Tuesday, November 26, 2019

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  • At Washington and Lee University, George Washington and Robert E. Lee find themselves in some heat. Some people believe the old adage that insists if we do not remember and heed our...

  • In Photos: The Weirdest Mummies of the World

    14 hours ago
  • Mummies of the world are some of the most powerful images of ancient history. Practiced by some cultures even today, the act of wrapping a body in bandages is best-known thanks to the...

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Unlucky Son Witnessed 3 Presidential Assassinations

    2 days ago
    • Abraham Lincoln’s death was a shattering blow to the United States. His first born son Robert Todd Lincoln (b. 1843) wasn’t there that fateful night at Ford’s Theater, Washington...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • Originally posted on BBC Watch: The role of the BBC’s Middle East editor is to provide “analysis that might make a…

  • LATEST UBER NEWS

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  • Originally posted on No Punches Pulled: 1) Third quarter loss of US $1.3 billion. 2) License to operate in London cancelled. (14,000…

  • More on @paulkrugman forgetting the literature on financial crises

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    •   TARPLEY.net

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, November 25, 2019 Newly Leaked Documents Show Horrors of Xi’s Concentration Camps in East...

  • As Beijing Communist Regime Escalates Violence Against Democracy Protesters, Appeaser Trump Must Sign Bills Extending U.S. Protection over Human Rights in Hong Kong; Reject Xi’s Insolent Attempt to Dictate U.S. Policy!

    3 days ago
  • House Democrats Begin Drafting Articles of Impeachment; but Schiff Does Not Rule Out Additional Witnesses; Public Demands to Hear from Mulvaney, Giuliani, Bolton, Pompeo, Pence...

  • Five Days of Televised Impeachment Hearings Leave Trump’s Strongman Myth Shattered and GOP Defenses in Shambles; Sondland Testimony Is Watershed Event in Current History; Clintongate Prosecutor Ken Starr Wonders When GOP Senators Will Urge Imposter to Resign

    5 days ago
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, November 21, 2019 Fiona Hill of NSC Confirms Bolton Sought to Distance Himself from Giuliani...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • Diamond & Diamond, a national personal injury law firm in Canada, is spearheading a $500 million class-action lawsuit against various Roundup makers, including pharmaceutical...

  • Pesticides to Blame for Insect Decline that Threatens Life on Earth

    12 days ago
  • A new report, Insect Declines and Why They Matter, commissioned by an alliance of UK Wildlife Trusts in the south west, concludes that drastic declines in insect numbers look set...

  • The Battle for the Future of Food in Africa

    12 days ago
    • Last month in Ghana, Agnes Kalibata, President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, congratulated an illustrious group of corporate and government leaders for...

      sunshine hours

  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 327 – 2019

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  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 326 – 2019

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    • South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • US President Donald Trump’s administration wants to build a rules-based and democracy-led order in the Indo-Pacific, but seems to have no idea how. If it doesn’t find the answer...

  • Stuck in a haze: New Delhi’s smog is the cost of environmental neglect

    18 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Globe and Mail Just as German Chancellor Angela Merkel reached New Delhi last week on a state visit, noxious smog blanketed the Indian capital, forcing a shutdown...

  • China is weaponizing water and worsening droughts in Asia

    22 days ago
    • Its dams are provoking regional tensions, so Beijing needs to reconsider its policy. Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review Asia, the world’s driest continent in per capita...

      Ramani's blog

  • Nelspruit Nature Reserve. An ancient Hindu worship site which dates back 1,800 years, and is still in use today.

  • Muslim Offering To Tirupathi Balaji 108 Golden Lotuses Arjitha Seva Origin

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  • But sir, several decades ago my paternal grand father had made a vow to himself that he would place 108 Golden Lotus Flowers at the holy Lotus feet of our Sri Varu for...

  • What is The Gotra If You Do Not Know

    a month ago
    • There is also a practice of assigning Vishnu Gotra to people who belong to Kshatriya Varna and Jambu Maharishi Gotra to Vaisyas.

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • Staff and parents of students in the remaining public schools of the Chester-Upland district in Pennsylvania, are planning a rally to protest the charter proposal to take over all...

  • Reader Defines “Grit”

    7 hours ago
  • Reader C.H. Rubinstein eases into the debate about GRIT. Oy, where have we heard this song & dance before? Grit is something your mom used to yell about, such as when you were playing...

  • Paul Waldman Remembers When Republicans Thought Trump Was a Charlatan and a Kook

    8 hours ago
    • Paul Waldman of the Washington Post went down memory lane with prominent Republicans who called out Trump as a phony before he was elected.   On Friday, the president of the United...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • As is often the case, The Daily Show came through this past week.  Former Microsoft CEO and Founder of the USA Facts website Steve Ballmer came by on the November 14 episode.  The website...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of November 4

    15 days ago
  • Last week’s leader in the clubhouse for science and technology content is the newbie on the block.  A Little Late with Lilly Singh has shown an early interest in booking guests with...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of October 28

    22 days ago
    • Last week was all about a robot movie where science and technology bookings were concerned.  The latest Terminator film premiered last Friday in the United States and its stars were...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood     One of the great delusions of Labour’s green policy is that it will create a million new “well paid, unionised” jobs.   The reality in Germany is a bit different...

  • Labour’s Green Revolution

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  • By Paul Homewood     Time to look at the new Labour Manifesto’s green strategy:     https://labour.org.uk/manifesto/a-green-industrial-revolution/       First, a few...

  • CEH Preliminary Report On S Yorks Floods–No Evidence That They Were Caused By Climate Change

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    • By Paul Homewood   https://www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/blogs/severity-of-november-2019-floods-uk-preliminary-analysis The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH)...

      NoTricksZone

  • This past weekend in Munich, the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) held its 13th annual climate and energy conference. According to EIKE, over 200 attended, making...

  • New Study: 6500 Years Ago The Western Barents Sea Was Ice-Free And 10°C Warmer Than 2015

    2 days ago
  • The Arctic’s western Barents Sea (Storfjordrenna) surface temperatures now range between 2-4°C. Sea ice persists in the region for 10 months of the year. A new study finds this...

  • Increasingly Powerful Headwinds Ahead: Germany’s Wind Industry Faces Extinction …”Several 10,000 Jobs Lost “

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    • Online site wind energy proponent site, Energiezukunft.eu here presents a commentary telling why Germany is seeing ever increasing resistance to wind energy projects and how the...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Curmudgucation: TN: Doubling Down on Bad Reading Policy Among the worst policy ideas of the past decades, we have to count third grade reading retention laws. These laws can sometimes...

  • Answer Sheet: Um, That’s Not What Warren Actually Said About Charter Schools

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  • Answer Sheet: Um, That’s Not What Warren Actually Said About Charter Schools Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks during an event to introduce the Medicare for All Act of 2017...

  • Code Acts in Education: Platform Teachers

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    • Code Acts in Education: Platform Teachers Amazon has launched a new service allowing teachers to sell and buy education resources through its platform. Image by Guillaume Bolduc...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The Democrats might have had a more persuasive case for impeachment if only… 1) Donald Trump had cut off all military assistance to Ukraine...

  • The Impeachment Clock

    5 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Adam Schiff’s impeachment inquiry is incoherent. Given the impossibility of a senatorial conviction, the only strategy is to taint the...

  • The Wages of Trump Fixation

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    • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Max Boot recently wrote that my arguments against the impeachment inquiry are prima facie proof of why the Democrats should, in...

    The Moderate Voice

  • the amorality of a political consultant like Mark Penn seems startling in a nation that so prides itself for wearing its ideology on its sleeve. There are -- seemingly --now only about...

  • Is the United States ‘Starting to Look Like Ukraine’ Did in the Past?

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  • "I cannot in good conscience obey an order that I believe violates the sacred oath I took …to support and defend the Constitution of the United States." Resigning Navy Secretary...

  • OUR TOWER OF BABEL

    2 days ago
    • Thanksgiving is my favorite ritual meal. The myth surrounding this celebration is uniquely American. Its sacraments are pluralism and tolerance of others. It contains the catechism...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. “Ancient coin designs encoded increasing amounts of economic information over centuries.“ 2. “Powell will serve 10 years in prison, Davies will do 8½ years and Wicks will...

  • William Shatner on mortgages

    7 hours ago
  •   Ok math whiz: a $85k 30 year mortgage with 12% interest in 1985 actual total cost was $315k. A $315k 30 yr mortgage today at 3.8% is $525k total. $315,000 in 1985 is equivalent in purchasing...

  • Wealth by Generation and Age

    13 hours ago
    • Kurt Andersen made the following arresting tweet Fraction of all US wealth owned by Boomers & Gen-Xers when the average member of each was age 35: Boomers, 1989 21% GenX, 2008 8%...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Paul Waldman of the Washington Post went down memory lane with prominent Republicans who called out Trump as a phony before he was elected...

  • 33 Writers: Please Stop Using Term “Quid Pro Quo”

    15 days ago
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This letter appeared in the New York Times on ? To the Editor: A plea from 33 writers: Please use language that will clarify the issues at hand...

  • Ron Chernow: Alexander Hamilton Would Support Impeachment

    23 days ago
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Ron Chernow, author of Hamilton, wrote in the Washington Post that Trump is the populist demagogue that Alexander Hamilton feared and...

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  • “The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly,” goes the old saying. This applies to rules and social codes, too. And one bad standard that’s ever being enforced...

  • Chinese Communist Front Flips Virginia Blue

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  • VIDEO - The New American’s Christian Gomez interviews anticommunist author and researcher Trevor Loudon about his recent article published by The Epoch Times entitled, “Virginia...

  • Warren Fibs Again, This Time About the Top One Percent

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    • The latest in Warren’s long list of fibs, uttered during last week’s Democrat debate but largely missed by the leftist media, is that billionaires are “freeloaders.”...

      MintPress News

  • Fresh on the heels of commemorating the killing of Israeli icon Yitzhak Rabin, Israel launched a series of attacks and assassinations on Palestinians. The post Israel Commemorates...

  • Amnesty International Toes US Gov’t Line in Urging Unrest in Iran

    a day ago
  • The US gov't has long attempted to foment popular uprisings and hijack or manipulate protests in Iran, now rights groups like Amnesty International, seem to be parroting the tactic...

  • Establishment Dems Demands Trump be Impeached, but Not for War Crimes

    a day ago
    • UkraineGate has so far failed to capture the public imagination precisely because it does not go after Trump for his most egregious and impeachable domestic and foreign policies...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Uber loses licence to operate in London after 14,000 trips taken with unlicensed drivers(tags:driving london taxi OhForFucksSake regulation )Tory minister admits extra nurses...

  • Interesting Links for 25-11-2019

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  • The Value of Everything: Reinvigorating the most important battle in economics(tags:economics )Leonardo da Vinci: Edinburgh to host major exhibition(tags:art history LeonardoDaVinci...

  • Interesting Links for 24-11-2019

    2 days ago
    • African Union urges Britain to cede Chagos Islands, end colonial rule(tags:UK empire Africa OhForFucksSake )The evolutionary reasons why farming is hard(tags:farming evolution...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • Scientists have recorded a blue whale's heart rate for the first time. The findings may explain why no other animal has ever been larger than a blue whale...

  • Medical News Today: Sleep loss may contribute to heart disease in those with low incomes

    17 hours ago
  • Recent evidence suggests that insufficient sleep may mediate the link between a low socioeconomic status and a higher risk of coronary heart disease.

  • Medical News Today: 6 home remedies for obstructive sleep apnea

    20 hours ago
    • Sleep apnea is a common condition. Without treatment, it can lead to more serious health issues. Here, learn about the causes of sleep apnea and six home remedies for it...

      InvestmentWatch

  • As 2019 draws to a close, precious material investors around the world are wondering what the next year will bring in terms of buying and selling trends. Should you sell ... Read more...

  • The Impending End Of A Mania

    5 hours ago
  • by CRESCAT CAPITAL Read PDF Version An important ratio of commodity versus equity valuations just reached a fresh 50-year low resembling two prior significant cyclical US stock...

  • DIS news. Research firm Apptopia estimates that Disney+ has had 15.5 million downloads in the past 2 weeks, close to a million a day.

    5 hours ago
    • Their data does not include direct downloads from Disney+, but only takes into account Android and iOS downloads. They estimate just under a million downloads a day, and also estimate...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • I’ve been thinking about yesterday’s blog today and I’m not sure I expressed myself with all the clarity I could have. This thought has been rattling around in my head for a while...

  • A Good Candidate

    a day ago
  • I find it kind of strange that the final impetus for impeachment was Trump trying to dig up dirt on Biden in Ukraine. They could have nailed him on the emoluments clause after the first...

  • Why Her Lying Matters

    3 days ago
    • It might be a trivial issue, because I believe if somebody’s got megabucks there’s nothing inherently immoral in their decision to send their kids to private schools, and it could...

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    26 November - iGoogle Portal - Tab 8




  • It’s all about energy, therefore what you put out is what you will receive. Have faith in yourself and the universe. Without the one, you may not succeed; they go hand in hand. Both...

  • Release Worries – Everything Goes According to Plan

    10 days ago
  • A Russian scientist, Georgiy Nikolaevich Sytin, and author of a unique book on self-help methods of healing developed a technique on self-realization with assistance from reflections...

  • Egyptians Claimed Cats See Spirits And Are Empathic

    12 days ago

    • The Egyptians claimed that cats seem to see spirits of the deceased. Ever since the Egyptians have domesticated cats around 4,000 years ago, cats have played an essential part in human...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Scientists have recorded a blue whale's heart rate for the first time. The findings may explain why no other animal has ever been larger than a blue whale...

  • Medical News Today: Sleep loss may contribute to heart disease in those with low incomes

    17 hours ago
  • Recent evidence suggests that insufficient sleep may mediate the link between a low socioeconomic status and a higher risk of coronary heart disease.

  • Medical News Today: 6 home remedies for obstructive sleep apnea

    20 hours ago

    • Sleep apnea is a common condition. Without treatment, it can lead to more serious health issues. Here, learn about the causes of sleep apnea and six home remedies for it...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard, we tackle a fraught and timely question.Why do progressive parents so often act to preserve their own privilege, and that of their children...

  • Party Pivot: Why Democrats Are Rethinking School Choice

    a month ago
  • TweetFrom the Sanders plan to the Warren plan to Cory Booker’s reluctance to talk about education reform on the campaign trail, the Democratic Party seems to be backing away from...

  • Storefront School: Excavating A Radical Education Experiment in Harlem

    a month ago

    • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard we climb into the time machine and head to central Harlem in the late 1960’s, home to a radical—and little known—education experiment...

      Chicago Boyz



  • Is The end of WW2 historiography "Atomic Diplomacy" upon us. Trent Telenko discusses that in relation to a 2011 NHK documentary on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

  • Sunday at the Civil War

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  • Last weekend, at the folklore event at the Museum of Texas Handmade Furniture, I was talking to one of the other participants – yes, there were a good few 19th-century reenactors...

  • Diseconomies and Dysfunctions of Scale

    2 days ago

    • Why are short-line railroads able to survive, and sometimes thrive, in an industry dominated by a few giant companies?  An article at Railway Age suggests some answers. These points...

      Centinel2012



  • SOME SPECIES ARE MORE PROTECTED THAN OTHERS Some political creatures like the “Stone Frog” (Roger Stone) are mercilessly hunted to the edge of extinction. While others...

  • William Koch & Ancient Coins

    7 hours ago
  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Ancient History Re-Posted Nov 26, 2019 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: I understand that the Koch brothers bought ancient coins. Is there any truth to...

  • Australians Losing All Freedoms to Socialism

    7 hours ago

    • Armstrong Economics Blog/Australia & Oceania Re-Posted Nov 26, 2019 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: I live in Australia but seriously considering living elsewhere as our...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Climate change finds its way into the latest Democratic debate; Greenhouse gas concentrations reach record highs; 2019 is the wettest year on record for...

  • After Impeachment Week 2, What Happened to All My Pro-Trump Callers?: 'BradCast' 11/25/2019

    a day ago
  • Hmmm....That's interesting. With all of those pro-Trump callers we had last week after Week 1 of impeachment hearings, there were none willing to call in to today's BradCast to defend...

  • Sunday 'Lyin' Eyes' Toons

    2 days ago

    • "Suspicious Minds", by Elvis (all apologies) * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter...

      bluebird of bitterness



  • NOTE: Multiple readers claimed that the mouse in last week’s puzzle looked like a teddy bear. (I maintained that it was a mouse, because that’s what the artist said it was, and I...

  • Fowl play

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  • Monday chuckles

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  •   A new report released on Tuesday by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) offers a bleak outlook for the future if the world continues in its failure to make drastic cuts...

  • The Pope calls for nuclear weapons abolition, sounds caution on nuclear power

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  • Pope Francis, speaking at Nagasaki, Japan, made a powerful speech condemning nuclear weapons, including their possession for the purpose of so-called deterrence. Here is the full...

  • Nuke Farm, New Mexico (Part One), by Nick Maxwell at We the Fourth

    3 days ago

    • Excellent summary of the Holtec International/Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance consolidated interim storage facility fight, by Nick Maxwell, as posted at We the Fourth...

    BlackListed News



  • On at 8:55am local time on Saturday, November 23, 2019, the Chinese government "successfully" launched a Long March 3B carrier rocket into orbit. Leaving from the Xichang Satellite...

  • Erdogan: "Patriotic" Turks. Now Is The Time To "Leave The Dollar" And Buy Turkish Lira 

    20 hours ago
  • President Tayyip Erdogan, on Tuesday, told Turks to ditch the dollar and convert their foreign currencies to Turkish lira as an act of "patriotism," reported Reuters...

  • Massachusetts State Police Tested Out Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog

    20 hours ago

    • Cops have long had dogs, and robots, to help them do their jobs. And now, they have a robot dog.

      Research Digest



  • By Emily Reynolds. Drinkers focus on hair and face shape at expense of internal features like eyes and mouth.

  • Using Fidget Spinners May Actually Impede Learning

    2 days ago
  • By Emily Reynolds. Using fidget spinners impaired memory for educational lecture, study found.

  • Waking Dreams And Phantom Kicks: The Week’s Best Psychology Links

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    • Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • In 1982, surveyors from the Massachusetts Department of Public Works were mapping for a proposed expansion of Route 146 when they stumbled upon a handful of gravestones on a small...

  • Photographers Take on the World's Walls, Borders, and Barriers

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  • The Cold War was long, but by many accounts parts of its end—namely, the fall of the Berlin Wall—felt rather sudden. At a press conference on November 9, 1989, an East German government...

  • Why President Coolidge Never Ate His Thanksgiving Raccoon

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    • In November of 1926, a woman from Mississippi sent President Calvin Coolidge a raccoon for Thanksgiving. An accompanying note promised that it had, in her words, a “toothsome flavor.”...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Joseph Stiglitz writes about the dangers of measuring economic and social progress solely in terms of GDP:It is clear that something is fundamentally...

  • Monday Morning Links

    a day ago
  • Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Andrew MacLeod discusses how an anti-worker campaign at the Mountain Equipment Co-op demonstrates the need for employees to be able...

  • Musical interlude

    3 days ago

    • Texas King - Boomerang
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    26 November - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM

  • Even secretary of state Mike Pompeo has given credence to Trump's demonstrably wrong theory that Ukraine hacked the DNC.

  • 'Shenmue III' Defies All Expectations—in a Good Way, Mostly

    6 hours ago
  • The half revenge epic and half slice-of-life simulator is back, baby, but hasn’t changed a bit.

  • Photo Gallery: Wild Juxtapositions of Saudi Arabia Modern and Ancient

    6 hours ago
    • Photographer Peter Bogaczewicz captures the past and present of the oil-rich kingdom as it undergoes dramatic transformation.

      NYT > Home Page

  • Countries agreed to rein in emissions in an effort to avert climate catastrophes. They've failed, according to the latest United Nations report.
  • ( The more I hear this nonsense, the more sympathetic I become to John Bolton's long time assessment that the UN is useless. JF )

  • Donald McGahn Must Testify to Congress, Judge Rules; Administration Will Appeal

    13 hours ago
  • A judge rejected the Trump administration’s argument that senior White House officials were immune from congressional subpoenas.

  • Ruling Will Not Lead John Bolton to Testify Soon, Lawyer Says

    5 hours ago
    • Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry have been seeking John Bolton’s testimony, but his lawyer said the ruling in the case of another former White House aide did not apply...

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


  • It’s BJP vs BJP over House procedures

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  • After Lok Sabha, Upper House too okays bill on trans rights

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    •   BBC News - UK

  • The Labour leader says racism is a "poison" and he wants to work with all communities to eliminate it.

  • General election 2019: Muslim Council criticises Tories over Islamophobia

    an hour ago
  • The Muslim Council of Britain accuses the Conservatives of a "blind spot for this type of racism".

  • Pregnant woman among 10 found in Cambridgeshire lorry

    3 hours ago
    • Two children are among those found at a service station on the A14 near Godmanchester.

      Reuters: World News

  • Colombian unions and student groups will hold another protest on Wednesday in honor of a teenage demonstrator who died after being injured by a tear gas canister, as President Ivan...

  • Powerful quake kills 21 in Albania as buildings bury residents

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  • At least 21 people were killed when the most powerful earthquake to strike Albania in decades shook the capital Tirana and the country's west and north on Tuesday, tearing down buildings...

  • Former Erdogan ally says Turkey 'in dark tunnel', plans new party by year-end

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    • Former Turkish deputy prime minister Ali Babacan warned on Tuesday of the dangers of "one man rule" and said he hoped to have formed a new political party by the end of the year to challenge...
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