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  1. Mar 2020
    1. The billionaire Mike Bloomberg has suspended his Democratic presidential campaign after spending more than $500m on a failed attempt to seize the moderate lane from rival Joe Biden.

      Thats a lot of money put in to drop out

    1. Law enforcement officials identified 51-year-old Anthony Ferrill as the employee of the Molson Coors Beverage Company who gunned down five co-workers at the company's Milwaukee brewery campus.

      He shot 5 employees at Milwaukee brewery campus

  2. Feb 2020
    1. To the east, Dennis' gale-force winds also left nine people injured in Germany as their vehicles crashed into broken trees littering roads and train tracks. Flooding and power outages were reported elsewhere in northern Europe.

      9 people injured in Germany

    1. Security experts say that even these numbers underestimate the true cost of ransomware attacks, which have disrupted factories and basic infrastructure and forced businesses to shut down.

      This is an even bigger issue

    2. a 41 percent increase from the year before, according to information provided to The New York Times by Emsisoft, a security firm that helps companies hit by ransomware.

      41 percent increase from the last year

    1. There at least 260 confirmed cases of Wuhan coronavirus in more than 25 countries and territories outside mainland China

      There are 260 people that have died from coronavirus

  3. Jan 2020
    1. Many of the animals are likely to have been killed by the bushfires, although some will likely die later due to the destruction of their food and shelter, according to Dickman.

      This is very sad that all of these animals are dying and will continue to die after the fires are over

  4. Dec 2019
    1. the company will work with the Food and Drug Administration in the United States and regulatory agencies in a number of African countries to license the vaccine.

      There is still more to be done before this vaccine can be used with the public

    1. A 65-year-old Maine man was fatally shot after he triggered a booby trap he had set in his house, according to the authorities

      How did this man forget that he set a booby trap in his house

    2. “Officers discovered that the front door of the residence had been outfitted with a device designed to fire a handgun should anyone attempt to enter the door,

      How did this device work?

  5. Nov 2019
    1. They also discovered bottles of carbofuran, a banned neurotoxicant used to kill rodents that also has been linked to the deaths of spotted owls, fish and mountain lions

      This chemical is causing the deaths of animals and fish

    1. The wildfires in California’s Sonoma County are among the largest and most intense in the state’s history. Fortunately for the wineries, the fires came at the close of the harvest this year and most of the grapes were saved. But that might not matter so much.

      The wildfires in Sonoma country were the worst this year than they have ever been

    1. Sharing an image of the military dog’s head photoshopped onto the face of a real Medal of Honor recipient struck some as bizarre and inappropriate, despite Conan’s rapidly growing fan base.

      I don't know why people would be upset

  6. Oct 2019
    1. It ended, he said, with Baghdadi fleeing from advancing U.S. forces into a dead-end tunnel and detonating a suicide vest, killing himself and three of his children.

      The target Baghdadi killed himself to avoid being captured.

    2. Their target, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brutal founder and leader of the Islamic State, was holed up in a compound in northwestern Syria with family members and terrorist associates

      The target of the mission was the leader of the Islamic State.

    1. At the same news conference, Dr. William Schaffner, the foundation’s medical director, lamented that only 45 percent of adults and 63 percent of children get flu shots each year.

      This is interesting because the flu vaccination can be effective and it can stop you from getting worse diseases.

    2. The 2017-2018 flu season in the United States, which followed six months later as winter came to the Northern Hemisphere, was one of the worst in modern American memory

      This is interesting how the American flu season shares a similar pattern with Australia's flu season.

    1. San Francisco, long at the heart of the technology revolution, took a stand against potential abuse on Tuesday by banning the use of facial recognition software by the police and other agencies.

      It seems surprising that San Fransisco would be one of the first cities to start this kind of ban considering many technological companies are from there (apple, Tesla, Google, Facebook, Wells Fargo

  7. Sep 2019
    1. Vaping products are only a part of Walmart's tobacco offerings, which include cigarettes and smokeless tobacco.

      Are they just going to stop selling vaping products or all tobacco products?

    1. “While we are fighting for better wages, affordable quality health care, and job security, GM refuses to put hard working Americans ahead of their record profits,” Dittes, the union’s chief bargainer with GM, said in a statement Saturday night.

      If the people work hard they deserve better health care

    1. “Legal, well-regulated hunting as part of a sound management program can benefit the conservation of certain species by providing incentives to local communities to conserve the species and by putting much-needed revenue back into conservation,”

      I understand why they only give out 5 permits per year to hunt the rhinos because the money raised helps spread awareness and preserve the rhinos.

    2. Poaching is the main threat to black rhinos, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Rhino horn is sold on the black market for use in traditional Chinese medicine and as a status symbol.

      That is a ridiculous thing to do with the rhino horn.