyber, and information operations it is challenging to understand what is true. In philosophical terms, war is always surrounded by epistemic uncertainty—the fog of war—but now battles are fought over our perception of fact, and our moral cognition is perhaps the most important terrain of the cognitive battlefield.   The first thing to understand about the incident is the status of the units. USS Charlotte is an American nuclear-powered (not nuclear-armed) attack submarine. The Dena is a Moudge-class destroyer. Dena is set up for defense against submarines, aircraft, and missiles. It can carry anti-ship missiles. The submarine has one primary role, to attack surface and sub-surface vessels, and it is armed with heavy-weight torpedoes, though it can also …

Mexico City Is Sinking. A Powerful NASA Satellite Just Revealed How Fast

Mexico City Is Sinking. A Powerful NASA Satellite Just Revealed How Fast

Published by skeptic

Mexico City is one of the fastest sinking cities in the world. Now, a powerful satellite from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confirms the accelerated advance of this silent threat that puts nearly 20 million people at risk. The satellite designed by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), known as NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), was able to capture with unprecedented precision the magnitude and evolution of this phenomenon in different areas of the Mexican capital. The analysis is based on preliminary measurements taken from space between October 2025 and January of this year, during the dry season in Mexico City. Their findings were captured in a map that shows how the subsurface of the metropolis is shifting. In the map, NASA identified areas with subsidence greater than 2 centimeters per month (marked in dark blue). The agency specifies that the areas marked in yellow and red could correspond to background signals (or noise) that are expected to diminish as the satellite instrument collects more data. The image also highlights …

How James Cameron Shot Titanic/i>’s Hugely Complex Sinking Scene

How James Cameron Shot Titanic/i>’s Hugely Complex Sinking Scene

Published by José Betancourt

The dark arts of “Hol­ly­wood account­ing” make it dif­fi­cult to deter­mine film bud­gets with pre­ci­sion. But accord­ing to rea­son­able reck­on­ings, James Cameron may have direct­ed not just one but sev­er­al of the most expen­sive movies of all time. The under­wa­ter sci-fi spec­ta­cle that was The Abyss neces­si­tat­ed one of the biggest pro­duc­tion bud­gets of the eight­ies, but it looked straight off Pover­ty Row when com­pared to Cameron’s next project just two years lat­er. Ter­mi­na­tor 2: Judg­ment Day was the first film to cost more than $100 mil­lion; True Lies, his next Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger vehi­cle, could have cost as much as $120 mil­lion. What chal­lenge remained for Cameron at that point? Why, re-cre­at­ing the most famous ship­wreck in his­to­ry. Such an improb­a­ble-sound­ing ambi­tion did­n’t come out of nowhere. Fas­ci­nat­ed with the Titan­ic since child­hood, Cameron even­tu­al­ly found him­self able to make mul­ti­ple expe­di­tions of his own to its final rest­ing place in deep-sea sub­mersibles. He was­n’t just well placed to gath­er the infor­ma­tion nec­es­sary to bring it back to life on screen, but also to imple­ment and indeed devel­op the …

Loss of life was ‘avoidable’ in deadliest ever Channel migrant boat sinking, inquiry finds | UK News

Loss of life was ‘avoidable’ in deadliest ever Channel migrant boat sinking, inquiry finds | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

The lives of more than 30 people who died trying to cross the Channel in a small boat could have been saved had a French warship responded to a Mayday call, an inquiry has found. Chairman Sir Ross Cranston also said the people smugglers who supplied the unsafe inflatable vessel, and flaws in HM Coastguard’s search and rescue response, contributed to the deadliest incident of its kind on record. The boat became swamped and capsized while attempting the journey from France to the UK in the early hours of 24 November 2021. A four-week public inquiry identified 27 men, women and children, whose bodies were recovered, while four other people are missing and presumed dead. Only two of at least 33 people who boarded the boat survived after they were recovered in French waters nearly 12 hours after the first calls for help. Image: The remains of the boat that capsized In his 454-page report, Sir Ross concluded the loss of life “was avoidable” and “some of the deaths could’ve been prevented” as he said: “The …

Navy rescue swimmer recalls dramatic sinking SUV rescue

Navy rescue swimmer recalls dramatic sinking SUV rescue

Published by Sam Flores

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Driver rescued from sinking SUV at Virginia Beach

Driver rescued from sinking SUV at Virginia Beach

Published by Sam Flores

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Sinking river deltas put millions at risk of flooding

Sinking river deltas put millions at risk of flooding

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The Chao Phraya river delta in Thailand is one of the fastest-sinking regions in the world Chanon Kanjanavasoontara/Getty Images The world’s most economically and environmentally important river deltas are sinking, putting millions of people at risk of flooding. In most cases, the sinking of river deltas poses a greater threat to the communities that live on them than sea level rise, according to an analysis of satellite data. Up to half a billion humans live on river deltas, including some of the poorest populations on Earth. Ten megacities with a population over 10 million people are located within these vast low-lying areas. Manoochehr Shirzaei at Virginia Tech and his colleagues attempted to determine the rate at which 40 river deltas around the world are sinking, including the Mekong, Mississippi, Amazon, Zambezi, Yangtze and Nile. Subsidence causes a double whammy of inundation, says Shirzaei, because, at the same time as deltas are sinking, global sea levels are rising at about 4 millimetres per year. The team used data from 2014 to 2023 obtained by the European …