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☆ Fox News sued by family of Ukrainian journalist killed while covering war over ‘reckless and negligent conduct’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Fox News is the subject of yet another explosive lawsuit. The mayor of Irpin had barred journalists from the city and Thomson, the security contractor, had vetoed the idea of reporting from the area, according to the lawsuit. “The absence of the security contractor was vital, as the crew made fatal mistakes,” the lawsuit said. The Fox News crew ultimately stopped at an abandoned checkpoint where they were attacked. In the aftermath of the tragedy, the lawsuit alleged that Fox News has tried to cover up its failures and hide them from the public.

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“If you have minerals or oil under the ground, how do you come up with a price for a long-term contract? The shift to renewable energy and electric vehicles has caused a spike in the demand for critical minerals, driving these kind of loans. Adesina, whose Abidjan, Ivory Coast-based institution helps finance development in African countries, said these arrangements come with a litany of problems. Photos You Should See View All 60 Images“These are the reasons I say Africa should put an end to natural resource-backed loans," Adesina said. After Chad, Angola and the Republic of Congo approached the IMF for support, the multilateral lender insisted on the renegotiation of their natural resource-backed loans.

Persons: Akinwumi Adesina, paydowns, Adesina, ” Adesina, Glencore, Trafigura, ”, Mao Ning Organizations: African Development Bank, Associated Press, International Monetary Fund, IMF, Chartered, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China Railway Group, Gecamines, Alliance for Green Infrastructure Locations: Lagos, NIGERIA, China, Congo, Nigeria, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Africa, Chad, Angola, Republic of Congo, Guinea, Ghana, Beijing, Nigerian, AP.org

21 Saint Mary's led nearly the entire way to beat No. 17 Gonzaga 69-60 on Tuesday night and interrupt the Bulldogs' stranglehold on the West Coast Conference Tournament title. Also for Saint Mary's, Saxen produced a double-double despite battling foul trouble, and WCC player of the year Augustas Marciulionis scored 13 points. The game was close throughout — Saint Mary's largest lead was 11 points — but the Gaels managed to stay in front almost throughout. Saint Mary's now has won 23 of 25 games, and the Gaels ended Gonzaga's nine-game winning streak.

Persons: — Aidan Mahaney, Mitchell Saxen, Saint Mary's, Gonzaga, Mahaney, Saxen, Marciulionis, Anton Watson, Ryan Nembhard, Graham Ike, ___ Organizations: LAS VEGAS, West Coast, Bulldogs, NCAA, Gaels, Saint, AP Locations: — Saint Mary's, Saint

We'll also guide you step-by-step on how to use a VPN to watch UFC 299, no matter where you are. ET / 3 a.m. GMT (Sun) / 11 a.m. AWST (Sun)How to watch UFC 299 in the USUS viewers can watch the main event of UFC 299 on ESPN Plus tonight at 10 p.m. UFC PPV + Annual ESPN+ Membership (Bundle) ESPN+ is the home of UFC PPV events, meaning that fans need to purchase a subscription in addition to buying the one-off cards. Where to watch UFC 299 everywhere elseIf you're not in the US, you still have a few options to watch UFC 299. In Canada, UFC 299 will be available as a pay-per-view through most TV providers and directly via UFC Fight Pass.

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☆ I bought a used Tesla Model 3 for $26,000. Despite its high mileage, I'm happy with my car.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Andrew Lambrecht | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewLast spring, I found a used 2019 Tesla Model 3 listed for sale just a few miles from where I live. Andrew Lambrecht's 2019 Tesla Model 3. Lambrecht's 2019 Tesla Model 3. Lambrecht's 2019 Tesla Model 3. The Ford Mustang Mach-E and Volkswagen ID.4 are two other neat electric cars now within the $25,000 range used.

Persons: —, Cooper, I've, it's, Andrew Lambrecht's, Amber Saitta, Tesla, Teslas, Andrew Lambrecht, hasn't Organizations: Service, Business, EV, EPA, Ford, Volkswagen Locations: Teslas

☆ Ukraine said it sank a $65 million warship that Russia planned to use for an antiaircraft missile system
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine said it destroyed another Russian ship in the Black Sea using sea drones. The Sergei Kotov patrol vessel, part of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, cost $65 million, Ukraine said. AdvertisementUkrainian military intelligence said a $65 million Russian warship was the latest to be sunk in the Black Sea. It added that a Ukrainian special unit attacked the Black Sea Fleet vessel in cooperation with Ukraine's navy and the Ministry of Digital Transformation. In December, the UK's defense minister said that "over the past 4 months 20% of Russia's Black Sea Fleet has been destroyed."

Persons: Sergei Kotov, —, Andrii, Russian Sergey Kotov, 3KPMpgxXD8, 4LGiEYQaEY — Anton Gerashchenko Organizations: Service, Directorate of Intelligence, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Digital, Kyiv, Radio Free, Ukrainian Defense Intelligence, Ukraine, Kyiv Independent Locations: Ukraine, Russia's, Russia, Ukrainian, Kerch, Radio Free Europe, Russian, Sevastopol, Crimea

☆ Federal appeals court throws out lawsuit against Apple, Google, Tesla and other tech giants over alleged child labor in Congo
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit that sought to hold Apple, Google, Tesla and other major tech companies liable for their alleged use of child labor to mine cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “The plaintiffs have not adequately alleged the Tech Companies participated in a venture because there is no shared enterprise between the Companies and the suppliers who facilitate forced labor,” Rao wrote. “The Tech Companies own no interest in their suppliers. A federal judge in DC had previously thrown the case out. The defendants in the case were Apple, Alphabet (which owns Google), Dell Technologies, Microsoft and Tesla.

Persons: Neomi Rao, “, ” Rao, Rao, Michelle Toh Organizations: CNN, Apple, Google, Democratic, DC Circuit, Appeals, “, Tech Companies, Companies, DC, Dell Technologies, Microsoft, International Rights Locations: Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo

☆ New York Community Bank's issues are name-specific, not industry-wide, says Anton Schutz
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailNew York Community Bank's issues are name-specific, not industry-wide, says Anton SchutzAnton Schutz, President and CIO at Mendon Capital Advisors, discusses New York Community Bank and the rest of the regional banking sector.

Persons: Anton Schutz Anton Schutz Organizations: New York Community, Mendon Capital Advisors, New York Community Bank Locations: Mendon

☆ Most Ukrainians say Western support is critical to success in their fight, but confidence they'll get it has hit a new low
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Ella Sherman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A majority of Ukrainians believe Western sanctions and aid are crucial for success against Russia. Confidence in the West's support has hit a new low though, per new polling data. The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology reported February 29 that 57 percent of Ukrainians feel Western support is the most important factor in determining their country's success in the war. But while most Ukrainians believe that war aid from countries like the US could benefit their country, their confidence in Western support has reached a new low. Confidence in Western support has dropped around a dozen percentage points since October 2023 and around 30 percentage points since September 2022.

Persons: —, Anton Hrushetskyi, Hrushetskyi Organizations: Russia, Service, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology Locations: Ukraine, Russia, USA

☆ For Navalny’s Followers, a ‘Surge of Inspiration’ at a Sad Event
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Anton Troianovski | Valerie Hopkins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Elena Milashina, a daring Russian reporter beaten unconscious and doused in liquid iodine last year, said she has bid farewell to far too many journalists, activists and opposition figures who died an untimely death. But never, she said in a phone interview from Moscow, had she seen anything like the scene on Friday on the streets of the sleepy Maryino neighborhood on the outskirts of the Russian capital. “This was the most optimistic funeral I can remember,” said Ms. Milashina, 47, citing the large crowds and a palpable sense of unity. There was this surge of inspiration that we are all together, and that there are many of us.”The funeral of the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny on Friday may come to be remembered as a seminal moment in Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia. It was a day when the president’s decades-long nemesis was laid to rest, underlining Mr. Putin’s dominance; but it was also a day when an ocean of pent-up dissent re-emerged, if only for a few hours, on Moscow’s streets.

Persons: Elena Milashina, ”, Milashina, Aleksei A, Vladimir V Locations: Moscow, “, Russia, Moscow’s

☆ Putin Says Direct Western Intervention in Ukraine Risks a Nuclear Conflict
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Anton Troianovski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said the West faced the prospect of nuclear conflict if it intervened more directly in the war in Ukraine, using an annual speech to the nation on Thursday to escalate his threats against Europe and the United States. Mr. Putin said Western countries that are helping Ukraine strike Russian territory, and have discussed the possibility of sending troops from NATO countries to Ukraine, “must, in the end, understand” that “all this truly threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons, and therefore the destruction of civilization.”“We also have weapons that can strike targets on their territory,” Mr. Putin said. “Do they not understand this?”The United States and other Western governments have largely tried to distance themselves from Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory, and comments by President Emmanuel Macron of France this week about the possibility of Western troops being sent to Ukraine drew quick rebukes from other Western officials who have ruled out such deployments.

Persons: Vladimir V, Putin, “, Mr, Emmanuel Macron Organizations: West, NATO Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Europe, United States, France

☆ Wind turbines are annoyingly loud. The secrets of owl flight could provide a solution.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Emily Swaim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

To help solve this issue, Biome Renewables has crafted a quieter wind turbine modeled after owl wings. How owls can help make quieter wind turbinesOwls are master hunters in part because of how quietly they spring up on prey. The researchers found that the fringed wing was up to 6.5 dB quieter than the bare wing, depending on the angle of flight. At these frequencies, Church said the FeatherEdge is 3.9 dB quieter than a standard serrated edge blade, and over 5 dB quieter than a completely bare blade. Due to regulations around wind farm noise in the US, wind turbines often run in a noise-reduction mode, which costs a lot of energy.

Persons: —, Ryan Church, Spikes, Anton Frunze, Church, Jonathan Alcorn, It's Organizations: Service, Business, Reinhardt, Getty, Reuters Locations: North America, Europe

It swerves and is hit by a grenade, dropped from a Ukrainian drone. Russian soldiers appear to stagger away from it, one rolling. Yet since the fall of Avdiivka on February 17, Ukrainian military officials have reported regular Russian assaults on Robotyne. Two Russian soldiers can be seen clambering inside the ruins of a dugout, one manhandling a shovel. Ukrainian drone pilots now face Russian counterparts who have replaced their units but at a much larger scale, they said.

Persons: Ukraine CNN —, Maja Rappard, “, ” Bohdan, ”, Anton, shellfire Organizations: Ukraine CNN, CNN, 15th National Guard, Robotyne, 65th Mechanised Brigade, NATO Locations: Orikhiv, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Belgian, Russian, Avdiivka, Lviv

☆ China's economy looks like a mess — but some sectors are quietly doing well in its '2-speed economy'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Meanwhile, its financial markets are bleeding, the property market has gone up in smoke, local government debt appears alarming, and foreign investors are exiting in droves. Real estate — which was a huge part of China's economy — has been hit badly, he said. AdvertisementTravel has picked up after years of pandemic lockdownServices is another pillar of China's economy that Beijing has been trying to build up. AdvertisementThis is in part because new growth industries are not able to take the place of real estate — yet. Because the property market accounts for one-quarter of China's GDP and more than two-thirds of household wealth, its overall drag on China's economy is much greater than whatever is doing well right now.

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☆ Navalny’s Funeral to Be Held on Friday, Spokeswoman Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Anton Troianovski | More About Anton Troianovski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, will be buried on Friday after a funeral service in Moscow that will be open to the public, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday, although it was unclear whether the authorities would try to prevent people from attending. The planned service, at a church on Moscow’s outskirts, sets up the possibility of a rare display of opposition sentiment in the Russian capital, and Mr. Navalny’s spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, advised anyone planning to attend to “come early.”Two hours after Ms. Yarmysh’s announcement, another top aide to Mr. Navalny, Ivan Zhdanov, posted on the Telegram social messaging app that “Putin is releasing all his dogs to prevent the funeral from taking place normally.”Mr. Zhdanov did not immediately elaborate. But regardless, mourners will be taking a risk by attending. Hundreds of people who turned out across Russia at spontaneous memorials for Mr. Navalny after his death were detained, according to OVD-Info, a Russian-based rights group that tracks arrests.

Persons: Aleksei A, Navalny’s, Kira Yarmysh, Navalny, Ivan Zhdanov, Putin, Mr, Zhdanov Locations: Russian, Moscow, Moscow’s, Russia

☆ A breakaway region in Europe is asking Russia for protection. Here’s what to know
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Christian Edwards | Anna Chernova | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

No country officially recognizes Transnistria, where Russia has kept a steadily dwindling military presence for decades, now standing at around 1,500 troops. Before Wednesday, the congress’ most recent meeting was in 2006, when it passed a referendum calling to join Russia. When Transnistrian politicians unexpectedly announced a new meeting, analysts suggested this could lead to fresh calls for unification with Russia. Russia’s war in Ukraine has had a profound effect on Transnistria’s economy. Minzarari said the dispute had created opportunities for Russian authorities to “fish in troubled waters.”Why is Russia interested in Moldova?

Persons: Vladimir Putin, ”, Daniel Voda, “, Maia Sandu, Dumitru Minzarari, ” Minzarari, Minzarari, Gen, Rustam Minnekaev, Lenin, Anton Polyakov, Putin, Vadim Kranoselsky, ” Ben Dubow Organizations: CNN —, European Union, Kremlin, Novosti, Moldova’s, Transnistria’s, Deputies, Russia, Moldovan, Russia’s, Ministry, CNN, EU, Carnegie Endowment, International, Baltic Defense College, Military Region, Institute for, RIA Novosti, Center for Locations: Moldova, Transnistria, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Moscow, Soviet, Moldovan, Russia, Tiraspol, Odesa, Maj, Kherson, Russian, US, Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kyiv, Transnistrian

☆ 2024 is already straining the seams of China and Russia's 'no limits' partnership
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementRussia's finance ministry has been discussing yuan loans with its China counterparts — but a delayed decision suggests the two countries' "no limits" partnership may be under strain. Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told RIA state news agency in an interview published on Monday that Russia is discussing the issue with Chinese authorities. Russia's finance ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. However, two years after Russia started its ongoing war in Ukraine, Russia and China appear to be continuing to conduct business as usual. Three of China's Big Four state banks have halted payments from sanctioned Russian financial institutions, Russia's Izvestia news outlet reported on February 21.

Persons: Anton Siluanov, Siluanov, Vladimir Putin, Dong Jinyue, SCMP Organizations: China, Russian, Business, Beijing, Street, China Morning Post, BBVA Research, Russia Locations: Russia, China, Moscow, Ukraine, Madrid, Russian

☆ Navalny Allies Say He Was About to Be Freed in a Prisoner Exchange
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Anton Troianovski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Aides to Aleksei A. Navalny asserted on Monday that the Russian opposition leader had been on the verge of being freed in a prisoner exchange with the West before he died earlier this month. Western officials were in advanced talks with the Kremlin on a deal that would have released Mr. Navalny along with two Americans in Russian prison, a top aide to the dead opposition leader, Maria Pevchikh, said in a video released on the Navalny team’s YouTube channel. As part of that deal, Ms. Pevchikh said, Germany would have released Vadim Krasikov, the man convicted of killing a former Chechen separatist fighter in a Berlin park in 2019. There was no immediate comment from any of the parties reportedly involved in the trade described by Ms. Pevchikh. A Kremlin spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

Persons: Aleksei A, Navalny, Maria Pevchikh, Pevchikh, Vadim Krasikov, Mr, Putin, Krasikov, Tucker Carlson, Ms Organizations: West, Kremlin, YouTube, Fox News Locations: Russian, Germany, Chechen, Berlin

☆ Watch the new US Navy supercarrier USS John F. Kennedy catapult heavy cars into a river to make sure the warship can handle planes
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A new video shows the testing of the aircraft launch system for the Navy's new supercarrier. The USS John F. Kennedy is the Navy's second Ford-class aircraft carrier. Our #NewportNewsShipbuilding division has started topside #EMALS testing on the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (#CVN79). A T-45C Goshawk training aircraft attached to Training Air Wing (TAW) 1, lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) during flight operations, Sept. 12, 2020. AdvertisementIn addition to the Kennedy, two other Ford-class aircraft carriers, the Enterprise and the Doris Miller, are currently under construction at Newport News.

Persons: USS John F, Kennedy, —, James, John F, 9n3OhRDXAd, HII, Gerald R, Seaman Anton Wendler, Ford, Doris Miller Organizations: USS, Ford, aircraft, Service, Hornets, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Newport News Shipbuilding, US Navy, Training Air, U.S . Navy, Communication, Navy, Enterprise, Newport News Locations: Virginia

☆ Aleksei Navalny’s Body Was Returned to His Mother, Allies Say
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Anton Troianovski | More About Anton Troianovski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Russian authorities have transferred the body of the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny to his mother, his spokeswoman said on Saturday, ending a grim battle for custody of his remains, but it is unclear whether he will get a funeral that the public can attend. “Aleksei’s body has been handed over to his mother,” Mr. Navalny’s spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, said in a statement posted on social media. “The funeral is yet to come. She added that the opposition leader’s team would release information about the funeral “as it becomes available.”Mr. Navalny’s family and aides have accused the Russian authorities of keeping his body hostage and “blackmailing” his mother into agreeing to bury him in secret. On Friday, Ms. Yarmysh said that officials in Salekhard had given Ms. Navalnaya an ultimatum demanding that she assent to such a secret funeral within three hours, or else that he would be buried on prison grounds.

Persons: Aleksei A, Navalny, ” Mr, Navalny’s, Kira Yarmysh, Aleksei, Lyudmila Navalnaya, Yarmysh, Mr, “, ”, Salekhard, Navalnaya Locations: Salekhard

☆ Unpredictable Strongman? Two Years Into War, Putin Embraces the Image.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Anton Troianovski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

After President Biden called President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a “crazy S.O.B.” this week, the Kremlin was quick to issue a stern condemnation. But the image of an unpredictable strongman ready to escalate his conflict with the West is one that Mr. Putin has fully embraced after two years of full-scale war. At home, the Kremlin is maintaining the mystery over the circumstances of the death last week of Aleksei A. Navalny, preventing the opposition leader’s family from reclaiming his body. In Ukraine, Mr. Putin is pressing his army to maintain its brutal offensive, boasting on television that he stayed up all night as the city of Avdiivka fell to Russian forces.

Persons: Biden, Vladimir V, Putin, Aleksei A Organizations: Kremlin Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Avdiivka, Russian

☆ Navalny’s Mother Says Authorities Are ‘Blackmailing’ Her Over Son’s Remains
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Anton Troianovski | Ivan Nechepurenko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Russian authorities have declared that the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny died of natural causes but are refusing to release his remains until his mother agrees to a “secret funeral,” Mr. Navalny’s mother and his spokeswoman said on Thursday. Lyudmila Navalnaya, Mr. Navalny’s mother, said she had been “secretly” taken to a morgue Wednesday night, “where they showed me Aleksei.” She was shown a medical report on Mr. Navalny’s death that said he died of natural causes, according to the Navalny team’s spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh. But Ms. Navalnaya said she now was locked in a grim battle with local authorities in the northern Russian city of Salekhard who, taking orders from Moscow, were not releasing custody of the remains. She said the authorities warned that if she did not “agree to a secret funeral,” then “they will do something with my son’s body.”“They’re blackmailing me,” Ms. Navalnaya said in a video posted on her son’s YouTube channel. “They are setting me conditions on where, when and how Aleksei should be buried.”

Persons: Aleksei A, Navalny, ” Mr, Navalny’s, Lyudmila Navalnaya, “, ”, Aleksei, Kira Yarmysh, Navalnaya, “ They’re, ” Ms Organizations: YouTube Locations: Russian, Salekhard, Moscow

☆ Inside Aleksei Navalny’s Final Months, in His Own Words
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Anton Troianovski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Confined to cold, concrete cells and often alone with his books, Aleksei A. Navalny sought solace in letters. To one acquaintance, he wrote in July that no one could understand Russian prison life “without having been here,” adding in his deadpan humor: “But there’s no need to be here.”“If they’re told to feed you caviar tomorrow, they’ll feed you caviar,” Mr. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, wrote to the same acquaintance, Ilia Krasilshchik, in August. “If they’re told to strangle you in your cell, they’ll strangle you.”Many details about his last months — as well as the circumstances of his death, which the Russian authorities announced on Friday — remain unknown; even the whereabouts of his body are unclear.

Persons: Aleksei A, Navalny, they’re, Mr, Ilia Krasilshchik Locations: Russian

☆ Salaries in Russia rose by over 7% last year, further showing how the war is boosting the country's economy
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Real wages in Russia increased by 7.6% in the first 11 months of 2023, beating inflation. Russia's economy remains resilient due to wartime spending and government subsidies. AdvertisementRussia's wartime labor crunch is boosting salaries so much that wage gains are beating inflation. Real wages have risen 33.2% over six years, he added. As the war Ukraine heads into its third year, Russia's economy appears resilient.

Persons: —, Anton Kotyakov, Vladimir Putin's, Putin, Elvira Nabiullina, Nabiullina Organizations: Service, Russia's, Labor, Social Protection, TASS, Bloomberg Locations: Russia, Ukraine

☆ NASA explains how it would alert the public of an apocalyptic asteroid strike
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Ellyn Lapointe | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

In the event of an impending hazardous asteroid strike, NASA already has its plan in place to alert the public. NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office is tasked with finding, tracking, and assessing the risk associated with potentially hazardous asteroids in our solar system. To do that, NASA works with a global coalition of astronomers called the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN). There are about 2,300 known potentially hazardous asteroids out there, and roughly 153 of them are larger than 0.6 miles across. If Bennu does head toward Earth, NASA has a few tricks up its sleeve to defend our planet.

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