Sunday, May 12, 2019

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  • Expensive housing in major cities is holding back the American economy because new housing developments commonly spark a big “Not In My Backyard” local backlash. Why can’t...
  • Our analysis of the current situation on the southwest border and our resultant recommendations are guided by a strong belief in border security—including a border wall where...

    • Quick hits on refugee resettlement, doctor shortages, and the passing of Senator Lugar. The post Weekly Brief: Three Migration Takeaways appeared first on Niskanen Center...

  • View Full Document as PDF Dear Senator Grassley, Senator Wyden, Representative Neal and Representative Brady: We, the undersigned organizations, write to object to any effort...
  • View Full Document as PDF Dear Members of Congress, We write to you today to dispel myths surrounding the airport passenger facility charge (PFC). Airlines and their allied organizations...

    • The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today released the 2019 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (10KC 2019)...

  • Two competing views of what it is to be British in the world are at the root of the Brexit deadlock. Until we reconcile them we can’t move onInternational development aid is the latest...
  • Challenging bigots by exposing and vanquishing them no longer works. It just legitimises their viewsThere are broadly three ways to react to the shifting of the Overton window –...

    • I negotiated anti-carbon finance plans in the European parliament for the Green party. Labour backs airports and coal• Molly Scott Cato is Green MEP for South West England and GibraltarThe...

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  • An out-of-control wildfire in central British Columbia has prompted a local state of emergency and several evacuations.
  • Search efforts continue for Paul Miller of Guelph, Ont., who went missing in Joshua Tree National Park on July 13.

    • An out-of-control wildfire in central British Columbia has prompted a local state of emergency and several evacuations.

      Tallbloke's Talkshop



  • From the Times: Consumers in England and Wales may have to pay millions of pounds in compensation to Scottish wind farms after a £1.1 billion underwater cable failed for a second time...
  • Choking off demand by restricting supply of flights would not be exactly popular with either airlines or would-be passengers. So who is it supposed to be popular with, other than the...

    • Has it occurred to these scientists that the Earth might respond in unexpected ways to grandiose attempts to artificially change the climate? Self-proclaimed would-be saviours...

  • India's budget for security - defence and internal security - need a serious rethink to expand their scopes.
  • Justice needs to be seen to be done. And the clean chit to the Chief Justice doesn't create such an image.

    • Delhi residents deserve an accountable government. The time has come for a serious discussion on the issue.

  • Lucy Wills' work discovered the importance of folic acid for pregnant women.
  • The US-based company, at its annual Google I/O conference for developers, said it will make easier for its users to manage data in Maps, the Assistant and YouTube...

    • In a research carried out by airport bus company Hoppa on frequency of names appearing in Instagram hashtags, it was concluded that Mumbai is the most popular of all Indian cities...

  • This comes 10 years after the space agency launched its first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 in 2009.
  • The US space agency NASA revealed on Monday details about its plan to hit a small moonlet target in a double asteroid system with a spacecraft in 2022, its first mission to demonstrate...

    • Chandrayaan-2 comes 10 years after ISRO launched its first lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, in 2009.

  • The nature of the explosion is yet to be ascertained.
  • 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 Balochistan Liberation Army insurgent group had claimed responsibility for the May 11 attack.
  • The armed men entered the upscale Pearl Continental (PC) Hotel and opened random firing, a senior police official said.

    • The incident took place in the evening in Gwadar city's Pearl Continental Hotel.

  • Polling in the sixth phase was held in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh.
  • The flag of Paraguay has a red strip on top, white in the middle and blue at the bottom. It is also, and obviously, very different from the Indian national flag!...

    • The combined votes of the seven-phased 2019 Lok Sabha election will be counted on May 23.

      Channel NewsAsia World News



  • Support is growing in Germany for a "mosque tax" to make Islamic institutions less dependent on potentially anti-democratic or "radical" foreign funding sources, a media report...
  • ABU DHABI: United Arab Emirates-based utility firm Utico has submitted an offer for a binding agreement to invest in Singapore's Hyflux, Utico's chief executive said on Sunday...

    • Emirates chief commercial officer Thierry Antinori has resigned, an airline spokeswoman said on Sunday.

      Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News



  • Sri Lankan troops in a northern town fired shots into the air and police imposed a curfew Sunday after mobs attacked a mosque, in renewed religion tensions in the wake of the Easter terror...
  • QUETTA, Pakistan: Pakistani security forces have killed three separatist insurgents who had stormed a luxury hotel in the port city of Gwadar 24 hours earlier, the military said...

    • NEW DELHI: Indian officials Sunday said (May 12) that at least 300 yaks starved to death in a remote Himalayan valley after a bout of unusually harsh winter weather. Officials in...

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News



  • AMSTERDAM: Dusan Tadic scored twice as Ajax Amsterdam all but claimed the Dutch league title with a 4-1 victory over Utrecht on Sunday as championship rivals PSV Eindhoven slipped...
  • BARCELONA: Lewis Hamilton returned to the top of the Formula One world championship on Sunday (May 12) by winning the Spanish Grand Prix in a fifth successive one-two for Mercedes...

    • LONDON: Manchester City were on course to retain the Premier League title at half-time in the final round of matches on Sunday (May 12), with Pep Guardiola's men and Jurgen Klopp's...

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