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Bernie Sanders wins New Hampshire Democratic primary; Buttigieg, Klobuchar are top moderate candidates

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Prosecutors quit amid escalating Justice Dept. fight over Roger Stone’s prison term

washingtonpost.com - By Matt Zapotosky, close Matt Zapotosky National security reporter covering the Justice Department Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Devlin Barrett, close Devlin Barrett Reporter focusing on national s…

William Barr Intervened to Ease Sentencing Rec for Convicted Trump Ally: Report

nymag.com - As the earliest results from New Hampshire showed Bernie Sanders with a slim lead in the Democratic race and Trump with a substantial one in the GOP’s technicality of a primary, NBC News reported tha…

With New Hampshire Behind Him, Sanders Looks to Nevada Workers as Vegas Union Bosses Rally Against Him

theintercept.com - 2020 could be different. Nevada is also considered the first real test of a presidential candidate’s appeal to voters of color, Latinos make up almost a third of the state’s population, and Sanders i…

Coronavirus has become 'very grave threat' to rest of the world, WHO boss warns

mirror.co.uk - Global health authorities are warning China's coronavirus outbreak poses a "very grave threat for the rest of the world." The World Health Organisation's (WHO) boss issued the stark warning today as …

Scientists Predict Coronavirus May Live For Up To Nine Days On Surfaces

forbes.com - Subway workers clean and disinfect glass door panels on a platform at a subway station in Shanghai, ... [+] China, on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2020 Bloomberg Finan…

Coronavirus brings China's surveillance state out of the shadows - Reuters

reuters.com - BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - When the man from Hangzhou returned home from a business trip, the local police got in touch. They had tracked his car by his license plate in nearby Wenzhou, which has …

'Exhausted': Doctors at China's virus epicentre overworked and unprotected

news.yahoo.com - Doctors on the frontline of China's new coronavirus epidemic are facing a daunting task: treat an ever-growing number of infected patients and risk getting infected themselves due to a drastic shorta…

Make No Mistake, Trump Is Test-Running Fascism To See What He Can Get Away With

mavenroundtable.io - “Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump,” argues Fintan O’Toole in the Irish Times, “but test-marketing for barbarism.” Is it possible that President Donald Trump is throwing out policy and rheto…

John Whitehead: A Case for Not Giving Up on the American Dream

mintpressnews.com - Listen: we don’t have to agree about everything. We don’t even have to agree about most things. We don’t have to love each other. We don’t even have to like each other. And we certainly don’t need to…

Trump Seeks to Halve U.S. Funding for World Health Organization as Coronavirus Rages

foreignpolicy.com - The Trump administration is eyeing steep cuts to global health funds in its 2021 budget proposal, slashing more than $3 billion in overall programs, including half of its annual funding to the World …

How Trump’s “Peace” Plan Will Redraw Israel’s Borders to Exclude to Non-Jews

mintpressnews.com - Qalansawe, Palestine: one of ten towns slated by Donald’s Trump’s Middle East “Peace” Plan to be transferred from Israel to a future Palestinian state. To fully understand what this means, it is help…

Election coverage: the road not taken - PressThink

pressthink.org - Originally published as a Twitter thread on election day, 2018. There was a path the American press could have walked, but did not. This alternative way was illuminated as far back as 1992. Our polit…

Devin Nunes: Outing Media ‘Assassins’ The ‘Most Important Thing’ Trump Has Done

newshounds.us - Devin Nunes, who seems to have nothing better to do than to sue various media outlets and figures, unloaded his hatred for a free press last week to a sympathetic Laura Ingraham. Last week, during a …

Canadian Scientist At Center Of Chinese Bio-Espionage Probe Found Dead In Africa?

zerohedge.com - Update (1135ET): It seems that Mr. Plummer made a habit of getting the biological material he was working on "stolen," as we found a report from 2009 in the Winnepeg Free Press that details the theft…

Explainer: Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change | Carbon Brief

carbonbrief.org - Explainer: Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change The persistent march of a warming climate is seen across a multitude of continuous, incremental changes. CO2 levels in the a…

US Power Will Decline Under Trump, Says Futurist Who Predicted Soviet Collapse

vice.com - Johan Galtung, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated sociologist who predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union, warned that US global power will collapse under the Donald Trump administration. The Norwegian…

In a Flawed Health Care System, Doctors Lament 'Moral Injury'

undark.org - Dr. Keith Corl was working in a Las Vegas emergency room when a patient arrived with chest pain. The patient, wearing his street clothes, had a two-minute exam in the triage area with a doctor, who o…

Grow these plants to survive an apocalypse!

treehugger.com - Even if doomsday never comes, these 20 plants are some of the most practical you can grow. You may not be worrying about zombies or end times anytime soon, but hey, who knows? There's always super vo…

Why Does Chuck Todd Exist?

theroot.com - Despite having ball-handling skills that resemble a Caucasian clapping at a Pentecostal gospel concert; in spite of possessing the vertical leap of a Benadryl-drunk third-grader, I am often afforded …

Two of America’s biggest coal plants closed this month

qz.com - First the dirtiest ones began shutting down. Then it was the old ones. Now it’s some of the biggest. America’s coal plants are turning off the boilers, facing brutal economics and customers fleeing f…

Easter Island discovery: Experts shed new light on the mystery of the civilization’s 'collapse'

foxnews.com - Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Experts are shedding new light on the demise of the civilization that built the famous statues on Easter Island. It ha…

Global economic growth will take big hit due to loss of nature

theguardian.com - Loss of nature will wipe £368bn a year off global economic growth by 2050 and the UK will be the third-worst hit, with a £16bn annual loss, according to a study by the World Wildlife Fund. Without ur…

Bitcoin bounces back over $10,000 amid coronavirus concerns

theguardian.com - Bitcoin has bounced back above $10,000 (£7,731), fuelled by investors seeking a safe haven amid fears over the economic impact of the coronavirus. On Sunday, bitcoin rose above $10,000 for the first …

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