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Current Event geoleoMessi's Spanish jail sentence for tax fraud to stand
A 21-month jail term handed down last year to Barcelona and Argentina footballer Lionel Messi has been confirmed by Spain's Supreme Court, but he is unlikely to go to prison. Messi and his father Jorge, who manages his finances, were both convicted in 2016 of defrauding Spain of €4.1m (£3.5m; $4.6m) in taxes. Jorge Messi's jail term was reduced because he paid some of the taxes.
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1 hour ago
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Photos: Inside Amazon’s first New York City bookstore
After helping drive many U.S. bookstore chains out of business, Amazon has been opening its own retail stores, starting in Seattle in late 2015. Its first Amazon Books location in New York City opens Thursday morning in Manhattan’s Shops at Columbus Circle, which was previously home to a pretty large — and now closed — Borders Books and Music.
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3 hours ago
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Theresa May to tackle Donald Trump over Manchester bombing evidence
Theresa May will confront Donald Trump over the stream of leaks of crucial intelligence about the Manchester bomb attack when she meets the US president at a Nato summit in Brussels on Thursday. British officials were infuriated on Wednesday when the New York Times published forensic photographs of sophisticated bomb parts that UK authorities fear could complicate the expanding investigation into the lethal blast in which six further arrests have been made in the UK and two more in Libya.
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2 days ago
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Billionaire Michael Bloomberg: When choosing a job, prioritize this over salary
Business magnate Michael Bloomberg, a man worth an estimated $48.9 billion, says that when he was 22, he had no idea what he wanted to do with his career. In a commencement speech at Villanova University on Friday, the former mayor of New York City shared how he navigated the transition from school to the workforce.
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2 days ago
Analysis geoleo
Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find
The history of human evolution has been rewritten after scientists discovered that Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa. Currently, most experts believe that our human lineage split from apes around seven million years ago in central Africa, where hominids remained for the next five million years before venturing further afield. But two fossils of an ape-like creature which had human-like teeth have been found in Bulgaria and Greece, dating to 7.2 million years ago.
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2 days ago
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CRISPR kills HIV and eats Zika 'like Pac-man'. Its next target? Cancer
HIV has no cure. It’s not quite the implacable scourge it was throughout the 1980s and 1990s, thanks to education, prophylactics, and drugs like PrEP. But still, no cure.The same ability, though, could be HIV’s undoing. All because of CRISPR. You know, CRIPSR: the gene-editing technique that got everyone really excited, then really sceptical, and now cautiously optimistic about curing a bunch of intractable diseases.
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2 days ago
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White supremacist converts to Islam — then kills neo-Nazi pals for disrespecting his new faith: police
A white supremacist is being accused of fatally shooting his two neo-Nazi roommates after they objected to his decision to convert to Islam.
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2 days ago
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Senators ask FCC why reporter was “manhandled” after net neutrality vote
Two Democratic senators have asked Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai to explain why "FCC security personnel reportedly manhandled, threatened, and ejected" a journalist who was trying to ask questions after last week's net neutrality vote. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) sent a letter to Pai Friday, one day after CQ Roll Call reporter John Donnelly accused FCC guards of forcing him out of the building when he was trying to talk to Pai and C...
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2 days ago
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Valve confirm they've hired the Kerbal Space Program team
The Kerbal Space Program community has been abuzz today with the news that a portion of the KSP team at Squad have been hired by Valve. It all began when an ex valve artist spoke about the hires during a recent podcast. Further reading: The best VR games.
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2 days ago
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Iran calls Trump's Saudi visit 'theatrical'
Newly re-elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed US President Donald Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia over the weekend as a "theatrical gathering" that would do nothing to combat terrorism in the region. In a news conference in Tehran on Monday, Rouhani said Trump's first visit abroad was a "theatrical gathering with no practical or political value."
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4 days ago
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Exclusive: House Science Committee members just sent a letter to President Trump insisting he stop relying on fake news
Members of the House of Representative Committee on Science, Space & Technology—including representative Don Beyer, Jacky Rosen, Mark Takano, and a number of other Democrats—have signed and submitted a letter to President Trump expressing concern over the President's methods of receiving scientific information. The letter states that by failing to appoint a qualified director to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy or adequately staff the department....
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4 days ago
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14-year-old boy leads police on 100 mph chase in North Bay
A 14-year-old Santa Rosa boy led police on a high-speed chase, driving up to 100 mph in a stolen car early Friday in Santa Rosa, officials said. Police first noticed the suspect car just before 2 a.m. driving in downtown Cotati with its headlights off, authorities said.
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4 days ago
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That North Korean Missile Really Worked, Say U.S. Officials
Two U.S. defense officials confirm that North Korea's launch of a KN-17 missile last Sunday was successful and that the missile's re-entry vehicle did successfully re-enter the atmosphere. The re-entry was controlled and the vehicle did not burn up, the officials said. It landed in the sea near Russia.
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4 days ago
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An AI invented a bunch of new paint colors that are hilariously wrong
Let’s just say this neural network won’t make you fear the robot uprising. At some point, we've all wondered about the incredibly strange names for paint colors. Research scientist and neural network goofball Janelle Shane took the wondering a step further. Shane decided to train a neural network to generate new paint colors, complete with appropriate names. The results are possibly the greatest work of artificial intelligence I've seen to date.
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4 days ago
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Robots could wipe out another 6 million retail jobs
Robots have already cost millions of factory jobs across the nation. Next up could be jobs at your local stores. Between 6 million to 7.5 million existing jobs are at risk of being replaced over the course of the next 10 years by some form of automation, according to a new study this week from by financial services firm Cornerstone Capital Group.
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4 days ago
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Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas Has a Problem with Science – and with Voters
For most of his four years as chair of the Science Committee, Republican Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas has served up more spectacle than policy. As arguably the showiest climate denier and opponent of environmental regulations in Congress, Smith has orchestrated climate change hearings that are the scientific equivalent of pro-wrestling matches. Stacked with skeptics who mocked mainstream climate science, they offered virtually no chance for significant dialogue.
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4 days ago
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Western democracy—as represented by the US—is 'crumbling,' Chinese newspaper claims
Western democracy as represented by the U.S. political model "is crumbling," the Global Times, China's nationalistic newspaper, said in an unsigned editorial on Friday. The state-run Chinese newspaper was weighing in on President Donald Trump's current troubles regarding ongoing inquiries into his presidential campaign and Russia.
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5 days ago
Analysis geoleo
A record 107 million Americans have car loans
Americans went on a massive shopping spree for cars and trucks in recent years. Many paid for their vehicles by taking out a loan. A record 107 million Americans have auto loan debt, according to data released this week by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That's about 43% of the entire adult population in the US. It's an eye popping number. Auto loans have been growing rapidly.
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7 days ago
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Putin vows to hand over Trump talks transcript
Vladimir Putin says he is willing to hand over a transcript of a discussion between Donald Trump and senior Russian officials. President Trump allegedly disclosed highly classified information about "terrorism and airline flight safety" while meeting foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and ambassador Sergei Kislyak last week. However, Mr Putin said Mr Trump did not pass over secrets and dismissed the scandal as "political schizophrenia".
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7 days ago
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Poland’s Prime Minister says country will be accepting no refugees
Poland’s Prime Minister has claimed the country “cannot accept refugees” as the EU threatens legal action against nations failing to comply with quotas. Alongside Hungary and Austria, it is one of only three countries not to have relocated a single refugee, “in breach of their legal obligations” and commitments. “This cannot be the responsibility of just a few member states – this must be shared be all,” said Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European Commissioner for migration.
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7 days ago
Comment geoleo
Best news of the day. Finally I'm confident there will be an honest and fair investigation.
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7 days ago
Comment geoleo
I'm not sure I would be able to spend more than a few hours in a place that small.
Posted in: The 'Coffin Homes' of Hong Kong
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8 days ago
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Feds announce new rules to discourage 'shoddy treatment' of air passengers
Airlines won't be allowed to bump passengers from a flight against their will under a new passenger bill of rights introduced Tuesday by Transportation Minister Marc Garneau. That change is part of a package of amendments to the Canada Transportation Act which also introduces new foreign ownership limits for airlines, requires railways to install voice and video recorders in locomotives and improves transparency and efficiency in the freight rail industry.
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8 days ago
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Mexican journalist and CPJ awardee Javier Valdez Cárdenas murdered
The Mexican prosecutor for crimes against freedom of expression in Mexico should swiftly investigate the murder of Javier Valdez Cárdenas and bring all those responsible to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Valdez was shot and killed today near the offices of Ríodoce, the local weekly he founded in 2003 in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state, according to reports.
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9 days ago
As tongue in cheek as your reply sounds, I'll have to agree that on topic or not, technically, yes, a purpose was served perhaps.
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