Do you see what I see heading into a primary voting day? Kentucky's Senate race has attracted international attention and impressive sums of money. Candidates already have spent millions.

Yet the contest is likely to be settled by a small share of the electorate in a midterm year marked by antipathy toward the president and both parties in Congress.

US Attorney General Eric Holder has accused several Chinese military officials of hacking into six U.S. nuclear power, metals and solar products industries.

The companies are Alcoa World Alumina., Allegheny Technologies, Solar World, U.S. Steel Corp., United Steelworkers Union, and Westinghouse Electric.

These specific accusations are contained in a federal indictment become the first U.S. cyber-espionage charges against state actors. The hackers are accused of stealing trade secrets and economic espionage.

http://www.justice.gov/

Health investigators and scientists are stepping up their investigation of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus after it spread from person to person in the U.S. The virus has spread from the middle east and can be transmitted through person to person contact.

Meanwhile, Transportation Security Administration officials, at the request of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are posting Middle East Respiratory Syndrome warning signs at 22 major U.S. airports, including O'Hare, after two cases of the virus have been reported in patients who traveled to Saudi Arabia.

Fleet Week 2014 events are scheduled to begin on Monday, May 19 through Tuesday, May 27. These events will include military aircraft flyovers, aerial demonstrations, and static as well as stationary exhibitions throughout the NYC area.

Beginning Monday, May 19th, the U.S. Navy will conduct familiarization flights with four (4) MH-60 helicopters (photo attached) in various citywide locations from the hours of 1 PM – 2:30 PM and 3 PM – 4:30 PM.

This Week in History, May 18 - May 24

May 18, 1920
Pope John Paul II born. On May 18, 1920, Karol Jozef Wojtyla is born in the Polish town of Wadowice, 35 miles southwest of Krakow. Wojtyla went on to become Pope John Paul II, history's most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century. After high school, the future pope enrolled at Krakow's Jagiellonian University, where he studied philosophy and literature and performed in a theater group. During World War II, Nazis occupied Krakow and closed the university, forcing Wojtyla to seek work in a quarry and, later, a chemical factory. By 1941, his mother, father, and only brother had all died, leaving him the sole surviving member of his family.

May 19, 1935
Lawrence of Arabia dies. T.E. Lawrence, known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, dies as a retired Royal Air Force mechanic living under an assumed name. The legendary war hero, author, and archaeological scholar succumbed to injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident six days before. Thomas Edward Lawrence was born in Tremadoc, Wales, in 1888. In 1896, his family moved to Oxford. Lawrence studied architecture and archaeology, for which he made a trip to Ottoman (Turkish)-controlled Syria and Palestine in 1909. In 1911, he won a fellowship to join an expedition excavating an ancient Hittite settlement on the Euphrates River. He worked there for three years and in his free time traveled and learned Arabic. In 1914, he explored the Sinai, near the frontier of Ottoman-controlled Arabia and British-controlled Egypt. The maps Lawrence and his associates made had immediate strategic value upon the outbreak of war between Britain and the Ottoman Empire in October 1914.

May 20, 1873
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans. On this day in 1873, San Francisco businessman Levi Strauss and Reno, Nevada, tailor Jacob Davis are given a patent to create work pants reinforced with metal rivets, marking the birth of one of the world's most famous garments: blue jeans. Born Loeb Strauss in Buttenheim, Bavaria, in 1829, the young Strauss immigrated to New York with his family in 1847 after the death of his father. By 1850, Loeb had changed his name to Levi and was working in the family dry goods business, J. Strauss Brother & Co. In early 1853, Levi Strauss went west to seek his fortune during the heady days of the Gold Rush.