Friday, February 01, 2019

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  • Whereas California's previous governor thought that housing reform faced impossible odds, in 2019 Sacramento is buzzing with ideas about how to change policy in order to increase...
  • The administration’s travel ban made the United States sicker and was a poor national security choice. At the two-year anniversary, let us remember the need for evidence-based...

    • A new, young, and more diverse cast of House members has come to Washington. Will they represent racial minorities, women, and young people more than other members? The post Does Diversity...

  • Senate Banking Committee chairman Mike Crapo released a proposal today to reform mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but the plan creates a big new liability, warns CEI senior...
  • Today, a federal appeals court blocked a San Francisco law mandating health warning labels on ads for soda and other sugary drinks, saying the law violates speech protected by the...

    • On Friday, supporters of so-called “net neutrality” regulations will take their case to the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in Mozilla v. FCC, seeking to invalidate the FCC’s...

  • The rest of the world will look at what happened this week in parliament and want to put the UK out of its miserySo many people have been branded traitors in the past year of Brexit that...
  • Labour MPs in areas that voted to leave the EU should not enable a process that will bring their constituents more miseryIt took 35 years but now, perhaps, comes the final act of the miners’...

    • Artists’ muses rarely get a chance to speak out. If only it happened more oftenHow lovely to hear from Hermione Farthingale, the girl with the mousy hair and muse of David Bowie for...

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  • Ron Joyce, the co-founder of the Tim Hortons doughnut chain, has died at the age of 88.
  • A Quebec man on trial for suffocating his ailing wife has told a jury he became increasingly isolated as he struggled to care for her.

    • The joy over a big lotto win was short-lived for a Newfoundland woman now accused of using a stolen credit card to buy the lucky $50,000 ticket.

  • H/T Climate Change Dispatch No surprise at all, of course. The Dutch subsidy budget for electric cars is already in the red, so how they expect to go all-electric by 2030 is a mystery...
  • Another attempt to get judges to override Government policy in the name of disputed climate theories falls by the wayside. The case, brought by 11 members of the public and the NGO Plan...

    • Originally posted on PA Pundits - International: By Craig Rucker ~ There’s a new push on to institute a carbon tax in America. This is folly.  Bi-partisan folly. The carbon tax folks...

  • Goyal has spun an accountant's trick to balance populism with fiscal prudence.
  • There is a lot of hard work that goes into maintaining dynasties as brands.

    • The generic 'youth' are purposeless, aimless or clueless. What we need is entrepreneurs in politics.

  • The company has also announced that there will be no price difference between offline and online channels.
  • At third position, Apple had 23 per cent market share as the overall premium smartphone segment grew by 8 per cent (year-on-year) for the full year and 16 per cent (YoY) for Q4 2018...

    • Google said that this update is part of a larger effort to make G Suite look and act like a family of products, designed in the Google Material Theme with ease-of-use in mind...

  • Curiosity landed near Mount Sharp in the Gale Crater on Mars in August 2012, and reached the base of the mountain in 2014.
  • This impact produced a superheated melt sheet of up to five kilometres thick.

    • Thwaites Glacier is currently responsible for approximately 4 per cent of global sea level rise.

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  • Other cities in Asian countries like Malaysia and Thailand have also seen higher ratings largely due to infrastructure improvement.
  •  A group of four gunmen detonated a grenade at the entrance of the deputy police inspector`s office in Loralai district in Balochistan and killed five people...

    • Earlier this month, at least four members of the security forces were killed in an attack on a Frontier Corps training base in Loralai.

  • The Boeing 787 flying from the Indian capital New Delhi lost control of its left main landing gear while taxiing to the arrival gate, the airport said...
  • Since taking office in 2012, President Xi Jinping has tightened the Communist Party`s control over society including the legal system and education.

    • US Secretary of State Pompeo issued the 60-day ultimatum to Russia for their compliance to the treaty, failing which the USA would withdraw from the treaty on February 2...

  • FM Piyush Goyal on Friday said that the Interim Budget 2019 presents a roadmap for making India world leader.
  • The businessman identified as Jashraj Soni and his son, Mohit Soni, were shot at by bike-borne assailants in DD Nagar of Raipur.

    • Here's why you may or may not benefit from the tax sops announced by FM Piyush Goyal in Interim Budget 2019.

      Channel NewsAsia World News



  • Blanca Rodriguez, a 52-year-old homeless woman, spent a night at one of the warming centres Chicago set up ahead of the Arctic-like weather that froze a large swath of the United States...
  • Jailed Catalan politician Raul Romeva hopes the upcoming trial of separtist leaders at the Supreme Court in Madrid will refocus attention on the region's push for independence from...

    • Democrat Cory Booker announced on Friday (Feb 1) he is running for US president, bringing a charismatic African-American voice to a crowded field jockeying to take on Donald Trump...

  • The country has one of the world's most powerful facial recognition systems, which is being used in various ways, but concerns have been raised, as the programme Why It Matters finds...
  • SINGAPORE: A middleman involved in the largest case of smuggling contraband cigarettes in Singapore has been sentenced to four years behind bars and fined S$34 million on Friday...

    • TOKYO: Tokyo 2020 organisers on Friday (Feb 1) unveiled plans for a centre to monitor extreme weather, after concerns the city's scorching summer could cause heatstroke or even deaths...

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  • RB Leipzig stayed in touch with the Bundesliga's top three on Friday (Feb 1) with a 3-0 win over strugglers Hanover 96 as Thomas Doll lost his first game in charge...
  • World number one Justin Rose will have a month off after missing the cut at the Saudi International on Friday.

  • General Electric Aviation, a unit of General Electric Co, has been awarded a US$517 million U.S. Army contract for the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the Improved...

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