An armed man in Ukraine armed with an automatic rifle and grenades turned himself in to police and released 13 hostages after the country’s president accepted his demand to recommend the 2005 film Earthlings starring Joaquin Phoenix. The niche film’s recommendation, delivered by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy via Facebook, helped end …
Read More »Most polar bears will disappear by 2100, study finds | Ambient
Scientists have first predicted when, where, and how polar bears are likely to disappear, warning that if greenhouse gas emissions remain on their current trajectory, all but a few polar bear populations in the Arctic will likely they will disappear by the year 2100. As early as 2040, it is …
Read More »Trump consults a Bush torture lawyer on how to circumvent the law and rule by decree | United States News
The Trump administration has been consulting with the former government attorney who wrote the legal justification for the submarine, about how the president could try to rule by decree. John Yoo told Axios that he had been speaking to White House officials about his opinion that a recent Supreme Court …
Read More »Tens of thousands of Americans will go on strike to protest racial inequality | United States News
Organizers of Strike For Black Lives said tens of thousands of Americans would stop working in more than two dozen cities at noon on Monday to protest systemic racism and economic inequality. At noon in each time zone, workers were expected to kneel for just under nine minutes, the amount …
Read More »New York Governor Andrew Cuomo holds a press conference on the coronavirus outbreak
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