Tuesday, August 20, 2019

As back to back mass shootings in the U.S. prompt more difficult debates on gun laws, researchers at University of Southern California are working on a different, perhaps less controversial method of keeping people inside buildings safe and deterring people who want to commit acts of mass violence. 
ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY
On August 19, 1960, U.S. Air Force pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the USSR for spying. On May 10, 1960, Powers was flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union when he was shot down over the Ural Mountains. On May 5, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced the capture and said Powers had confessed to spying. Eighteen months after his official sentencing, Powers was exchanged for a Russian spy, Rudolf Abel, on the Glienicker Bridge, which connected East and West Berlin. When Powers returned to the U.S., he was cleared of any culpability. In 1977, he died in a helicopter crash while working as pilot for a Los Angeles television news station.
VIDEO: Hong Kong pro-democracy protests that started in June have now spread around the world. Parallel demonstration took place in the United States, Canada, Australia, Britain, France and other countries on Sunday.
VIDEO: Every day, cutting-edge research is being performed in government and university labs across the country, but taking that research out of the lab and transforming it into a business can be hard. One company jump-starts the process by introducing entrepreneurs to that research.
Taiwan intends to raise its military budget more than usual next year following an increase in perceived threats from its old rival China, which has the world’s third largest armed forces. And now, the United States is contemplating selling the island nation more F-16V jets.
VIDEO: Sudan’s Transitional Military Council and opposition parties formally signed a political agreement this weekend after months of protests. Though many protesters are wary of the compromises made in the deal, the signing was marked by celebrations across the capital.

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