30 December - My Yahoo! - 2 of 2

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Russians can now travel to 89 countries visa-free

Russian diplomat vows retaliation over ‘dirty tricks’ against Sputnik’s Estonia bureau

Zelo Street

• Jennifer Arcuri And The Bozo Diaries

• Jolyon Maugham Foxed But Not Fawked

• Iain Dale Knighthood Congrats Hypocrisy

Politics : NPR

• 3 Months After Heart Attack, Sanders' Doctors Say He's 'Fit'

  The Democratic presidential candidate released letters from three doctors, saying he is fit for the office.

• Civil Rights Leader Rep. John Lewis To Start Treatment For Pancreatic

  The Georgia congressman, who spent decades fighting racial discrimination, says he's mounting his

• Trump Criticized After Sharing Name Of Alleged Whistleblower On Twitter

  On Friday, Trump shared a post that included the name of a former intelligence community official who many

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• UK supermarkets begin stocking Easter eggs on shelves just days after

  Easter eggs have been spotted on supermarket shelves around the UK just days after Christmas.

• Dublin tests out the light show for city's New Year celebrations

  Preparations are underway for tomorrow's New Year's Festival in Dublin.

• Oil’s well that ends well for sheep rescued from bridge

  A dog walker in South Wales spotted the animal in distress on St Stephen's Day.

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• PSNI investigate as shots fired at Belfast house

  Police in the North are investigating after shots were fired at a house in north Belfast.

• Gardaí seize €140k of heroin after stopping car in Dublin

  Gardaí have seized €140,000 worth of heroin in Dublin.

• Tullamore parish apologises for Facebook post claiming IVF '

  A Catholic parish in the Midlands has apologised for the hurt it caused with a Facebook post which said

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memeorandum

• Census data projects shift in states' congressional power (Stef W

  Stef W. Kight / Axios : Census data projects shift in states' congressional power   &mdash

• Hanukkah stabbing suspect searched 'why did Hitler hate the Jews,'

  Washington Post : Hanukkah stabbing suspect searched ‘why did Hitler hate the Jews,&rsquo

• Judge dismisses impeachment suit from ex-White House aide (Eric Tucker

  Eric Tucker / Associated Press : Judge dismisses impeachment suit from ex-White House aide   —

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The Hayride

• Armed Church Members Stop Shooting In Texas (VIDEO)

  (White Settlement, Texas) – A gunman was positioned to kill scores of Christians at a Sunday morning

• 3 Reasons Fort Worth Church Shooting Turned Out Differently

  A gunman was stopped dead in his tracks by another armed person during church services Sunday in White

• Year-end review: Top 2019 boomtowns in Colorado, Texas, South Carolina

  The top ten cities that experienced economic prosperity and robust development in 2019 – boomtowns – were

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions

• Ongoing CCPA analysis of Ontario education funding

  CCPA's Ontario office is closely following ongoing changes to education funding in the province. The

• Planning for a Build-Out of Affordable Rental Housing in Metro Vancouver

  To fully address Metro Vancouver’s housing crisis, an ambitious build-out program of 10,000 new units

• Crude Lessons

  Crude Lessons: Fossil Fuel Industry Influence on Environmental Education in Saskatchewan  finds that  it is

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Times of India

• PM Narendra Modi launches social media campaign in support of CAA

• Priyanka Gandhi alleges manhandling by UP cops: 'They grabbed me by

• In concession to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia to host OIC meet on Kashmir

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India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India

• With max temperature at 9.4°C, Delhi gets its coldest day in 119 years

• CBI raids premises of 2 serving IAS officers, 6 retired J&K officers over

• 5 senior J&K politicians freed from detention

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | KZN man arrested for murder moments before tying the knot

  The 37-year-old suspect was arrested for his alleged involvement in multiple taxi-related murder cases

• News24.com | Canal Walk denies dragging feet after lamp post fell on

  Canal Walk shopping centre in Cape Town is investigating an incident that left a Kensington man injured

• News24.com | Zille slammed for 'insensitive' tweet: 'I did not

  DA federal council chairperson Helen Zille says she did not compare the land issue to rape, as she

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | OPINION: A wish list for 2020

  If we could all be a little kinder to each other, and to ourselves, if we could talk to each other and not

• News24.com | Adriaan Basson: My 10 South Africans of the year

  As we bid 2019 farewell, it is worth a pause to reflect on those compatriots who have shaped the past 365

• News24.com | Mpumelelo Mkhabela: Outrage over circumcision, traffic deaths

  Over time, members of society will move on with their lives until the next season comes to claim its

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | Death toll in Somalia bombing climbs to 81: govt

  The death toll from a massive car bomb in the Somali capital has risen to 81, a government spokesperson

• News24.com | Burundi seeks 15-year jail term for journalists

  Burundi prosecutors have sought 15-year jail terms for four reporters and their driver who were detained

• News24.com | Mozambique opposition rejects accusation of role in attacks

  Mozambique's main opposition has dismissed government accusations that it was responsible for highway

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn arrives in Lebanon

  Ghosn is due to face trial in Japan in April.

• UK ‘seriously concerned about fair trial’ in case of teenager convicted in

  The British teenager was convicted of public mischief at a court in Cyprus on Monday.

  ( Meh. Meanwhile Julian Assange literally rots in prison for evading arrest - for a 'crime' for which he was not charged. The UK has reason to be concerned about fair trials - when it is incapable of providing them.  )

• Chris Packham posts video of dead fox left outside his home

  He posted a video on Twitter, saying that he found the animal in the yard outside his home on Monday.

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WebMD Health

• Insecticides Tied to Heart Disease Deaths

  People who have been exposed to pyrethroid insecticides are three times more likely to die from

• Rep. John Lewis to Be Treated for Pancreatic Cancer

  The 79-year-old said he was diagnosed during a "routine medical visit and subsequent tests."

• B Strain Dominating Early in the Flu Season

  Parents of small children should be concerned because the B strain is proving more dangerous for kids.

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WhoWhatWhy

• Voter IDs and Roll Purges

  Reading Time: 3 minutes No More Voter ID… for Now: A federal court in North Carolina foiled the GOP

• US Firms Are Forcing Workers to Train Their Own Foreign Replacements

  Reading Time: 2 minutes A 'Candyland for Sheriffs' ; The End of California's Oldest Newspaper

• A Look Back at Our 2019 Front Page Artwork

  Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the things that sets WhoWhatWhy apart from other news sites is that nearly

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Science Blog

• Buzzing Through the Blood-Brain Barrier

  UConn engineers have designed a non-toxic, biodegradable device that can help medication move from blood

• Severity of autism symptoms varies greatly among identical twins

  Identical twins with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience large differences in symptom severity

• Giant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy’s halo

  Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope, a team of

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Raw Story

• Americans desperately need a wage increase — but Donald Trump won’t come to

  President Donald Trump has been touting the progress of his economy since he inherited a rebounded

• Joe Biden would choose GOP running mate if one would ‘step up’

  Former Vice President and 2020 hopeful Joe Biden isn’t mincing words when it comes to working across

• Bolivia to expel Mexican ambassador, Spanish envoys as diplomatic row

  Bolivia’s interim president says her government is expelling the top Mexican diplomat in the country

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• Ten years of the weather with you

  If you happened to be in Timaru on February 6, 2011 you might recall it was uncomfortably, ridiculously hot

• Where are the monarchs?

  A survey over recent weeks by the Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand Trust shows real concern for the

• Where are the monarchs?

  A survey over recent weeks by the Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand Trust shows real concern for the

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The Science of Doom

• Opinions and Perspectives – 9 – Pattern Effects

  The IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5) from 2013 shows the range of results that climate models produce for

• Opinions and Perspectives – 8 – Pattern Effects Primer

  For people with maths, physics and chemistry (and biology) backgrounds non-linear processes are familiar

• Opinions and Perspectives – 7 – Global Temperature Change from Doubling CO2

  How much will global temperature rise if we double CO2 from pre-industrial levels? Based on current

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Seeing the Forest

• Wut?

  For no particular reason, a bagpipe version of Eight Miles High by Rufus Harley. Inspired by John Coltrane

• “Power Is Going To Cede Nothing Without A Struggle”

• Show Up

  REMOVE TRUMP Join us: We are rising up for Trump’s removal. ​ Trump’s crimes against our

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The Slog.

• A Ballpark figure is a promise, not a statistic. An Official figure is an

   The addition of more and more numerical information subtracts from our experience, divides us culturally,

• French Letter

  Macron’s corporacratic State blunders on, treading water as it does so. But for the moment, it looks

• Nietsche and the Advertising new-business pitch

  Friedrich Nietzsche infamously alleged that God is Dead. The Almighty didn’t wait long to have his

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Things I grab, motley collection

• New York just set a dangerous precedent on algorithms, experts warn

  It was supposed to be groundbreaking. When New York City’s task force to develop policy on algorithm

• the second wave of algorithmic accountability

  Over the past decade, algorithmic accountability has become an important concern for social scientists

• AI today and tomorrow is mostly about curve fitting, not intelligence

  As much as I look into what’s being done with deep learning, I see they’re all stuck there on the level of

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Top Documentary Films

• Poverty in the USA

  For far too many, the American Dream

• Baalbek Megaliths

  Though they've been ravaged by a

• Anatomy of a Bribe

  Working in conjunction with Wikileaks

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Universe Today

• Carnival of Space #644

  This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Zain Husain at the Brownspaceman.com blog. Click here to

• Top Astronomical Events for 2020

  Ready for another amazing year of sky watching? Hard to believe, were already a fifth of the way into the

• Waiting for Betelgeuse: What’s Up with the Tempestuous Star?

  Have you noticed that Orion the Hunter—one of the most iconic and familiar of the wintertime constellations

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Whistleblower Protection Blog

• Remembering Dennis Brutus, poet and international activist

  Today we remember Dennis Brutus, a poet and international anti-apartheid activist who died ten years ago

• Whistleblowers were big news in 2019. Here’s a sample.

  The New Yorker declares it the year of the whistleblower, and we offer some of our popular posts of 2019

• Russian anti-doping whistleblowers seek refuge

  The New York Times offers a profile of a family that had to flee their Russian homeland — to an

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Andy Worthington

• As $738 Billion Defense Bill Is Passed, Guantánamo Prisoners Are Ignored by

  My report about the passage of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which, sadly, maintains

• Radio: I Discuss Boris Johnson’s Alarming Election Victory – and Guantánamo

  Here's a link to, and description of my most recent radio interview - about Boris Johnson's

• Horribly Repressive: The Truth About Donald Trump’s Guantánamo

  My discussion of a recent ABC News article highlighting, via attorney Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, repressive

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