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Over 55 Climate Scientists Call BS on Joe Biden's Claim No Scientists Support Bernie Sanders' Climate Plan
Over 55 scientists have signed an open letter rebuking Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that the climate plan rival contender Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders supports, the Green New Deal, isn’t supported by anyone in the scientific field.
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A teen's final days with the flu
Although the fever and aches feel terrible, most people don't die from the flu. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen explains how this common illness can turn lethal.
'This Will Be the Biggest Loss of Clean Water Protection the Country Has Ever Seen': Trump Finalizes Clean ...
Today, the Trump administration will finalize its replacement for the Obama-era Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule in a move that will strip protections from more than half of the nation's wetlands and allow landowners to dump pesticides into waterways, or build over wetlands, for the firs…
Death toll in China’s coronavirus climbs sharply to 80 with 2,744 confirmed cases
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Republicans fear "floodgates" if John Bolton testifies in Trump impeachment trial
There may be enough new pressure on Senate Republicans to allow witnesses at President Trump's impeachment trial, after the leak from a forthcoming book by former national security adviser John Bolton that contradicts what the White House has been telling the country.
What happened: Bol…
Fox News poll finds independents want the Senate to convict and remove Trump by 19-point margin
President Trump's defense team will wage its second day of arguments in his Senate impeachment trial on Monday, explaining to the Republican-controlled chamber why it should acquit Trump on both impeachment charges and not call witnesses later this week. A Fox News poll released Sunday found tha…
Republicans must recognize that tackling the damage from the warming climate is smart politics and good economics | The Invading Sea
As the Republican National Committee convenes this week in Miami for its annual winter meeting, it should build on the momentum from last week’s House GOP strategy session on climate. Republican leaders are starting to recognize that addressing climate change offers opportunity for political gai…
Seized pork dumplings from China test positive for African swine fever
The Philippines' import ban on pork and pork products covers 16 countries hit by swine fever, namely Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Moldova, South Africa, Zambia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Belgium, Latvia, Poland, Romania, China (including Hong Kong and Macau), Mongolia, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
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WHO says global risk of Wuhan virus is 'high'
During that outbreak, the UN health agency was criticised for sparking panic-buying of vaccines with its announcement that year that the outbreak had reached pandemic proportions, and then anger when it turned out the virus was not nearly as dangerous as first thought.
China allots nearly $9 billion to contain spread of virus
China's finance ministry and National Health Commission have extended 60.33 billion yuan ($8.74 billion) to help contain a spreading virus, according to a statement on the ministry's website.
Romney Says It’s ‘Increasingly Important’ For Senate To Hear From Bolton
On the first day of the Senate impeachment trial last Tuesday, Senate Republicans voted down a series of amendments that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democrats put forth to subpoena documents and witnesses such as Bolton and other Trump administration officials.
Burden of Health Care Payments Is Greatest Among Americans with the Lowest Incomes
“Our findings suggest that health care payments in the United States are even more regressive than suggested by earlier research,” said Katherine G. Carman, lead author of the study and a senior economist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization. “As national discussions continue about health …
Jane Goodall on the ‘shocking’ damage Donald Trump has done to the environment
Camexican: Bolton wants to walk a line that can't be walked. He could have said something during the time Congress was investigating this but choose to have his lawyer drop crumbs instead.
Now he can still appear on CNN, or FOX instead of just one. He is neither loyal to the President …
5 Americans now confirmed with coronavirus, CDC says
The latest: While U.S. public health officials have seen no evidence that the virus is infectious before a person shows symptoms — something that would likely call for stronger screening programs — they are investigating reports from two recent studies that point to that possibility.
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If defending life on Earth is extremist, we must own that label | George Monbiot
It’s not an “error” or an “accident”, as the police now claim. It’s a pattern. First, the Guardian revealed that counter-terrorism police in south-east England have listed Extinction Rebellion (XR) and the youth climate strikes as forms of “ideological extremism”. Then teachers and officials aro…
Cleveland cop who urinated on girl as she waited for bus gets 4 1/2 years in prison
Jones said that she was not convinced that Nhiwatiwa was truly sorry for his conduct. She said the physical and mental abuse he inflicted on the girl and his position as a police officer, which required him to protect the community from the very types of attacks he carried out, required consecut…
U.S. Supreme Court lets Flint, Michigan residents sue over water contamination
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday let residents of Flint, Michigan pursue a civil rights lawsuit against the city and government officials that accused them of knowingly allowing the city’s water supply to become contaminated with lead.
The justices turned away tw…
America Is Giving Saudi Arabia Cover for the Worst Human Rights Abuses in Decades, Watchdog Warns
"Saudi Arabia has seen a destruction, crushing and extirpation" of its political sphere, independent judiciary and free press in recent years, the report alleged. Power has been accumulated around 84-year-old King Salman, and particularly his son and heir Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known …
Greta Thunberg: 'Nothing has been done' to tackle the climate crisis
Davos, Switzerland (CNN Business)Greta Thunberg took the stage at the World Economic Forum Tuesday to admonish world leaders for doing "basically nothing" to reduce carbon emissions despite evidence of a looming climate catastrophe.
Speaking just hours before President Donald Trump's app…
Emissions of potent greenhouse gas rises, contradicting reports of huge reductions
Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found atmospheric levels growing at record values.
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Solitary confinement is bad for the heart too
Solitary confinement does little to rehabilitate inmates, is extremely expensive (where the average per-cell cost is $75,000), and exacerbates health problems — yet the American prison system is over-reliant on solitary confinement. In fact, a 2018 report found that, 61,000 individuals were bein…
Jeff Bezos hack: Amazon boss's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
It may also lead to renewed scrutiny about what the crown prince and his inner circle were doing in the months prior to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post journalist who was killed in October 2018 – five months after the alleged “hack” of the newspaper’s owner.
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Michelin sustainable rubber criticised for deforestation
Tyre giant Michelin and green group WWF have been criticised by researchers over a rubber plantation in Indonesia that was billed as protecting the environment, but which villagers say has caused deforestation, destroyed elephant habitat and resulted in land grabs.
In 2015, Michelin bega…
The strange tale of the paid protesters supporting Meng Wanzhou at her extradition hearing
Meng, the CFO of Chinese tech giant Huawei, was arrested at Vancouver International Airport in December 2018 at the request of the U.S., which seeks to extradite her to face charges of fraud. A number of people showed up on the first day of her hearing Monday and held signs supporting her.
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People still want plastic bottles, says Coca-Cola
The drinks giant says it will not ditch plastic outright but will try to recycle more.
Feeding the world without wrecking the planet is possible — PIK Research Portal
“When looking at the status of planet Earth and the influence of current global agriculture practices upon it, there’s a lot of reason to worry, but also reason for hope – if we see decisive actions very soon,” Dieter Gerten says, lead author from PIK and professor at Humboldt University of Berl…
Climate emergency: Duck-billed platypus could face extinction due to droughts
Scientists from the University of New South Wales’ Centre for Ecosystem Science said that if the current threats to the animal from climate change remain, platypus numbers will collapse by up to 66 per cent in the next 50 years, and by 73 per cent by 2070.
Due to its very unusual combin…
Jared Kushner reportedly used WhatsApp to talk to Mohammed bin Salman - Business Insider
The late House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings made Lowell's admission public in a March 2019 letter alleging that Kushner may have broken federal records laws. Democratic lawmakers and cybersecurity experts have criticized Kushner's use of WhatsApp
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Loot boxes push kids into gambling, says England's NHS mental health director
Loot boxes aren't currently regulated by England's Gambling Commission because their contents can't be monetized. The report calls this a "loophole" because, "Despite this, third party websites selling gaming accounts and rare items are commonplace and easy to find on places such as eBay across …
Microsoft quietly removes pledge to share 95% of app revenue on the Microsoft Store
Back in March, Microsoft brought new policies to the Microsoft Store to allow developers to keep a 95 percent cut of revenue generated from purchases, provided the traffic comes from the developer itself as opposed to straight from the Store. It seems this type of revenue model didn’t pay off, a…
Microsoft is bringing out the big guns against Slack with new global ad campaign for Teams
A new global ad campaign from Microsoft will aim to sell "The Power of Teams," juxtaposing old-school conference room meetings, complete with packets of printed-out charts and spilled coffee as phones are passed, versus what the company pitches as a new way of working. The company worked with it…
CNN poll: 51% say Senate should remove Trump from office
(CNN)About half of Americans say the Senate should vote to convict President Donald Trump and remove him from office in the upcoming impeachment trial (51%), according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, while 45% say the Senate should vote against conviction and removal.