Saturday, May 04, 2019

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  • Kevin Vallier outlines the nature, causes, and consequences of social and political trust, summarizing some of the main findings of the large empirical literatures on social and...
  • From redlining to the Deep South, the legacy of slavery is ultimately one of arrested economic development. The post The Hamiltonian Approach to Reparations appeared first on Niskanen...

    • Exploring the challenges and opportunities within the current resettlement landscape. The post Immigration Policy Brief: Refugee Resettlement in the Trump Era appeared first...

  • Facebook announced yesterday it was banning several individuals under a policy it has against “dangerous individuals and organizations.” Individuals banned include: InfoWars...
  • View Full Document as PDF Dear Members of Congress: On behalf of our groups and organizations, which collectively represent millions of Americans across all 50 states, we urge you...

    • Location: 1310 L Street NW Washington, DC 20005 United StatesEvent Date: Google Outlook MAC/iOS Teaser: The Host Committee Reception is the exclusive kickoff celebration...

  • Clearly, Lubov Chernukhin, the Russian oligarch’s wife, doesn’t worry too much about the company she keepsAs if Conservative donors were not resentful enough – where they...
  • Jed Mercurio writes in such a way that male and female lines could be reversed and viewers would never know the differenceAt the time of writing, there was no way of knowing how Line of...

    • Calling out an actor for changing his voice seems to miss an obvious truth of the tradeBy This Morning’s standards, its interview with Jamie Bell, who stars as Bernie Taupin in the...

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  • Palestinian militants on Saturday fired over 200 rockets into Israel, drawing dozens of retaliatory airstrikes on targets across the Gaza Strip in a round of intense fighting that...
  • Three people missing after an overnight explosion and fire at an Illinois silicone plant are believed dead, authorities said Saturday.

    • Following intense backlash from coaches, students, parents, and sport organizations, the Nova Scotia government has ordered the province’s governing body for high school athletics...

  • No doubt the Swiss have already taken the best sites for hydro-electricity for themselves. How many of the ones left would they be willing to drown, to benefit outsiders? This smacks...
  • This natural phenomenon is over 100,000 square miles in area, typically persists for about 200 days per year and is strongly linked to monsoons, but is not well understood. Researchers...

    • Originally posted on PA Pundits - International: From the team at CFACT ~ Newly published data gathered by NASA’s AIRS satellite confirm the Earth is warming more slowly than has...

  • Delhi residents deserve an accountable government. The time has come for a serious discussion on the issue.
  • Political parties accusing the government of politicising security forces need to take stock off their own long history of doing the same.

    • A number of allegations have been made that threaten the integrity of the election process, and there seems to be an agenda.

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  • Google last year courted controversy when an Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store users' location data even if the...
  • The company recently announced Apple Arcade -- the world's first game subscription service for mobile and desktop.

    • While Samsung retained the top position with 21 per cent market share (from 22 in Q1 2018), Apple's share declined to 12 per cent in Q1 2019 from 14 per cent in the same quarter last year...

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

  • 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 Daily Telegraph story, which came from a meeting of Britain`s normally top-secret National Security Council (NSC), embarrassed the government and set it at odds with the United...
  • The Afghan foreign ministry in a release, tweeted by the spokesperson Sibghatullah Ahmadi condemned Pakistani forces violating the "Afghan airspace and launching rockets"...

    • The monarch was joined by new Queen Suthida after a surprise announcement three days before the coronation that the thrice-divorced monarch had married for a fourth time...

  • Refuting the claims made by the Delhi Police, AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj said that the man was a `Bhakt` of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
  • Addressing a rally in the city, the Punjabi singer said India feared Abhinandan would meet the fate of Sarabjit Singh but the country's diplomatic prowess made Pakistan release him...

    • Hitting out at the Congress, he said, "The biggest achievement of the Modi government is that of securing the nation against terrorism."

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  • Diplomats and scientists from 132 nations wrapped up six days of negotiations in Paris Saturday over the wording of a landmark report on the dire state of Nature and its impact on humanity...
  • The remains of nearly 85,000 people murdered in Rwanda's genocide were laid to rest Saturday in a sombre ceremony in Kigali, a quarter of a century after the slaughter...

    • A team of 16 federal investigators was travelling to Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday after a Boeing jetliner with 143 people on board slid off a runway into a shallow river while...

      Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News



  • PONTIANAK: Indonesia began sinking dozens of impounded foreign boats Saturday (May 4) to deter illegal fishing in its waters, a week after a naval vessel clashed with a Vietnamese...
  • COLOMBO: Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena said the security forces would "eradicate terrorism" and restore stability before a presidential election due for year-end...

    • KUANTAN: A two-car collision along the Kuala Lumpur-Kota Bharu Highway in Raub on Saturday (May 4) morning killed six people, including three children, and left five others seriously...

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News



  • American Max Homa held a one-stroke lead in the third round when a passing storm forced a weather delay at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday...
  • Snooker star John Higgins came from behind to win a last-frame decider and book his place in this year's World Championship final with a 17-16 victory over David Gilbert on Saturday...

    • Diplomats and scientists from 132 nations wrapped up six days of negotiations in Paris Saturday over the wording of a landmark report on the dire state of Nature and its impact on humanity...

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