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Hiroshima

Turkey to buy Russian S-400 missiles, undeterred by US sanction threat

Turkey is preparing for US sanctions after going ahead with the purchase of Russian military hardware, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said in a statement circulated Wednesday. The White House has threatened sanctions under the Countering America's Adve…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

The Ungrateful Refugee

I was born in 1979, a year of revolution, and grew up in wartime. The itch in my brain arrived as war was leaking into our everyday sirens, rations, adults huddled around radios. It announced itself one lazy afternoon in our house in Isfahan, between the yell…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Air Pollution

Research on children’s health risks in doubt over EPA funds

Long-running research projects credited with pivotal discoveries about the harm that pesticides, air pollution and other hazards pose to children are in jeopardy or shutting down because the Environmental Protection Agency will not commit to their continued f…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

U.S. Considers Blacklisting Up to Five More Chinese Companies Including Hikvision

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. is considering cutting off the flow of vital American technology to as many as five Chinese companies including Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., widening the dragnet beyond Huawei to include world leaders in video surveillance…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Electric Scooter

You can make hundreds of dollars a day charging electric scooters—here’s how

Electric scooters are anew and trendy way to get around cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. They're not yet legal in New York City, where I live, but they're all the rage out West, where electric scooter start-ups like Bird and Lime a…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Bubble

The Lives of John Coltrane & Billie Holiday Are Now Told in Two Graphic Novels

How do you tell the stories of larger-than-life cultural figuresof people whose histories intersect with pivotal moments in American history, whose careers set new standards for excellencewithout oversimplifying and risking caricature? With comic art, of cour…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Animal Protection

Prada is finally going fur-free

Italian fashion house Prada is going fur free in 2020. The company made it official in a tweet this morning.The move comes after the Fur Free Alliance, a group of 40 animal-protection organizations from 30-plus countries, struck up conversation with the belov…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Animal Protection

Prada is finally going fur-free

Italian fashion house Prada is going fur free in 2020. The company made it official in a tweet this morning.The move comes after the Fur Free Alliance, a group of 40 animal-protection organizations from 30-plus countries, struck up conversation with the belov…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Animal Protection

Prada is finally going fur-free

Italian fashion house Prada is going fur free in 2020. The company made it official in a tweet this morning.The move comes after the Fur Free Alliance, a group of 40 animal-protection organizations from 30-plus countries, struck up conversation with the belov…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Venezuela

Spanish Independent MEP Candidate: ‘We’re Destined to See Change in Europe’

Javier Couso began his political career on the streets, joining social movements. He condemned the murder of his brother, José Couso, a cameraman covering the Iraq War, and has spearheaded a campaign for justice and establishing the truth about the US invasio…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Turkey to buy Russian S-400 missiles, undeterred by US sanction threat

The Ungrateful Refugee

Research on children’s health risks in doubt over EPA funds

U.S. Considers Blacklisting Up to Five More Chinese Companies Including Hikvision

You can make hundreds of dollars a day charging electric scooters—here’s how

The Lives of John Coltrane & Billie Holiday Are Now Told in Two Graphic Novels

Prada is finally going fur-free

Prada is finally going fur-free

Prada is finally going fur-free

Spanish Independent MEP Candidate: ‘We’re Destined to See Change in Europe’

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