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NOAA

With storms in May, lawmaker wants a longer hurricane season

Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, right, gives a tour to Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, of the Miami-Dade Emergency Operations Center, Monday, June 8, 2020, in Doral, Fla. Wolf, who also toured the National Hurricane Center, spoke during a news conference on the on DHS's operational readiness for the…

bubmagJune 17, 2020

Slavery Abolition

Transcribe Anti-Slavery Letters to Help Historians

The Boston Public Library has a collection of letters that were sent to and from anti-slavery activists in the 19th century. The only problem: They’re handwritten, which makes them hard to read and impossible to search. This is where you come in. The library is looking for volunteers to help…

bubmagJune 17, 2020

Jamal Khashoggi

Amazon launches Saudi Arabia shopping site despite CEO’s dispute with kingdom

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Amazon is seen in Lauwin-Planque, northern France, April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday launched a website for shoppers in Saudi Arabia, showing its continued business interests there despite a public dispute between Riyadh and the company’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos. The…

bubmagJune 17, 2020

Solar Storm

Bank Warns of Potential Disasters Worse Than Pandemic

(Newser) – Financial markets are starting to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic amid promising signs from world economies—but Deutsche Bank doesn't pay its analysts to be optimists. In a report issued Tuesday, those analysts warned that there is a one-in-three chance of an event even more devastating than the pandemic…

bubmagJune 17, 2020

Volodymyr Zelensky

Bolton alleges in new book that Trump asked for election help from China

"He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China's economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win," Bolton writes. "He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I…

bubmagJune 17, 2020

Pandemic

10 Podcasts to Listen to If You Need to Laugh (to Keep From Crying)

Women laughing alone with iPhones.Photo: ShutterstockI don’t need to tell you how dark the state of the world is lately—I’m confident you know. What you might not know, however, is that podcast listenership has been down since the pandemic shuttered our workplaces and canceled our commutes, which is unfortunate, given…

bubmagJune 17, 2020

Spanish Flu

Morgan Stanley researchers who studied the 1918 Spanish flu share a warning that US coronavirus cases could double as a second wave slams the US in the fall

Morgan Stanley is leaning on insights from a pandemic that happened more than 100 years ago to predict further coronavirus outbreaks in the US.Using a model based on the 1918 Spanish flu, analysts in a note Wednesday simulated a "second wave" of infections in the fall. It suggested the average number…

bubmagJune 17, 2020

Little Italy

Ex-judge tries to slug protester during heated argument over Columbus statue

A retired Chicago judge was caught on video taking a swing at a protester this Saturday during a confrontation at a statue of Christopher Columbus in Little Italy that hours earlier had been vandalized, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Robert Bertucci is seen on the video getting increasingly heated while talking…

bubmagJune 17, 2020

Maduro

Some Venezuelans welcome relaxing of lockdown after 14 weeks inside

A worker cleans a mirror as people exercise at a gym after President Nicolas Maduro's government decided to ease the lockdown due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Caracas, Venezuela June 17, 2020. REUTERS/Manaure QuinteroCARACAS (Reuters) - After 14 weeks locked up in their homes, some Venezuelans are welcoming a…

bubmagJune 17, 2020

Pandemic

How to Drink on Domestic Flights During the Pandemic

Photo: ShutterstockEven as we adjust to the new normal of travel in the midst of a global pandemic, airlines are changing their policies to make it easier for crews to physically distance from passengers. One of the ways they are doing so is by limiting in-flight snack and beverage services.…

bubmagJune 17, 2020

With storms in May, lawmaker wants a longer hurricane season

Transcribe Anti-Slavery Letters to Help Historians

Amazon launches Saudi Arabia shopping site despite CEO’s dispute with kingdom

Bank Warns of Potential Disasters Worse Than Pandemic

Bolton alleges in new book that Trump asked for election help from China

10 Podcasts to Listen to If You Need to Laugh (to Keep From Crying)

Morgan Stanley researchers who studied the 1918 Spanish flu share a warning that US coronavirus cases could double as a second wave slams the US in the fall

Ex-judge tries to slug protester during heated argument over Columbus statue

Some Venezuelans welcome relaxing of lockdown after 14 weeks inside

How to Drink on Domestic Flights During the Pandemic

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