Monday, May 20, 2019

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  Niskanen Center



  • The Conrad 30 program waives a requirement for doctors on the J-1 visa to return to their home country for a minimum of three years after completing their residency. Instead, they can...
  • 36 senators request answers on USCIS disruptions. The post Niskanen Supports Bipartisan Group of Senators Drawing Attention to USCIS Processing Delays appeared first on Niskanen...

    • Expensive housing in major cities is holding back the American economy because new housing developments commonly spark a big “Not In My Backyard” local backlash. Why can’t...

    Competitive Enterprise Institute



  • Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Chairman Ajit Pai will circulate a draft order urging fellow commissioners vote to approve the merger between Sprint...
  • Competitive Enterprise Institute Vice President Iain Murray praised news of today's deal to lift US tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada and Mexico: “Lifting the steel and...

    • Yesterday, the White House launched a landing page (http://wh.gov/techbias) claiming social media platforms “should advance freedom of speech” and asking Americans who...

  • He’s likely to be prime minister by autumn. To defeat him at the polls, Labour must unambiguously back remainArmageddon awaits. Boris Johnson is heading for No 10 and there is nothing...
  • BP says its business plan is consistent with the Paris agreement to limit global heating, but this just isn’t trueThe container I’m currently inhabiting has everything I need...

    • Poking fun at the president is all well and good, but let’s use his UK visit to raise cash for migrant, green and abortion charities“The greatest insult to a sitting US president...

      CTVNews.ca - Top Stories - Public RSS



  • Approximately 4,000 residents of High Level, Alta., are being evacuated due to the threat of an encroaching wildfire.
  • Two young children who spent the night stranded on a B.C. mountain were brought to safety by rescue crews. Their injured father had been forced to leave them to find help...

    • Doctors in Canada are being warned about the emergence of an extremely contagious pathogen described as a 'fungal superbug' that is resistant to most medications and can be deadly...

  • Oh dear. Bribes not big enough any more? No sign of mass market take-up anyway. The European Automobile Manufacturers Association says 2018 sales of EVs were more than twice as high...
  • Seems like the ‘carbon dioxide control knob’ has gone wonky. Alarmists must wonder: how can that be? H/T CFACT It appears that Iceland won’t have to be renamed Tepidlandia anytime...

    • One national newspaper headline: ‘Climate Hysteria Costs Labor Party ‘unlosable’ Elections’. Many voters seem to have found the notion of ‘fighting climate change’...

  • There should be controversy over the capabilities of the Indian Navy and Coast Guard instead.
  • All this praise for Godse represents a force within his own ranks that threatens everything he wants to do.

    • In the North, actors have largely failed to deliver as politicians. In the South, the era of iconic actor-politicians is over.

    Zee News :Technology News



  • This comes after Google said it would comply with an order barring the Chinese company from updates to its Android operating system.
  • The hybrid FSTAR can fly over obstacles or run underneath them.  The sprawl, which adjusts from a flat configuration to 55 degrees allows the robot to transform its movement from...

    • Snapchat responded to some complaints on Twitter, saying they were "looking into the issue".

  • The US space agency NASA has selected 11 companies including Jeff Bezos` Blue Origin, Elon Musk`s SpaceX to develop prototypes of human landers for its Artemis lunar exploration...
  • The missions include a probe to study Sun's corona, Venus, Mars Orbiter 2 and Chandrayaan 3.

    • Google celebrated the 971st birthday of renowned Persian mathematician, philosopher, poet and astronomer Omar Khayyam with a doodle on Saturday.

  • At the very local level, people who critique CPEC are often labelled as terrorists, said researcher Shamila Chaudhary, who served in the previous Obama Administration...
  • The nature of the explosion is yet to be ascertained.

    • A series of deadly explosions on Sunday killed over 200 dead in Sri Lanka.

  • An election supervisory agency earlier on Monday dismissed claims of systematic cheating because of a lack of evidence and independent observers and analysts have said the poll...
  • Taking to Twitter, the official handle of the monument tweeted that the monument "is currently closed until further notice".

    • Moin ul Haque is currently Pakistan's envoy in France and has served in Belgium, US, Canada, Sri Lanka and Turkey previously.

  • The meeting comes amid the exit polls unanimously suggesting another term for the NDA.
  • "Society has no place for goondaism and urban naxalism," Manoj Tiwari tweeted.

    • BSE Odisha Matric Result 2019 | The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) Odisha will declare Odisha Class 10th board exam 2019 results on May 21 on official websites bseodisha.ac.in...

  • NOGALES, Arizona: A U.S. Border Patrol agent had called migrants "subhuman" and "savages" in text messages weeks before he knocked over a migrant with a pickup truck, according to...
  • A 16-year-old boy died Monday at a Border Patrol station in Texas, becoming the fifth child from Guatemala to die since December after being apprehended by US border patrol agents...

    • Tens of thousands of women have been freed from Nigeria's brutal Boko Haram fighters, but providing a safe future for them is critical to winning the war, analysts warned Tuesday...

      Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News



  • BEIJING: Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei struck a defiant tone on Tuesday (May 21) against American attempts to block his company's global ambitions, saying the US "underestimates"...
  • KARACHI: Pakistan are pinning their hopes for World Cup glory on a crop of youngsters who have the talent to beat anybody but could also pay for their lack of experience. The side have...

    • WASHINGTON: In effectively banning tech giant Huawei, President Donald Trump has fired a new salvo against China as the United States increasingly sees confrontation as the best...

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News



  • E-commerce giant Amazon was on its way to running its own online neighborhood Monday after the internet's address keeper granted the ".amazon" domain to the company...
  • NOGALES, Arizona: A U.S. Border Patrol agent had called migrants "subhuman" and "savages" in text messages weeks before he knocked over a migrant with a pickup truck, according to...

    • A 16-year-old boy died Monday at a Border Patrol station in Texas, becoming the fifth child from Guatemala to die since December after being apprehended by US border patrol agents...

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