Tuesday, October 09, 2018

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  Niskanen Center



  • Welcome to Joshua McCabe, Peter Jaworski, and Ted Marmor. The post The Niskanen Center’s Poverty Program Welcomes Three New Fellows appeared first on Niskanen Center...
  • The newly-renegotiated NAFTA agreement has significant benefits for the free flow of digital data and the global digital economy. The post NAFTA 2.0 Will Benefit the Digital Economy...

    • The Niskanen Center applauds the newest update to the Department of Transportation’s Automated Vehicle Policy Guidance. The post Three Cheers for Autonomous Vehicle Policy...

    Competitive Enterprise Institute



  • Scott Pruitt’s 16-month tenure as EPA administrator turned out to be a mixed bag. When President-elect Trump nominated Pruitt, he thought he was getting exactly what he wanted...
  • According to reports, the Trump Administration is set to announce a new policy intended to boost use of E-15, an ethanol-blended gasoline. CEI Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis said: “The...

    • The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and four individuals – John France, Daniel Frank, Jean-Claude Gruffat, and Charles Haywood – filed an appeal today with the United...

  • As the truth about its spy activities unravels, Russia becomes a bigger problem for all Europeans – not just those in the eastThe former Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin...
  • The former Cambridge Analytica chief was snubbed by two powerful black stateswomen who reject the ugly prejudices of the old boys’ networkThe recently exposed racist slur used...

    • The fallout from contestant Seann Walsh’s indiscretion shows we should be wary of reducing other people’s lives to entertainment fodderIf historians of the future wish to analyse...

      CTVNews.ca - Top Stories - Public RSS



  • The federal government and the incumbent government in Quebec have announced they will not be supporting former governor general Michaelle Jean’s re-election as the head of la...
  • A 58-year-old man is charged with first-degree murder in connection with a deadly house explosion in Kitchener, Ont.

    • Ottawa police are renewing their plea for any information in the case of an 11-year-old girl who has been missing for two weeks.

  • Originally posted on Roger Pielke Jr.: https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/1049109464035414017
  •   Rog Tallbloke‏ @RogTallbloke Oct 7 Hi Brandon, What is the best estimate of the ratio of radiation to space taking place from CO2 relative to H2O? Brandon R. Gates‏ @brandonrgates Oct...

    • Clearly the main reason for not putting a news item on the front page is that it won’t help to sell the newspaper. UK weather variability is standard. Today’s frontpages of most...

    Catallaxy Files




  • “Government fails because it grows, and it grows because it fails” [272] “We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage…if...

    • James Bartholomew is best known these days as the man who popularised the term virtue signalling by using it to describe left wing posturing and posing in their support of “good causes”...

  • I was confused. The powerful superstar violates the Diva's space, and she called him sweet?
  • Congratulations. International Men's day is finally here. And here we go again, toasting to all the handsome folks in our lives. What would we do without you, men! ...

    • India should learn from Europe, and emerge as a moral force on the global refugee crisis.

  • Google will also launch a host of other gadgets that include the Pixel slate and a new Chromecast.
  • The technical bug was detected as part of an effort called Project Strobe started by Google early this year.

    • Both the devices are expected to run Android 9.0 Pie.


    Zee News :Sci-Tech




  • Elon Musk-founded private spaceflight company SpaceX on Sunday successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on land after delivering an Argentinian earth-observation...
  • There has already been a rise of 1C since the mid-1800s as industrialisation lifted emissions of CO2, the main greenhouse gas blamed for climate change...

    • Scientists have developed a new test that can reveal the amount of DNA people shed.


  • A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced a 60-year-old disabled man to six-year imprisonment for sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl.
  • The Pope has in past supported dialogue between the two Koreas.

    • The incident occurred at the Hirakawa Zoological Park in Kagoshima city.


  • Michael is projected to plow into Florida`s Panhandle at midday on Wednesday, unleashing potentially devastating waves as high as 13 feet (4 meters).  ...
  • Speaking to reporters as he flew to Iowa for a political rally, Trump said: "It’ll be after the midterms. I just can`t leave now.”

    • 46-year-old Haley was the senior most Indian-American official in the Trump administration.


  • The second phase will cover a total of 384 wards spanning 13 districts across the state, seven of which are in the Valley, and over 1,000 candidates will participate, said the officials...
  • The incident was reported from Chapraula village under Badalpur police station limits, they said, adding that the woman is absconding after the incident...

    • Congress party has been pressing for a JPC probe into the deal.


      Channel NewsAsia World News




  • Suspended more than a 1,000 feet (300 metres) above downtown Toronto, six new Canadians took the oath of citizenship on Tuesday from the edge of one of the world's tallest structures...
  • U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday used the bitter Senate confirmation battle for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to try to boost Republican voter enthusiasm and prevent...

    • MELBOURNE: Australia will erect a statue of a homegrown sprinter who backed two Americans in their famed Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics, with authorities describing the...


      Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News




  • ALOR SETAR: A total of 42 new cases of food poisoning in Malaysia have been reported due to the consumption of contaminated laksa at an eatery, the health ministry said on Tuesday...
  • SHANGHAI: China's ruling Communist Party said late on Tuesday that it would impose limits on the number of central government inspection campaigns directed at local authorities...

    • SHANGHAI: China has approved 17 anti-cancer drugs for inclusion in its national health insurance system, the government said on Wednesday, part of its efforts to make cancer treatment...


      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News




  • SINGAPORE: Several retailers, including two 7-Eleven outlets at Punggol and Anchorvale, have had their tobacco retail licences suspended for selling cigarettes to under-18...
  • Suspended more than a 1,000 feet (300 metres) above downtown Toronto, six new Canadians took the oath of citizenship on Tuesday from the edge of one of the world's tallest structures...

    • Asian shares steadied in early Wednesday trade after world stocks hit eight-week lows the previous day on worries about global economic growth, although the pound stayed firm on...

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