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• Disney Plans To Reboot HOME ALONE, NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, and DIARY OF A WIMPY KID - GeekTyrant

  06-08-2019 23:45 via geektyrant.com
  Disney Plans To Reboot HOME ALONE, NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, and DIARY OF A WIMPY KID  GeekTyrant'Home Alone' reboot in the works at Disney  New York Post Disney announces $12.99 bundle for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+  The VergeDisney Shareholders, Your Thrill Ride Has Officially Begun  BloombergJohn Landgraf On Launching FX Series On Hulu First, Ramping Up Volume & Looming Streaming Wars  DeadlineView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Jerry Nadler makes new push for Kavanaugh’s White House records - POLITICO

  06-08-2019 23:44 via politico.com
  Jerry Nadler makes new push for Kavanaugh’s White House records  POLITICONadler slammed for 'harassment' after fresh Kavanaugh doc requests  Fox NewsLetting Brett Kavanaugh Off the Hook Sets a Dangerous Precedent  SlateHouse Democrats ask National Archives for Brett Kavanaugh's White House records  CNBCStill Chasing Brett Kavanaugh  The Wall Street JournalView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Disney's bundle of Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu will cost $12.99 per month

  06-08-2019 23:34 via nbcnews.com
  The Disney+ video streaming service will draw on Disney’s deep catalog of content from “Toy Story” and “Monsters Inc.” to Marvel and “Star Wars.”
  
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• James Levine and Met Opera Settle Suit Over Sexual Misconduct Firing - The New York Times

  06-08-2019 23:32 via nytimes.com
  James Levine and Met Opera Settle Suit Over Sexual Misconduct Firing  The New York TimesMet Opera, James Levine reach settlements amid sex misconduct claims  New York Post View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Foreign journalists grapple with covering U.S. mass shootings

  06-08-2019 23:29 via nbcnews.com
  "I’ve been living in the United States for 17 years and the number of massacres that I have to cover has been endless,” said Pablo Pardo, correspondent for Spain’s El Mundo.
  
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• Panels overturns settlement approval in Google privacy suit

  06-08-2019 23:17
  A federal appeals court has rejected a settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging that Google spied on users' online activity using tracking "cookies," even when privacy settings were set to prevent the snooping
  
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• The Science Behind Your Inexplicable Food Cravings

  06-08-2019 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Credit: Nick Fewings/Unsplash)You swallow your last bite of lunch and head back to your desk. A stack of papers awaits you, and you’re just easing into work mode when suddenly you’re ambushed by a sudden, inexplicable hankering for potato chips. Every trace of productivity vanishes from your mind, replaced by an inexplicable fixation on that crisp, salty snack. But you just ate ... you can’t be hungry already, right?For decades, the popular narrative of “the wisdom of th
  
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• Poll: Who's to blame for mass shootings? On that, some bipartisan agreement - USA TODAY

  06-08-2019 23:01 via usatoday.com
  Poll: Who's to blame for mass shootings? On that, some bipartisan agreement  USA TODAYBiden says he's coming for assault weapons, as 2020 Dems urge new ban in wake of shootings  Fox NewsRepublicans Fear ‘Extinction in the Suburbs’ Over Gun Control  BloombergTrump will knuckle under to the NRA. And Republicans will pay the price.  The Washington PostNo, expanded background checks wouldn’t prevent mass shootings  The Boston GlobeV
  
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• After over 600 deaths, epidemic for mosquito-borne dengue virus declared in Philippines - USA TODAY

  06-08-2019 22:31 via usatoday.com
  After over 600 deaths, epidemic for mosquito-borne dengue virus declared in Philippines  USA TODAYPhilippines declares dengue epidemic as deaths surge  BBC NewsPhilippines declares national epidemic after 622 dengue deaths  Al Jazeera EnglishPhilippines declares national epidemic as Dengue fever cases rise past 145,000  Fox NewsPhilippines declares dengue epidemic as cases nearly double  The CitizenView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Apple invites first customers to apply for its credit card

  06-08-2019 22:15 via nbcnews.com
  The card is part of Apple’s broader push to expand its services business from its 1.4 billion active Apple devices.
  
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• Internal Google memo claimed conservative whistleblower promoted alt-right views

  06-08-2019 22:03 via nbcnews.com
  Google has faced public criticism by vocal employees from both sides of the aisle over its internal politics.
  
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• Dartmouth Reaches $14 Million Settlement in Sexual Abuse Lawsuit - The New York Times

  06-08-2019 21:54 via nytimes.com
  Dartmouth Reaches $14 Million Settlement in Sexual Abuse Lawsuit  The New York TimesDartmouth settles sexual harassment lawsuit for $14 million  CNNDartmouth Reaches $14 Million Settlement Over Sexual Misconduct Allegations  The Wall Street JournalDartmouth settles sexual misconduct lawsuit for $14 million  ABC NewsDartmouth College settles sex harassment suit for $14 million  The Boston GlobeView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Fecal Transplants: A Curious Cure in Human waste

  06-08-2019 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  (Credit: Artemida-psy/Shutterstock)In 2008, gastroenterologist Colleen Kelly had a patient with a recurring and debilitating infection of the gut with a microbe called Clostridioides difficile. Nothing Kelly did could ease the woman’s severe abdominal cramping and diarrhea.So Kelly — at her patient’s urging — decided to try something highly experimental: transplanting a fecal sample from a healthy donor into the large intestine. And it worked.
  Kelly, of Brown University S
  
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• Saviors of Uldum is Hearthstone's second Year of the Dragon expansion for 2019 - Android Police

  06-08-2019 20:13 via androidpolice.com
  Saviors of Uldum is Hearthstone's second Year of the Dragon expansion for 2019  Android PoliceBack in April Blizzard Entertainment released Rise of the Shadows, the first expansion in the Year of the Dragon. Today the second expansion Saviors of.View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Study details how radiation exposure will mess with Mars travelers’ minds - BGR

  06-08-2019 20:02 via bgr.com
  Study details how radiation exposure will mess with Mars travelers’ minds  BGRHow Deep Space Travel Could Affect The Brain  Astrobiology NewsAstronauts en route to Mars might endure learning disabilities and anxiety from radiation  ZME ScienceSpace travel might fry your brain, causing permanent learning and memory problems  Phys.OrgA mission to Mars could cause learning impairment and anxiety, study says  CNNView full coverage on Google New
  
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• Meet Homo naledi: The Mysterious Human Cousin

  06-08-2019 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  A reconstructed Homo naledi skeleton made from the bones of multiple individuals. (Credit: Lee Roger Berger research team)In 2013 a couple of spelunkers, caving 100 feet underground in South Africa, wriggled down a narrow vertical chute. They dropped into an uncharted chamber and in the flickers of their headlamps saw human-like bones scattered across the ground. It was a new species of hominin.The fortuitous discovery in the Rising Star Cave system led to one of the most spectacular an
  
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• Tim Beckham Receives 80-Game PED Suspension - MLB Trade Rumors

  06-08-2019 19:05 via mlbtraderumors.com
  Tim Beckham Receives 80-Game PED Suspension  MLB Trade RumorsMariners’ Tim Beckham suspended 80 games for testing positive for performance-enhancing drug  The Seattle TimesMariners' Beckham suspended for PED violation  ESPNMariners` Tim Beckham tests positive for PED, suspended for 80 games  Q13 FOXMLB and former players pitch in to get young black talent in the game  The UndefeatedView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Heat Will Kill Thousands in Chinese Cities Each Year From Climate Change

  06-08-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beijing commuters drive through a layer of "severe" air pollution in this 2014 photo. A new analysis says that human-caused climate change will lead to thousands of additional deaths across Chinese cities in the decades ahead. (Credit: Hung Chung Chih/Shutterstock)As Europe’s latest heat wave showed, climate change is scorching the Earth. The World Meteorological Organization suspects the period from 2015 to 2019 will be the warmest five years on record. China is particularly in trouble. A
  
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• Curiosity rover makes new discoveries on Mars - CNN

  06-08-2019 18:55 via cnn.com
  Curiosity rover makes new discoveries on Mars  CNNNASA's Curiosity rover has been acting as our detective on Mars this summer and investigating an area once full of streams and lakes on the red planet.View full coverage on Google News
  
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• George W. Bush shares adorable family photos with new grandson, Hal - Chron.com

  06-08-2019 18:14 via chron.com
  George W. Bush shares adorable family photos with new grandson, Hal  Chron.comJenna Bush Hager gets the ultimate hospital delivery after having baby: 'Donuts and tacos'  USA TODAYGeorge W. Bush celebrates birth of first grandson with new photos | TheHill  The HillSavannah Guthrie Visits 'Today' Show Co-Host Jenna Bush Hager and Her Newborn Son: PICS  Yahoo EntertainmentView full coverage on Google News
  
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• New York Expands N.R.A. Inquiry to Group’s Board Members - The New York Times

  06-08-2019 18:13 via nytimes.com
  New York Expands N.R.A. Inquiry to Group’s Board Members  The New York TimesNRA facing internal turmoil as activists call for gun control  CBS Evening NewsNRA Internal Troubles Viewed As Opening By Gun Control Advocates  NPROn guns, America is ‘exceptional’  The Washington PostRenewed calls for gun control after dual massacres test a deeply divided NRA  The Washington PostView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Yale: Who Will Pay For Huge Costs Of Rising Seas?

  06-08-2019 17:49 via technocracy.news
  Rising sea levels due to climate change has been thoroughly debunked by top scientists, but this doesn’t change the scare-mongering rhetoric to drive massive spending to stop it.
  In 2009, the Telegraph headlined Rise of sea levels is ‘the greatest lie ever told’ and wrote:
  “But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International
  
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• British Airways cabin fills with smoke, prompts evacuation - CNN

  06-08-2019 17:45 via cnn.com
  British Airways cabin fills with smoke, prompts evacuation  CNNBritish Airways passengers facing delays after IT failures  BBC NewsBritish Airways flights disrupted by IT failures  ReutersAvoid London Victoria and Clapham Junction after three fires break out  Metro.co.ukLondon Victoria fire: Rush hour travel chaos after blaze breaks out next to tracks  Mirror OnlineView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Founder of 8chan wishes he could 'uncreate' forum popular with white supremacists

  06-08-2019 17:29 via nbcnews.com
  Brennan no longer has control of 8chan, which has been run by U.S. Army veteran Jim Watkins since 2015.
  
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• World Resources Institute: Go Vegetarian To Combat Climate Change

  06-08-2019 17:28 via technocracy.news
  The logical absurdity that a vegetarian diet will to anything to affect earth’s climate is deeply embedded into the radical green movement, which exclusively promotes the UN’s Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. Note that the study referenced is sponsored by the World Bank! ⁃
  Unfortunately, the writer of this story suggests that inventing genetically modified food (GMO) is the future of feeding the world. – TN EditorThe World Resources Institute (WRI), which is supp
  
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• Now that's an eye test - Cosmos

  06-08-2019 17:01 via cosmosmagazine.com
  Now that's an eye test  CosmosNASA’s Curiosity rover is celebrating seven incredible years on Mars  BGRCuriosity rover makes new discoveries on Mars  CNNCuriosity Has Now Been on Mars For 7 Years, So Here Are 7 Amazing Things It Has Seen  ScienceAlertNASA Rover Uncovers New Finds After Spending 7 Years on Red Planet (Video, Photo)  Sputnik InternationalView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Twisted: Sacrifice Fat People For Climate Change And Overpopulation

  06-08-2019 16:51 via technocracy.news
  The radical, anti-human side of climate change fanatics is clearly seen in this BBC host suggesting that fat people should be shunned from health care and left to die in order to fight climate change. ⁃ TN EditorBBC host Michael Buerk says the state should let fat people die to save the NHS money.
  Buerk, who hosts Radio 4’s The Moral Maze, said obesity should not be classed as a disease, which encourages people to seek treatment on the Health Service.
  He added: “You’re fa
  
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• Speculative 'supergravity' theory wins US$3-million prize - Nature.com

  06-08-2019 16:19 via nature.com
  Speculative 'supergravity' theory wins US$3-million prize  Nature.comFerrara, Freedman, van Nieuwenhuizen Awarded 2019 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics  BreakthroughPhysicists to Split $3 Million Breakthrough Prize for Supergravity  Gizmodo'Supergravity' Theorists Win $3 Million Physics Breakthrough Prize  Space.comSupergravity Snags Super Award: $3-Million Special Breakthrough Prize  Scientific AmericanView full coverage on Goog
  
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• Ivanka Trump slammed after sharing new photo of her kids in the wake of two mass shootings - AOL

  06-08-2019 16:19 via aol.com
  Ivanka Trump slammed after sharing new photo of her kids in the wake of two mass shootings  AOLDonald Trump to visit grief-stricken El Paso and Dayton even though some want him to stay away  USA TODAYTrump attacks Obama for statement on shootings  POLITICOThe U.S. is filled with guns and hatred. That's a deadly combo  Los Angeles Times2020 Democrats get desperate after El Paso shooting  Washington ExaminerView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Who will be next 'Bachelor?'; live 'Little Mermaid'; more: Buzz - Syracuse.com

  06-08-2019 16:18 via expo.syracuse.com
  Who will be next 'Bachelor?'; live 'Little Mermaid'; more: Buzz  Syracuse.comBlake Shares Texts From Caelynn as Hookup Drama Consumes BiP  E! NEWSBachelor in Paradise: Roses and Rose: Premiere Brings Hurricane Blake & the Second Coming of Dylan  Entertainment Tonight32 Of The Best "Bachelor In Paradise" Tweets From The Premiere  BuzzFeedNew ‘Bachelor In Paradise’ To Explore Sexual Fluidity  The Daily WireView full coverage on Goog
  
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• GSK offloads Ebola vaccines as testing of J&J shot ramps up - FierceBiotech

  06-08-2019 15:26 via fiercebiotech.com
  GSK offloads Ebola vaccines as testing of J&J shot ramps up  FierceBiotechEbola: Rwanda bolsters DRC border restrictions  Aljazeera.comThe Real Ebola “Emergency”  SlateStop the Ebola crisis in the Congo before it turns into global disaster | TheHill  The HillEbola veteran promises an end to Congo's epidemic  Science MagazineView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Apple's credit card is here, but most people can't use one yet

  06-08-2019 13:56 via rss.cnn.com
  Five months after it was announced, Apple's first credit card is now available — but not to everyone.
  
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• Getting to Know Google Chrome's Tab Grouping Feature - Softpedia News

  06-08-2019 13:45 via news.softpedia.com
  Getting to Know Google Chrome's Tab Grouping Feature  Softpedia NewsGoogle's Advanced Protection now flags and blocks risky downloads on Chrome  Android PoliceThese are the most popular Google Chrome extensions  TechRadarGoogle's Advanced Protection Program now blocks malware in Chrome  CNETGoogle’s Advanced Protection Program will protect against risky Chrome downloads  The VergeView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Inside the Heroic Mission to Save Thousands of Baby Flamingos

  06-08-2019 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Flamingo eggs were strewn across the ground, abandoned by their parents. Without aid, they'd all die.
  
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• SpaceX's new business strategy: Rideshares for small satellites

  06-08-2019 02:43 via rss.cnn.com
  Enormous communications and military satellites are the bread and butter of SpaceX's launch business. But big satellites are dying out — and smaller, nimbler satellites are all the rage.
  
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• How to stop your Alexa voice recordings from being reviewed by a human

  06-08-2019 02:43 via rss.cnn.com
  Digital voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa have become household staples. But recent reports that they're listening more often than people realize, and recording snippets of conversations that are sometimes reviewed by humans, have people once again worried about their privacy.
  
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• 8chan struggling to stay online after its alleged use by El Paso shooting suspect

  06-08-2019 02:43 via rss.cnn.com
  Cloudflare, a San Francisco-based company that was providing internet infrastructure services to 8chan and helping keep the site online, announced Sunday night that it would stop providing support for the website.
  
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