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15 hours ago
Current Event gottliebUS: Punitive China tariffs on hold
China and the US say they will halt imposing punitive import tariffs, putting a possible trade war "on hold". The deal came after talks in the US aimed at persuading China to buy $200bn (£148bn) of US goods and services and thereby reduce the trade imbalance. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin did not give figures, but said the US would impose tariffs worth $150bn if China did not implement the agreement.
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1 day ago
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Want to help your child succeed in school? Add language to the math, reading mix
Research shows that the more skills children bring with them to kindergarten – in basic math, reading, even friendship and cooperation – the more likely they will succeed in those same areas in school. Hence, “kindergarten readiness” is the goal of many preschool programs, and a motivator for many parents.
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1 day ago
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Scientists Hit Back: Another Paper Claims 100% Renewables is Possible and Affordable
Is it possible for the world to run on 100 percent renewable energy? It's a noble goal, as the best science tells us we must significantly slash fossil fuel consumption or else the planet faces dangerous climate change.
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4 days ago
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EU president tears into Donald Trump: 'with friends like that who needs enemies'
The president of the European Council has torn into Donald Trump, warning that the US president is a bad friend who acts with “capricious assertiveness”. Speaking on Wednesday Donald Tusk said he was “grateful” for Mr Trump because he had “made us realise that if you need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of your arm”. The EU leader told reporters at a summit in the Bulgarian capital Sofia that Europe had to be prepared to go it alone in some circumstances because the new ...
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6 days ago
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It’s Time for a New Discussion of Marijuana’s Risks
You may reasonably decide the benefits outweigh the harms, but you should know about those potential harms.
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8 days ago
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Ankara vows to help resist US sanctions on Iran
As reactions to the United States’ decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal continue to reverberate globally, NATO member Turkey has made its displeasure clear. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani that Washington’s move was “wrong.” In a telephone conversation held Thursday, the two leaders reportedly discussed the potential effects of the deal and Erdogan said he favored the preservation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCP...
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2 weeks ago
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Subscription hell
Another week, another paywall. This time, it’s Bloomberg, which announced that it would be adding a comprehensive paywall to its news service and television channel (except TicToc, its media partnership with Twitter). A paywall was hardly a surprise, but what was surprising was the price: the standard subscription is $35 a month (up from $0 a month), or $40 a month including access to online and print editions of Businessweek
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2 weeks ago
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Kanye West Accused of Stealing Fashion Sketches from a Former Nike Designer
Amid backlash for his remark implying slavery was a “choice” and his string of unapologetic Twitter outbursts, Kanye West has come under further fire on social media. The rapper, 40, was accused of stealing a design blueprint and calling it his own when in actuality it appears to be an original sketch by former Nike designer Tony Spackman, who currently serves as design director of Givenchy.
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2 weeks ago
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California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes
California is about to become the only state in the nation mandating that virtually every new home have solar panels by 2020.
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2 weeks ago
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‘We Need to Respect This Generation’s Interest’ in Bitcoin: CFTC Chairman
Join our community of 10 000 traders on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said this week that cryptocurrency is a generational interest and that regulators need to treat it with respect. J. Christopher Giancarlo, who was sworn in as a CFTC commissioner in 2014 and has led the commission since August 2017, shared his thoughts on cryptocurrency regulation at the Milken Institute Global Conference, which took place this week in Los An...
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2 weeks ago
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The Internet Archive Can't Preserve the Web's History by Itself
This weekend on her show AM Joy, Joy Reid stated that security experts had not been able to prove that her blog had been hacked or manipulated, and while she “genuinely does not believe [she] wrote those hateful things,” she did admit that she “can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past why some people don’t believe me.” Events throughout the week included a denial of hacking the by the Internet Archive, and a growing chorus of experts public...
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3 weeks ago
Analysis gottlieb
Fashion brands steal design ideas all the time. And it’s completely legal.
Blame America’s outdated copyright laws.
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3 weeks ago
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Every Library Has a Story to Tell
Three new books for bibliophiles dig into the hidden human side of book collections.
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3 weeks ago
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If this was Murica he would have already been dead long before exiting the van.
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3 weeks ago
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Malaria infection creates a ‘human perfume’ that makes us more attractive to mosquitoes
The parasite that causes malaria can change the way you smell, making you more attractive to mosquitoes, according to a new study. The work may help explain why the disease is able to spread so effectively. The new study adds important details about how human odor is influenced by malaria, says Audrey Odom John, a parasitologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri who was not involved in the study. “This is very cool, and it’s been needed for some time.”
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1 month ago
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Missing Latvian tourist's body found mutilated, without head along riverbank in Thiruvananthapuram
Latvian tourist Liga Skromane who went missing from an Ayurveda resort in Kerala was found dead on the banks of Karamana river today. The 33-year-old was undergoing treatment and vanished from the resort in Pothencode on March 14. According to P Praksh, Thiruvananthapuram city police commissioner, the beheaded and mutilated body of a foreigner woman was found on the riverbanks and police were yet to identify it.