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Electric Car

Your Nissan Leaf May Soon Charge Your House

You might think an electric car is a car, but youd be wrong. It is a giant battery that, for some reason, spends most of its existence powering a thing thats not moving at all. Thats why Nissan sees a future for the Leaf as a battery that can power…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

UN agencies call for resumption of EU naval rescue operations

Two United Nations agencies have called on the European countries to resume rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea and to stop refugee and migrant returns to Libya, where they face dire conditions and are at risk due to the ongoing conflict. The appeal, …

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Climate Change

Storm Barry’s threat to New Orleans heightened by climate change: scientists

NEW ORLEANS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Barry, which is expected to flood New Orleans and threaten lives along the Mississippi River, is being fueled by warmth in the Gulf of Mexico that was likely exacerbated by climate change, scientists said on F…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Monsanto

Peddlers of Medical Misinformation Are Using Social Media ‘Censorship’ as a Selling Point

No one has ever accused Mike Adams, the self-proclaimed Health Ranger, of being an understated guy, but recent events have taken him to new, shouty heights. After Adams website, Natural News, had its page suspended by Facebook in June for violating the compan…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Seleção

The Week in Numbers

14 hours and 59 minutes without conceding for Liverpool or Brazil was what Alisson went until he was finally beaten by a Paolo Guerrero penalty. It was, however, insufficient to stop Brazil winning the fifth consecutive Copa America final in which theyve app…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

U.S. House passes $733 billion defense policy bill after Trump threatens veto

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives approved a $733 billion defense policy bill on Friday, defying President Donald Trump’s veto threat by including provisions like a clampdown on funding for his planned wall on the border with Mexico. The …

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

U.S. House passes $733 billion defense policy bill after Trump threatens veto

By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $733 billion defense policy bill on Friday, defying President Donald Trump's veto threat by including provisions like a clampdown on funding for his planned wall on the border …

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Animal Protection

‘End this cruelty’: Dozens rally in Seoul to ban dog trade

Dozens of people opposed to dog meat consumption, including American actress Kim Basinger, rallied near the National Assembly in Seoul on one of three "dog meat days" in South Korea. The organisers, Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE), picked Friday…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Big Data

Government pledges $150 million to cancer research network that will use AI and big data

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Star Wars

Just Like the Crushing Inevitability of Time Itself, There Will Be a Second Season of The Mandalorian

Always in motion, the future is. But one thing we should probably not be surprised to hear about in this era of more Star Wars than ever, is that were getting more Star Wars. Speaking about his other Disney project on Jimmy Kimmel last nightthat little known…

bubmagJuly 12, 2019

Your Nissan Leaf May Soon Charge Your House

UN agencies call for resumption of EU naval rescue operations

Storm Barry’s threat to New Orleans heightened by climate change: scientists

Peddlers of Medical Misinformation Are Using Social Media ‘Censorship’ as a Selling Point

The Week in Numbers

U.S. House passes $733 billion defense policy bill after Trump threatens veto

U.S. House passes $733 billion defense policy bill after Trump threatens veto

‘End this cruelty’: Dozens rally in Seoul to ban dog trade

Government pledges $150 million to cancer research network that will use AI and big data

Just Like the Crushing Inevitability of Time Itself, There Will Be a Second Season of The Mandalorian

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