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Skateboard

HUF Turns to Venice Beach for Summer 2019 Inspiration

HUF drew influence from founder Keith Hufnagels skateboarding days in 90s New York City for its Spring 2019 drop, and now the brand has set its sights on the West Coast to glean inspiration for its Summer 2019 release. The latest lookbook is set against the g…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Orangutan

Former Labour MP a lobbyist for firm planning to mine fossil-rich NZ land

This story was originally published on Newsroom.co.nz and is republished with permission. A Malaysian company previously embroiled in scandal and a company registered in the Isle of Man tax haven are shareholders behind a bid to purchase 432 hectares of lan…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Super Komachi

Riding from Hiroshima to Tokyo on the Shinkansen

Alex Robertson rides the Shinkansen train from Hiroshima to Tokyo. Train: A classic japanese bullet train. Class and price: Reserved seating starts at about $310. Travel time: 4hr 56m. Seat: Car 4 16C is the end one in a row of three. Opposite, my fello…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Putin

Britain worried a potential U.S.-Iran conflict could be triggered by accident – The Globe and Mail

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, left, waits for the start of a meeting at the European Council, in Brussels, on May 13, 2019. FRANCOIS LENOIR/The Associated Press Iran and the United States could trigger a conflict by accident in an already unstable …

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Trade War

CEO: I’m beyond freaked

CEO: I'm beyond freaked

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Holocaust

Republicans’ new smear of Rep. Rashida Tlaib can be easily fact-checked

Republicans have focused their bad faith criticism on a different woman of color in Congress this week. In the newest round of outrage, Republican lawmakers are arguing that Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, said s…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

NASDAQ

Uber’s CEO sent an email to employees addressing its disastrous IPO, drawing on Amazon and Facebook’s rough starts (UBER)

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi addressed his company's abysmal initial public offering in an email to employees on Monday. The chief executive sought to reassure employees that while Uber's IPO did not yield the first-day results the company had hoped for, the…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

Theresa May’s new Brexit anguish – Washington Examiner

British Prime Minister Theresa May is in crisis mode. For all her efforts, she can't get Brexit through Parliament, and her party is losing faith in her leadership. Because May's Brexit agreement has been unable to win parliamentary passage, she has been neg…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

SpaceX

Elon Musk to receive Stephen Hawking award for promoting science

Elon Musk's constant chatter and tweets about everything from "the simulation" to renewable energy have earned him high praise. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, praised for his "astounding accomplishments in space travel," won this year's Stephen Hawking Science Me…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

Palestine

Did Israel Destroy the Palestine National Library, the Azhar Library, and the ‘National Cultural Center’?

In May 2019, a set of images supposedly showing the Palestine National Cultural Center before and after it was destroyed by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) went viral on social media, along with the claim that the IDF had also destroyed the National Palestine Lib…

bubmagMay 13, 2019

HUF Turns to Venice Beach for Summer 2019 Inspiration

Former Labour MP a lobbyist for firm planning to mine fossil-rich NZ land

Riding from Hiroshima to Tokyo on the Shinkansen

Britain worried a potential U.S.-Iran conflict could be triggered by accident – The Globe and Mail

CEO: I’m beyond freaked

Republicans’ new smear of Rep. Rashida Tlaib can be easily fact-checked

Uber’s CEO sent an email to employees addressing its disastrous IPO, drawing on Amazon and Facebook’s rough starts (UBER)

Theresa May’s new Brexit anguish – Washington Examiner

Elon Musk to receive Stephen Hawking award for promoting science

Did Israel Destroy the Palestine National Library, the Azhar Library, and the ‘National Cultural Center’?

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