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Super Heroes

DC: 5 Marvel Heroes Nightwing Can Defeat (& 5 He Couldn’t) | CBR

Dick Grayson has had a lifetime of training as Robin the Boy Wonder under DC Comics' best fighter and tactician, Batman. As Nightwing, his skills have only continued to improve as both a fighter and a team leader, and he has become one of the most respected h…

bubmagSeptember 25, 2019

NSA

We Were Warned: The Climate Emergency and the Surveillance State

Subscribe to the Intercepted podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Radio Public, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click here. The mainstream media still doesnt call our situation what it is: a climate emergency. This week on Intercepted:…

bubmagSeptember 25, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Adult obesity: Is childhood sugar intake in the ’70s to blame?

Is today's adult obesity epidemic the result of children in the 1970s and 1980s consuming excessive amounts of sugar? New research uses a mathematical model to find the answer. In recent years, obesity rates in the United States have skyrocketed. To be spec…

bubmagSeptember 25, 2019

Blockchain

Court rules Bitfinex’ info on $850M Tether black hole unnecessary – for now

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex can now stop sharing documents about its use of Tether with the New YorkAttorney General (NYSAG) after winning a motion in the appellate division of the New YorkSupreme Court over an alleged $850 million cover-up. Tether is a…

bubmagSeptember 25, 2019

Venezuela

Putin to Maduro: Russia backs talks between Venezuela’s government, opposition

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin told his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro at talks in Moscow on Wednesday that Russia supported dialogue between the government and opposition to find a way out of Venezuela’s political crisis. Venezuela’s op…

bubmagSeptember 25, 2019

Animal Protection

Beloved elephant dies in Sri Lanka after being forced to perform for decades

An elderly elephant, whose emaciated body sparked international outrage, has died just weeks after she was forced to march in a Sri Lankan parade. The female elephant called Tikiri was one of 60 elephants who had marched at the 10-day-long Perahera festival…

bubmagSeptember 25, 2019

Venezuela

Putin to Maduro: Russia backs talks between Venezuela’s govt, opposition

MOSCOW, Sept 25 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin told his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro at talks in Moscow on Wednesday that Russia supported dialogue between the government and opposition to find a way out of Venezuela's political crisis. Venezu…

bubmagSeptember 25, 2019

Global Warming

Your Wednesday Briefing

Scientists are urgently trying to understand how global warming is changing the Arctic. The international team of researchers aboard the Polarstern will be gathering crucial and rare firsthand data. Well just go where the ice goes, said Markus Rex, the lead r…

bubmagSeptember 25, 2019

Obamacare

GOP cashes in on impeachment

President Donald Trump. | Cengiz Yar/Getty Images Republicans are latching onto conservative outrage over the push to impeach President Donald Trump and turning it into a 2020 fundraising bonanza. Trumps reelection campaign and the Republican National Comm…

bubmagSeptember 25, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

S. Korean president proposes ‘intl peace zone’ bordering North

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday proposed that the United Nations create an “international peace zone” to replace the peninsula’s divide. He laid out his vision for the last Cold War frontier in an address to the UN General Assembly. The diploma…

bubmagSeptember 25, 2019

DC: 5 Marvel Heroes Nightwing Can Defeat (& 5 He Couldn’t) | CBR

We Were Warned: The Climate Emergency and the Surveillance State

Adult obesity: Is childhood sugar intake in the ’70s to blame?

Court rules Bitfinex’ info on $850M Tether black hole unnecessary – for now

Putin to Maduro: Russia backs talks between Venezuela’s government, opposition

Beloved elephant dies in Sri Lanka after being forced to perform for decades

Putin to Maduro: Russia backs talks between Venezuela’s govt, opposition

Your Wednesday Briefing

GOP cashes in on impeachment

S. Korean president proposes ‘intl peace zone’ bordering North

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