This is looking up in southern Colorado from the chorus brings Astronomical Society I m helping black and there lot of reasons to look up New Year s Day tomorrow many of us will be thinking about the coming year and wondering about the New Horizons ahead but before we talk about those new horizons I d like to talk about a very cool thing happening tomorrow with the old new horizons and by old New Horizons I mean the New Horizon spacecraft that flew past Pluto back in 2015 and returned wonderful pictures and data you may well of forgotten about this plucky little spacecraft but it s still working and tomorrow we ll do something almost unbelievably cool you see after a few past Pluto scientists at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder search for something else to visit way way out beyond Pluto is a vast cloud of stuff left over from when the solar system was formed that debris called the Kiper belt has about 35000 objects that are 60 miles or so across and up to 100000000 other sm
And for 1st time unemployment benefits fell last week the Labor Department says initial jobless claims fell slightly to a seasonally adjusted 216000 Wall Street is trading lower at this hour all 3 major indices trading down about 1.3 percent the Dow is down $297.00 points at $22580.00 the Nasdaq is down $84.00 points at $6469.00 the s. And p. $500.00 is down $31.00 points this is n.p.r. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include American universities Co God School of Business committed to business being a force for meaningful change through graduate and undergraduate degrees mission driven curriculum and a hands on approach more eco God dot American diet edu for w.b. News on Chris Riddell state lawmakers in Ohio are reconvening for rare post Christmas floor sessions where some of Governor John cases the toes could be overridden along during speakership fight also could finally be resolved the action begins today when both the Ohio House and Ohio Senate ar
Back to Julian welcome thank you could be on the show and also in New York Jonathan temperament is editor in chief of Foreign Policy and the author of The Fix how countries use crises to solve the world s worst problems Jonathan glad to have you with us glad to be back so 2 in d.c. 2 in New York let s begin with 2 big announcements from President Trump that have left the future of u.s. Foreign policy particularly in the Middle East unclear and uncertain on Wednesday President Trump signaled his intent to withdraw all u.s. Forces from Syria all of them we also understand that the u.s. Military footprint in Afghanistan will be cut as well then last night was the sudden resignation of Jim Mattis the retired general who is the secretary of defense let s begin with with Secretary Mattis Here s part of what he wrote in his letter of resignation to the president quote because you have a right to have a secretary of defense whose views are better on a line with yours I believe it is right for
Next year their effort has not had a lasting impact global production has remained strong despite that agreement partly due to the us shale oil industry there are also concerns about the prospects for the global economy which have been reflected in falling share prices the United Arab Emirates as it plans to deposit $3000000000.00 in Pakistan central bank in the coming days to shore up the country s finances as it struggles to pay its external debt soon after taking office in August the Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan asked friendly countries for help as his country grappled with a balance of payments crisis world news from the b.b.c. Thousands of supporters of Catalan independence are protesting in Barcelona against a cabinet meeting there of Spain s national government they ve also blockaded a number of roads in and around the city the cabinet meeting coincides with the anniversary of the elections imposed in the region last year but the previous Spanish government. Facebook and
Dan after the United States imposed sanctions on him and other entities for their alleged involvement in financing the Civil War The Treasury Department accused Israel s eve of using his agriculture related company as a vehicle to sell an estimated $150000000.00 in arms to both the government of President Salva Kiir and his opponents South Sudan has for years been embroiled in ethnic conflict which has killed an estimated 400000 people and displaced millions more a 2016 United Nations report accuse the Jewish state of helping to fuel the unrest after Israeli military equipment was identified in the country and Charles Beatles their town hall News Jerusalem news and analysis set the Media Line dot org and a townhall dot com Paul Ryan caps a 20 year congressional career from the bottom of my heart thank you thank you all that time devoted to why I m delivering her farewell address in the great hall of the Library of Congress country. What a country. Where someone of an unassuming Midwes