Russia has dismantled a notorious facility dubbed the "whale jail" that kept dozens of the mammals in cramped conditions, causing an international outcry.
Almost 100 whales were kept in the secretive facility in Srednyaya Bay near the far eastern town of Nakhodka in 2018, before being released after an intense campaign by animal rights and environmentalist groups in 2019.
The animals were captured to perform in aquariums.
The environmental prosecutor's office of the Amur Basin — in the Russian Far East — said Thursday the jail had been completely dismantled. Read More...
Salvador Ramos Parents: According to media reports, Salvador Rolando Ramos was the 18-year-old gunman who shot and killed 21, including 19 children, at a Texas School. He worked as a night manager in a small, working-class community in Wendy’s, wearing body armor, according to media reports, Salvador Ramos entered Robb Elementary School carrying a handgun and a semiautomatic rifle and opened fire on the children. The motive of the shooter is not yet clear. Read More...
NASA has selected Columbia, Md.-based LJT & Associates Inc. to provide range operations support at the U.S. space agency’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s eastern shore through mid-2015.
The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity cost-plus award fee contract, announced June 22, has a maximum value of $117 million.
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