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Times Square

VIDEO: People flee as motorcycle backfiring sparks panic in New York’s Times Square – KETV Omaha

After a weekend of two mass shootings that left a combined total of at least 31 dead, police say motorcycles backfiring in the popular New York tourist destination Times Square led people to believe they were at the center of a third. The confusion took plac…

bubmagAugust 7, 2019

Brexit

Britain faces food shortages in no-deal Brexit scenario, industry body says

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will experience shortages of some fresh foods for weeks or even months if a disorderly no-deal Brexit leaves perishable produce rotting in lorries at ports, Britain’s food and drink lobby warned on Wednesday. Retailers such as Tes…

bubmagAugust 7, 2019

Monsanto

Bayer says next glyphosate lawsuit likely to be postponed

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Bayer said the next U.S. lawsuit scheduled to be heard over claims that its glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup causes cancer would likely be postponed. Bayer, which acquired the weedkiller as part of its purc…

bubmagAugust 7, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Truth and Reconciliation

This brief is part of a series on structural racism in the United States. Authors note: CAP uses Black and African American interchangeably throughout many of our products. We chose to capitalize Black in order to reflect that we are discussing a group of pe…

bubmagAugust 7, 2019

Gundam

Turning the Tables Season 3 – 8 Women who Invented American Popular Music

Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode program…

bubmagAugust 7, 2019

Scotland

Tottenham ‘murder’: Man, 22, charged with raping and killing 89-year-old woman in London home

A man has been charged with raping and murdering an 89-year-old woman in her London home. The victim was found dead in Waltheof Gardens, Tottenham, on Sunday morning. She was described by her family as a "wonderful, beautiful woman who was full of life". W…

bubmagAugust 7, 2019

Boeing 737max

Airbus issues pre-emptive safety orders on A320neos to avoid Boeing 737 MAX situation

Even as the Boeing company struggles with the fallout of the Boeing 737 MAX Lion Air and Ethiopian Airline crashes of 2018 and 2019, a result of inaccurate data being given by the angle of attack sensors to the anti-stall computer to push the nose down, there…

bubmagAugust 7, 2019

Korean War

Trump says talks with South Korea under way over defense costs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday talks have begun aimed at getting South Korea to pay more for the cost of maintaining U.S. troops in the region to guard against any threat from North Korea. "Talks have begun to further in…

bubmagAugust 7, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Returning to Morocco, Part II: Second-generation Israeli set out to find her roots. Instead, here’s what she discovered

>> Read the first part of our correspondent's journey to Morocco here >> Subscribe for just $1 now After three days in Essaouira we head back to the first city we'd encountered in Morocco, which from my perspective is the jewel in the crown and…

bubmagAugust 7, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

British ministers in US to ‘fast-track’ post-Brexit trade deal

Washington (AFP) - Britain was seeking to fast-track a crucial post-Brexit trade deal with the United States on Wednesday after new Prime Minister Boris Johnson dispatched his top diplomat and foreign trade minister to Washington. Foreign Secretary Dominic R…

bubmagAugust 7, 2019

VIDEO: People flee as motorcycle backfiring sparks panic in New York’s Times Square – KETV Omaha

Britain faces food shortages in no-deal Brexit scenario, industry body says

Bayer says next glyphosate lawsuit likely to be postponed

Truth and Reconciliation

Turning the Tables Season 3 – 8 Women who Invented American Popular Music

Tottenham ‘murder’: Man, 22, charged with raping and killing 89-year-old woman in London home

Airbus issues pre-emptive safety orders on A320neos to avoid Boeing 737 MAX situation

Trump says talks with South Korea under way over defense costs

Returning to Morocco, Part II: Second-generation Israeli set out to find her roots. Instead, here’s what she discovered

British ministers in US to ‘fast-track’ post-Brexit trade deal

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