2 September - iGoogle Portal Tab 6

Maybe one of the most radical differences between the two candidates in the Texas Senate race, Cruz and Beto, is their take on the 2nd amendment. By the NRA’s assessment, one man has...

Domino’s Pizza has revolutionized pizza delivery. Now the pizza chain wants to tackle a bigger challenge, New Orleans potholes. Earlier this year, Domino’s announced a program...

Sealy foam mattresses, tailgating essentials, and some of the best true-wireless earbuds you can buy lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...

About half the time I go to look at a piece of research I read about in a news article, the actual research is trapped behind a paywall.Read more...

Adam Vega is a community organizer with Californians for Pesticide Reform. In this blog, he shares his experience living in the agricultural community of Ventura County, California...

Members of the California Farmer Justice Collaborative (CFJC) have been hard at work putting issues of farmer justice in front of local policymakers in California. In fact, earlier...

McCain will be buried at the U.S. Naval Academy on Sunday, his body returning to the bucolic campus on the edge of the Severn River.      

Meghan McCain was one of several eulogies given in honor of Sen. John McCain’s funeral Saturday at the National Cathedral.      

Popular concern looks likely to propel Sweden Democrats to a possible 20% of the voteLast month, yards from the Social Democrats’ booth in Rinkeby town square, where Kersten Aggefors...

Letter praises Labour leader as ‘a principled leftist leader who is opposed to all forms of racism’A political alliance of four Arab-dominated parties in Israel’s parliament...

Five Years Ago This week in 2013, we learned that the NSA had tapped the UN and various embassies and cracked the UN's video conferencing encryption. We also got a look at the agency's...

One of the oldest challenges in journalism is deciding what goes on the front page. How big should the headline be? What articles merit front-page placement? When addressing these...

[link] [8 comments]

[link] [82 comments]

At least three soldiers are killed and 14 people hurt, with a school collapsing in the blast.

The Pentagon says Pakistan is failing to tackle militancy and the funds should be used elsewhere.

Tailings dam spills at Mount Polley and Mariana: Chronicles of disasters foretold  explores the many parallels between the tailings dam spills at the Mount Polley mine in British...

The battle for control of the US House is coming into sharper focus with November's midterm elections now less than 70 days away.

Summer break? Ha.

Emma Bowman / NPR: Mother Of Parkland Victim Wins School Board Seat: 'I Won't Stop' Until Kids Are Safe  —  Before Lori Alhadeff ran for a seat on her local school board, she had no...

New York Times: From Criminal Convictions to Ethical Lapses: The Range of Misconduct in Trump's Orbit  —  Here are all the people connected to President Trump who have been charged...

And, Microsoft is assisting fish farmers in Japan Roundup Hello, here's a quick roundup of what's been happening in the world of AI. Google has a new framework to help researchers develop...

Also: Belarus barely brushes botnet builder's bankroll Another week has come and gone. This one included some Fortnite flaws, a nasty Intel bug, and a voting machine maker whining...

The Bitfi cryptocurrency wallet, backed by John McAfee, had already caused controversy.

Google is reportedly buying credit card data from Mastercard but the firms had not announced the deal.

Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer

Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer

A bull has run away from a farm that is connected to a famous restaurant. The bull is most likely going to be used for meat consumption. Demand that when the bull is found, he be sent to a...

White supremacists have been harassing Iowa State students with robocalls spewing hate speech against Latinx on behalf of a recently deceased student, who was a champion of immigration...

Ajay Gupta is not prepared to return to South Africa in order to appear before an inquiry into state capture - but is willing to offer testimony via video link from Dubai, a media report...

A total of 200 new Esidimeni compensation claims have been lodged by families of affected patients, the DA says.

A revolutionary new regenerative treatment that can extend human life could begin clinical trials by 2020. Developed by Harvard Professor David Sincla...

A Mayan pictographic text dating back over 900 years has finally been confirmed as authentic by researchers. Officially known as the Mexico Maya Codex...

Letter praises Labour leader as ‘a principled leftist leader who is opposed to all forms of racism’A political alliance of four Arab-dominated parties in Israel’s parliament...

European Medicines Agency ends pharma evaluations work and moves contracts to blocBritain’s leading role in evaluating new medicines for sale to patients across the EU has collapsed...

With books about space and science intended for a young audience, there is a fine line between writing that's too complex and writing that older kids might write off as "babyish."...

On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series...

At least five people were killed and 16 others missing after floods lashed China’s Yunnan province on Sunday

Communications with a Mi-8 helicopter carrying out a geological survey in the eastern Russian Irkutsk Region, were lost on Sunday

At a time when Canada's refugee and immigration policy is being hotly debated, the small community of Morden, Man., has seen its size nearly double in the last decade, much of it as a...

Family members and first responders will gather today with Nova Scotians to remember the victims of Swissair Flight 111, which crashed off Peggys Cove killing all 229 aboard...

The US Open is happening despite high temperatures in New York City. WTA Insider reporter Courtney Nguyen tells NPR's Michel Martin about code violations that have come up for female...

Earlier this week, thousands of bees swarmed a hot dog stand in Times Square, New York. NPR's Michel Martin talks to NYPD Officer Darren Mays, whose beekeeper colleague was dispatched...

RTÉ has said that it had to cancel plans to air an Irish Sign Language broadcast of the national anthem during today's All Ireland Football final, due to the unavailability of a signer...

Officers are appealing for information and witnesses following the report of the stabbing shortly before 4am.

BERLIN: Police in Germany's southern state of Bavaria are investigating two officers suspected of performing the illegal Hitler salute. The German constitution makes it a crime...

CARDIFF: Unai Emery collected his second victory as Arsenal manager thanks to a fine strike from Alexandre Lacazette in a 3-2 success at Cardiff on Sunday (Sep 2). Emery's men had...

President Donald Trump has called off plans to hold a military parade… for now. We think it should happen and here is why. The post Let’s Give Trump the Military Parade He Deserves...

Scientists have found a piece of the hearing jigsaw puzzle. But does the deaf community want to be “fixed”? The post Leave My Culture Alone — Breakthrough on Hearing Not Welcomed...

Portal origin URL: NASA Invites Media to View Spacecraft to Study the Frontier of SpacePortal origin nid: 431584Published: Friday, August 31, 2018 - 16:16Featured (stick...

Michael Freilich, director of the Earth Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters since 2006, announced he will retire from the agency in February...

When you travel, dealing with luggage is sometimes the hardest part. Bags that are only a few pounds over the weight limit, extra airline fees, and long lines are just the beginning...

Shoeboxes can easily become clutter if you keep them in your closet, but they could look great in other places of your home. If you're not ready to send them to off to your municipal recycling...

by International Crisis Group What’s new??Pakistan has merged the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the Afghan border into an adjacent province, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...

by James M. Dorsey Less than a month in office, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has made blasphemy one of his first issues, empowering militants and initiating international...

In this exclusive broadcast, Democracy Now! breaks the media blockade and goes to occupied Western Sahara in the northwest of Africa to document the decades-long Sahrawi struggle...

Prisoners across the country join work stoppages, hunger strikes and commissary boycotts in at least 11 states to protest prison conditions and demand the end of what they call "prison...

A global development research organization study suggests that there's little data showing whether growers benefit from sustainably certifying their coffee because they are...

Lori Alhadeff's mission is to make all U.S. schools safe, starting with Broward County, Fla. After her daughter was killed in February's mass shooting, politics has become her vehicle...

In the study, this higher-functioning subgroup was more than four times as likely to suffer from depression, compared to people without autism.

The association between stroke and increased dementia risk remained even after other dementia risk factors such as blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease were taken into account...