Charities and MPs warn of a loophole that gets around a ban on people using credit cards to gamble.
Over the past week police officers have attacked peaceful demonstrators protesting after the killing of George Floyd with pepper spray, tear gas, rubber and wooden bullets, and batons, among other creative forms of violence. Intended to subdue…
Vaccine skepticism may cause some people to skip the coronavirus vaccine, NIH director Francis Collins says.
Video shows officers forcing man into a police truck as bystanders plead for his release
Brazil has seen high numbers of coronavirus deaths and ordinary people are trying to help cities cope.
A myth often pushed by incumbents who want to forestall universal fiber is that there is a high “cost” of fiber and cheaper alternatives. They’ll point to figures that for example show that a fiber-to-the home approach costs several thousands of dollars per household, when upgrading the copper DSL...
Infusions of antibody-rich blood plasma from people who have recovered from the coronavirus, so-called convalescent plasma, failed to make a difference in a study of hospitalized patients in China, researchers reported on Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In a randomized
An FDA study found that the body absorbs certain active ingredients in chemical sunscreens, but this does not mean you should avoid wearing sunscreen.
Public-health experts should strive to provide a neutral accounting of risk.
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Reading: Jesse Walker (2020-06-01) @ Reason.com . . . St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter claimed Saturday morning that “every single person” arrested in his city the night before had been from out of state. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reiterated the idea that the troublemakers were outsiders: His “best estimate,” he said, was that “about 80 percent” of […]
Any day now two men may be executed in Europe's only country that still has the death penalty.
Electrolux, construction biz fooled into handing over money funneled out of the US to South Africa
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People are downloading the end-to-end encrypted messaging app in record numbers.
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Minneapolis Public Schools is ending its relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department following George Floyd's death.