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Russians can now travel to 89 countries visa-free
Russian diplomat vows retaliation over ‘dirty tricks’ against Sputnik’s Estonia bureau
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Politics : NPR
3 Months After Heart Attack, Sanders' Doctors Say He's 'Fit'
The Democratic presidential candidate released letters from three doctors, saying he is fit for the office.Civil Rights Leader Rep. John Lewis To Start Treatment For Pancreatic
The Georgia congressman, who spent decades fighting racial discrimination, says he's mounting hisTrump Criticized After Sharing Name Of Alleged Whistleblower On Twitter
On Friday, Trump shared a post that included the name of a former intelligence community official who many
Discover: BreakingNews.ie
UK supermarkets begin stocking Easter eggs on shelves just days after
Easter eggs have been spotted on supermarket shelves around the UK just days after Christmas.Dublin tests out the light show for city's New Year celebrations
Preparations are underway for tomorrow's New Year's Festival in Dublin.Oil’s well that ends well for sheep rescued from bridge
A dog walker in South Wales spotted the animal in distress on St Stephen's Day.
Ireland: BreakingNews.ie
PSNI investigate as shots fired at Belfast house
Police in the North are investigating after shots were fired at a house in north Belfast.Gardaí seize €140k of heroin after stopping car in Dublin
Gardaí have seized €140,000 worth of heroin in Dublin.Tullamore parish apologises for Facebook post claiming IVF '
A Catholic parish in the Midlands has apologised for the hurt it caused with a Facebook post which said
memeorandum
Census data projects shift in states' congressional power (Stef W
Stef W. Kight / Axios : Census data projects shift in states' congressional power &mdashHanukkah stabbing suspect searched 'why did Hitler hate the Jews,'
Washington Post : Hanukkah stabbing suspect searched ‘why did Hitler hate the Jews,&rsquoJudge dismisses impeachment suit from ex-White House aide (Eric Tucker
Eric Tucker / Associated Press : Judge dismisses impeachment suit from ex-White House aide —
The Hayride
Armed Church Members Stop Shooting In Texas (VIDEO)
(White Settlement, Texas) – A gunman was positioned to kill scores of Christians at a Sunday morning3 Reasons Fort Worth Church Shooting Turned Out Differently
A gunman was stopped dead in his tracks by another armed person during church services Sunday in WhiteYear-end review: Top 2019 boomtowns in Colorado, Texas, South Carolina
The top ten cities that experienced economic prosperity and robust development in 2019 – boomtowns – were
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions
Ongoing CCPA analysis of Ontario education funding
CCPA's Ontario office is closely following ongoing changes to education funding in the province. ThePlanning for a Build-Out of Affordable Rental Housing in Metro Vancouver
To fully address Metro Vancouver’s housing crisis, an ambitious build-out program of 10,000 new unitsCrude Lessons
Crude Lessons: Fossil Fuel Industry Influence on Environmental Education in Saskatchewan finds that it is
Times of India
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News24 Top Stories
News24.com | KZN man arrested for murder moments before tying the knot
The 37-year-old suspect was arrested for his alleged involvement in multiple taxi-related murder casesNews24.com | Canal Walk denies dragging feet after lamp post fell on
Canal Walk shopping centre in Cape Town is investigating an incident that left a Kensington man injuredNews24.com | Zille slammed for 'insensitive' tweet: 'I did not
DA federal council chairperson Helen Zille says she did not compare the land issue to rape, as she
News24 Voices
News24.com | OPINION: A wish list for 2020
If we could all be a little kinder to each other, and to ourselves, if we could talk to each other and notNews24.com | Adriaan Basson: My 10 South Africans of the year
As we bid 2019 farewell, it is worth a pause to reflect on those compatriots who have shaped the past 365News24.com | Mpumelelo Mkhabela: Outrage over circumcision, traffic deaths
Over time, members of society will move on with their lives until the next season comes to claim its
News24 Africa
News24.com | Death toll in Somalia bombing climbs to 81: govt
The death toll from a massive car bomb in the Somali capital has risen to 81, a government spokespersonNews24.com | Burundi seeks 15-year jail term for journalists
Burundi prosecutors have sought 15-year jail terms for four reporters and their driver who were detainedNews24.com | Mozambique opposition rejects accusation of role in attacks
Mozambique's main opposition has dismissed government accusations that it was responsible for highway
World: BreakingNews.ie
Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn arrives in Lebanon
Ghosn is due to face trial in Japan in April.UK ‘seriously concerned about fair trial’ in case of teenager convicted in
The British teenager was convicted of public mischief at a court in Cyprus on Monday.( Meh. Meanwhile Julian Assange literally rots in prison for evading arrest - for a 'crime' for which he was not charged. The UK has reason to be concerned about fair trials - when it is incapable of providing them. )Chris Packham posts video of dead fox left outside his home
He posted a video on Twitter, saying that he found the animal in the yard outside his home on Monday.
WebMD Health
Insecticides Tied to Heart Disease Deaths
People who have been exposed to pyrethroid insecticides are three times more likely to die fromRep. John Lewis to Be Treated for Pancreatic Cancer
The 79-year-old said he was diagnosed during a "routine medical visit and subsequent tests."B Strain Dominating Early in the Flu Season
Parents of small children should be concerned because the B strain is proving more dangerous for kids.
WhoWhatWhy
Voter IDs and Roll Purges
Reading Time: 3 minutes No More Voter ID… for Now: A federal court in North Carolina foiled the GOPUS Firms Are Forcing Workers to Train Their Own Foreign Replacements
Reading Time: 2 minutes A 'Candyland for Sheriffs' ; The End of California's Oldest NewspaperA Look Back at Our 2019 Front Page Artwork
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the things that sets WhoWhatWhy apart from other news sites is that nearly
Science Blog
Buzzing Through the Blood-Brain Barrier
UConn engineers have designed a non-toxic, biodegradable device that can help medication move from bloodSeverity of autism symptoms varies greatly among identical twins
Identical twins with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience large differences in symptom severityGiant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy’s halo
Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope, a team of
Raw Story
Americans desperately need a wage increase — but Donald Trump won’t come to
President Donald Trump has been touting the progress of his economy since he inherited a reboundedJoe Biden would choose GOP running mate if one would ‘step up’
Former Vice President and 2020 hopeful Joe Biden isn’t mincing words when it comes to working acrossBolivia to expel Mexican ambassador, Spanish envoys as diplomatic row
Bolivia’s interim president says her government is expelling the top Mexican diplomat in the country
Scoop NZ - Sci-tech
Ten years of the weather with you
If you happened to be in Timaru on February 6, 2011 you might recall it was uncomfortably, ridiculously hotWhere are the monarchs?
A survey over recent weeks by the Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand Trust shows real concern for theWhere are the monarchs?
A survey over recent weeks by the Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand Trust shows real concern for the
The Science of Doom
Opinions and Perspectives – 9 – Pattern Effects
The IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5) from 2013 shows the range of results that climate models produce forOpinions and Perspectives – 8 – Pattern Effects Primer
For people with maths, physics and chemistry (and biology) backgrounds non-linear processes are familiarOpinions and Perspectives – 7 – Global Temperature Change from Doubling CO2
How much will global temperature rise if we double CO2 from pre-industrial levels? Based on current
Seeing the Forest
The Slog.
A Ballpark figure is a promise, not a statistic. An Official figure is an
The addition of more and more numerical information subtracts from our experience, divides us culturally,French Letter
Macron’s corporacratic State blunders on, treading water as it does so. But for the moment, it looksNietsche and the Advertising new-business pitch
Friedrich Nietzsche infamously alleged that God is Dead. The Almighty didn’t wait long to have his
Things I grab, motley collection
New York just set a dangerous precedent on algorithms, experts warn
It was supposed to be groundbreaking. When New York City’s task force to develop policy on algorithmthe second wave of algorithmic accountability
Over the past decade, algorithmic accountability has become an important concern for social scientistsAI today and tomorrow is mostly about curve fitting, not intelligence
As much as I look into what’s being done with deep learning, I see they’re all stuck there on the level of
Top Documentary Films
Poverty in the USA
For far too many, the American DreamBaalbek Megaliths
Though they've been ravaged by aAnatomy of a Bribe
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Universe Today
Carnival of Space #644
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Zain Husain at the Brownspaceman.com blog. Click here toTop Astronomical Events for 2020
Ready for another amazing year of sky watching? Hard to believe, were already a fifth of the way into theWaiting for Betelgeuse: What’s Up with the Tempestuous Star?
Have you noticed that Orion the Hunter—one of the most iconic and familiar of the wintertime constellations
Whistleblower Protection Blog
Remembering Dennis Brutus, poet and international activist
Today we remember Dennis Brutus, a poet and international anti-apartheid activist who died ten years agoWhistleblowers were big news in 2019. Here’s a sample.
The New Yorker declares it the year of the whistleblower, and we offer some of our popular posts of 2019Russian anti-doping whistleblowers seek refuge
The New York Times offers a profile of a family that had to flee their Russian homeland — to an
Andy Worthington
As $738 Billion Defense Bill Is Passed, Guantánamo Prisoners Are Ignored by
My report about the passage of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which, sadly, maintainsRadio: I Discuss Boris Johnson’s Alarming Election Victory – and Guantánamo
Here's a link to, and description of my most recent radio interview - about Boris Johnson'sHorribly Repressive: The Truth About Donald Trump’s Guantánamo
My discussion of a recent ABC News article highlighting, via attorney Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, repressive