“Call me a nationalist if you’d like, but I don’t want companies leaving, I don’t want them firing all their people, going to another country, making a product, sending it into our country tax free, no charge, no tariff, no nothing, and in the meantime, we end up with empty plants, unemployment all over the place. We end up with nothing,” President Donald Trump said.
Trump made the “nationalist” comment while addressing lawmakers from California, Alaska, and Hawaii, for State Leadership Day in Washington on Oct. 23. Trump made similar comments at a rally in Texas for Senator Ted Cruz’s reelection campaign.
Pence: Space Force ‘Will Be a Reality’ Very Soon
Speaking at the National Space Council meeting in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 23, Vice President Mike Pence outlined the forward progress in the creation of the U.S. Space force as a new branch of the United States military.The vice president said steps are being taken to establish the United States Space Force as the sixth branch of the military that is “separate from and equal to the five other branches.”
He said, “Our administration has taken decisive action to strengthen American power and secure our vital national interests in space.”
Pence added that President Donald Trump believes space is a warfighting domain, just like “the land, air, and sea. And America will be as dominant there as we are here on Earth.”
155 More Cases of Polio-Like Condition in 2018 Outbreak
Federal officials have received reports of 155 possible cases of a polio-like condition that can cause paralysis, known as acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM.So far, 62 cases have been confirmed across 22 states this year, a number that remains unchanged.
Vienna Zoo’s Painting Panda Creates Animal-Like Images
Yang Yang, a female panda in Vienna’s Tiergarten Schonbrunn zoo, has begun to paint images that her keepers say resemble other zoo animals. Yang Yang took up her bamboo paintbrush earlier this year.Zoologist Eveline Dungl shows off paintings by Yang Yang in which she says she can recognize a drinking giraffe and a chicken. Other paintings resemble an elephant and a swan, keepers say.
Dungl says Yang Yang has a lot of fun painting, and her technique depends on how she feels during the day—sometimes she makes big sweeping movements, while at other times she only moves the brush very gradually.
Yang Yang’s paintings are sold to raise money to finance a book in English and German about the zoo’s pandas.
Global interest in her paintings and the book has grown to such an extent that the zoo started a crowd-funding campaign where funders can bid for rewards such as getting their copy ’signed' by Yang Yang, among other prizes.
