Boyd Watersflipped into Cops and RobbersNews Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter says U.S. voter suppression is alive and well Reuters - By Rich McKayATLANTA (Reuters) - The center that honors slain U.S. civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. will devote the holiday celebrating his legacy on Monday to voter education and registration, his youngest
Boyd Watersflipped into Cops and RobbersNews After more than 48 hours of silence, Pompeo says State will investigate possible surveillance of ex-US ambassador CNN - By Jennifer Hansler, CNNWashington (CNN) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday publicly committed to look into the possible surveillance of former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch -- more than 48 hours after the
Boyd Watersflipped into Eco EcoNews 'You have not seen anything yet,' climate activist Greta says ahead... Reuters - Marina DepetrisLAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg marched with 10,000 protesters in the Swiss city of Lausanne on Friday and said “you have not seen anything yet” before some head to Davos
Boyd Watersflipped into DSM-XNews CDC to screen at three US airports for signs of new virus from China CNN - By Elizabeth Cohen, Senior Medical Correspondent(CNN) — More than 100 staffers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are being deployed to three US airports to check passengers arriving from Wuhan, China, for fever and other symptoms
Boyd Watersflipped into Far OutNews 1 killed, another injured in avalanche near Lake Tahoe, officials say Los Angeles Times - FacebookA skier was killed and another seriously injured Friday morning when an avalanche sent snow barreling down the mountain at Alpine Meadows Ski Resort just west of Lake Tahoe, authorities said. Placer County
Boyd Watersflipped into ¡WOW!News In France, an iconic restaurant loses its third Michelin star — pushing national strikes and Iran off the front page The Washington Post - James McAuleySo it came as quite the shock Friday that his signature restaurant on the outskirts of Lyon, L’Auberge du Pont de Collonges, would lose its coveted third Michelin star this year, an honor the restaurant
Boyd Watersflipped into Cops and RobbersNews DOJ releases new tranche of Mueller witness documents | TheHill thehill.com - Tal Axelrod The Justice Department on Friday released a new tranche of documents from witness interviews from former special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) …
Boyd Watersflipped into ¡WOW!News A Michigan man found $43,000 in a secondhand couch. He returned it all CNN - By Leah Asmelash, CNN(CNN) — A Michigan man bought a used couch for his man cave in December, and this week, he made an interesting discovery — $43,000 in cash hidden in the cushion. Howard Kirby bought the couch from a for
Boyd Watersflipped into Eco EcoNews Brazilian tribes back manifesto to save Amazon habitat from Bolsonaro Reuters - Ricardo MoraesXINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) - Leaders of native tribes in Brazil issued a rallying call to protect the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people from what they called the “genocide, ethnocide
Boyd Watersflipped into Eco EcoNews A 'ghost net' in Hawaii is threatening marine life right now CNN - By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN(CNN) — Environmentalists warn that a large "ghost net" is floating in Hawaiian waters that could threaten marine life and cause severe damage to boats if not removed soon. Ghost nets are massive fishing
Boyd Watersflipped into Good LordNews Muslim world leaders visit Auschwitz in 'strong signal' of interfaith support DW News - Christoph Strack Few Muslims have visited the notorious site of some of history's worst atrocities. But high-ranking leaders of Muslim and Jewish communities are …
Boyd Watersflipped into Far OutNews On the edge of America, census begins in a tiny Alaska town Associated Press - By MARK THIESSEN, Associated PressTOKSOOK BAY, Alaska (AP) — There are no restaurants in Toksook Bay, Alaska. No motels or movie theater, either. There also aren't any factories. Or roads. But the first Americans to be counted in the census
Boyd Watersflipped into ¡WOW!African-American News Navy Aircraft Carrier to Be Named for Black Pearl Harbor Veteran The New York Times - Johnny DiazDoris Miller was working as a mess attendant on the battleship West Virginia the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. An alarm sounded, and as the ship drew heavy fire, Mr.
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Boyd Watersflipped into Invisible HandsNew York City Why Aren’t There More Rich Foster Parents? The New York Times - Ginia BellafanteOver the past 15 years or so, Pedro Maldonado, Nigel Warren and Brieanna Hayes, all now in their 20s, cumulatively lived in about 39 different foster homes in New York City. Pedro, who is Italian, was
Boyd Watersflipped into Here There Be TygresOpinion How Did Americans Lose Faith in Everything? The New York TimesAmericans are living through a social crisis. We can see that in everything from vicious partisan polarization to rampant culture-war resentments to the isolation, alienation and despair that have sent
Boyd Watersflipped into Cops and RobbersPolitics National Archives Apologizes for Altering Image of 2017 Women’s March The New York Times - Maria CramerThe National Archives and Records Administration, which calls itself the country’s record keeper, apologized on Saturday for altering a photo of protesters at the 2017 Women’s March that blurred out references
Boyd Watersflipped into RESPECTOpinion Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: Like Joe Biden, I Once Stuttered, Too. I Dare You to Mock Me. The New York TimesAs a small boy in Denison, Texas, I remember vividly the anguish of being called on in grade school, knowing that I was going to have a hard time getting the words out; that my words could not keep up
Boyd Watersflipped into Here There Be TygresJill Biden Biden says Section 230 tech liability shield should end for Facebook, Zuckerberg should be subject to civil liability boingboing.net - Xeni Jardin Former Vice President and current 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden says U.S. Section 230 should be immediately revoked for Facebook and …
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Boyd Watersflipped into Here There Be TygresDrinking When Are You Really an Adult? The New York Times - Maria CramerThe proposed legislation was never meant to be taken seriously, said John Rodgers, a Vermont state senator and a fierce gun rights advocate. “In light of the dangerous and life-threatening consequences
Boyd Watersflipped into DSM-XNews Georgia held a contest for better highway safety signs. The winners are hilarious CNN - By Alaa Elassar, CNN(CNN) — "Click it or ticket," once upon a time, was a snappy way for traffic officials to encourage motorists to buckle up. But in the age of snark, those words are so last century. So the Georgia Department
Boyd Watersflipped into Here There Be TygresOpinion Trump’s Evil Is Contagious The New York TimesIt passed with the usual shrug by the usual handmaidens of hatred when the president of the world’s most powerful democracy threatened to commit war crimes by bombing Iranian cultural sites — the kind
Boyd Watersflipped into Invisible HandsOpinion Are My Friends’ Deaths Their Fault or Ours? The New York TimesWhen my wife and I wrote about my old schoolmates who had died from “deaths of despair,” the reaction was sometimes ugly. “They killed themselves,” scoffed Jonathan from St. Louis, Mo., in the reader “It
Boyd Watersflipped into RESPECTWorld News Harry and Meghan Give Up Royal Titles, Forgo State Funding The New York Times - Mark LandlerWINDSOR, England — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, will stop using their loftiest royal titles, give up state funding and repay at least $3 million in taxpayer money used to refurbish their official
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Boyd Watersflipped into Here There Be TygresMobile Technology FBI Successfully Unlocks iPhone 11 Pro in Ohio, Casting Doubt on Claims it Needs Apple's Help in Florida Mass... MacRumors - Tim HardwickFBI Successfully Unlocks iPhone 11 Pro in Ohio, Casting Doubt on Claims it Needs Apple's Help in Florida Mass Shooter Case New questions have been raised about the FBI's latest request that Apple break
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The New York Times Caroll Spinney, Big Bird’s Alter Ego on ‘Sesame Street,’ Is Dead at 85 The New York Times - Robert D. McFaddenThis article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this obituary misstated the name of the high school Mr. Spinney attended. It was Acton High School — not Acton-Boxborough,
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The News Deskflipped into Politics GOP Sen. John Kennedy on Ukraine conspiracy theory: "I was wrong" Axios - Ursula Perano GOP Sen. John Kennedy told CNN Monday he was wrong in reiterating a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine may have interfered in the 2016 …
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Boyd Watersflipped into DSM-X Long-awaited cystic fibrosis drug could turn deadly disease into a manageable condition The Washington Post - Carolyn Y. Johnson“I’m overjoyed,” said Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, who was part of one of the teams that in 1989 discovered the gene defect that causes cystic fibrosis. “Thirty along,
The News Deskflipped into NewsNews Senate Democrats want Warren to talk costs on 'Medicare for All' | TheHill thehill.com - Alexander Bolton A growing number of Senate Democrats say Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenWarren to Sanders: 'I think you called me a liar on national TV' …
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The News Deskflipped into News California bans hotels from using tiny plastic bottles Associated PressSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hotels in the nation’s most populous state will have to stop giving guests small plastic shampoo bottles under a new law set to take effect starting in 2023. Gov. Gavin Newsom
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The New York Times Why Trump Voters Stick With Him The New York TimesUrban Guy: I hope you read the rough transcript of that Trump phone call with the Ukrainian president. Trump clearly used public power to ask a foreign leader to dig up dirt on his political opponent.
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The News Deskflipped into NewsJoe Wilson Joseph C. Wilson, diplomat caught in dispute over Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, dies at 69 The Washington Post - Matt SchudelThe cause was organ failure, Plame said. She and Mr. Wilson were divorced earlier this year. Mr. Wilson, who had negotiated face-to-face with Saddam Hussein before the first Iraq War in the early 1990s,
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Al JazeeraMiddle East Call for justice in the US one year after Khashoggi's murder Al Jazeera - James ReinlFiancee of murdered journalist says Saudi crown prince's statement on 2018 killing 'pure political manoeuvre'. United Nations, New York - The fiancee of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the
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