22 January - My Yahoo! - 2 of 2

Zelo Street

• So Farewell Then Terry Jones

• Lisa Nandy - Serious Challenger

• Glenn Greenwald Charges WORRYING

Politics : NPR

• 'Stable Genius' Authors Describe Trump Presidency As A 'Den Of

  Wash. Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker discuss presidential rages, erratic decision-making

• LISTEN: Senate Impeachment Trial Of President Trump

  NPR is hosting live special coverage of the trial. Wednesday marks the beginning of opening statements

• A History Of 'Pettifogging' For The Pettifoggers Among You

  Chief Justice John Roberts trotted out an obscure term during impeachment proceedings yesterday; here's

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• It’s raining iguanas in Florida as reptiles fall from trees

  The National Weather Service warned residents of plummeting creatures amid temperature changes.

• Passenger snaps Taal volcano eruption from aeroplane

  Matthew San Miguel said he was on a flight leaving Manila on January 12, just as the volcano erupted.

• Bafta craftsman reveals quirky repair jobs carried out for award winners

  The bronze masks are being made at a west London foundry ahead of this year’s awards show, which is

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Fianna Fáil 'not going there' as it vows to keep preferential

  A major divide between public and private sector workers has emerged as Fianna Fáil has vowed not to

• Farmers throw air ambulance cash lifeline

  The cash-strapped air ambulance is set to be thrown a massive cash lifeline by farmers.

• Judge refers case of Cork man accused of under-age sex to circuit court

  A judge has reversed his own ruling that a case where a 20-year-old Cork man is facing charges of underage

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memeorandum

• Bloomberg jumps to fourth place in new national poll (Jane C. Timm/NBC News

  Jane C. Timm / NBC News : Bloomberg jumps to fourth place in new national poll   —  The

• State AGs urge Senate to reject impeachment in stinging letter: 'A

  Ronn Blitzer / Fox News : State AGs urge Senate to reject impeachment in stinging letter: ‘A

• End impeachment's government shutdown (Mark Penn/The Hill)

  Mark Penn / The Hill : End impeachment's government shutdown   —  We are facing an

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The Hayride

• Conor McGregor On Donald Trump: “Phenomenal President”

  UFC Superstar Conor McGregor may have picked up some new fans (and enemies) after making a rare political

• CUNNINGHAM: John White And The Louisiana Politics Of Education

  John White was preparing to announce that he was stepping down when word got out. From what I can tell, he

• State Action On The Impeachment Mess Has Begun

  We expected something like this was coming, and here it is. Twenty-one state attorneys general, with

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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

• Peace River Frack-Up

  After reviewing hundreds of documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, which raise

• 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

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Times of India

• 'We are too small to take retaliatory action': Malaysian PM on

• Despite protests, CAA will not be withdrawn: Amit Shah

• All Congress states may pass resolutions against CAA

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

• Men sleeping under quilt; women, kids pushed forward to protest against CAA

  Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday targeted the women-led protests against the

• India puts health system on alert as Coronavirus claim several in China

• Court seeks case diary before taking up bail plea of ex-J&K finance

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | Govt has no plans to bleed jobs at ailing SOEs - ANC

  The ANC says the government has no plans to retrench staff from ailing state-owned enterprises despite

• News24.com | Call to immediately suspend Judge President Hlophe amid gross

  The DA calls on the Judicial Service Commission to place Western Cape High Court Judge President John

• News24.com | Mpianzi probe: 'We are giving input with honesty and

  Parktown Boys' High School says it has noted that Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi would be laying

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | OPINION: Remembering Auschwitz and the lessons we have to

  A column on this platform, News24, a few weeks ago, about the killing of Qassem Soleimani, one that had

• News24.com | OPINION: Together, the DA and President Ramaphosa can fix our

  At the heart of cadre deployment is the belief that politicians should have the power to appoint

• News24.com | ANALYSIS | Gordhan, De Ruyter on Eskom crisis: 'We've

  News24 has interviewed Gordhan and De Ruyter about the Eskom crisis separately, within hours of one another

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | Kidnapped Greek tanker crew freed from Cameroon: govt

  A Greek oil tanker captain and seven crew members kidnapped last month from a Cameroon port have been

• News24.com | At least 6 killed in new east DRC militia attack

  Six civilians, including a child, were killed in an attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on

• News24.com | Lesotho PM questioned over wife's murder

  Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has been questioned by police over the 2017 murder of his estranged

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• ‘New evidence’ shows how acute stress can lead to grey hair

  Findings lay the groundwork for understanding how stress affects other tissues and organs in the body, the

• Emmanuel Macron loses temper with Israeli security agents during Jerusalem

  The French president was visiting a church during a trip to the holy city.

• Two more accusers allowed to appear as witnesses in Cuba Gooding Jr trial

  The actor denies charges of alleged groping of three women in 2018 and 2019.

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TASS

• None of patients in St Petersburg diagnosed with coronavirus

• Putin vows to tackle development of science at State Council meeting

  The president spoke at a meeting with students of Sirius education center in Sochi

• Novomet to supply equipment to Saudi Aramco, second contract is planned

  It was reported earlier that Perm-based Novomet, the Russian producer of oil and gas equipment, will become

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WebMD Health

• Utah Bans Conversion Therapy

  It's the 19th state and one of the most conservative to outlaw the practice that seeks to change a

• Production of Two Excedrin Painkillers Halted

  Production and distribution of Excedrin Extra Strength and Excedrin Migraine products have been temporarily

• First U.S. Case of China Coronavirus Diagnosed

  The male patient in Washington state was hospitalized with pneumonia last week and had recently traveled to

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WhoWhatWhy

• Australian Fires Set Stage for Irreversible Forest Losses

  Reading Time: 2 minutes Flooding Risks Could Devalue Florida Real Estate ; The Silicon Valley Economy Is a

• Divide and Conquer? Voting Machine Audit Causes Rift Among Experts

  Reading Time: 5 minutes While many states are taking voting machine vulnerabilities more seriously, others

• Note to the Gun Lobby: Try to Aim Higher

  Reading Time: 3 minutes You say you’re patriots, but your menacing rhetoric suggests contempt for

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Science Blog

• Possible Parkinson’s treatment successfully targets two major nerve systems

  Scientists have discovered that a non-invasive technique which could one day be used to treat Parkinson

• Possible Alzheimer’s breakthrough suggested

  Researchers at the Case Western University School of Medicine say they have identified a previously unknown

• Drug combo reverses arthritis in rats

  People with osteoarthritis, or “wear and tear” arthritis, have limited treatment options: pain

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Raw Story

• Trump inaugural committee sued for $1 million booking at Trump

  On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that Karl Racine, the Attorney General of Washington, D.C., is

• ‘Moderate’ Republicans blasted for their ‘fealty’ to McConnell’s trial

  Writing for Esquire on Wednesday, columnist Charles P. Pierce had nothing but scorn for the “moderate

• Trump’s own words come back to haunt him as Senate trial opens with fiery

  Republicans and Democrats battled over summoning high-level White House witnesses Tuesday in a marathon

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• Hillside foundations get a shake-up in cutting edge testing

  New shake testing of house foundations aims to ensure homes built on slopes are better able to withstand

• Teaming up to tackle sea level rise

  Sea level rise is an imminent threat to certain areas of the Wellington Region, so how will locals adapt to

• Summery days with cloudy starts

  MetService is forecasting fog or low cloud to affect a lot of the country in the coming days, however 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

• It’s Intimidation, Not “Moderation”

  The Nation has a great piece by By Guy T. Saperstein and Joe Cirincione, titled, Americans Want Jobs, Not

• 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”

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The Slog

• CORONAVIRUS: a global warning about the dangers of poor regulation, social

  The future envisaged by the 3% may yet condemn the 97% to death A “novel coronavirus” dubbed 2019-nCoV

• At the End of the Day

  On both sides of the Great Pond, today has been an interesting one for Twitter trends. Hillary Clinton

• FRENCH LETTER: Macron v Trump, Round 8

  Macron’s big tax raid on US tech companies, the Boy King’s guillotine on imports continues, the

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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

• Eye of the Pangolin

  Pangolins are exotic, scaly animals

• Conman: The Life and Crimes of Mark Acklom

  A masterful liar and a cunning

• Putin's Witnesses

  Putin's Witnesses is a stirring

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Universe Today

• A Twilight Tryst: Venus Meets Neptune in the Dusk Sky

  Never seen Neptune? It’s time you should, and this weekend offers a fine time to try, as the faintest

• Space Force Uniforms are Perfectly Camouflaged for a Forest Moon

  The United States Space Force has given us a look at their new uniforms, and critics are savaging them on

• Curiosity Looked up and Saw Phobos During the Daytime

  This image of Phobos in the sky above Mars was taken by Curiosity in 2012 and was recently refurbished by

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Whistleblower Protection Blog

• Whistleblower still a target for the President’s defense team

  “This all supposedly started because of a whistleblower,” President Trump’s attorney Jay

• African whistleblowers share paper trail to billionaire’s questionable

  Corruption persists worldwide and whistleblowers in many countries risk everything. So, two years ago a

• 2020 may be a big year for white collar crime, but report cites poor

  The business writers at The New York Times promise a bump in white-collar crime news in 2020. At the same

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Andy Worthington

• Video: Attorney Shelby Sullivan-Bennis and I Bring the Sorrow, Injustice

  My report about - and link to the video of - my speaking event about Guantánamo at Revolution Books in New

• Reporting from the US, Including My Photos of the Close Guantánamo Rally

  My report about my US tour, five days in, including a link to my photos of the rally calling for the

• Video: Calling for the Closure of Guantánamo Outside the White House on the

  My report on yesterday's powerful rally outside the White House calling for the closure of Guantánamo

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