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The Weird Saga of the Woman Who Supposedly Refused to Alter Florida’s Covid-19 Data Mexico Border Wall

The Weird Saga of the Woman Who Supposedly Refused to Alter Florida’s Covid-19 Data

Image: GettyFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis told reporters Wednesday that the woman who designed Florida’s acclaimed covid-19 dashboard and was later fired was removed from her post, not for whistleblowing on alleged attempts to skew the state’s covid data, but rather insubordination—and, to make matters more complicated, is separately under “active…
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May 21, 2020
RideLondon cancelled, Pantano receives a four-year ban: Daily News Digest Doping in Cycling

RideLondon cancelled, Pantano receives a four-year ban: Daily News Digest

(Want the Daily News Digest delivered directly to your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Hello again, CyclingTips readers. At the midpoint of the week, the cycling world offers a few intriguing headlines along with some news we hope we’ll eventually start seeing less of. Starting with the bad news, RideLondon is cancelled…
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May 20, 2020
Google Cloud Wins Multimillion-Dollar Pentagon Cybersecurity Contract Project Maven

Google Cloud Wins Multimillion-Dollar Pentagon Cybersecurity Contract

Google’s cloud division revealed Wednesday it has won a Pentagon contract to upgrade the military’s cybersecurity posture with a multi-cloud solution built on Anthos, its new Kubernetes platform. Google said the award comes through the Defense Innovation Unit, which is looking to the third-largest public cloud provider to help defend…
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May 20, 2020
Stop The Wildlife Trade: EU biodiversity plan to crack down on illegal wildlife trade Animal Protection

Stop The Wildlife Trade: EU biodiversity plan to crack down on illegal wildlife trade

The European Commission’s plan to tackle biodiversity loss in the next decade has been cautiously welcomed by environmentalists who say the “lofty goals” need to be backed by legislation. The 27-page “EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030”, released on Wednesday, admits that the EU has been “incomplete” and “small-scale” in protecting…
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May 20, 2020
Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks House from Obtaining Mueller Grand Jury Material Impeachment

Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks House from Obtaining Mueller Grand Jury Material

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily prevented the House of Representatives from obtaining secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.The court’s unsigned order granted the Trump administration’s request to keep previously undisclosed details from the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election…
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May 20, 2020