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Palestine

Tlaib Pictured In T-Shirt That Erases Israel Off The Map

Rep. Rashida Tlaib was recently pictured wearing a T-shirt that shows the entire state of Israel belonging to Palestine. The Michigan Democrat, part of the “The Squad,” which includes fellow Israel haters Reps. Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts — “was pictured in…

bubmagMarch 12, 2020

Ukraine

Senate panel postpones subpoena vote in Hunter Biden probe

A Republican-led Senate committee has postponed a vote on a subpoena as part of its investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, but the chairman of the panel says the probe will move forwardBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated PressMarch 11, 2020, 7:52 PM3 min readWASHINGTON -- A Republican-led Senate…

bubmagMarch 12, 2020

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How To Block/Stop Pop-Ups on Android (The #1 Simplest Method)

Pop-up adverts are the work of Satan. But you can stop them from appearing on your Android phone – all it takes is a few simple tweaks… Pop-ups are just awful. Everybody hates them. But they’re often unavoidable when you’re browsing online. But what if I told you that you…

bubmagMarch 12, 2020

Jamal Khashoggi

MBS’s crackdown: What prompted the recent arrest of Saudi royals?

Saudi Arabia's reported detention of senior royals and top officials earlier this month has raised myriad questions on what prompted the crackdown and whether it was the aftermath of an attempted coup in the Saudi royal court. To many observers, the detentions appeared to be Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's…

bubmagMarch 12, 2020

Barack Obama

Chelsea Manning recovering after suicide attempt in jail, lawyers say

Washington (CNN)Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning will be released from jail after being held for 10 months because testimony she refused to give to a secret grand jury is no longer needed, a federal judge said on Thursday.Manning's release comes because "the business of (the grand jury) had concluded,"…

bubmagMarch 12, 2020

Brexit

Europe Shocked by Trump’s Travel Ban: ‘He Needed a Scapegoat’

PARIS—Europeans woke to the news Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump has banned most of them from traveling to the United States for at least a month. And while some of the details seemed to be confusing and contradictory, there was no mistaking his administration’s effort to blame their governments,…

bubmagMarch 12, 2020

Old-Age Poverty

Social Security Benefits Aren’t Earned If You Didn’t Pay For Them

I don’t generally buy into the “greedy-geezer” narrative when it comes to entitlement reform. And yet it’s hard to find a flattering description for a generation that demands to receive Social Security benefits that it refused to pay for. That’s in fact what happened over the past 30 years and…

bubmagMarch 12, 2020

Vietnam

iPhone Production Resumption in China Exceeds Foxconn’s Expectations, But US Sales Concerns Remain

The founder of iPhone assembler Foxconn said on Thursday that the resumption of production at its factories in China had "exceeded expectations," following the coronavirus-related disruption of supply chains (via South China Morning Post). told reporters that the return to work effort at Foxconn's factories in China had "exceeded our…

bubmagMarch 12, 2020

Feudalism

Will Coronavirus Lead to a Recession? What We Can Learn From Pandemics in History

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station during Influenza Pandemic in 1918. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Viruses are killers, not just of humans but of powerful civilizations. Can they also bring down strong economies? A look back in history demonstrates how this has happened and…

bubmagMarch 12, 2020

Colin Kaepernick

What Happened When I Probed Facebook About Workplace Diversity in My City

A view from the new Facebook Reality Lab in Pittsburgh. Facebook Facebook’s new Pittsburgh research lab says it’s building technology for the “future of work.” But it’s unclear whether there are black people in that future.From the outside looking in, Facebook’s new Reality Lab office building in Pittsburgh is nothing…

bubmagMarch 12, 2020

Tlaib Pictured In T-Shirt That Erases Israel Off The Map

Senate panel postpones subpoena vote in Hunter Biden probe

How To Block/Stop Pop-Ups on Android (The #1 Simplest Method)

MBS’s crackdown: What prompted the recent arrest of Saudi royals?

Chelsea Manning recovering after suicide attempt in jail, lawyers say

Europe Shocked by Trump’s Travel Ban: ‘He Needed a Scapegoat’

Social Security Benefits Aren’t Earned If You Didn’t Pay For Them

iPhone Production Resumption in China Exceeds Foxconn’s Expectations, But US Sales Concerns Remain

Will Coronavirus Lead to a Recession? What We Can Learn From Pandemics in History

What Happened When I Probed Facebook About Workplace Diversity in My City

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