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Nadler: Evidence Trump ‘guilty’ of impeachable offense

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bubmagJuly 21, 2019

Scotland

UK weather forecast: Highs of 34C expected as heatwave arrives in time for school holidays

A heatwave is due to sweep over parts of the UK as the school summer holidays begin this week, with temperatures expected to soar to as high as 34C in London on Wednesday. The high temperatures could bring some welcome relief from heavy thundery downpours th…

bubmagJuly 21, 2019

Riots

A pro-democracy march in Hong Kong was met with tear gas and police force. Here’s how it happened.

Protests in Hong Kong intensified on Sunday, on what marked the seventh consecutive weekend of pro-democracy demonstrations against the Chinese government, spurred by proposed legislation that would drastically change extradition policy. What started as a …

bubmagJuly 21, 2019

AR-15

We’re Living in the Age of the Sub-$300 AR-15 Rifle

Reader Steve S. emailed last night to let us know that now virtually anyone can afford to buy an AR-15 platform rifle. Palmetto State Armory is offing their PSA Freedom carbine length upper and “classic” lower at noteworthy prices, both with tactical peanut b…

bubmagJuly 21, 2019

Machine Learning

3 tech career deals you may have missed

Tech has invaded pretty much every aspect of our lives nowadays, making things easier and more novel. Until it rises up against us, it’s creating more and more career opportunities. Naturally, tech industries are booming, and the roles on offer are as varied…

bubmagJuly 21, 2019

Obamacare

Is My Health Plan a Cadillac? Why Are We Comparing Health Insurance to Cars?

A lot of people who are not economists. If it ever went into effect, the tax would either increase businesses tax burden or encourage them to offer their workers skimpier insurance. Neither outcome is much of a crowd pleaser. It was Democrats who passed the …

bubmagJuly 21, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

‘Slaughter the Jews’ painted in Arabic on Western Wall in Jerusalem

An anti-Semitic vandal scrawled “Slaughter the Jews” on a section of the sacred Western Wall in Jerusalem over the weekend, according to local reports. The chilling phrase was spray-painted in Arabic on the Kotel HaKatan, or “Little Western Wall,” on Saturda…

bubmagJuly 21, 2019

NSA

Sonbhadra firing: Police to book accused under NSA

Family members of those killed in Umbha village. (Express Photo: Vishal Srivastav) Police have decided to invoke provisions of the National Security Act (NSA) against all the accused in the Sonbhadra firing case which claimed the lives of 10 people and left …

bubmagJuly 21, 2019

Privacy Concerns

It’s a facial-recognition bonanza: Oakland bans it, activists track it, and pics taken from dating-site OkCupid feed it

Roundup Hello, welcome to this weeks roundup of news in the ever encroaching world of AI and machine learning. Well be talking about everyones favorite topic at the moment: facial recognition. First San Francisco, Somerville ... now Oakland: California's Oak…

bubmagJuly 21, 2019

Yemen Civil War

Everything You Need to Know About Operation Magic Carpet and the British Mercenaries Who Flew Fighters for Saudi Arabia

Although a Saudi lieutenant was nominally made CO of No. 6 Squadron, RSAF, in November 1967, British pilots still had the final say even more so once the unit was officially declared operational, a month later. British mercenary pilots flew Saudi Lightnings…

bubmagJuly 21, 2019

Nadler: Evidence Trump ‘guilty’ of impeachable offense

UK weather forecast: Highs of 34C expected as heatwave arrives in time for school holidays

A pro-democracy march in Hong Kong was met with tear gas and police force. Here’s how it happened.

We’re Living in the Age of the Sub-$300 AR-15 Rifle

3 tech career deals you may have missed

Is My Health Plan a Cadillac? Why Are We Comparing Health Insurance to Cars?

‘Slaughter the Jews’ painted in Arabic on Western Wall in Jerusalem

Sonbhadra firing: Police to book accused under NSA

It’s a facial-recognition bonanza: Oakland bans it, activists track it, and pics taken from dating-site OkCupid feed it

Everything You Need to Know About Operation Magic Carpet and the British Mercenaries Who Flew Fighters for Saudi Arabia

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