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A former State Department contractor sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2007 shooting deaths of unarmed Iraqi civilians is asking for a new trial because of what he says is newly discovered evidence. Lawyers for former Blackwater employee…
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Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg sailed into New York Harbor on Wednesday in a zero-carbon emissions vessel, completing her nearly 14-day journey from England to take part in a United Nations climate summit. The 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl, …
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A Palestinian student trying to start classes at Harvard University was denied entry to the U.S. in a case that critics of the Trump administration call emblematic of overly invasive screening at border checkpoints. Ismail Ajjawi, who had been living …
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(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump’s pitch for his Doral golf resort in Miami as the site for next year’s G-7 summit of world leaders will be probed as part of the House Judiciary Committee’s inquiry into potential impeachment articles.“The committe…
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NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with British Labour MP Rachael Maskell about the Queen’s approval of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s request to suspend Parliament, limiting time to make a deal on Brexit.
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(Bloomberg) — Want to receive this post in your inbox every afternoon? Sign up hereThe U.K. Parliament will be suspended for almost five weeks ahead of Brexit, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson sets up a showdown with lawmakers who want to block him from taking the U.K. out of the European Union without an agreement. The pound slid on the news.Here are today’s top storiesTropical Storm Dorian has been upgraded to a hurricane as it heads toward Puerto Rico. It’s expected to gain strength and become the first major hurricane to hit Florida’s east coast in 15 years.For the first time since President Donald Trump’s election, more Americans say the economy is getting worse than getting better. And they’re blaming it on him.The Sackler family may lose most of their wealth if they agree to an $11.5 billion settlement to resolve opioid lawsuits against them and their company Purdue Pharma. They’ll still be billionaires. Michael Burry, who shot to fame and fortune by betting against mortgage securities before the 2008 crisis, sees another contrarian opportunity emerging from what he calls the “bubble” in passive investment. Costco’s first store in China was overrun with customers willing to fight over discounted products and wait hours to pay for their purchases. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been the subject of international condemnation for fanning the flames of the Amazon’s destruction, but he seems unlikely to back down.What’s Joe Weisenthal thinking? Everyone knows that President Trump has been extremely critical of his hand-picked Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. However, a recent Bloomberg Opinion op-ed from former NY Fed President Bill Dudley should remind Trump that in terms of his own purposes, Powell has been a good choice.What you’ll need to know tomorrowApple said it will no longer retain audio recordings of Siri interactions. Half the 2020 Democratic field may not qualify for the next debate. Great white sharks vanished from Cape Town. No one knows why. More airlines are banning Apple’s MacBook Pros. Bond yields just sank to record lows. California is working on a way to save Brazil’s burning rainforests. More U.S. homebuyers say they expect a recession by next year.What you’ll want to read tonight in BusinessweekThe inventor Buckminster Fuller once described technological progress as “ephemeralization.” Sunbeams and breezes are replacing coal and oil as energy sources, brands are more important than buildings to corporations, and fiat money has supplanted gold and silver. So it seems reasonable to conclude that the periodic table of elements—that wonky taxonomy of physical stuff such as copper, iron, mercury, and sulfur—is passé, no more relevant than a manual typewriter. Except exactly the opposite is true. Matter still matters. And on the 150th anniversary of the periodic table’s formulation by the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, it’s more important than it’s ever been. So important, in fact, that Bloomberg Businessweek devoted an entire issue to it. To contact the author of this story: Josh Petri in Portland at [email protected] more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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U.K. lawmakers exploded with anger Wednesday as the country’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, announced he would be suspending parliament in early September, limiting time to make a deal on Brexit.
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US Defense Secretary Mark Esper urged Iran Wednesday to enter discussions with the United States in order to ease tensions in the Gulf region. “We are not seeking conflict with Iran. “The president said once again he is willing to meet with Iran’s le…
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A Russian naval expedition has discovered five Arctic islands as climate change melts glaciers and reveals landforms previously hidden under ice. Ranging in size from 900 to 54,500 square metres, the five tiny islands are located in the cove of Vize off the northeastern shore of Novaya Zemlya, which divides the Barents and Kara seas in the Arctic ocean, a defence ministry statement said. Rather than planting the proverbial flag in the sand, members of the expedition built a cairn on one of the islands containing a note about their discovery, a compact disc with their photographs and a pennant commemorating the 100th anniversary of the northern fleet’s hydrographic service. Then-student Marina Migunova first spotted the islands in 2016 while analysing satellite imagery for her final coursework at a naval university. But new geographic points are added to maps and other navigational documents only after specialists visit them and perform a topographic survey, the defence ministry said. The islands were previously concealed under the Nansen glacier, also known as the Vylka, which is part of Europe’s largest ice cap covering much of Novaya Zemlya’s northern island. Location of newly discovered Russian islands The retreat of Arctic ice amid rising air and ocean temperatures has been unveiling unknown landforms. In 2015-18, the hydrographic service observed more than 30 islands, capes and bays near Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land for the first time through satellite monitoring. More are expected to be found. A US study last year concluded that the ice loss by glaciers on Franz Josef Land had doubled between 2011 and 2015. Melting ice has increasingly stranded polar bears on land, contributing to incidents like the “polar bear invasion” of a military town on Novaya Zemlya this year. Coastal erosion is also speeding up as permafrost soil thaws and summertime wave action increases. President Vladimir Putin said at an Arctic conference in April that Russian data showed the region was warming not two but four times faster than the rest of the world. In response, his country has been expanding its presence in the Arctic, opening military bases and building nuclear icebreakers to promote shipping along the northern sea route. Last week, Russia’s new floating nuclear power plant began a voyage across the Arctic Ocean to provide heat and electricity to a gold-mining town in the remote Chukotka region. Russia’s floating nuclear power plant, the Academic Lomonosov, stands in port during a visit by The Telegraph last month Credit: Alec Luhn/For The Telegraph State concern Rosatom hopes to export this technology to other countries despite the safety concerns of activists, who have dubbed the plant “Chernobyl on ice”. A top-secret nuclear submarine caught fire in the Arctic Ocean in July, killing 14, and this month a blast at a missile testing site killed at least five and caused a radiation spike in the northern Arkhangelsk region. The defence ministry said a “liquid-fuelled reaction engine” had exploded, but foreign experts have said the fallout suggested that a nuclear reactor had blown up. Following the routes of early explorers, the expedition to Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land is also collecting data for scientific research, raising Russian flags over historic sites and visiting Soviet military infrastructure, including a meteorological station destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in 1943. Much of the archipelago was mapped by Florence Nightingale’s cousin Benjamin Leigh Smith, whose shipwreck in Franz Josef Land was reached by divers last year.
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(Bloomberg) — Europe should either ask Washington to restore sanctions waivers for Iran’s oil or provide a credit line to the Islamic Republic if it wants to save the nuclear deal, the country’s deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said in an inte…
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(Bloomberg) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s move to suspend parliament and come good on his promise to avoid any more delays to Brexit has set the clock running for his opponents to thwart him. The question is whether they can do it in time.I…
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