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Law and Border 9 hours ago
There is a real tension between the rule of law and what happens at or outside a country’s borders. The post Law and Border appeared first on Niskanen Center...
Niskanen Center Signs onto Amicus Brief in Support of DACA a day ago
Since the nation’s founding, immigrants have been an integral part of the fabric of our country, enhancing the lives and prosperity of all Americans - and the Niskanen Center...
Applications Open for Fall 2018 Niskanen Center Internships 2 days ago
The Niskanen Center is accepting intern applications for the Fall 2018 semester. The post Applications Open for Fall 2018 Niskanen Center Internships appeared first on Niskanen...
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Trump, Juncker Take Surprise Cooler Heads Approach to Trade Brinkmanship 2 hours ago
The surprise deal President Trump and EU President Jean-Claude Juncker announced today - to mutually resolve disputes over steel and aluminum tariffs and other industrial goods...
A Carbon Tax Would be a Costly Failure 5 hours ago
Recently, some Republicans have developed the rather unfortunate habit of floating tax increases shortly after cutting taxes. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law in December...
Trump Tariffs Will Harm US and EU 8 hours ago
President Trump is set to meet with EU President Jean-Claude Juncker today, with trade tensions topic #1, but CEI Senior Fellow Iain Murray warns that impending American tariffs...
Opinion | The Guardian
Insatiable’s fat-shaming is dangerous. Don’t do it, Netflix | Sofie Hagen 8 hours ago
Teenagers struggling with body image will watch an actor in a fat suit become thin and popular after her jaw is wired shutWhen I am thin, I am going to laugh with friends. I am going to wear...
Britain’s politicians are ignoring child poverty. The result: it’s soaring | Dan Corry 6 hours ago
Child poverty has grown under the coalition and Conservatives. It takes political will to tackle this scar on our societyThere was a time when the battle to reduce child poverty was...
Top secret: why is the government intent on keeping us in the dark? | Richard Norton-Taylor 7 hours ago
The Cabinet Office should be forced to release archive files on past events such as the Lockerbie bombing and the arms-to-Iraq inquiryMore than 700 government files, some classified...
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Toronto shooter's gun was illegal, originally from U.S.: source 10 hours ago
The gun used to shoot 15 people on a busy Toronto street was likely obtained from a “gang-related source,” according to a person familiar with the case...
Teenage boy shot and killed by Quebec provincial police 8 hours ago
Quebec's police watchdog is investigating after a teenage boy was fatally shot by provincial police in a town southeast of Montreal.
Confrontation erupts outside AFN convention 6 hours ago
A confrontation erupted outside the Assembly of First Nations in Vancouver, where chiefs from Indigenous communities across the country have gathered to elect a national chief...
Tallbloke's Talkshop
British government finally gives green light to fracking shale gas 14 hours ago
After years of wrangling, the UK (or at least England) seems to have at last run out of ways to avoid tapping in to the wealth that is the gas under the nation’s feet, in this case anyway...
Cloud formation and distribution follows simple thermodynamic, statistical laws 2 days ago
Clouds are climate wildcards says Phys.org. This study focuses on tropical convective clouds. It seems that ‘the product of the number of clouds and their perimeter remains constant...
Thick atmosphere boosts how fast Venus spins 2 days ago
The apparent length of day on Venus (116.75 days) is nothing like its rotation time (~243 days), due to its retrograde spin. It can be stated as the time in which the sum of the number of...
Catallaxy Files
CO2 and warming, a fun chapter for nerds 2 hours ago
Chapter 19 of Climate Change: The Facts is written by Dr John Abbot and Dr John Nicol on the contribution of CO2 to global warming. The authors describe recent theoretical investigations...
Modelling, Schmodelling! How to rationalise policies that would destroy the economy 12 hours ago
In a reprise of the feeding of the 5000 with five loaves and two fish, the Energy Security Board has offered salvation for the Australian economy with the National Energy Guarantee...
You are a slave to the state 18 hours ago
As technology enhances the state’s capacity to surveil its citizens it is becoming more and more apparent what relationship we have vis-a-vis the state. This is especially so...
Zee News :Zee News - Blog
By bringing back detentions, we are failing our children for sure 3 days ago
Neither detentions nor the no-detention policy address the quality of learning that children receive in schools. That is why we are failing our children...
Narendra Modi's foot-in-mouth ministers should measure their words 6 days ago
Two Union ministers made statements that directly undermine the rule of law. This could have dangerous repercussions.
Lessons from the Northeast should help bring peace to Jammu and Kashmir 6 days ago
The muscular approach of 2015 has been followed by confidence building in the Northeast, and this could be a viable option to be replicated in Jammu and Kashmir and the LWE-affected...
Zee News :Technology News
Sony Xperia XZ2 with 4K HDR movie recording launched in India: Price, specs and more 11 hours ago
The phone is available in four colours – Liquid Black, Liquid Silver, Deep Green and Ash Pink.
Twitter kills 143,000 apps, charts new rules for developers 11 hours ago
As part of its clean-up process, the micro-blogging platform also introduced a new way for all developers to request access to Twitter's application programming interfaces...
Are you worried about level of mobile tower radiation inside your home? Get it checked by DoT 13 hours ago
Increase in demand of mobile phones across the country has led to a quantum increase in the number of mobile towers.
Zee News :Zee News - Health
Daily exercise may cut heart attack risk even in polluted areas: Study 4 days ago
Moderate cycling for four or more hours per week cut risk for recurrent heart attack by 31 per cent.
Passive smoking dangerous for pregnant women, causes stillbirths 5 days ago
An analysis revealed that in Armenia, Indonesia, Jordan, Bangladesh and Nepal more than 50% of pregnant women reported exposure to household secondhand smoke...
CT scans may increase brain cancer risk 5 days ago
CT scans are sometimes used to identify conditions associated with an increased tumour risk.
Zee News :Sci-Tech
World's fastest man-made spinning object developed, to help study quantum mechanics a day ago
The laser can work in a straight line or in a circle - when it is linear, the dumbbell vibrates, and when it is circular, the dumbbell spins.
Quadrillion tons of diamonds may be hidden in Earth, far from anyone's reach 2 days ago
Shaped like inverted mountains, cratons can stretch as deep as 200 miles through the Earth’s crust and into its mantle, geologists refer to their deepest sections as “roots.”...
Man's first mission to Sun: NASA to launch car-sized probe in August 3 days ago
The Parker Solar Probe, which is expected to take off no earlier than August 6 aboard United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy, will study the Sun closer than any human-made object ever...
Zee News :South asia
Live streaming of Pakistan elections 2018 results on Zee News and WION 4 hours ago
A total of 85,307 polling stations were set up, out of which 17,007 were declared as 'highly sensitive'.
Pakistan votes today; will Imran Khan's PTI emerge as top player? a day ago
The polling process in Pakistan will start at 8:00 AM and end at 6:00 PM on Wednesday. Over 1,2000 candidates are in the fray for 270 national and 570 provincial assembly seats. ...
Nawaz Sharif protecting Indian interest, trying to damage credibility of Pakistan elections: Imran Khan 3 days ago
Sharif is currently serving 10-years jail term in Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi in a corruption case.
Zee News :World
In Uganda, PM Narendra Modi pitches India as a benign alternative to China 5 hours ago
He however made no reference, direct or indirect, to China and left it to subtext.
Election Commission of Pakistan may cancel Imran Khan's vote for violating code of conduct 10 hours ago
Imran Khan, a cricketer-turned-politician, came under the scanner of the Election Commission of Pakistan for not maintaining the secrecy and casting his vote in full view of the...
Imran Khan vs Shehbaz Sharif vs Bilawal Bhutto Zardari: The race for the next Pakistan Prime Minister 10 hours ago
Pakistan's politics has been dominated by the Bhutto and Sharif families, and Imran Khan is being seen as the best bet to break their hegemony.
Zee News :India National
In Uganda, PM Narendra Modi pitches India as a benign alternative to China in 10 hours
He however made no reference, direct or indirect, to China and left it to subtext.
BJP MPs think I will hug them too, take 2 steps back when I near them: Rahul Gandhi in 10 hours
He said BJP MPs are now cautious around him as they think he might hug them.
Starved for 8 days, 3 girl children die in Delhi in 10 hours
Delhi government has, meanwhile, ordered a magisterial inquiry into the deaths of the three girls.
Channel NewsAsia World News
Greek wildfires toll rises to 81 amid search for survivors 19 minutes ago
ATHENS: At least 81 people died in huge wildfires around Athens, Greek authorities said on Wednesday (Jul 25), as rescuers scoured scorched homes and burned-out cars for survivors...
Immigrant parents say misled by US, agree to deportation - court filing an hour ago
REUTERS: Dozens of immigrant parents were coerced or misled by U.S. authorities on the Mexico border into signing forms agreeing to be deported quickly without their children, lawyers...
US State Department warned of fallout from ending temporary immigrant protections - documents an hour ago
REUTERS: The U.S. State Department warned last October that a Trump administration decision to end temporary protection for immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua...
Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News
Pakistan incumbent party rejects vote results showing Khan set for victory 2 hours ago
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's incumbent party rejected early election results on Thursday (Jul 26) that suggested former cricket hero Imran Khan was on his way to becoming the country's...
Colombia's Uribe says Britain's MI6 part of 'ruse' against him 5 hours ago
Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday accused President Juan Manuel Santos and Britain's MI6 spy agency of participating in a plot against him, a day after resigning...
SCDF to send officers to Laos to aid relief efforts, Singapore to donate US$100,000 6 hours ago
SINGAPORE: The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) will be sending a team of officers to Laos to help with the disaster relief efforts, including conducting needs and risk assessments...
Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
Marseille hit with suspended European ban for crowd trouble 41 minutes ago
Olympique de Marseille have been handed a suspended one-year ban from European competition by UEFA due to the behaviour of their fans, European soccer's governing body said on Wednesday...
Long work week may up diabetes risk for women an hour ago
(Reuters Health) - Women who work 45 hours or more each week could be more likely to develop diabetes, a Canadian study suggests. Researchers tracked 7,065 workers aged 35 and older...
Greek wildfires toll rises to 81 amid search for survivors an hour ago
ATHENS: At least 81 people died in huge wildfires around Athens, Greek authorities said on Wednesday (Jul 25), as rescuers scoured scorched homes and burned-out cars for survivors...
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