News Rare Protests Against Egypt’s Leader Erupt in Cairo and ElsewhereThe New York Times - Declan WalshRare protests against President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi erupted in central Cairo and several smaller Egyptian cities on Friday night as hundreds of young people, responding to online calls for demonstrations
News Iranian Students Set to Start at U.S. Universities Are Barred From CountryThe New York Times - Karen ZraickAt least a dozen Iranian students who were set to begin graduate programs in engineering and computer science say their visas were abruptly canceled and they were barred from their flights to the United
News 'Everything Was Broken.' The Photographer Who Captured the Most Haunting Photographs of Dorian and Its AftermathTIME - Paul MoakleyAssociated Press staff photographer Ramon Espinosa is no stranger to covering hurricanes. He’s been reporting from the Bahamas since Aug. 29 as the islands braced for the impact of Hurricane Dorian. “I’ve
Egypt Egyptians protest against President Fattah al-SisiBBC NewsTear gas has been fired to disperse demonstrators in Egypt, at some of the first protests since President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi took power in 2014. Hundreds of Egyptians filled Tahrir Square in Cairo -
eCigarettes Walmart to End Sales of E-Cigarettes as Vaping Concerns MountThe New York Times - David Yaffe-Bellany, Michael Corkery and Sheila KaplanWalmart said on Friday that it would stop selling e-cigarettes at its stores in the United States, dealing a new blow to the vaping industry as concerns mount over the health risks of the products and
Meteorites An extraterrestrial trigger for the mid-Ordovician ice age: Dust from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent bodysciencemag.org S. M. Stanley, J. A. Luczaj, Earth System History (W.H. Freeman and Company, 2015). J.-F. Ghienne, D. P. Le Heron, J. Moreau, M. Denis, M. Deynoux, The …
Renewable Energy Our biggest renewable energy purchase everblog.google - Sundar Pichai Sustainability has been one of Google’s core values from our earliest days. Over the years we’ve worked hard to reduce the carbon footprint of our …
Area 51 UFO fans descend on rural Nevada town for 'Area 51' festival locals do not wantboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin In a rural Nevada desert town, people who get all jazzed up about UFOs on the internet have begun to arrive for a UFO-themed meetup that locals would …
Telescopes This Week’s Sky at a Glance, September 20 – 28skyandtelescope.com - Alan MacRobert Jupiter is the white dot shining in the south-southwest as twilight fades away. Saturn glows far to its upper left.The post This Week’s Sky at a …
Stuart Enjoy being an unpleasant goose in Untitled Goose Gameboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza In Untitled Goose Game, you are the goose: an irascible, annoying, hostile bird waddling around the environs of your pond, attacking children and …
Climate Young People Lead Millions To Protest Global Inaction On Climate ChangeNPR - Scott Neuman , Bill ChappellUpdated at 3 p.m. ET Millions of young people raised their voices at protests around the world Friday in a massive display meant to demand urgent action on climate change. Scores of students missed school
Election Security McConnell, Decried As 'Moscow Mitch,' Approves Election Security MoneyNPR - Philip EwingSenators thawed a long-frozen dispute over election security this week with an agreement to provide more funding ahead of Election Day next year — but not as much as some Democrats and outside activists
Veterans Program to Prevent Suicide by Veterans Earns Bipartisan SupportThe New York Times - Jennifer SteinhauerPHOENIX — Gloribel Ramos sunk slightly under the weight of her 32-pound body armor and gingerly gripped a plastic facsimile of an M4 rifle as she prepared to watch a video of a roadside bomb detonated
Photos 'I want a future': Global youth protests urge climate actionAssociated Press - By JENNIFER PELTZ and FRANK JORDANS, Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — Young people afraid for their futures protested around the globe Friday to implore leaders to tackle climate change, turning out by the hundreds of thousands to insist that the warming
Israel A historic first? Israel's Arabs could lead parliamentary oppositionReuters - Rami AyyubHAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - Israel’s Arab parties are set to be the largest non-ruling bloc in parliament - and could even lead the opposition - if a national unity government emerges from Tuesday’s election.
News (U.S.) For Some in Texas, Imelda’s Heavy Rain Feels Like Harvey 2.0The New York Times - Manny Fernandez and Sarah MervoshANAHUAC, Tex. — Sitting in a chair next to a green cot inside a disaster shelter, his small dog on his lap, Edmund Hann was in a daze. Two years ago, Hurricane Harvey flooded his home in Winnie, Tex. Thursday,
U.S. Politics 'A deficiency in the law': How Trump accidentally exposed a whistleblower loopholePOLITICO - By NATASHA BERTRANDWhat happens when the administration won't tell Congress about a whistleblower complaint regarding the president? The answer to the once hard-to-fathom question is complicated. For years, lawmakers have
Colorado Springs, CO Colorado woman puts injured bobcat in car next to her son, 3 years oldboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin A woman in Colorado Springs saw an injured bobcat and decided to pick it up and place the wild animal in her car, inches away from where her 3 year …
Watch this sick feral dog get nursed back to healthboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder The first part of this video is hard to watch, but it has a happy ending.
Crystals The dangerous, exploitative, and dirty business of "healing" crystalsboingboing.net - David Pescovitz Yes, the "healing" power of crystals is total bullshit. And meanwhile, most of these magical talismans are from mines rife with exploitation, danger, …
Google A more accessible internet for Indiansblog.google - Caesar Sengupta Rama Devi has taught more than a thousand women how to use the internet in her role as a saathi—now she’s helping farmers become more productive. …
Tyneside Lost seal pup rescuedboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza The lost seal pup in this photo, taken by tourist boat operator William McPhee is fine. It was floating unconscious in the water after being parted …
Back to School Sandy Hook Promise releases brutal back to school PSAboingboing.net - Gina Loukareas Sandy Hook Promise, an organization dedicated to protecting children from gun violence released a truly chilling Back to School PSA earlier today. …
New Delhi New Delhi's garbage mountainboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza Spread over an area of 40 football fields, New Delhi's garbage mountain towers over nearby buildings. It's almost as bad as the Paris Metro. Ghazipur …
Museums Vagina museum opens soonboingboing.net - Rob Beschizza The world's first vagina museum will open November 16 in London. The Vagina Museum is the world’s first bricks and mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, …
Homosexuality Church under investigation after worshiper pinned down to ‘pray the gay away’boingboing.net - Xeni Jardin A young gay Christian man in Oklahoma says his fellow church-goers tackled him, pinned him down, punched him in the face, and tried to ‘pray the gay …
Afghanistan Afghanistan: U.S. drone kills 30 farm workers sitting around a campfire after pine nut harvestboingboing.net - Xeni Jardin “The workers had lit a bonfire and were sitting together when a drone targeted them,” says a tribal elder. Lest you forget, we are still at war in …
Opinion A New Wave of Caregivers: MenThe New York TimesThird of three articles. Read the first article, on paid family leave, here, and the second, on state child support, here. When you hear the word “caregiver,” what image comes to mind? Most likely it a
Climate Do We Really Have Only 12 Years to Avoid Climate Disaster?The New York TimesTwelve years is at once an eternity and right around the corner. Just ask any parent watching their kids grow up. So it hits home when a growing chorus of often young voices — from proponents of the Green
Birds The Crisis for Birds Is a Crisis for Us AllThe New York Times - By JOHN W. FITZPATRICK and PETER P. MARRANearly one-third of the wild birds in the United States and Canada have vanished since 1970, a staggering loss that suggests the very fabric of North America’s ecosystem is unraveling. The disappearance
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Boyd Waters For This Feminist Collective in Puerto Rico, the Mass Protests Were a Long Time ComingThe New York Times - By ISABELIA HERRERA
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Boyd WatersNews (U.S.) University of Texas-Austin Promises Free Tuition For Low Income Students In 2020NPR - Vanessa Romo , Claire McInerny
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Boyd Waters Urged to Launch an Attack, Trump Listened to the Skeptics Who Said It Would Be a Costly MistakeThe New York Times - By PETER BAKER, MAGGIE HABERMAN and THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF
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