Miscellaneous
The Trick To Keeping Friends As We Get Older (#GotBitcoin?
It’s hard to maintain friendships and make new ones. But it’s crucial. Two or three times a week, Alan J. Fink, 64, the owner and manager of a box business in Baltimore, listens as his mother wishes out loud that she had good friends to go out with. That is…
U.S. Slashes Migrant Border Crossings (#GotBitcoin?)
The U.S. has slashed the number of migrants being allowed to cross the U.S.-Mexican border to legally apply for asylum, as caravans totaling some 10,000 migrants trudge north through Mexico. U.S. Slashes Migrant Border Crossings (#GotBitcoin?) The Trump administration follows through with the president’s threats to ‘harden’ the border, leaving…
Fake Comments Are Plaguing Government Agency Websites And Nobody Much Seems To Care (#GotBitcoin)
You might recall that when the FCC repealed net neutrality, the agency's open comment period (the only opportunity the public had to voice their concerns) was plagued with all manner of bogus comments and identity fraud. Fake Comments Are Plaguing Government Agency Websites And Nobody Much Seems To Care (#GotBitcoin)…
Food Regulators To Share Oversight of Plant And Cell-Based Meats (#GotBitcoin)
Regulators’ decision raises prospects for cell meat coming to market. Food Regulators To Share Oversight of Plant And Cell-Based Meats (#GotBitcoin) [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tOa8q5oYPw&list=PLU1KxUVqGmaOIY8yR_uEnPU_8d1xqd2Ag[/embed] Two U.S. food regulators agreed to share oversight of meat grown from animal cells, moving the emerging technology closer to consumers’ dinner plates. The U.S. Department of Agriculture…
Trump, California Leaders Discussed Wildfire Prevention (#GotBitcoin)
President says forest management a top concern. President Trump arrived in California on Saturday to survey damage being caused by the deadliest and most destructive fires in the state’s history, with preventing future infernos set to be a focus of his meetings with state officials. “We talked about forest management,”…
CIA Concludes Saudi Journalist Was Killed on Crown Prince’s Order (#GotBitcoin?)
U.S. assessment contradicts Saudi version of Khashoggi killing and may endanger President Trump’s efforts to protect ties with Prince Mohammed. The Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was carried out under the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a close ally…
Facing Deadlier Fires, California Tries Something New: More Logging (#GotBitcoin?)
Environmentalists and the timber industry, after long butting heads, increasingly agree that cutting trees to thin forests is vital to reducing fire danger. Obscured amid the chaos of California’s latest wildfire outbreak is a striking sign of change that may help curtail future devastating infernos. After decades of butting heads,…
Fewer International Students Heading To The U.S. (#GotBitcoin?)
American colleges and universities face growing challenge amid rising competition from other countries, concerns about safety and immigration policies. Fewer International Students Heading To The U.S. (#GotBitcoin?) U.S. enrollment of international students declined for the second year in a row, sending waves of unease across American colleges and universities, which…
‘I Was Hoping to Be Retired’: The Cost of Supporting Parents and Adult Children (#GotBitcoin?)
More Americans are being squeezed by the burden of caring for two generations—just when they thought they could kick back. ‘I Was Hoping to Be Retired’: The Cost of Supporting Parents and Adult Children When Barb Strickert married, she and her husband wrote down a one-year plan for their lives together.…
Criminal Charges For Trio In GoFundMe Scam For Homeless Man (#GotBitcoin?)
Last year’s heartwarming story turns out to be a grift. The heartwarming story of a New Jersey couple whose GoFundMe campaign raised over $400,000 to lift a homeless veteran out of poverty was “completely made up … to make people feel bad,” prosecutors revealed Thursday, as all three were…
Anti-Semitic Incidents Fuel 17% Rise in Hate Crimes, FBI Says (#GotBitcoin?)
Crimes targeting Jews increased by 37% in 2017; anti-Muslim crimes fell by 11%. Hate crimes rose 17% in 2017, the FBI said Tuesday, a jump that was partly driven by a spike in anti-Semitic incidents. The number of hate-crime incidents targeting Jews increased 37%, to 938 in 2017. Anti-Muslim crimes…
After NRA Rebuke, Doctors Speak Louder On Gun Violence
Medical societies are calling for gun-control measures and other solutions to what they see as a public-health crisis. After NRA Rebuke, Doctors Speak Louder On Gun Violence U.S. doctors and medical societies are increasingly speaking out against firearm violence, calling for gun-control measures and other solutions to what they see…