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Hurricane

Faced with 20,000 dead, care homes seek shield from lawsuits…

NEW YORK (AP) — Faced with 20,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation’s nursing homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits with a sweeping lobbying effort to get states to grant them emergency protection from claims of inadequate care.At least 15 states have enacted laws or governors’…

bubmagMay 3, 2020

Trade War

Trump Is Giving Up on the Dow Jones at the Worst Possible Time

Donald Trump must decide whether he wants to pump the stock market or get tough on China. On Friday, the Dow Jones proved it cannot cope with the re-emergence of trade war tensions. Wall Street may have just lost its biggest ally. Stock market sentiment cracked on Friday, as the…

bubmagMay 3, 2020

Republica Srpska

‘A camera doesn’t lie’: Documenting besieged Sarajevo

Wednesday, May 3, 1995, was supposed to be a peaceful day in besieged Sarajevo for 12-year-old Dzemil Hodzic, as a ceasefire had been declared. It was a sunny day and with no shooting or shelling from Serb forces who held Bosnia's capital under siege, the streets were full of children,…

bubmagMay 3, 2020

Super Komachi

My Most Embarrassing Travel Mistake

When you travel, you’re eventually going to make a mistake. It could be as simple as forgetting to pack your toothbrush or leaving your credit card at home. People who travel for a living always have a story of how they’ve shown up at the wrong airport or hotel or…

bubmagMay 3, 2020

Colin Kaepernick

Delusional Dunce Donald Trump Retweets Claim He’s “Done More For Blacks Than All Other Presidents Combined”

Source: NICHOLAS KAMM / Getty Just when we think Donald Trump can’t tell a bigger lie… BOOM! Saturday night Donald Trump retweeted a Kenyan man named David Kyalo Musyoka who strangely tweeted that: Trump has done more for Blacks than all the other Presidents combined. Trump retweeted the message along…

bubmagMay 3, 2020

Spanish Flu

KNOXVILLE FLASHBACK: THE SPANISH FLU: HOW 1918 WAS THE SAME, BUT VERY DIFFERENT. “Knoxville had on…

KNOXVILLE FLASHBACK: THE SPANISH FLU: HOW 1918 WAS THE SAME, BUT VERY DIFFERENT. “Knoxville had once been considered an especially dense city, even by standards of the day. The city had just begun suburbanizing, as symbolized by its recent annexations. But numbers from the era indicate that people who lived…

bubmagMay 3, 2020

Filter Bubble

Level 3: Cafes not just about the coffee

CHRIS SKELTON/STUFFLocal cafes are "third places". They are distinct from our homes and our workplaces. They make communities successful.OPINION: As we moved out of level 4 last week, cafes across the country were overrun. The surge in demand saw queues form and online ordering apps crash. As Jimmy Buffett put…

bubmagMay 3, 2020

Auschwitz-Birkenau

The hunt for the last Nazis: Unit trawls through millions of documents to track down war criminals

Although the Second World War ended nearly 75 years ago, the hunt for Nazi war criminals continues as a specialist unit battles to bring the last living perpetrators to justice.Jens Rommel heads up a small team at the Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes dedicated to scouring…

bubmagMay 3, 2020

Bees

The Asian giant hornet, a.k.a. the Murder Hornet, has arrived. Bees beware.

A giant, bee-killing insect dubbed the “murder hornet” is making inroads in the United States, threatening crops that depend on pollination, and humans who may get in its way. The Asian giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia, is native to places like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, but was detected in Washington…

bubmagMay 3, 2020

NOAA

Hurricane Nana, really? A look at this year’s storm names

Last year's hurricane season was very busy, and this year could bring more of the same. The 2019 season had 18 named storms, six hurricanes and three major hurricanes, including Category 5s Dorian and Lorenzo. The 2020 season begins June 1.The Atlantic hurricane season starts in less than a month.In…

bubmagMay 3, 2020

Faced with 20,000 dead, care homes seek shield from lawsuits…

Trump Is Giving Up on the Dow Jones at the Worst Possible Time

‘A camera doesn’t lie’: Documenting besieged Sarajevo

My Most Embarrassing Travel Mistake

Delusional Dunce Donald Trump Retweets Claim He’s “Done More For Blacks Than All Other Presidents Combined”

KNOXVILLE FLASHBACK: THE SPANISH FLU: HOW 1918 WAS THE SAME, BUT VERY DIFFERENT. “Knoxville had on…

Level 3: Cafes not just about the coffee

The hunt for the last Nazis: Unit trawls through millions of documents to track down war criminals

The Asian giant hornet, a.k.a. the Murder Hornet, has arrived. Bees beware.

Hurricane Nana, really? A look at this year’s storm names

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