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  • Members of Congress such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) have called for the end of fossil fuel production in America. Presidential-maybe Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii)...
  • Students who know the name “Lanier” as the title of their high school — and by extension the surrounding neighborhood — were shocked to learn their school board determined...
    • Did we just see a miracle in New Orleans or was it just a natural reaction? On Saturday the voters of New Orleans turned down an emotional plea for a millage to create a City funding stream...

      Lifehacker

  • This isn’t going to be the typical “last-minute tax tips” post. I’m not going to advise you to try to remember any business expenses you forgot about, or remind you that filing...
  • You might remember hearing about Tide’s Eco-Box a few months ago. Rather than a plastic bottle of detergent that’s put inside a box and shipped to your house, it actually is the...
    • Hello everyone, and welcome back to Will It Casserole?, the column where we see what meals, dishes, and cuisines can be re-imagined and transformed into casseroles. Last month’s...

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  • Several thousand individuals who have been exposed to Monsanto’s (now Bayer) flagship herbicide Roundup and suffered from cancer are in the process of suing the agrichemical...
  • To address climate change, we’ve got to end chemical-intensive agriculture. Why? Because globally, today’s food and agriculture systems are responsible for more climate-change...
    • In April, representatives from PAN International will be heading to Uruguay to join a gathering of governments from across the globe to push for urgent action on Highly Hazardous...
  • Surveillance video posted on Facebook appears to show a University of South Carolina student climbing into the vehicle of her accused killer.        ...
  • President Trump making series of dramatic moves, from cutting aid to Central American nations, sealing the border, to slow down illegal immigration.        ...
    • The Ferrero Group is known for confections such as Ferrero Rocher, Nutella, Kinder and Tic Tac.        
  • President announces 30-day power rationing plan and says pro-government colectivos must ‘defend the peace of every block’Venezuela’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro...
  • Local elections viewed as referendum on president’s handling of economic crisisTurkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s grip on Turkey has been challenged by a resurgent...
    • Stephanie Carter said former vice-president had his hands on her shoulders ‘as a means of offering his support’As Joe Biden faced intense scrutiny of his behavior toward women...
  • Back in 2016, we wrote about two separate lawsuits involving claims that Getty Images was selling "licenses" to images it had no rights to sell licenses to. The first one was brought...
  • The "border search" exception again trumps the Constitution. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has determined [PDF] that the Supreme Court's Riley decision that implemented...
    • In the wake of last week's unfortunate decision by the EU Parliament to vote for the terrible EU Copyright Directive, Casey Newton over at the Verge has a thoughtful piece about how...
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  • MPs debate next steps for Brexit, including the Common Market 2.0 plan allowing free movement.
  • The powerful painkiller will be added to a list of controlled substances amid US demands.
    • The BBC's Quentin Sommerville hears from fighters who fled the reported fall of the so-called 'caliphate'.

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  • The Daily Beast: David Blaine Under NYPD Investigation Over Sexual-Assault Allegations  —  Detectives with the Special Victims Unit took statements from two women in recent...
  • Matt Stieb / New York Magazine: Rick Scott's Company Committed Historic Medicare Fraud.  He Will Now Lead Trump's Health-Care Push.  —  If the Trump administration has a domestic...
    • Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress: Gorsuch just handed down the most bloodthirsty and cruel death penalty opinion of the modern era  —  The Supreme Court's opinion in Bucklew v...
  • Firm warns of $1.1bn deficit, continued net losses after Hortonworks merger Cloudera has an accumulated deficit of $1.1bn and warned in this year's annual report that it expects...
  • 'Are you serious?' replies lawyer Autonomy Trial Former HP CEO Léo Apotheker has claimed that if controversial British software company Autonomy's accounts were accurate, "I...
    • Besieged Autonomy CEO, CFO both had fingers in the startup Darktrace, the security startup backed in part by Mike Lynch, the exec currently involved in a big civil fraud case being...

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  • Tyler Barriss is sentenced to 20 years in jail for making hoax calls to police.
  • The Swedish gamer battled the Indian channel to remain the YouTuber with the most subscribers.
    • Facebook is launching a new feature to explain how its algorithms decide what to display in your News Feed.

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  • A bald eagle was shot and killed in, what authorities deem, a malicious act of cruelty. The deceased bird was found in a roadside ditch. Demand the prosecution and punishment of the...
  • The EU will officially ban the use of the fungicide chlorothalonil, the most used pesticide in the United Kingdom. The chemical has been linked to various forms of pollution and may...
    • A dog was reportedly hung to death by a tether after being left unsupervised for an extended period of time. Two others were apparently tied to a shed without access to clean water or...
  • A paradox of tumor immunology is that tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes are dysfunctional in situ, yet are capable of stem cell–like behavior including self-renewal, expansion...

  •   Unexplained Mysteries

  • The story of a woman who saw a ghostly figure in a frozen food aisle has gone viral on social media. Christiana Bush, who works in the bakery departme...
  • A driver who had been stopped for driving erratically was found to be sharing his front seat with a 250-pound pig. Police officers in Minnesota couldn...
    • Two controversial surgeons aiming to transplant a human head have reported spinal surgery success in animals. Xiaoping Ren from China and Sergio Canav...

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  • MPs to vote on four alternatives to Theresa May’s Brexit deal on Monday nightFollow Monday’s Brexit developments - liveMPs will vote on four alternatives to Theresa May’s...
  • Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including the second day of Commons votes on alternative Brexit options What are the four indicative vote...
    • The popularity of the Brexit option has forced a crash course in global trade policyAlong with ending free movement of people, it was the reddest of Theresa May’s red lines: post-Brexit...
  • It's back to work for China's moon mission: The Chang'e 4 lander and the Yutu 2 rover both awoke over the weekend to start their fourth lunar day.
  • New answers for mysteries concerning Saturn's moons could shed light on whether one, Enceladus, could support life.
    • We may be one step closer to cracking the Mars methane mystery.

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  • New York City has launched an effort to provided free legal counsel to low-income tenants facing eviction and reducing displacement. Other cities may soon follow...
  • NPR's Korva Coleman talks to Katherine Goldstein about her new podcast, which looks at the lives of working mothers and childcare issues.
    • NPR's Korva Coleman explores a recent controversy taking over the Internet: which is the best way to slice a bagel?
  • There were more patients on trolleys in corridors and wards at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) today than there was across the entirety of Dublin’s nine hospitals, according...
  • A number of former patients of a doctor who admitted working under the influence of opioids are to be informed shortly about a decision to allow him to continue to practice under a number...
    • Politicians will question Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on online safety and regulation when they meet him tomorrow in Dublin.

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News

  • Novartis AG must face a U.S. government lawsuit accusing it of paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to doctors so they would prescribe its drugs, after a federal judge ruled on Monday...
  • Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd said on Monday that it was in talks with U.S. government authorities about whether it should continue to own popular gay dating app...
    • REUTERS: Half of U.S. adults think automated vehicles are more dangerous than traditional vehicles operated by people, while nearly two-thirds said they would not buy a fully autonomous...

      Science@NASA Headline News

  • Portal origin URL: SOFIA Captures Cosmic Light Show of Star Formation Portal origin nid: 442351Published: Friday, March 29, 2019 - 12:12Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal...
  • Portal origin URL: The Voyage to Interstellar SpacePortal origin nid: 442291Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 15:30Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text...
    • Video Length: 4:06As NASA prepares to send astronauts and spacecraft long distances through space, scientists are keeping an eye on the weather. Space weather. Read this story...

      How to of the Day

  • This wikiHow teaches you how to create and begin using a blog, both in general and by using specific platforms such as WordPress and Blogger.
  • There is nothing more fun than pulling a harmless prank on a friend, sibling, or roommate. Prank your friends by covering their car in sticky notes or messing with their hand sanitizer...
    • There are few things as delicious as a perfectly ripe peach that you've picked yourself. Go to the orchard and look for fruit that smells sweet and looks ripe. Once you've found juicy...

      LobeLog

  • by Austin Bodetti The Rohingya, Myanmar’s largest Muslim minority group, have suffered persecution at the hands of the country’s Buddhist-dominated military, the Tatmadaw...
  • by Mitchell Plitnick This week, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) held its annual policy meeting, and this one was quite different from many that came before...
    • by Peter Leonard Since its founding at the outset of the Cold War, U.S.-funded news broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has sought to promote press freedoms and advance an...
  • Israeli forces killed four Palestinians, including three teenagers, at a mass demonstration Saturday on the first anniversary of the Great March of Return in Gaza. Israeli soldiers...
  • President Trump has announced the United States will cut off funding to the so-called Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador that are the primary source...
    • With a deadline for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union fast approaching, the British Parliament will vote today on a series of options for Brexit after rejecting Prime...
  • The Israeli leader and his Likud party are waging a mudslinging campaign on social media, taking a page from the prime minister's close ally President Trump in style and substance...
  • A divided court ruled against a Missouri man who said, because of a rare medical condition, death by lethal injection would constitute "cruel and unusual punishment."...
    • The issue has been resolved, airlines said shortly after 8 a.m. ET. But by then, the delays had been mounting for more than an hour.
  • An hour a week of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity reduced the risk of disability, the study found.
  • The FDA first approved naloxone, a medication that can revive someone who has stopped breathing from an overdose in a matter of seconds,  in 1971.
    • One reason pancreatic cancer is so deadly is that it often isn't discovered until it has reached an advanced stage. The disease rarely causes noticeable symptoms, and there are no...

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