The Pentagon called off an unorthodox swearing-in ceremony that would have given Bezos a spot on the military’s Defense Innovation Board in August 2017. Then-defense Secretary Jim Mattis was forced to cancel the event when an employee sounded the alarm over Bezos’ failure to complete the requisite background check.
The S&P 500 in the United States slid by 7 percent amid Wednesday's trading and tripped an automatic trading halt, the fourth time since last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 6.3 percent lower, closing below 20,000 for the first time in three years.
The Republican National Committee tweeted Tuesday night that sitting President Donald Trump has become the party's presumptive nominee for the 2020 presidential race after his victory in the Florida primary.
The Qinghai Forestry Department said that a protection plan for the Tamarix was drafted by a professional survey and planning agency under its commission.
The Panama-registered Sanchi, which was owned by an Iranian company and carried 111,300 metric tons of highly flammable condensate oil or natural gas liquids, collided with a Hong Kong freighter, CR Crystal, on Jan 6 some 160 nautical miles east of Shanghai and burst into flames.
The RV park, funded by the Gansu Provincial Highway Aviation Tourism Investment Group, also includes a visitor's center that caters to tourists, and is equipped with water taps and areas where visitors can enjoy barbecues, he said.
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is shown on Aug 20, 2018. [Photo/IC]
The Postal Service recommends first class international orders be placed by Dec. 2; standard mail by Dec. 15; and first class shipments by Dec. 20. If you are willing to push your luck, the absolute final deadline for priority?mail express is Dec. 23 for Christmas delivery.
The Picasso portrait was only the second most expensive lot of the Christie's auction. A bronze of a woman's head, La Muse Endormie (The Sleeping Muse), sold for .37 million, a new auction record for Romanian-born sculptor Constantin Brancusi and fetching over twice its lowest pre-sale estimate, Christie's said.
The Qingdao International Academician Park in the city's Licang district, launched in June 2016, has brought in 108 academicians from China and abroad to work on developing high-level and cutting-edge technologies that are urgently needed to carry out scientific research and the commercialization of research findings.