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  Eyes on Trade

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  On Announcement of Revisions to U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement 12 days ago

  Statement of Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the administration announced revisions to the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement...
  
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  Public Citizen Report: ‘Follow the Money: Did Administration Officials’ Financial Entanglements With China Delay Trump’s Promised Tough-on-China Trade Policy?’ 18 days ago

  WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the administration is poised to announce long-awaited action on a China trade investigation launched last summer, Public Citizen released a report revealing...
  
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  TPP-11 Countries Sign a Deal — While We Dodged a Bullet on ISDS Expansion Here, Our International Allies Face a Major Fight a month ago

  Thanks to years of organizing, we in the United States saved ourselves from the corporate-dominated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by ensuring that the controversial deal was...
  

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• Have You Walked This World Before? 6 Signs You Have Been Reincarnated. 14 hours ago

  What if this life is your third, your fourth or even fifth visit? The idea puts a whole new spin on things, don’t you think. Our time on earth is fleeting. It seems that one minute we are...
  

• A Zen Master Explains the Art of ‘Letting Go’, And It Isn’t What You Think 15 hours ago

  Many people mistake detachment or non-clinging to be a form of aloofness, or emotional disconnect from others. Thich Naht Hanh, the Zen Buddhist master, has some interesting advice...
  

• The Biggest Shift Ever On The Planet Is Happening NOW: Be In The Mission 3 days ago

  I believe everyone has a MISSION. And when you feel that Mission, in every cell of your body and DNA, your heart and your soul, nothing can stop you!!! It is not like going to ‘work’...
  

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Featured Health News from Medical News Today

• Medical News Today: COPD: Tai chi a 'viable alternative' to standard treatment 3 hours ago

  Researchers conducted a randomized trial that examined the benefits of tai chi for people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
  

• Medical News Today: Micro concussions may alter football players' brains 3 hours ago

  A study investigating minor blows to the head finds differences in the brains of footballers and cross-country runners. Are micro concussions to blame?...
  

• Medical News Today: Is meditation the answer to cognitive decline? a day ago

  Could meditation be a useful tool in the fight against cognitive decline? This week, the first study to investigate its long-term impact is released.
  

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  Desdemona Despair

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  Scott Pruitt’s attack on science would paralyze the Environmental Protection Agency 2 days ago

  By Gina McCarthy and Janet G. McCabe26 March 2018(The New York Times) – Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has announced that he alone will...
  
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  ‘SOS’: the rainforest distress call carved into Sumatra’s oil palms – “As more of the forests are lost, we lose a little bit of ourselves in the process” 2 days ago

  By Kate Lamb27 February 2018(The Guardian) – Dramatically carved into the landscape of a Sumatran oil palm plantation that borders one of the world’s most unique rainforests...
  
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  Study finds warning signs for mass extinction do exist, contrary to previous assumptions – “We should take these signs very seriously” 5 days ago

  14 March 2018 (FAU) – Mass extinctions throughout the history of the Earth have been well documented. Scientists believe that they occurred during a short period of time in geological...
  

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  The Daily Sheeple

• Claim: “Colombian Drug Cartel Operations” May Be Linked To Bitfinex Cryptocurrency Exchange As Authorities Seize $380 Million a day ago

  A spokesperson for Bitfinex and moderator of the Bitfinex Reddit forums immediately denied the claims.
  

• Yellowstone Officials: There “Could be a Supervolcano Eruption Imminently” 2 days ago

  Underneath the quiet nature preserve of Yellowstone lies the most powerful and largest supervolcano on the planet.
  

• Angry Anti-Vax Mob to NJ Lawmakers: ‘You Are Going to Hell!’ 3 days ago

  An angry mob of anti-vaccine parents shook their fists and screamed, “You are going to hell!” and “You Democrats destroy America!” at New Jersey lawmakers who voted to make...
  

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  Exceptional Delaware 2017

• Kavips, Read Your Email! 3 days ago

  Yes, I am giving a shout-out to my old friend Kavips.  Asking you to read an e-mail I just sent you.  It is important in a way only you and I can understand. Advertisements...
  

• Diploma Bill Clears Senate, Goes To Governor Carney For Signature 11 days ago

  HS1 for House Bill #287 unanimously passed in the Delaware Senate today after some rough waters when it was on the House side.  Thank you to all the Delaware Senators and House Reps...
  

• Carney & Bunting Announce Teacher Advisory Council But Violate FOIA With First Meeting Today 13 days ago

  **UPDATED**, 4:36pm: I was informed by the Governor’s Office this is a public meeting.  With that being said, they are in open violation of Delaware law. It wouldn’t be Delaware...
  

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  Have You Heard

• The Data Boyz: What *Counts* in Education Research? 6 days ago

  TweetAs the latest episode of Have You Heard explores, the issue of what *counts* in education research is the subject of a heated debate. We invite economist Jesse Rothstein into...
  

• 55 Strong: Lessons from the West Virginia Teachers Strike 24 days ago

  TweetIn our latest episode, Have You Heard talks to teachers in West Virginia (lots of them!) about the nine-day walkout that shuttered schools across the state – and what they think...
  

• Am I Next? School Shootings and Student Protests a month ago

  TweetStudent strikes and walkouts have led to real political change in the past. Can they force politicians to finally do something about gun violence today? We talk to historian...
  

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  Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger

• Future Prosperity of Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) through Cooperation 6 hours ago

  April 9, 2018 Future Prosperity of Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) through Cooperation by Takehiko Nakao https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/04/08/securing-the-future-prosperity-of-the-greater-mekong-subregion/...
  

• Missing our Cak Nur (Dr. Nurcholish Madjid) 9 hours ago

  Merindui Cak Nur Kita (Missing our Dr. Nurcholish Madjid) oleh M. Bakri Musa http://www.bakrimusa.com  Cak Nur (Dr. Nurcholish Madjid) Pada bulan Mei 1998, didalam suasana rusuhan...
  

• Congratulations: Patrick Reed is the 2018 Masters Champion at August National 9 hours ago

  April 9, 2018 Congratulations: Patrick Reed is the 2018 Masters Champion at August National https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/apr/08/patrick-reed-wins-masters-2018-augusta...
  

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Featured Health News from Medical News Today

• Medical News Today: What does mottling of the skin indicate? 3 days ago

  The skin can become mottled and have purple or red patchy areas, which may appear in a lace-like pattern. Medically known as livedo reticularis, it can have a variety of causes including...
  

• Medical News Today: Could berries help to fight cancer? 3 days ago

  According to new research, there's more to the berry than its delicious taste. Its pigments may offer new ways to stop cancer and slow the aging process...
  

• Medical News Today: Four causes of an orange tongue 3 days ago

  Looking in a mirror and seeing that the tongue has turned orange may be alarming, especially when a person has eaten nothing containing food coloring recently. In this article, learn...
  

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  Dublinmick's Breaking News

• Russia And China Declare All Out War on US Petrodollar — Prepare for Ex 9 months ago

  Source: The Free Thought Project The formation of a BRICS gold marketplace, which could bypass the U.S. Petrodollar in bilateral trade, continues to take shape as Russia’s largest...
  

• Bezmenov- West Capitulated to Communist Subversion 9 months ago

  Communism is the Protocols of Zion in action. This excerpt from a crucial 1985 interview with KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov throws our predicament into stark relief. Essentially...
  

• Lawyer Investigating Sandy Hook Shooting Found Dead 9 months ago

  A lawyer who was investigating the Sandy Hook shooting was found dead in his overturned car. Police ruled Gugsa Abraham (Abe) Dabela’s death as a suicide despite a gunshot wound...
  

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  Fast Company

• When Jack Dorsey’s Fight Against Twitter Trolls Got Personal 4 hours ago

  Last November, Twitter stripped Richard Spencer, the high-profile white nationalist, of his blue checkmark, his verified status on the social media platform. His badge’s removal...
  

• Fortnite is making almost $2 million a day from iPhone players 4 hours ago

  The Minecraft meets Hunger Games hybrid Fortnite: Battle Royale, is bringing in around $1.8 million a day in in-app purchases, reports Sensor Tower. There’s a few reasons why the...
  
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  Chasing Coral Shows The Tangible, Devastating Effects Of Our Warming Planet 4 hours ago

  In one of the hypnotic opening scenes in the documentary Chasing Coral, a diver swims through a coral reef filled with life: sea turtles, bright blue and yellow fish, and coral in shades...
  

( If it's in the headlines it's true. I don't think so for a supermarket tabloid...and I don't think so here. Any votes for the Fake News meter ? )

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  Chicago Boyz

• Does Anybody Here Think This is Really a Good Idea? 11 hours ago

  From a community college catalog: STEM for Infants and Toddlers.  In this course we will discuss what STEM means and the importance of STEM exposure in the early years of a child’s...
  

• Ancient DNA, Genetics and Race 3 days ago

  I don’t know how many here are interested in this but the new book by David Reich may prove to be as revolutionary as Murray’s “The Bell Curve”. I’m reading the new book, “Who...
  

• So, Really Want to Talk About Foreign Intervention? 6 days ago

  Much ink and many photons have been spent discussing Russia’s attempts to influence (or at least disrupt) the American 2016 Presidential campaign.  Meanwhile… Here’s an...
  

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  Centinel2012

• Maria Bartiromo and Trey Gowdy Discuss Ongoing Investigations of DOJ and FBI… 10 hours ago

  Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on April 8, 2018 by sundance A very well informed Maria Bartiromo has an interesting interview with Trey Gowdy this morning.  In the first...
  

• HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes Discusses Political Weaponization of FBI/DOJ Intelligence… 12 hours ago

  Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on April 8, 2018 by sundance Very interesting interview with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes earlier today.  Chairman...
  

• Sunday Talks: Gordon Chang Discusses China Trade Confrontation… 12 hours ago

  Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on April 8, 2018 by sundance Gordon Chang discusses the ongoing trade initiatives by President Trump to reset the trade imbalance with...
  

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  CanadaFreePress.Com

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  MSNBC: Where Fake News Is Created Without Joy, By A Joyless Joy 8 hours ago

  Joy Reid, Fantasy Queen of the Airwaves
  
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  Time to put the anti-trust laws to work protecting the American people from our Enemies Within 11 hours ago

  “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…”. The salient terms here are “Congress shall make no law”. The meaning of “abridge”...
  
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  ABC: America's B***S*** Channel 11 hours ago

  Where News is Made to Look Like News
  

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  The BRAD BLOG

• Sunday Toons of the 'Lost Control of the Agenda' Moment 20 hours ago

  I for one will not welcome our new robotic overlords.  To update the call to arms for the working class: "Seize the means of automation!" * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains...
  

• Why Haspel's Nomination to Head CIA Matters to an American Whose Father Was Tortured in WWII: 'BradCast' 4/6/2018 2 days ago

  On today's BradCast: GOP dirty tricks in Montana; why an alleged torturer should be imprisoned rather than promoted to CIA chief; and, abolishing the 2nd Amendment all together...
  

• Rising Up Against the Rightwing Takeover of Public Airwaves, Education, Lands and More: 'BradCast' 4/5/2018 3 days ago

  On today's BradCast: While everything still sucks, there are, nonetheless, a growing number of encouraging signs that Americans --- even those in so-called "red" states --- have...
  

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  Below 2C

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  Massive Gap Between Canada’s Emissions Projections And Paris Targets 2 days ago

  Canada and the other signatories to the Paris Accord have committed to keeping the warming of the planet below 2 degrees Celsius. But now, close to two years after the signing, that...
  
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  Climate Change = Extreme Weather. What You Need To Know 12 days ago

  We at Below2°C are pleased to feature our condensed version of Extreme Weather and Climate Change: What You Need to Know, from the Climate Reality resource library. Many of you climate...
  
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  Solar Power — Here Comes The Sun 21 days ago

  To say that the solar energy sector is on fire would be an exaggeration. But solar power is unquestionably the front runner in the world’s conversion to a low-carbon future. Energy...
  

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  bluebird of bitterness

• Sunday funnies 13 hours ago

  Two baseball lovers, George and Fred, had been friends all their lives. As children they’d played in Little League together, as teenagers they’d been on their high school team...
  

• Sunday musical offering 21 hours ago

  
  
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  Caturday funnies — cat storage edition 2 days ago

  
  

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  Home

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  Plowshares action at Kings Bay Naval Base, GA 4 days ago

  Seven Catholic plowshares activists calling themselves  Kings Bay Plowshares, were detained in the early hours of April 5 at the Kings Bay Naval Base St. Mary's Georgia. They...
  
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  Will FirstEnergy’s lavish lobbying dollars buy a bailout? 5 days ago

  FirstEnergy, the Ohio-based utility that just announced premature closures of four of its nuclear reactors, has spent $2 million a year on lobbying over the past seven years. On April...
  
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  Takoma Park is first US city to declare compliance with Nuclear Ban Treaty 24 days ago

  The City Council of Takoma Park, Maryland, last night (March 14th) voted unanimously on a resolution that reaffirms the city’s support for the Treaty on the Prohibition...
  

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BlackListed News

• Graham and McCaul Call for Military Strikes Against Syria in Response to Chlorine Attack; Russia Warned of False Flag Last Month a day ago

  As world police, it is out duty to send out boys and girls into the Middle East in order to address any killings that are done without our expressed approval. Please ignore the amount...
  

• Scotland Yard Admits It Has Run Out of Detectives to Investigate Murders & Gang Crime, But Has 900 + Officers Investigating Perceived Violations of Free Speech a day ago

  Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick admitted it was a ‘very worrying’ time as she was forced to deny her officers had ‘lost control of crime’ Scotland Yard admitted...
  

• Coincidence? Every Time the US Threatens to Pull Out of Syria, Assad Uses Chemical Weapons a day ago

  For the second time in a year, immediately after the US says they are going to pull out of Syria, Assad conveniently gasses his own people to make sure that won't happen...
  

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  Research Digest

• An over-abundance of toys may stifle toddler creativity an hour ago

  Fewer available toys allow a child to focus more on a toy, to explore it more thoroughly, and discover different ways of using it. By Emma Young
  

• What are the psychological effects of losing your religion? 3 days ago

  The psychological effects of losing your religion seem to depend in part on your personality and resilience before you leave. By Christian Jarrett
  

• This is what happened when psychologists gave toddlers a version of the classic Marshmallow Test 4 days ago

  Some toddlers are capable of impressive levels of self-control. By Christian Jarrett
  

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  re: The Auditors

• Another Update on the Case of FDIC v PricewaterhouseCoopers re: Colonial Bank 20 hours ago

  On February 28 the US Justice Department fined Deloitte & Touche LLP $149.5 million for alleged fraud against the government related to its role as the independent outside auditor...
  

• Speaking Engagements/Conferences 7 days ago

  I added . link to the details for the May 2 fraud conference in New York, where I will be a panelist with Carson Block of Muddy Waters Research. Also on the agenda Bethany McLean interviews...
  

• Update: An Update on the Case of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Colonial Bank 19 days ago

  On February 28 the US Justice Department fined Deloitte & Touche LLP $149.5 million for alleged fraud against the government related to its role as the independent outside auditor...
  

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  Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

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  The Man Sketching the Surprising Details of Every New York City Subway Station 2 days ago

  The subway doors slide open, commuters shuffle in and out, and swarm the platform. Philip Ashforth Coppola doesn’t seem to notice the bustle at all. He stays put, feet planted, close...
  
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  Found: Giant Drawings of Warriors, Etched On Peru's Desert Hillsides 3 days ago

  A few months ago, a team of archaeologists sent a fleet of drones flying over the Peruvian desert. They were looking for something new, but familiar: signs of looting around protected...
  
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  The Artist Who Plays With Her Food 3 days ago

  Artist “Red” Hong Yi once recreated Ai Weiwei’s face from 20,000 sunflower seeds. She's depicted Jackie Chan using 64,000 chopsticks, a piece of art Chan himself commissioned...
  

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  Accidental Deliberations

• Sunday Morning Links 18 hours ago

  This and that for your Sunday reading.- Michael Savage discusses new projections showing that the luckiest 1% could control two-thirds of the world's wealth in a little more than...
  

• Saturday Afternoon Links a day ago

  Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Peter Gowan and Ryan Cooper write about the need for much more affordable social housing across the income spectrum. Rhys Kesselman responds...
  

• Musical interlude 2 days ago

  The Pretty Reckless - Take Me Down
  

  WIRED

• Groups Allege YouTube Is Violating Law That Protects Kids 6 hours ago

  In complaint to the FTC, child-health, privacy, and consumer groups say YouTube is targeting kids improperly.
  

• FlyNYON Helicopter Crash: Inside the Safety Issues of the Fatal Flight 17 hours ago

  I was a passenger onboard a companion flight on March 11. Locked to the downed craft, the victims didn't stand a chance.
  

• The Backlash Over Sinclair Broadcast Group's Conservative Content Tops This Week's Internet News 21 hours ago

  Last week social media spent an awful lot of time talking about old media. Twist!
  

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  NYT > Home Page

• Syria, North Korea, ‘Mean Girls’: Your Monday Briefing 25 minutes ago

  Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
  

• As Trump Seeks Way Out of Syria, New Attack Pulls Him Back In 9 hours ago

  A reported chemical attack on a Damascus suburb seems to raise the political and military stakes as President Trump charts the United States’ future in Syria...
  

• Dozens Suffocate in Syria as Government Is Accused of Chemical Attack 9 hours ago

  President Trump denounced the attack that killed at least 42 people and that left hundreds with “symptoms indicative of exposure to a chemical agent,” according to aid groups...
  

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  India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Ti

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  SC asks Centre, Delhi govt not to make sealing a 'political' issue 23 minutes ago

  The apex court had on April 4 lashed out at the Centre, Delhi government and civic agencies for their failure to stop unauthorised constructions in the national capital, saying that...
  
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  BJP, Congress in war of words on 'fast' vs 'farce' 31 minutes ago

  
  
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  Court-monitored probe into PNB scam: SC to decide maintainability of plea an hour ago

  A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud was told by the Centre that agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Enforcement...
  

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  BBC News - UK

• Police cuts 'likely contributed' to violence rise, document says 8 hours ago

  New crime strategy unveiled as leaked document says fall in officers may have encouraged offenders.
  

• Prostate cancer: Four in 10 cases diagnosed late, charity says 11 hours ago

  A report by the charity Orchid found 37% of prostate cancer cases are diagnosed in the late stages.
  

• Olivier Awards 2018: Hip hop musical Hamilton dominates 9 hours ago

  It took seven gongs including best new musical, best actor in a musical and best lighting design.
  

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  National Geographic News

• Meet the Beetles that Harvest Fog in the Desert 2 days ago

  It's just one weird way animals drink.
  

• How Animal Rescues Like Justin Beaver Help Their Species 2 days ago

  Plucky rescues like "JB" and Arnie the Armadillo can serve as educational ambassadors, but their care can be tricky.
  

• Three Billionaires Are Racing to Space. Who Will Win? 2 days ago

  Elon Musk is eyeing Mars, Jeff Bezos aims for the moon, Richard Branson is all about space tourism. Some say they should save Earth first.
  

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  Reuters: World News

• Syria, Russia say Israeli war planes carried out strike on Syrian air base 6 minutes ago

  AMMAN (Reuters) - The Russian and Syrian military on Monday said Israeli war planes carried out missile strikes on a Syrian air base, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump warned...
  

• North Korea tells U.S. it is prepared to discuss denuclearization: source 31 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has told the United States for the first time that it is prepared to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula when North Korean leader...
  

• Iran tells Trump he would regret dropping nuclear deal 2 hours ago

  LONDON (Reuters) - Donald Trump will regret it if he pulls out of the nuclear deal with Iran, President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday, warning the U.S. president that Tehran's response...
  

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SPACE.com

• Sewage Suggests That People Got High for 2017 Solar Eclipse 21 hours ago

  Illicit drug residues in sewage spiked for holidays and special events during summer 2017 in rural Kentucky.
  

• How to See the 'Jupiter Triangle' in April's Night Sky 21 hours ago

  Jupiter and two bright stars make up a "Jupiter triangle" in the night sky. Here's how to look for it in April and through summer.
  

• On This Day In Space! April 8, 1964: 1st Test Flight of Gemini Spacecraft 21 hours ago

  On April 8, 1964, NASA launched the first uncrewed test flight of the new Gemini spacecraft. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series here...
  

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