Thursday, November 15, 2018

15 November - iGoogle Portal Tab 7 MSM


  WIRED



  • Amazon’s year-long pursuit of new office space highlighted just how much billion-dollar companies can get from taxpayers.

  • AmazonBasics Microwave Review: It's a Little Undercooked

    12 hours ago
  • Amazon's voice assistant can do many things. Just don't ask it to defrost sausage.

  • Is Smoke From California's Fires Getting Worse? Hard to Tell

    14 hours ago

    • Smoke from the Camp, Hill, and Woolsey fires has forced Californians to don air masks. But measuring air quality is more complex than you might think.

      NYT & Home Page



  • Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech — the social network faced one scandal after another. This is how Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg responded...

  • Trump Is Expected to Endorse Easing Some Mandatory Sentencing Laws

    14 hours ago
  • Senators have staked the success of the bipartisan agreement on President Trump, but powerful pockets of opposition remain among some law enforcement officials and conservative...

  • Justice Dept. Defends Legality of Trump’s Appointment of Acting Attorney General

    15 hours ago

    • Though even temporary appointments for high-ranking posts are usually filled by Senate-confirmed officials, the Constitution does not require it, a law enforcement official...

      India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Ti



  • The assurance by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who was representing the Land and Development Office, came after Justice Sunil Gaur said he will hear the matter another day and the...

  • Tracking the other Scindia: 'There is no Scindia vs Scindia 'match fixing' in Madhya Pradesh,' says Yashodhara Raje Scindia

    an hour ago


  • Cyclone Gaja: All you need to know

    an hour ago

    • As the cyclonic storm Gaja is approaching the coast of South Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, and is poised to cross coast on Thursday evening, the Indian Navy has been put on alert. The IMD...

      BBC News - UK



  • Cabinet ministers backed the agreement - but it has sparked a backlash from Tory Brexiteers.

  • Search on in Boston and Skegness for £76m lottery winner

    an hour ago
  • The EuroMillions ticket was bought in the constituency of Boston and Skegness.

  • 'Cut lamb and beef' to fight climate change

    7 hours ago

    • The number of sheep and cattle in the UK should be reduced to help combat climate change, a report says.
    ( The BBC can come out with drivel like this - and the Trumpster says China sells climate tax ! )

      National Geographic News



  • This Veterans Day marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. It was during the war that National Geographic Society began producing original maps...

  • 'Biggest case on the planet' pits kids vs. climate change

    6 days ago
  • A pioneering lawsuit against the U.S. government has won the right to a trial, overcoming the Trump administration's efforts to cancel it in court.

  • The map that popularized the word ‘gerrymander’

    9 days ago

    • The practice wasn’t new in 1812. But a map in a newspaper gave it a name that stuck.

      Reuters: World News



  • German prosecutors are pressing criminal charges against a former employee of chemicals maker Lanxess for allegedly stealing trade secrets to set up a Chinese copycat chemical...

  • Tanzania loses Denmark aid over rights concerns after World Bank scraps loan

    13 minutes ago
  • Tanzania's second-biggest donor Denmark said it would withhold $10 million worth of aid money, citing concerns over human rights abuses and "unacceptable homophobic comments"...

  • UK PM's Brexit deal is 'good news', says French finance minister

    17 minutes ago

    • French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday that British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal was "good news", adding that it was in everyone's interest that the Brexit...

    SPACE.com



  • It's almost launch time for Northrop Grumman's next Antares rocket, which rolled out to its seaside pad in Virginia late Monday (Nov. 12) for a NASA cargo mission to the International...

  • In Pictures: The Giant Crater Beneath Greenland Explained

    a day ago
  • Scientists think they have spotted a giant impact crater hiding below Greenland's ice sheet. Here's how the discovery played out.

  • Scientists Spot What May Be a Giant Impact Crater Hidden Under Greenland Ice

    a day ago

    • Earth hides its scars well; the planet has endured countless millennia of eruptions and collisions, but scientists are still stumbling upon the evidence of all that geologic drama...
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