North Korea Announces Testing Of New 'Tactical Guided Weapon'
Updated at 6:07 a.m. ET Thursday North Korea says its leader Kim Jong Un has overseen the testing of a "new-type tactical guided weapon." With nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea stalled, Kim emphasized that he is continuing to upgrade his country's military. Hours later, North Korea also demanded that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo be removed from future nuclear negotiations. Pyongyang's foreign ministry accused Pompeo of misrepresenting comments Kim made last week,...
JPR Live Session: The Brothers Reed (2019)
Despite their brotherhood, Aaron and Phil Reed didn’t start playing music together until five years ago after Phil left their hometown of St. Charles, Missouri to join Aaron in the unsullied mountains of the American Northwest. The brothers family blend of folk encapsulates the grit and humor of Midwest life with the swagger and serenity of the west coast. Their style evokes finger picking folk singers of the 60’s and 70’s with a contemporary and boundless edge. Cultivated from years of performing in bands ranging from heavy metal to reggae and rock, to punk, country, and funk, their musical dichotomy is at the root of their diverse yet seamless folk-brand.
Cannabis Bucks Boost Commercial Real Estate
The legal cannabis industry is certainly making the dollars flow in Northern California. Example: business property that sat vacant for years got buyers--from cannabis-related businesses--soon after legalization. Shasta Gateway Industrial Park in Shasta Lake City sold off its last three undeveloped parcels in the boom. There are some particular twists in the activity in a mostly cash-only industry.
Activists Want California To Ban Fracking. What Does Gov. Newsom Want?
California has been deeply involved with the oil and gas business since the first wooden derricks were erected in sleepy Kern County in the 19 th century. But these days California is flush with laws, regulations and goals that will likely cause the state to eventually sever its long relationship with fossil fuels. One of the flashpoints in that still-evolving association is hydraulic fracturing—or fracking—the controversial high-pressure pumping of chemicals and water into underground rock...
Paradise, Calif., Water Is Contaminated But Residents Are Moving Back Anyway
Five months after the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history, the town of Paradise remains a disaster zone. Only 6 percent of the debris from last November's Camp Fire has been hauled away. Burned out skeletons of cars, piles of toxic rubble and blackened old-growth pine trees can still be seen everywhere. Before the wildfire, the population of Paradise was about 26,000. Today, it's in the hundreds. The extent of the latest crisis unfolding in Paradise is yet unknown:...
