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Bulgaria to Receive AMRAAM Missiles in $1.2B US Contract

The US Department of Defense has awarded a contract valued at nearly 1.2 billion dollars to the American company Raytheon for the production of AMRAAM (Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile) missiles. The contract also covers the supply of these missiles to several foreign military clients, including Bulgaria.

NASA Spacecraft Approaches Asteroid, Snaps First Pic

Two years after launching from Florida, a NASA spacecraft is closing in on an ancient asteroid, Bennu, for a sample of space dust that could reveal clues to the start of life in the solar system.

The spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, has even snapped its first, blurry pic of the cosmic body, which is about the size of a small mountain, about 500 yards (meters) in diameter.

Carrie Fisher once sent a cow tongue to a sexually inappropriate Hollywood producer

Even after her death Carrie Fisher is having none of your bullshit.

Heather Ross, a friend of Fisher’s, spoke to a local radio station in Tucson, AZ. about her experience with sexual assault in Hollywood. On the 94.9 Morning Mix, Ross recalled inappropriate advances from a big name producer and how Fisher made clear she had a zero-tolerance policy for that kind of behavior.

Shocking video shows US soldiers gunned down in Jordan (warning: graphic video)

Jordan’s military has released shocking surveillance footage of one of its soldiers gunning down three US Army Green Berets at an air base in the kingdom.
The three soldiers were killed Nov. 4 when their vehicles came under fire at the entrance of the al-Jafr base in southern Jordan.

Anti-Trump protesters rally in New York, block Arizona road

Hundreds protested U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in New York and blocked a major road March 19 in the southwestern state of Arizona, where a demonstrator was punched and kicked at a rally.

The latest attempts by opponents to disrupt the campaign of the top U.S. Republican White House hopeful resulted in a handful of arrests, police and witnesses said.

American Airlines Video: Crew booed as they take a weeping passenger off flight (watch vid)

Tiana Fough, aged 27, landed in Phoenix for a connecting flight from Tucson to Portland, Oregon. She got on the crowded flight as usual and waited in the aisle to get to her seat. Then a flight attendant started yelling.

“Stay right there,” he shouted, in Fough’s account. “I asked you three times.”

Bewildered, Fough asked, “What’s going on?”

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