Month: January 2020

FILE PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg speaks about his gun policy agenda in Aurora, Colorado, U.S. December 5, 2019. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – After steadily rising in popularity over the last several weeks, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appears to have surpassed U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren among registered
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic prosecutors and Republican defenders in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial traded barbs in a second day of questioning by U.S. senators on Thursday, with Democrats stressing the importance of calling witnesses such as former national security adviser John Bolton. Without witnesses, Republicans, who control the Senate, say the trial could end
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The NBA honored the late Kobe Bryant by announcing major changes to the All-Star Game format on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: Memorabilia and candles sit in Microsoft Square near the Staples Center to pay respects to Kobe Bryant after a helicopter crash killed the retired basketball star, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 28, 2020. REUTERS/Kyle
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It may sound more like science fiction than science fact, but researchers have created bionic jellyfish by embedding microelectronics into these ubiquitous marine invertebrates with hopes to deploy them to monitor and explore the world’s oceans. A jellyfish augmented with a microelectronics implant designed by researchers Nicole Xu and John Dabiri is
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LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England kept interest rates steady on Thursday, saying signs that Britain’s economy had picked up since December’s election and that the global economy had stabilised meant further stimulus was not needed now. Governor Mark Carney departs at the end of his last ever Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Report
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Environmental groups said on Thursday they plan to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to regulate aircraft emissions after a 2016 agency determination that those emissions pose a danger to public health. The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth, represented by Earthjustice, filed a notice of intent
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An image shows the Sun’s surface at the highest resolution ever taken, shot by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), the world’s largest solar telescope, on the island of Maui, Hawaii, U.S., January 29, 2020, in this image obtained January 30, 2020. NSO/NSF/AURA/Handout via REUTERS (Reuters) – Images from a powerful new telescope installed
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LONDON (Reuters) – Stocks across the world tumbled on Thursday as the death toll from a virus spreading in China reached 170, forcing airlines to cut flights and stores to close as the potential economic hit from the outbreak came into focus. FILE PHOTO: People walk past the London Stock Exchange Group offices in the
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