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Hiroshima

NASA Warns We Need to Take Threat of a Meteor Impact Much More Seriously

While modern society hasn’t experienced the effects of a catastrophic meteor impact on Earth, fortunately, a hit from rock massive enough to destroy an entire U.S. state is a genuine threat, NASA warned this week. This is not about Hollywood. Its not about m…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Yellow Vests

Yellow vests, Black Blocs, casseurs: what’s the difference? Euronews explains

Dozens of masked and hooded anarchists hijacked Paris' May Day rally on Wednesday, burning bins, smashing property and hurling bottles and rocks. The so-called 'Black Blocs' immersed themselves in a crowd of labour unions and yellow vest demonstrators that w…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Christianity

Child sex abuse inquiry widens scope to other religions outside Christianity for first time

Reacting to the announcement that IICSA was widening its religious scope, Dino Nocivelli, a specialist child abuse solicitor at BoltBurdonKemp and an ambassador for the Survivors Trust, welcomed the move. Finally! he tweeted. IICSA has agreed to look into #ch…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Times Square

A suspected arson in Texas killed 600,000 bees, and authorities are baffled as to what the motive could be

A number of beehives went up in flames last week, leaving roughly 600,000 bees dead and a beekeeper in tears at the sight of the damage. Photos posted to the group's Facebook page show the beehives torn asunder and flipped over, with some frames flung into…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Why Is the NBA Helping a Despot Censor Tweets?

Everyone knows that NBA Twitter is already one of the weirder parts of the internet but not many of us expected the best basketball league in the world to be complicit in overt political censorship. @NBATurkiye, the NBAs official Turkish news account, tried …

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Senate Fails to Override President Trump’s Veto to End U.S. Military Assistance in Yemen

(WASHINGTON) — The Senate has failed to overturn President Donald Trump’s veto of legislation that would have ended U.S. military assistance for the Saudi-led war in Yemen against Iran-backed rebels. Congress has grown uneasy with Trump’s close relationship w…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg declines titanium advertising award for her “Fridays for Future”

We would all love to get a Titanium award at some point in our careers, at any award show be it shaped like a lion, a pen or a little head. Come to think of it, we all want a little head. But back to the topic at.. eh.. hand,…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Yemen Civil War

After veto override fails, critics of Yemen war vow to keep pushing to end US involvement

(CNN)The Senate failed Thursday to override President Donald Trump's veto of a bipartisan measure that would have reined in US military support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen that has killed thousands of civilians. Needing a two-thirds majority to overcome …

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Climate Change

How Students Convinced Beto O’Rourke to Stop Taking Fossil Fuel Money

The transformation of Beto ORourke into a legit climate change candidate took another turn on Wednesday night when he announced he was pledging to turn away donations from fossil fuel executives. The news was surprising because for months, ORourke has refuse…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Barack Obama

Clapper: What was the Trump campaign doing?

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bubmagMay 2, 2019

NASA Warns We Need to Take Threat of a Meteor Impact Much More Seriously

Yellow vests, Black Blocs, casseurs: what’s the difference? Euronews explains

Child sex abuse inquiry widens scope to other religions outside Christianity for first time

A suspected arson in Texas killed 600,000 bees, and authorities are baffled as to what the motive could be

Why Is the NBA Helping a Despot Censor Tweets?

Senate Fails to Override President Trump’s Veto to End U.S. Military Assistance in Yemen

Greta Thunberg declines titanium advertising award for her “Fridays for Future”

After veto override fails, critics of Yemen war vow to keep pushing to end US involvement

How Students Convinced Beto O’Rourke to Stop Taking Fossil Fuel Money

Clapper: What was the Trump campaign doing?

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