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Food Industry

Digitizing Food Safety: Tracking The Supply Chain From Seed To Store

Full-grown maize plants seen in a corn field. Photo by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images LightRocket via Getty Images Imagine tracking every piece of your Caesar salad from the wheat that became croutons to the seeds that turned into…

bubmagJune 27, 2019

Water Pollution

Gold mine with $100B lode to get lifeline from Trump EPA

The Trump administration is throwing a lifeline to the massive Pebble Mine planned near Alaska’s Bristol Bay, as regulators move toward undoing Obama-era environmental restrictions that have thwarted the project. The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednes…

bubmagJune 27, 2019

Donald Trump

Opinion: The real reason Megan Rapinoe sets Donald Trump off

Amy Bass (@bassab1) is the author of "One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together" and "Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete," among other titles. The views expressed here are…

bubmagJune 27, 2019

Electric Scooter

Teen on scooter killed in Humboldt Park, 3 others hurt in shootings

A 17-year-old boy on an electric scooter was fatally shot on the citys West Side Wednesday, while three others were hurt in two separate daylight shootings on the South Side, Chicago police said. In the latest outburst of violence, authorities said the teen …

bubmagJune 27, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Google and University of Chicago sued over patient records – CNET

A lawsuit alleges Google could combine its geolocation data with time stamps on patient records to identify patients. Photofusion/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A partnership between Google and the University of Chicago Medical Center aimed to impr…

bubmagJune 27, 2019

NSA

‘Oops, we did it again!’ NSA caught illegally collecting Americans’ phone data

The agency unlawfully slurped up a “larger than expected” volume of call and text records from one US telecom provider under the metadata-collection program known as Section 215, according to a document obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union as part o…

bubmagJune 27, 2019

Skateboard

Fresh Ways to Style the Iconic Sneakers That’ve Been Around Since the ’60s

ICYMI, sneaker trends have been coming in fast and furious as of late, from chunky-soled "dad" sneakers to throwback styles. But there's one iconic sneaker style in particular that's proven to be a mainstay among the fashion crowd: Vans. I say iconic because …

bubmagJune 27, 2019

Donald Trump

Fact check: Trump falsely accuses Mueller of crimes

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused special counsel Robert Mueller of breaking the law, primarily by alleging without evidence that Mueller illegally destroyed text messages sent by former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The …

bubmagJune 27, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Russia says Georgia isn’t safe. Russians in Georgia say otherwise

Image caption Protesters have rallied for days in Tbilisi, often carrying anti-Putin slogans The warnings for Russian tourists from the country's state media are stark: travelling to Georgia is no longer safe, some tourists have even been attacked. "The s…

bubmagJune 27, 2019

Skateboard

The SLAM x ROKIT Crossover Capsule Collection Celebrates Basketball And Skateboarding

SLAM and ROKIT link up to release this new capsule collection that celebrates basketball and skateboarding. Dubbed the SLAM x ROKIT Crossover collection, the collab consists of three tees and a hat designed with a seamless blend between basketball and skate …

bubmagJune 27, 2019

Digitizing Food Safety: Tracking The Supply Chain From Seed To Store

Gold mine with $100B lode to get lifeline from Trump EPA

Opinion: The real reason Megan Rapinoe sets Donald Trump off

Teen on scooter killed in Humboldt Park, 3 others hurt in shootings

Google and University of Chicago sued over patient records – CNET

‘Oops, we did it again!’ NSA caught illegally collecting Americans’ phone data

Fresh Ways to Style the Iconic Sneakers That’ve Been Around Since the ’60s

Fact check: Trump falsely accuses Mueller of crimes

Russia says Georgia isn’t safe. Russians in Georgia say otherwise

The SLAM x ROKIT Crossover Capsule Collection Celebrates Basketball And Skateboarding

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