Friday, April 26, 2019

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  • Exploring the challenges and opportunities within the current resettlement landscape. The post Immigration Policy Brief: Refugee Resettlement in the Trump Era appeared first...
  • The Green New Deal has focused renewed attention on policy to address Climate Change, but […] The post When and Where Can Climate Policy Succeed? appeared first on Niskanen Center...

    • The Mueller report did not lay out a slam dunk case of obstruction of justice, but it did lay out a plausible case. A prosecutor might reasonably decide that a merely plausible criminal...

    Competitive Enterprise Institute



  • After a two-decade lull following the Microsoft case, big antitrust enforcement cases are back in vogue. Both political parties are making antitrust regulation a 2020 campaign...
  • What's next for oversight and streamlining of federal regulations? On April 11, 2019, the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Acting Director Russell Vought issued a significant...

    • View Full Document as PDF Dear Director Kraninger, The undersigned organizations write in strong support of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection’s decision to rescind...

  • The Brexit party and climate protesters share a frustration with conventional politics. There the similarity endsWatching Nigel Farage, leader of the new Brexit party, saunter...
  • Heavy-handed warnings do little to persuade hesitant parents to have their children immunised. Luckily, there are other waysIn the past, hundreds of people died from measles each...

    • As mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham needs to take control of the city’s buses, and prove public ownership worksBuses are hugely important. They help us to get to work, to see our...

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  • Quebec public security officials called for the immediate evacuation of an area along the Rouge River west of Montreal on Thursday because of the risk a hydro dam could fail...
  • Facebook is taking steps to ban personality quiz apps from its platform, more than a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

    • Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has declared a state of emergency over flooding along the Ottawa River and other waterways.

  • They now accept that the fossil fuel theory of methane is only part of the story. Its presence in large amounts on Titan (for example) had made the fossil argument look somewhat inadequate...
  • Originally posted on Spaceweather.com: April 23, 2019: Ten years ago, NASA reported a “perfect storm of cosmic rays.” During the year 2009, radiation peppering Earth from deep...

    • Things are getting very busy for me over the next week so I thought I’d write this quick update now on the local election campaign where I’m standing for democracy and independence...

  • There is usually silence when IPS officers are killed or caught committing crimes. But this was not one of those times.
  • This time it is Karan Johar who is taking flak for Kalank.

    • The triangular contest for Delhi's 7 seats is now clearly in BJP's favour.

    Zee News :Technology News



  • The Bitmoji for Games website tells players to stay tuned for more updates.
  • The Amazon Summer Sale will begin from May 4 to May 7.

    • The new feature comes as part of a plethora of security changes that the app has been working on and introducing, keeping in line with the app`s commitment to user-privacy...

  • The breakthrough came nearly five months after InSight, the first spacecraft designed specifically to study the deep interior of a distant world, touched down on the surface of Mars...
  • "The initial tests completed successfully but the final test resulted in an anomaly on the test stand," the company said in a statement.

    • Helium hydride ion (HeH+) was the first molecule that formed when, almost 14 billion years ago, falling temperatures in the young universe allowed recombination of the light elements...

  • A series of deadly explosions on Sunday killed over 200 dead in Sri Lanka.
  • Nationwide curfew has been ordered in Sri Lanka after a string of blasts on Sunday.

    • The statement came hours after the Indian Air Force on Monday released radar images as part of its "irrefutable evidence" to assert that it shot down an F-16 fighter jet of Pakistan...

  • The tallest skyscraper in the world lit up with the hope of a world built on tolerance and coexistence.
  • 'I spy with my little eye,' writes CIA.

    • Sirisena told reporters some Sri Lankan youths had been involved with the extremist group since 2013.

    Zee News :India National



  • Sonipat constituency covers nine assembly segments –  Ganaur, Rai, Kharkhoda, Sonipat, Gohana, Baroda, Julana, Safidon and Jind.
  • Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Chandrapur Lok Sabha constituency of Maharashtra.

    • Chandrapur Lok Sabha constituency covers six assembly segments.

      Channel NewsAsia World News



  • The United States said Thursday that leftist activists defiantly occupying the Venezuelan embassy in Washington should leave and make way for representatives of US-recognized...
  • Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina faces sentencing in Washington Friday over her open effort to build a network of high-level Republican contacts via ties to the NRA gun lobby...

    • Spears and poisoned blowguns at hand, the Waorani people say they are ready to strike down invaders of their Amazon homelands, just like their forefathers did...

      Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News



  • BEIJING: Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday (Apr 26) pledged to support the China-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), while calling for “longer, bigger”...
  • The deaths of three ethnic Rakhine men in Myanmar military custody and the secret cremation of their bodies has provoked outrage, as fears over military impunity increase in the intensifying...

    • During initial tests of their 8.1-metre (27-foot) tall reusable rocket, Chinese engineers from LinkSpace, a start-up led by China's youngest space entrepreneur, used a Kevlar...

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News



  • BEIJING: Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday (Apr 26) pledged to support the China-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), while calling for “longer, bigger”...
  • LONDON: The all-electric Formula E series trumpeted a breakthrough on Friday with the launch of a 'Virtually Live Ghost Racing' game enabling fans to compete against the drivers...

    • Bournemouth midfielder Junior Stanislas will be out of action for up to four months after undergoing an operation on his hamstring, manager Eddie Howe said on Friday...

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