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Friday, February 23, 2018
Guns in America: Attitudes and Experiences of Americans | Pew Research Center
Guns in America: Attitudes and Experiences of Americans | Pew Research Center: Americans have broad exposure to guns, whether they personally own one or not. About seven-in-ten say they have fired a gun at some point and 42% currently live
Miso Robotics scores some cheddar for its burger-flipping robot | ZDNet
Miso Robotics scores some cheddar for its burger-flipping robot | ZDNet: Food service is the next industry to be turned on its head by automation
Trump Says Video Game Violence Is 'Shaping Young People's Thoughts'
Trump Says Video Game Violence Is 'Shaping Young People's Thoughts': Today during a meeting on school safety at the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that violent video games are partly responsible for school shootings.
U.S. Blocks a Chinese Deal Amid Rising Tensions Over Technology - The New York Times
U.S. Blocks a Chinese Deal Amid Rising Tensions Over Technology - The New York Times: A maker of chip-testing equipment, Xcerra, said it was walking away from a proposed sale to a Chinese group because of regulatory concerns.
#MeToo in the Mosque
#MeToo in the Mosque: "While the brave Iranian women protested against hijab laws, Western feminists celebrated hijab". — Rita Panahi, Herald Sun, Australia. Instead of a celebration of Islamist discrimination against women, the West should promote a #MeToo in the mosque, the
Hyping the Mueller Indictment | The Nation
Hyping the Mueller Indictment | The Nation: Do the charges against Russian individuals and organizations really describe the “second-worst foreign attack on America”?
Rainfall's natural variation hides climate change signal
Rainfall's natural variation hides climate change signal: New research from The Australian National University (ANU) and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science suggests natural rainfall variation is so great that it could take a human lifetime for significant climate ...
Inside the Trump Admin's Fight to Keep the Keystone XL Approval Process Secret | naked capitalism
Inside the Trump Admin's Fight to Keep the Keystone XL Approval Process Secret | naked capitalism: The Trump Administration has been withholding documents in the ongoing suit against the Keystone XL pipeline.
How Much Do New York Times Reporters Use Anonymous Sources? | naked capitalism
How Much Do New York Times Reporters Use Anonymous Sources? | naked capitalism: An analysis of David Sanger's work at the New York Times in 2017 gives a sense of how much reporters crib from anonymous "official" sources.
Mohammed Hanif Atmar: 55,000 Terrorists Present in Afghanistan | Asharq AL-awsat
Mohammed Hanif Atmar: 55,000 Terrorists Present in Afghanistan | Asharq AL-awsat: Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities
US border officials haven't properly verified visitor passports for more than a decade | ZDNet
US border officials haven't properly verified visitor passports for more than a decade | ZDNet: E-passports contain a cryptographic hash of a passport holders' details, designed to make it almost impossible to forge a travel document or steal someone's identity.
Robot-assisted knee replacement surgery is coming | ZDNet
Robot-assisted knee replacement surgery is coming | ZDNet: The acquisition of Orthotaxy by Johnson & Johnson signals next trend in robotic surgery.
Donald Trump Jr cancels US foreign policy speech in India | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump Jr cancels US foreign policy speech in India | US news | The Guardian: US president’s son holds ‘fireside chat’ at business summit instead after accusations of interference
Why The Media Stopped Reporting The Russia Collusion Story
Why The Media Stopped Reporting The Russia Collusion Story: The press has played an active role in the Trump-Russia collusion story since its inception. It helped birth it. That's why they're done now.
Sanders Goes After Hillary for Sitting on Russian Interference During Election
Sanders Goes After Hillary for Sitting on Russian Interference During Election: Former Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) lashed out at his opponent failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for not doing anything about Russian interference despite having the knowledge and also pushed back that he knew Russian bots backed his campaign.
Robert Mueller indicts Paul Manafort a second time for things having nothing to do with Trump or Russian meddling
Robert Mueller indicts Paul Manafort a second time for things having nothing to do with Trump or Russian meddling
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/02/robert-mueller-indicts-paul-manafort-a-second-time-for-things-having-nothing-to-do-with-trump-or-russian-meddling/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
Police closing in on Netanyahu
Police closing in on Netanyahu: With the former director general of the Ministry of Communications, Shlomo Filber, as a state witness, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to be indicted and even convicted.
Mr.Tillerson, please provide real answers
Mr.Tillerson, please provide real answers
http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/374786-mrtillerson-please-provide-real-answers
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