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Impeachment

Trump’s Riff on Disinfectant Shows Peril of Improvised Briefings

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump has been determined to talk his way through the coronavirus crisis, but frequent misstatements at his daily news conferences have caused a litany of public health and political headaches for the White House.On Friday, Trump sought to clean up his briefing room riff from the…

bubmagApril 25, 2020

Panda

20 City and Museum Tours You Can Do Without Pants From Your Bed

Unfortunately, many of us might be growing overly familiar with the confines of our homes. Nevertheless one cute little outcome of all this madness is how quickly it seems everybody has cooperated in trying to make isolation a little more tolerable. From hype Instagram Live concerts to long-awaited TV reunions,…

bubmagApril 24, 2020

Super Komachi

Maimed Man Arrested for Smearing Blood All Over Train Seats

A panicked man said to have been injured before climbing onto a Shinkansen (bullet train) was arrested after intentionally smearing what was believed to be blood across several seats, which he did because he grew frustrated with the staff’s response to his plea for help. The 61-year-old Tokyo man complained…

bubmagApril 24, 2020

Brexit

OnePlus reportedly issues massive layoffs in largest European markets

This story was originally published 2020/04/24 1:52pm PDTon Apr 24, 2020 and last updated 2020/04/25 12:38pm PDTApr 25, 2020. OnePlus has reportedly made severe staffing cuts in its European operations. While the tech brand has experienced massive growth in other markets over the past few years, it has also faced…

bubmagApril 24, 2020

Space Debris

An Earth Day Apology to Greta Thunberg

In her recent interview in Rolling Stone magazine, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg expresses her disappointment with ‘the olds’. She is referring to older generations and baby boomers who appear apathetic when it comes to acting on climate change. Is Greta right? Have we lost our fighting spirit? It was…

bubmagApril 24, 2020

Black Hole

Black hole keeps snacking on white dwarf locked in its orbit

Home News Science & Astronomy This black hole's parents never told it not to play with its food.An astronomer thinks he's spotted a stellar corpse known as a white dwarf sending out blazes of light, mayday signals from its uncomfortably close orbit of a black hole. And while such a…

bubmagApril 24, 2020

Times Square

Video: Take A Drive Through An Empty Times Square

The lights are on, but no one is home in the heart of Manhattan. Midtown, and Times Square in particular, has seen a drastic change since New York City went on PAUSE last month to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. While typically a bustling hellscape, the crossroads of…

bubmagApril 24, 2020

Soundcloud

Eminem Launches Competition for Michigan DJs, With Cash Prizes

Eminem announced today the “Love Your DJ” contest via his Marshall Mathers Foundation, which will aid DJs in his home state of Michigan who may have been financially impacted by the closure of venues and events due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The competition features cash prizes of $313 (the Detroit area…

bubmagApril 24, 2020

Brexit

EU and UK fail to bridge gaps in Brexit talks

The United Kingdom and the European Union showed little sign of progress towards a deal on their post-Brexit relationship this week, failing to bridge differences over future competition and EU fishing access to British waters. The EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier told a news conference on Friday that the UK…

bubmagApril 24, 2020

Alibaba

Frantic for Coronavirus Gear, Americans in Need Turn to China’s Elite

Joseph Tsai, a co-founder of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, and owner of the Brooklyn Nets and the New York Liberty basketball teams, in New York, May 9, 2019. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)HONG KONG — U.S. hospitals and state officials face desperate shortages of the masks, ventilators and other…

bubmagApril 24, 2020

Trump’s Riff on Disinfectant Shows Peril of Improvised Briefings

20 City and Museum Tours You Can Do Without Pants From Your Bed

Maimed Man Arrested for Smearing Blood All Over Train Seats

OnePlus reportedly issues massive layoffs in largest European markets

An Earth Day Apology to Greta Thunberg

Black hole keeps snacking on white dwarf locked in its orbit

Video: Take A Drive Through An Empty Times Square

Eminem Launches Competition for Michigan DJs, With Cash Prizes

EU and UK fail to bridge gaps in Brexit talks

Frantic for Coronavirus Gear, Americans in Need Turn to China’s Elite

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