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Mexico Border Wall

In a victory for Trump, the Supreme Court frees up $2.5 billion for the border wall

Construction on the border wall as seen from Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez. | Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images Construction blocked by a judge earlier this year can now begin. Donald Trump was handed a major victory on his signature issue — building a wall on the US…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Paris

France Won’t Drop Tax on Tech Giants, Despite President Trump’s Threats

PARIS — France is pushing ahead with a landmark tax on tech giants like Google and Facebook — despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of retaliatory tariffs on French wine. After Trump slammed the “foolishness” of the tax in a tweet Friday and promised…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Scotland

Trident is expensive and unwieldy – it’s time to spend our money elsewhere

The stand-off with Iran in the Gulf has brought into sharp focus the desperate shortage of ships in the Royal Navy. In consequence, we have had to call on our European partners (how ironic) to help with escorting our tankers. I am reminded of what Admiral N…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Paris

Bernal all but secures Tour de France victory

Egan Bernal was poised to become the first Colombian to win the Tour de France when he retained the overall lead after Saturday's 20th stage, a 59-km ride from Albertville. The Team Ineos rider, 22, finished the stage won by 2014 champion Vicenzo Nibali of I…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Christianity

Jews, outraged by restrictive abortion laws, are invoking the Hebrew Bible in the debate

President Donald Trump on Wednesday listed steps his administration had taken to bolster conservative causes and oppose abortion, warning evangelical voters that it all could change very quickly with the "wrong person" in the White House. (June 26) AP, AP …

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

New York City

Twin 1-Year-Olds Die Inside Hot New York City Car

Twin infants died in New York City on Friday after their father allegedly left them alone inside a hot car, police say. The children, 1-year-old Luna and Phoenix Rodriguez, were allegedly left inside a Honda sedan for eight hours while their father worked a …

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Solar Storm

Van Allen Radiation Belt

A Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energeticcharged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetic field. Earth has two such belts and sometimes others may be temporarily cr…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Scotland

Mass brawl breaks out on cruise ship with passengers ‘using furniture and plates as weapons’

At least six people were assaulted when a late-night brawl erupted on board a cruise ship. Families fled as passengers reportedly used furniture and plates as weapons on board the P&O vessel, which had left Bergen in Norway just 12 hours earlier. Three …

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

US teens confess to killing – World News – Castanet.net

World Hong Kong police on Saturday fired tear gas, swung batons and forcefully cleared out protesters who defied warnings not to march in a neighbourhood where last weekend a mob apparently targeting demonstrators brutally attacked people in a train statio…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Hiroshima

460,000 Premature Deaths: The Horror That Was Nuclear Weapons Testing

For a brief fraction of a second on an early March morning in 1954, the United States summoned a second sun into existence above Bikini Atoll. As the four-mile wide fireball bathed the Pacific seascape in its angry, white-red light, onlookers recognized some…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

In a victory for Trump, the Supreme Court frees up $2.5 billion for the border wall

France Won’t Drop Tax on Tech Giants, Despite President Trump’s Threats

Trident is expensive and unwieldy – it’s time to spend our money elsewhere

Bernal all but secures Tour de France victory

Jews, outraged by restrictive abortion laws, are invoking the Hebrew Bible in the debate

Twin 1-Year-Olds Die Inside Hot New York City Car

Van Allen Radiation Belt

Mass brawl breaks out on cruise ship with passengers ‘using furniture and plates as weapons’

US teens confess to killing – World News – Castanet.net

460,000 Premature Deaths: The Horror That Was Nuclear Weapons Testing

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