Friday, February 28, 2020

28 February - iGoogle Portal - Tab 6 - MSM News


  • The FBI spent more than three hours Thursday at the Houston Independent School District’s administration building. FBI agents came out of the Hattie Mae White Educational Support...
  • The big story concerning Republican Rep. Ralph Abraham’s retirement isn’t whether a Republican will win, but whether Democrats have the ability to field a competitive candidate...

    • According to U.S. Census data, the majority of the fastest growing smaller-sized cities in the U.S. are in Texas: Pearland, Round Rock, League City, College Station, Richardson...

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  • Saturday is Leap Day, the extra day that gets added to the calendar every four years because of... um... the way the earth moves around the sun? Something like that? Basically time is...
  • Despite its utterly awful image quality (maxing out at a resolution of just 160x144 pixels), the Game Boy Camera was still a popular add-on, thanks in part to a cheap accessory that...

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  • For the last few years, Herbicide-Free Campus has been in the weeds, literally, working to eliminate herbicides on campuses across the country. As a result of student efforts, in...
  • This month, Corteva announced it would stop making chlorpyrifos, a brain-harming pesticide. Though this is generally welcome news — to me, this win feels complicated. Why? ...

    • As is now crystal clear, a healthy democracy demands much more than simply showing up at the polls. But as we move into this fraught election year, let’s not forget just how important...

      USATODAY - News Top Stories



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  • Move appears designed to put pressure on Europe to support Turkish Idlib operationHundreds of refugees in Turkey began arriving at the country’s borders with Greece and Bulgaria...
  • New recruits needed to process millions of extra declaration forms from 1 January 2021A race to hire 50,000 people in the next six months to process Brexit paperwork is under way after...

    • German teenager is due to speak at US rightwing conference CPACA young campaigner who has been hailed by climate sceptics as the right’s answer to Greta Thunberg has previously...

  • Border Patrol agents kill a lot of people, most of them citizens of another country. For years, agents have been able to open fire on people in moving vehicles and [checks Congressional...
  • As you know by now, all four major wireless carriers have been selling access to user location data for the better part of the last decade to pretty much any nitwit with a nickel. Journalists...

    • This really should happen more frequently than it does. You will hopefully recall the ongoing drama between Chooseco, the company behind the Choose Your Own Adventure series of books...

  • White House chief accuses the media of stoking fears of the coronavirus to attack President Trump.
  • The move comes after 33 Turkish troops were killed in Syria, where 1m civilians are fleeing fighting.



  • France's Europe minister says the focus must be on substance, as details and timings of the talks emerge.


      memeorandum




  • Matthew Bodner / NBC News: Russia deploys warships to Syria coast after Turkey loses 33 soldiers in attack  —  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is looking toward the West...
  • Dom Calicchio / Fox News: Joe Biden under probe in Ukraine for alleged link to top prosecutor's 2016 ouster: report  —  Investigators in Ukraine have launched a probe into former...

    • Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic: Donald Trump, Bernie Bro  —  Not so long ago, Donald Trump seemed obsessed with just one of the Democrats vying to replace him: Joe Biden.  Over...


  • Client solutions to the rescue as infrastructure shrinks 7% After all those costly company takeovers, Dell has reported that yet again good old-fashioned PCs came to its rescue to...
  • Make things that work well, look good, and talk back, with help from interactive online training Promo Why code from scratch when you can assemble apps quickly and visually from a collection...

    • Fun not required The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. For the first time we feature a multiplayer title, and not a...


      BBC News - Technology




  • The retail giant is removing fake cures and tackling unreasonable price hikes amid public concern.
  • The Church signed up to the future of AI - an ethical one - along with Microsoft and IBM.

    • Plague Inc. puts users in control of a disease which they must develop into a global pandemic.


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  • Trump is proposing to dramatically cut funding for the National Park Service. Sign this petition to oppose his attack on our public lands and environment...
  • The inhumane declawing of cats may soon be banned throughout the state of Michigan. This would outlaw the cruel practice, slap violators with a $1,000 fine, and could hopefully encourage...

    • It could soon be a crime to report suspected animal abuse without hard evidence in Alabama. Stop this effort to punish those who report abuse.


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  • Efforts are underway to prove once and for all that the 1908 Tunguska explosion was caused by a meteor. Few natural disasters in the 20th Century hav...
  • ( I recall Dr. John von Kampen making a post on Opera Community years ago arguing the case for a cometary airburst as ice changed to steam )
  • The Washington state Department of Transportation has revealed what the alleged 'Bigfoot' actually was. When the image of a mysterious biped trudging...

    • Scientists working at a Ukranian research station have revealed that the nearby snow has turned an odd color. A series of images released by Ukraine's...


      Network Front | The Guardian




  • Doctor would have seen scores of patients over last week before he was diagnosedCoronavirus - latest updatesA GP in Surrey is being taken to one of the NHS’s six specialist centres...
  • Man quarantined on cruise ship in Japan becomes first Briton to die from coronavirus as WHO says epidemic could get ‘out of control’. Follow live newsFull story: first British...

    • In week in which Covid-19 jumped fence into Europe, serious questions emerge over continent’s preparednessCoronavirus crisis - latest updatesA Spanish football journalist...


      SPACE.com




  • The European Space Agency's Qarman cubesat deploys from the International Space Station on a mission to burn up in Earth's atmosphere to study the physics of its own fiery reentry...
  • On Feb. 28, 1959, the U.S. Air Force launched a new spy satellite prototype called Discoverer 1. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series!...

    • A weird "minimoon" found circling Earth likely won't be there long.


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  • Канцлер ФРГ Ангела Меркель и президент Турции Реджеп Эрдоган заявили в телефонном разговоре...
  • Нефть продолжает дешеветь в пятницу вечером, цена марки WTI опускается уже почти на 7%, Brent - более...

  • Britain will leave the sinking ship At the end of January, they will leave the EU and become a free nation again. The end of the EU has come close. Let us do everything we and other countries can follow the British and create cooperation between sovereign nations without dictatorship from Brussels and Berlin. Czex

    • Доклад "О военных преступлениях на оккупированных территориях Азербайджана и ответственности...


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  • Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign is opening offices across the Mountain West in places where Democrats have rarely competed. The hiring has sucked up talent away from...
  • The stock market has been plummeting in recent days — on Thursday the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly 1,200 points. Financial advisers are advising clients to not panic...

    • Canadian scientists have shown that brain scans of people listening to songs found that an area in the left hemisphere decoded words while one in the right hemisphere decoded the melody...



  • A woman who was banned by a judge from taking any new cases against the State or judges unless she got permission from the court has won an appeal to the Court of Appeal...
  • A 21-year-old man who assaulted a 10-week-old baby leaving her with catastrophic and life-changing injuries has been jailed for 11-and-a-half years.

    • A Donegal man convicted of repeatedly raping a teenage school girl when she was too drunk to resist has been jailed for seven years.



      Science@NASA Headline News





  • John Bolten, from NASA's Water Resources Program, got up early in the morning U.S. East Coast time on February 19, 2020 to be a guest on the live Australian radio program "Late Night...
  • For eleven years from 2009 to 2019, the planes of NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew above the Arctic, Antarctic and Alaska, gathering data on the height, depth, thickness, flow and...

    • Portal origin URL: Record-breaking Explosion by Black Hole SpottedPortal origin nid: 458516Published: Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 11:26Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal...



      How to of the Day





  • Travel pillows are a great accessory for taking on airplanes, trains, and buses. If you’ve used your travel pillow a lot, it might be getting dirty or collecting an odor. Before you...
  • Chicken is an appetizing, easy dish that can be paired with almost anything. Eating undercooked or raw chicken is incredibly dangerous and can make you very sick, so it’s important...

    • Surf reports are like weather forecasts for the water. The reports come from buoys placed off the shore and detect various conditions, including the wave size you can anticipate while...



  • In New Jersey, hundreds rallied at the New Brunswick Board of Education meeting Tuesday night against plans to demolish a public school to make way for Robert Wood Johnson Hospital...
  • Thousands in the Dominican Republic took to the streets of the capital Santo Domingo Thursday to protest the abrupt suspension of local elections earlier this month and to commemorate...

    • A new report by Médecins Sans Frontières — or Doctors Without Borders USA — shows how migration policies imposed by the United States and Mexico have trapped thousands of Central...



  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone Friday.
  • All of the major indexes are now in what the markets call a correction, and stocks also were down in Asia and Europe.

    • You may have heard the word "coronavirus" online or on TV. You probably have a lot of questions. Check out our comic to get some answers.



  • Much more than just a cosmetic issue, obesity is associated with type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, fatty liver disease, sleep apnea, arthritis, gallbladder...
  • The 2019 figure is the highest number of such deaths in more than 30 years, according to the association.

    • The study found that for women with "triple-negative" breast cancer, adding Keytruda to standard chemotherapy improved their odds of responding.

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