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Giuliani stumbles into admitting Trump’s hush money payments were probably illegal
The Washington Post - By Aaron Blake
One comment Rudolph W. Giuliani made Sunday has been getting short shrift. In one fell swoop, he offered a false legal argument that both watered down the Trump team’s previous denials and — most important
Robert Mueller
A Complete Guide to All 17 (Known) Trump and Russia Investigations
WIRED - Garrett M. Graff
While popular memory today remembers Watergate as five DNC burglars leading inexorably to Richard Nixon’s resignation two years later, history …
U.S. Politics
Comey slams Trump, 'shameful' House Republicans after 2nd Capitol Hill meeting
CNN - By Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju, CNN
Washington (CNN) — Former FBI Director James Comey slammed Republicans on Monday for not speaking out against President Donald Trump's attacks on the FBI and strongly defended the agency's conduct, following
Donald Trump
Senate report: Moscow directed 'troll farm' in efforts to elect Trump
TNW - Tristan Greene
The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today released a pair of reports detailing the results of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. Here’s what you
U.S. Politics
Coons: Trump sounds 'more like a mob boss than president' with Cohen attacks
POLITICO - By CAITLIN OPRYSKO
President Donald Trump’s use of the word “rat” to attack his former personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen is more evocative of a “mob boss” than of a president, a Democratic senator said Monday. Sen.
Yellow Vests Movement
Yellow vest protesters still block French traffic circles
Associated Press - By SAMUEL PETREQUIN, Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — Yellow vest protesters occupied dozens of traffic roundabouts across France on Sunday even as their movement for economic justice appeared to be losing momentum on the fifth straight weekend
Opinion
Transparency in Medical Journals
The New York Times
To the Editor: “‘Broken’ System Lets Doctors Omit Industry Ties in Journals” (front page, Dec. 9) describes some welcome actions taken by institutions, professional organizations and journal editors to
USDOT
In the earthquake aftermath, where are the silver linings — and what are the warnings?
adn.com - Anchorage Daily News editorial board
Two weeks after a magnitude 7 earthquake shook Southcentral, we’re beginning to get a picture of the damage, the costs of recovery and the places …
Trump Administration
Vietnamese Americans Rally in O.C. Against Trump Admin’s Push to Deport Thousands of War Refugees
ktla.com - kristinakbravo
Their faces were grim, but with their voices united in a common cause, Vietnamese Americans rallied in Little Saigon on Saturday to protest the Trump …
News
8 Disease Outbreaks From 2018 That You Should Know About
buzzfeednews.com - Caroline Kee
Ebola, measles, and monkeypox are just a few of the infectious diseases that caused severe outbreaks in 2018. Here's what you need to know. Measles is …
News
Talks adopt 'rulebook' to put Paris climate deal into action
Associated Press - By FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press
KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Almost 200 nations, including the world's top greenhouse gas producers, China and the United States, have adopted a set of rules meant to breathe life into the 2015 Paris climate
The Arts
Can This Social Network Solve Artists’ Financial Woes?
observer.com - Daniel Grant
There are many questions that artists have at the outset of their careers: Where can I show my work? How do I finance my practice? Where do I find …
Knowledge Management
Major Earthquake Strikes Indonesia After Volcanic Eruption
haaretz.com - Reuters
An earthquake with a 6.2 magnitude occurred about 168 km (101 miles) south-southwest of the town of Jayapura, Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey …
Genetics
Repairing injured muscle
sciencemag.org
As we become older, it takes longer to heal. Aging skeletal muscle loses its capacity to regenerate after injury. Sahu et al. report that α-Klotho, a …
News
O'Rourke, other Dems don't want tent city's contract renewed
Associated Press - By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Rep. Beto O'Rourke and four other Democratic members of Congress toured a remote tent city in West Texas on Saturday where they said that 2,700 immigrant teens are being held at a
U.S. Politics
Developing nations are carrying the refugee load
Axios - Stef W. Kight
European nations and the United States may have developed the rules for refugees in the 1951 Refugee Convention, but developing nations host 85% of …
News
Nicaraguan police 'beat' journalists protesting at office raid
bbc.co.uk
Nicaraguan police are reported to have kicked and beaten several journalists who were protesting against raids on their offices. The journalists were outside a police station in the capital Managua, complaining
News
His worst nightmare: Trump's life under a legal microscope
CNN - Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Washington (CNN) — Weeks of devastating legal revelations have left Donald Trump's political career clouded by criminality and his life, presidency and business empire under assault by relentless prosecutors
Climate Change
15-year-old Greta Thunberg spoke for her generation at the COP24 climate talks in Poland
Quartz
Fifteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg minced no words at the COP24 climate talks in Katowice, Poland this week. Speaking to the assembled countries Wednesday, at the most important negotiating
Los Angeles
Vietnamese Americans rally in Little Saigon against Trump administration's push to deport thousands of war refugees - Los
Los Angeles Times - By Anh Do
Their faces were grim, but with their voices united in a common cause, Vietnamese Americans rallied in Little Saigon on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s push to deport thousands of war refugees.
News (U.S.)
Cannibalism, Torture and Death: Inside China’s Genocidal Re-Education Camps
The Daily Beast - Nick Schager
As 83-year-old Qi Luji explains in Dead Souls, the reason he chose to work in the canteen at China’s Jiabiangou re-education labor camp in 1958 was …
Los Angeles
In Cupertino, a near-vacant mall sets the stage for a decade-long battle against new homebuilding - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times - By Liam Dillon
For more than a decade, developers have tried to build new housing on the site of an all-but-empty mall in Cupertino, a city in the heart of Silicon Valley and home to Apple headquarters. A well-organized
Sonoma County
Earthquake: Magnitude 3.0 quake strikes in Sonoma County mountains
Los Angeles Times - Quakebot
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Saturday morning one mile from Black Oaks, Calif., in the mountains of Sonoma County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:56
News
U.S. House calls on Myanmar to release Reuters journalists
Reuters - By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives called nearly unanimously on Thursday for the government of Myanmar to release Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were imprisoned
Trump Tower
8 Places Where Smartphones Tracked People’s Movements
The New York Times - By RICH HARRIS, MICHAEL H. KELLER and JENNIFER VALENTINO-DeVRIES
The business of location data has grown dramatically in recent years, a New York Times investigation found. Apps on smartphones send precise location data sometimes thousands of times a day. Companies
Climate Change
'Not just a small-island problem': As planet warms, losses mount for all
trust.org - Thomson Reuters Foundation
At U.N. climate talks, negotiators are struggling to figure out how to deal with worsening damage from wilder weather and rising seas By Laurie Goering …
Molecular Biology
Scientists Have Finally Figured out How Cancer Spreads Through the Bloodstream
futurism.com
In what could be a major step forward in our understanding of how cancer moves around the body, researchers have observed the spread of cancer cells …
U.S. Politics
Trump administration rejects responsibility for death of 7-year-old girl in Border Patrol custody
POLITICO - By CAITLIN OPRYSKO and TED HESSON
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said Friday that the Trump administration isn’t responsible for the death of a 7-year-old girl in Border Patrol custody. "Does the administration take responsibility
Opinion
Is there anything Trump touches that isn’t corrupt?
The Washington Post - By Paul Waldman
President Trump would like to consider himself a modern-day King Midas, with the ability to turn anything he touches to gold (and his Manhattan apartment certainly looks like the actual Midas careened
News
From Brexit to Yellow Vests, a common thread of economic hardship
AlJazeera - Al Jazeera
Economists say many issues currently plaguing Europe are rooted in policies that pushed citizens to the financial brink. Angry. Fractured. Fed up. Europe is storming into winter on a wave of discontent.

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Giuliani stumbles into admitting Trump’s hush money payments were probably illegal

A Complete Guide to All 17 (Known) Trump and Russia Investigations

Comey slams Trump, 'shameful' House Republicans after 2nd Capitol Hill meeting

Senate report: Moscow directed 'troll farm' in efforts to elect Trump

Coons: Trump sounds 'more like a mob boss than president' with Cohen attacks

Yellow vest protesters still block French traffic circles

Transparency in Medical Journals

In the earthquake aftermath, where are the silver linings — and what are the warnings?

Vietnamese Americans Rally in O.C. Against Trump Admin’s Push to Deport Thousands of War Refugees

8 Disease Outbreaks From 2018 That You Should Know About

Talks adopt 'rulebook' to put Paris climate deal into action

Can This Social Network Solve Artists’ Financial Woes?

Major Earthquake Strikes Indonesia After Volcanic Eruption

Repairing injured muscle

O'Rourke, other Dems don't want tent city's contract renewed

Developing nations are carrying the refugee load

Nicaraguan police 'beat' journalists protesting at office raid

His worst nightmare: Trump's life under a legal microscope

15-year-old Greta Thunberg spoke for her generation at the COP24 climate talks in Poland

Vietnamese Americans rally in Little Saigon against Trump administration's push to deport thousands of war refugees - Los

Cannibalism, Torture and Death: Inside China’s Genocidal Re-Education Camps

In Cupertino, a near-vacant mall sets the stage for a decade-long battle against new homebuilding - Los Angeles Times

Earthquake: Magnitude 3.0 quake strikes in Sonoma County mountains

U.S. House calls on Myanmar to release Reuters journalists

8 Places Where Smartphones Tracked People’s Movements

'Not just a small-island problem': As planet warms, losses mount for all

Scientists Have Finally Figured out How Cancer Spreads Through the Bloodstream

Trump administration rejects responsibility for death of 7-year-old girl in Border Patrol custody

Is there anything Trump touches that isn’t corrupt?

From Brexit to Yellow Vests, a common thread of economic hardship