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Monsanto

As EPA Insists Weed Killer Roundup is Safe, a Jury Orders Monsanto to Pay $2B to Couple With Cancer

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Donate U.S. agribusiness giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay its highest damages yet in a massive lawsuit over the popular weedkiller Roundup. A jury ordered Monsanto to pay more than $2 billion i…

bubmagMay 16, 2019

North Korea Nuclear Talks

Trump to meet with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in amid stalled North Korea nuclear talks – CNBC

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bubmagMay 16, 2019

Little Italy

4 of the United States’ Best Second Cities for a Family Vacation

A “second city” is one that doesn’t immediately come to mind when you think of a vacation destination — for example, visiting Marseille in France rather than Paris. However, if you’re willing to venture a bit off the tourist track to these less visited cities…

bubmagMay 16, 2019

Bees

Give bees a chance: We can’t afford to lose our wild native pollinators

A quintessential sign of spring is a busy bee happily buzzing from blossom to blossom. While spring is now in full swing across Canada, the presence of those dependable pollinators is becoming more and more uncertain. Our research team is focused on assessin…

bubmagMay 16, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Recode Daily: Inside the so-called “smart wall” at the US-Mexico border

Plus: White House passes on anti-online extremism pledge, San Francisco introduces an “IPO tax”, and the FCC goes after robocalls. The “smarter” wall: how drones, sensors, and AI are patrolling the border. As politicians debate over whether to continue to spe…

bubmagMay 16, 2019

Alibaba

The big takeover: Tech giants vow to double number of women managers by 2022 – Economic Times

PARIS: Forty-five tech giants committed Wednesday to doubling the number of women on their management boards to 30 per cent by 2022, the French presidency said. Alibaba, BNP Paribas, Booking.com, IBM, L'Oreal and Uber were some of the high-profile companies …

bubmagMay 16, 2019

Hiroshima

United Nations chief concerned about nuclear ‘coffin’ leakage in Pacific

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres raised concerns on Thursday that a concrete dome built last century to contain waste from atomic bomb tests is leaking radioactive material into the Pacific. Speaking to students in Fiji, Guterres described t…

bubmagMay 16, 2019

SpaceX

SpaceX postpones launch of 60 Starlink Internet satellites – CanIndia News

San Francisco, May 16 (IANS) SpaceX on Wednesday postponed the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the first 60 Starlink Internet communications satellites due to high winds. “Standing down today due to excess upper level winds. Teams are working toward t…

bubmagMay 16, 2019

SpaceX

SpaceX postpones launch of 60 Starlink Internet satellites – CanIndia News

San Francisco, May 16 (IANS) SpaceX on Wednesday postponed the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the first 60 Starlink Internet communications satellites due to high winds. “Standing down today due to excess upper level winds. Teams are working toward t…

bubmagMay 16, 2019

Cold War

Huawei is a risk so Britain must change course on 5G, ex-MI6 spymaster says

By Guy Faulconbridge and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - China's Huawei poses such a grave security risk to the United Kingdom that the government must not allow it to have even a limited role in building 5G networks, a former head of Britain's MI6 foreign sp…

bubmagMay 16, 2019

As EPA Insists Weed Killer Roundup is Safe, a Jury Orders Monsanto to Pay $2B to Couple With Cancer

Trump to meet with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in amid stalled North Korea nuclear talks – CNBC

4 of the United States’ Best Second Cities for a Family Vacation

Give bees a chance: We can’t afford to lose our wild native pollinators

Recode Daily: Inside the so-called “smart wall” at the US-Mexico border

The big takeover: Tech giants vow to double number of women managers by 2022 – Economic Times

United Nations chief concerned about nuclear ‘coffin’ leakage in Pacific

SpaceX postpones launch of 60 Starlink Internet satellites – CanIndia News

SpaceX postpones launch of 60 Starlink Internet satellites – CanIndia News

Huawei is a risk so Britain must change course on 5G, ex-MI6 spymaster says

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