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A Florida man is facing federal criminal charges after he attempted to cross the Atlantic Ocean to get to England in a human-sized hamster wheel contraption, officials said. Ray "Reza" Baluchi was charged with obstruction of a boarding and violation of a captain of the port order, according to a criminal complaint. On Aug. 26, US Coast Guard officers stopped Baluchi after spotting him on his homemade vessel approximately 70 nautical miles east of Tybee Island, Georgia. It was then that he told officials he was headed to London, court documents said. Officers deemed his hamster wheel – which was...

China is losing its influence; it’s in decline. At the same time, however, China, ruled by a despotic regime, is responsible for 28.7 percent of global manufacturing output (more than 10 percentage points ahead of its No. 1 rival, the United States). This utter dependence on China for manufacturing must be stopped. As I write this, three countries are working to siphon customers away from China. Will their efforts prove to be successful?I speak from experience when I say the following: communist China is not a fun place to live in. Moreover, with its frequent power cuts and the Chinese...

A man who wanted to run on water from Florida to New York has washed up on the Floridian coast in a large hamster-wheel-like contraption. Reza Baluchi told local media he was travelling 1,000 miles (1,609 km) north from Florida's east coast for charity. However, he ended up 30 miles south of his starting point in St Augustine. Mr Baluchi encountered "complications that brought him back to shore", and was "safe with no injuries", Flagler County Sheriff's Office said. The US Coast Guard (USCG) then came to help him, the sheriff's office added, and to "ensure the vessel [and] occupant...