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Monsanto

Monsanto’s Roundup under siege as courts award more damages against popular weed killer

Welcome to The National Today newsletter, which takes a closer look at what's happening around some of the day's most notable stories. Sign up here and it will be delivered directly to your inbox Monday to Friday. TODAY: Bayer ordered to pay $2 billion US i…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Global Warming

‘Record-setting’ doesn’t do our CO2 levels justice. This chart does.

Were officially living on a planet with an atmosphere no previous human being has ever experienced. Youll probably be able to say the same thing tomorrow. Carbon dioxide levels recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reached 415 parts per million on …

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Electric Scooter

Scooter attack: Man arrested for using electric scooter to beat woman to death – KTRK-TV

LONG BEACH, California -- A suspect has been arrested in the death of a woman who was beaten with a Bird scooter, police say. The attack happened around 12:30 p.m. on Monday. The woman was walking on the street when a man began attacking her, police said. A…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Refugees

National Policies Have Local Effects

The ongoing theme of this site is the possibility and practical-mindedness of much of local-level America, at just the moment when national-level politics have become so bitter and dysfunctional. But of course cities exist within states and regions, and state…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Trade War

The New New World: In China, Some Fear the End of ‘Chimerica’

China and the U.S. dont have to have strained relations, he said. Many also appear worried that the trade war and the governments tightening control over the private sector could halt or even reverse its progress. In a country only a couple of generations re…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Nukes

U.S.-Russia Talks Expose Deep Fissures, Despite Hopes for Better Ties

More than that, he added, he expected the publication of the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to clear the way for Russian-American cooperation. Passions will subside, he said. Mr. Pompeo said he was seeking to fulfill President Trumps i…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

SpaceX

Musk’s new lawyer fights ‘pedo guy’ defamation lawsuit claims, questions motive

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s lawyer argued Tuesday in a court filing that the British cave diver who became embroiled in a public spat with his client and later sued for defamation can’t recover damages because his reputation was not harmed. In court doc…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Lawyer involved in suits against Israel’s most notorious cyber-arms dealer targeted by its weapons, delivered through a terrifying Whatsapp vulnerability

NSO Group is a notorious Israeli cyber-arms dealer whose long trail of sleaze has been thoroughly documented by the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab (which may or may not be related to an attempt to infiltrate Citizen Lab undertaken by a retired Israeli sp…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Solar Storm

Major magnetic storm may displace satellites from orbit & hamper GPS navigation – scientists

The phenomenon may divert spacecraft from their orbit and create problems for satellite communications and GPS navigation, the Laboratory of X-Ray Astronomy at the Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Science said. Radio interference and Aurora Boreal…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Trump Buddies Like Viktor Orbán Are Sucking the Life Blood Out of European Democracy

SIBIU, RomaniaEuropean leaders met last Thursday in this picturesque town that, as it happens, was once the capital of Transylvania. They were looking for ways to fight increasingly authoritarian leaders and parties in the European Union that are sucking the …

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Monsanto’s Roundup under siege as courts award more damages against popular weed killer

‘Record-setting’ doesn’t do our CO2 levels justice. This chart does.

Scooter attack: Man arrested for using electric scooter to beat woman to death – KTRK-TV

National Policies Have Local Effects

The New New World: In China, Some Fear the End of ‘Chimerica’

U.S.-Russia Talks Expose Deep Fissures, Despite Hopes for Better Ties

Musk’s new lawyer fights ‘pedo guy’ defamation lawsuit claims, questions motive

Lawyer involved in suits against Israel’s most notorious cyber-arms dealer targeted by its weapons, delivered through a terrifying Whatsapp vulnerability

Major magnetic storm may displace satellites from orbit & hamper GPS navigation – scientists

Trump Buddies Like Viktor Orbán Are Sucking the Life Blood Out of European Democracy

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