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More Than 50 Organizations Call Upon Biden Administration To Pursue Campus Sponsorship of Refugees
Washington, D.C.— Yesterday, 52 organizations, higher education institutions, and foundations led by the Niskanen Center, Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, and Every Campus a Refuge sent a letter...
5 hours agoHow Media Coverage of Congress Limits Policymaking
Congressional media coverage turns off the public with stories of conflict-ridden sausage making that disrupt internal consensus-building. The post How Media Coverage of Congress Limits Policymaking appeared first on Niskanen Center...
8 hours agoWe trusted nurse practitioners to handle a pandemic. Why not regular care?
Allowing NPs to deliver care to Americans without restrictions will assure that when disasters happen, Americans will be healthier and more ready to weather them, and our health care system will be prepared. The post We trusted nurse practitioners...
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Opinion | The Guardian
Steve Bell on the government’s £22bn test-and-trace programme — cartoon
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6 minutes agoThe Guardian view on test and trace: count the true cost of failure
Before the vaccine, Britain’s pandemic defences were in a scandalous state. The government must still be held to account for its failuresContact tracing was once advertised as the centrepiece of the government’s strategy for managing...
2 hours agoThe Guardian view on Covid and civil liberties: keeping a close watch on government
Curtailing freedoms has saved lives – but we must not sacrifice them carelessly. Essential rights are under pressureAlmost a year ago, with the full impact of the pandemic becoming evident, the human rights barrister Adam Wagner warned...
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'Disability Filibuster' against Bill C-7 goes on despite being Zoom-bombing with graphic images
An online 'Disability Filibuster,' criticizing the House of Commons moving to likely pass Bill C-7, has resumed after it was twice Zoom-bombed with pornographic sounds and Nazi imagery days before.
43 minutes agoFewer than 400 people pardoned under new system for erasing old weed convictions
The federal government unveiled a program 20 months ago aimed at erasing Canadians’ prohibition-era records for cannabis possession. But CTVNews.ca found fewer than 400 people have successfully been pardoned...
an hour agoWithout timeline to resolve broken promise, feds still say lifting water advisories a 'top priority'
All drinking water advisories in First Nations communities across Canada were supposed to be lifted this month, but with 58 still in place the federal government won't commit to a new timeline for when every Indigenous person on reserve will...
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Summers in the UK could last almost six months by 2100, claim researchers
H/T msn.com That was the Daily Mail headline, but the research paper is not about the UK only. An obvious problem is that their data only runs up to 2011 (from 1952). The paper asserts: ‘We find that lengths and start dates of the four seasons...
2 hours agoThe Great Pretenders: Intermittent Wind & Solar Simply Can’t Compete with Coal & Gas & Nuclear
Originally posted on STOP THESE THINGS: Oh yes, they’re the great pretenders: useless in calm weather or after the sun goes down, wind and solar can never really compete with coal, nuclear or gas. And anyone trying to convince you otherwise...
6 hours ago12 State Attorneys General sue Biden Admin over its climate policies
H/T Climate Change Dispatch An ‘abuse of power’ challenge. The AGs claim Biden’s climate policies are a costly and ‘massive expansion’ of regulations. – – – A group of Republican state attorneys general alleged in a federal...
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Zee News :Technology News
Asus launches three gaming smartphones in its ROG Phone 5 series, top variant costs Rs 79,999
Asus launches three gaming smartphones in its ROG Phone 5 series, top variant costs Rs 79,999.
7 hours agoFetching the best deals on the Internet
Speaking of online shopping, it is the best alternative for busy individuals who want to purchase their favorite items easily.
8 hours agoFacebook launches Instagram Lite in 170 lower bandwidth countries, runs even on slower 2G networks
Instagram Lite will be available for Android-based phones and require less bandwidth than the traditional version.
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Zee News :Sci-Tech
NASA and ISRO's NISAR space mission launch by January 2023, Dr Sivan tells Zee Media
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has shipped its satellite components to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labaratory for a joint satellite mission known as NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR). This joint mission, which is...
a day agoNASA sources US universities to develop new lunar power tech
The University of California in Santa Barbara will research wireless power transfer feasibility from a base station to multiple distant assets on the Moon.
a day agoNASA posts stunning picture of big, beautiful blue galaxy, shares interesting facts
The barred spiral galaxy stretches an immense 200,000 light-years across and was discovered in 1876 by German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel.
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Zee News :World
Heavy rains in Hawaii leads to floods, evacuation orders issued
Hawaii Governor David Ige declared an emergency in the US state after heavy rains brought floods, landslides and fear of dam failures, and authorities ordered the evacuation of several thousand people from communities threatened by rising...
6 hours agoMyanmar nun begs Junta forces to spare children amid crackdown on protests, video goes viral
Due to the brute force being used by the military, protesters against the military takeover in Myanmar carried homemade shields and have started moving with more caution and agility.
11 hours agoOne in 3 women subjected to physical or sexual violence in their life: WHO
Research found that the number of women who face physical and sexual violence, approximately 736 million worldwide, has remained "largely unchanged over the past decade," according to a statement from the WHO...
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Zee News :India National
Tirath Singh Rawat takes oath as Uttarakhand Chief Minister, PM Narendra Modi shares congratulatory message
Tirath Singh Rawat took oath as the new chief minister of Uttarakhand a day after Trivendra Singh Rawat stepped down from the post yesterday.
a few seconds agoAssam Assembly Elections 2021: 281 candidates file nomination for first phase
Elections to the 126-member Assam assembly will be held in three phases on March 27, April 1 and April 6.
a few seconds agoKerala Assembly Elections 2021: Communist Party of India(Marxist) announces 83 candidates, 5 ministers not on list
Five ministers of the Kerala Government and 33 sitting MLAs of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) will not be in the fray.
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Channel NewsAsia World News
German expert panel head says he would back Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine
The head of a German expert panel that will help decide in which order people should receive the vaccine has come out in support of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, as Europe cautiously weighs producing and using it...
2 hours agoCOVID-19 vaccine 'revolution' could see shots for next pandemic in 100 days
A "revolution" in technology that helped scientists develop COVID-19 vaccines in under a year must be sped up, so that when the next pandemic arrives a shot can be ready in 100 days, an international coalition said on Wednesday...
5 hours agoUS jail population plunged as COVID-19 spread, Justice Department says
The proportion of Americans detained in local jails - where people are locked up awaiting trial or serving sentences for minor crimes - fell to a three-decade low last year as officials raced to ease crowding as COVID-19 spread across the country...
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Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News
US secretaries of state, defence to travel to Japan and South Korea next week
Anthony Blinken and Lloyd Austin will travel to Japan and South Korea next week, in the first overseas and in-person trip by top Cabinet members of the Biden administration.
6 hours agoGoogle to review advertisements for Myanmar military-backed telecoms firm
Google said on Wednesday it is reviewing recent advertisements run by a Myanmar military-backed telecommunications firm and has disabled some army-linked accounts on its services in the wake of the country's coup...
7 hours agoMyanmar security forces storm railway compound targeting striking workers; UN fails to condemn coup
YANGON: Myanmar security forces launched tear gas and surrounded hundreds of anti-junta protesters at two places in Yangon on Wednesday (Mar 10), witnesses said, prompting the US embassy to call for their withdrawal. In New York, the...
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Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
Biden's US$1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill wins final approval in House
The House of Representatives gave final approval on Wednesday to one of the largest economic stimulus measures in U.S. history, a sweeping US$1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that gives President Joe Biden his first major victory in office...
16 minutes agoFacebook asks court to dismiss US government, states antitrust cases
Facebook asked a federal court on Wednesday to dismiss major antitrust cases filed by the US Federal Trade Commission and nearly every US state, saying they failed to show the company had a monopoly or harmed consumers...
39 minutes agoRoblox surges 43% in debut on NYSE
Shares of US gaming company Roblox Corp jumped 43per cent in its New York Stock Exchange trading debut on Wednesday, valuing the company at around US$42 billion.
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