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Gov. Jerry Brown echoes Ryan Zinke in push to fight wildfires with more logging, thinning

8/31/2018, 12:47:51 AM
After a disastrous wildfire season, California Gov. Jerry Brown is taking a page from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s playbook by pushing legislation to clear the way for more logging in the state’s fire-prone forests. ✔ After a disastrous wildfire season, California Gov ✔ That’s smaller than the bill’s original proposal of 36 inches but larger than the current state limit of 26 inches ✔ Does their stance on the bill mean environmentalists have warmed to Mr. Zinke’s position


'Sick to my stomach': dolphin and penguins locked in derelict Japan aquarium

8/31/2018, 1:25:08 AM
Anger after hundreds of fish and reptiles have been left in tiny pools amid crumbling concrete since January ✔ This makes me so sick to my stomach, one Twitter user wrote in a post with the hashtag #SaveHoney ✔ The issue has been complicated by the fact that it is connected to the Taiji dolphin hunts, but for now this is about the need to do something to help Honey before it is too late


'Best PR I've had in a while': Elon Musk celebrates being called 'an immature man child' by Steve Bannon

8/31/2018, 1:22:22 AM
Steve Bannon called Tesla CEO Elon Musk an "immature man-child" in an interview with CNN published on Thursday. Bannon was calling out the billionaire entrepreneur for the multiple scandals surrounding Musk, who is still fresh off of a weeks-long tarry over a failed effort to take Tesla private. ✔ Best PR I've had in a while, Musk said Thursday night ✔ He is not known to take kindly to anything he interprets as a personal slight, as demonstrated by his responses to an avalanche of negative press earlier this summer ✔ Currently, Musk faces the threat of a libel lawsuit stemming from taunts he lobbed at a British diver involved in the dramatic Thai cave rescue in July


The Story Behind The Updated Puerto Rico Death Toll And What We Can Learn From It

8/31/2018, 1:02:56 AM
“Our purpose is to really move forward and think about what we can do with [these findings],” said a Hurricane Maria report’s lead investigator. ✔ But Santos-Burgoa stressed it’s not just Puerto Rico that is need of a mortality surveillance system that gives officials possibly lifesaving information in the aftermath of a natural disaster; all states and jurisdictions should have such a system as part of their disaster preparedness plans


Australian film-maker James Ricketson sentenced to six years' jail in Cambodia

8/31/2018, 3:48:10 AM
The 69-year-old documentary maker, who was found guilty of espionage, says the spying claims are ‘fanciful and ludicrous’ ✔ Prosecutors did not name the states he was alleged to have colluded with despite Ricketson repeatedly asking them to do so during his trial ✔ He has closed newspapers and overseen the jailing of journalists, politicians and social media commenters deemed to threaten government rule


World leaders who deny climate change should go to mental hospital – Samoan PM

8/31/2018, 2:22:43 AM
Tuilaepa Sailele berates leaders who fail to take issue seriously, singling out Australia, India, China and the US ✔ Sailele said addressing climate change required political guts from leaders ✔ We all know the problem, we all know the causes, we all know the solutions ✔ The big powers are doggedly pursuing strategies to widen and extend their reach, inculcating a far-reaching sense of insecurity


Yankees slugger Stanton hits 300th HR; 5th-fastest to mark

8/31/2018, 12:50:31 AM
NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton joined the 300-home run club Thursday night, connecting for a two-run drive in the third inning against the Detroit Tigers. ✔ NEW YORK (AP) Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton joined the 300-home run club Thursday night, connecting for a two-run drive in the third inning against the Detroit Tigers ✔ After rounding the bases and receiving a warm ovation from his teammates, he emerged from the dugout and doffed his helmet to the fans offering a standing ovation


Argentina to announce new economic measures after peso freefall - World

8/31/2018, 2:25:06 AM
undefined ✔ [Photo/VCG] BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's peso lost as much as nearly one-fifth of its value on Thursday despite the central bank's hiking its benchmark interest rate to a dizzying 60 percent as investors panicked over Argentina's President Mauricio Macri's handling of an economic crisis ✔ The IMF said hours later that it was considering speeding up payments because of the financial meltdown, but that Argentina needed to adopt stronger fiscal and monetary policies


Trump threatens to WITHDRAW from the World Trade Organisation if they don’t ‘SHAPE UP’

8/31/2018, 1:30:24 AM
DONALD Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organisation (WTO) yesterday if they don’t start acting more favourably towards his administration. ✔ Donald Trump said the WTO needs to 'shape up' (Image: GETTY) Trump has expressed his dissatisfaction with the organisation before, especially regarding China’s steel dumping and theft of US intellectual property ✔ It is unclear whether Trump would be able to withdraw the US from the WTO without congressional approval


Soap can’t wash away dirty past

8/31/2018, 2:29:17 AM
Breezy Marsh shares her grandmother Annie Austin's story in a new book on life in London during 1918. Annie who worked from age 12 in the slum laundries searched for the truth about her dad. ✔ ALL MY MOTHER'S SECRETS   by Beezy Marsh (Pan £7.99, 400 pp) It felt like a disaster when my washing machine broke last winter ✔ And she also makes you feel the pride that these women took in the honest, hard graft that kept their families above the breadline


Russians mourn pro-Putin crooner

8/31/2018, 2:37:09 AM
Iosif Kobzon was the soundtrack to the lives of many Russians but had a controversial career. ✔ In 2002, he helped negotiate the release of several hostages during the Nord Ost theatre siege, holding talks with the armed militants who had stormed the building and planted explosives ✔ And as his tributes roll on state television, the singer's deep, rich voice is filling living rooms and kitchens across the country once again


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