Wednesday, June 05, 2019

5 June - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM News



  WIRED




  • YouTube’s hate speech policy now targets videos promoting the superiority of one group over another, or discrimination based on gender, race, or sexual orientation...
  • Not 'Promoting  Group Superiority'  : not an easy task in the Exceptionalist Nation
  • Make and throw your own cardboard “roomerang” with a little help from champion boomerang thrower Logan Broadbent.

    • Apple says an elaborate rotating key scheme will soon let you track down your stolen laptop, but not let anyone track you. Not even Apple.


  • Marcelo Ebrard, the Mexican foreign minister, has been meeting with Washington officials all week as Mexico tries to head off President Trump’s threatened tariffs...
  • The Trump administration will be ending a major university contract involving fetal tissue research and will soon stop such work at the National Institutes of Health...

    • In a wide-ranging discussion with the British journalist Piers Morgan, the president also defended his lack of military service in the Vietnam War.


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




  • PM Modi on Wednesday set up two cabinet committees — one dealing with investment and growth and another on employment and skill development. The committee on investment and growth...




  • World leaders, including the US president, mark the 75th anniversary of history's largest combined land, air and naval operation.
  • Witness M tells an inquest into the deaths of the eight victims there was no "missed opportunity".

    • Tory leadership candidate Rory Stewart says there is "not a hope" of a new plan by the deadline.



      National Geographic News





  • Encounters with the big fish are rare, but can be deadly. Here's how to reduce your risk, and what you should keep in mind.



  • Scientists probe the mysteries of violent twisters.




      Reuters: World News






  • Hope grew on Wednesday for a deal to avoid the United States imposing tariffs on Mexican goods in return for Mexico doing more to halt illegal immigration but President Donald Trump...
  • Republican and Democratic U.S. senators said on Wednesday they would introduce legislation that would block President Donald Trump's plan for $8 billion in military sales to Saudi...

    • Peru's government won a confidence vote in the country's Congress on Wednesday, reviving debate over President Martin Vizcarra's flagging effort to pass anti-corruption measures...




  • The handlers of NASA's InSight Mars lander plan will lift the support structure of the burrowing 'mole' out of the way so they can get a better look at the stuck instrument...
  • NASA's Parker Solar Probe is on its way to another close encounter with the sun, where investigators hope the spacecraft will solve a long-standing solar mystery...

    • A stunning first trailer for Brad Pitt's otherworldly adventure "Ad Astra" has finally been released, teasing a frantic race through the depths of space...

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