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Trump orders new powers for Attorney General's surveillance probe
US President Donald Trump has ordered US intelligence agencies to co-operate with an investigation into whether he was spied on during the 2016 election.
The probe, headed by Attorney General William Barr, is examining the origins of the Russia investigation.
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Rocket Report: SpaceX sues the federal government, Chinese launch failure
Also, there's a company in Alabama that seeks to build a Falcon Heavy lite.
Welcome to Edition 2.01 of the Rocket Report! This week marks one year since the first report. What started as an experiment has grown into something that a lot of people read. -
You can now pay your AT&T bills using cryptocurrency
Volatility be damned
You can now pay your AT&T bill using cryptocurrency thanks to a partnership between the mobile operator and the BitPay payment service. -
Trump: US to send 1,500 extra troops to Middle East
The US is to send 1,500 additional troops to the Middle East for "mostly protective" reasons, President Donald Trump has announced.
"We want to have protection in the Middle East," he told reporters on Friday. He described the latest deployment as "relatively small".
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US groups sue Alabama over 'extreme' abortion ban
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood, an abortion and healthcare provider, have sued Alabama over its ban on abortion.
The groups called the "extreme" law a "manmade public health emergency".
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Trump: US to send 1,500 extra troops to Middle East
The US is to send 1,500 additional troops to the Middle East for "mostly protective" reasons, President Donald Trump has announced.
"We want to have protection in the Middle East," he told reporters on Friday. He described the latest deployment as "relatively small".
The same ones that left the Middle East last week?
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
US groups sue Alabama over 'extreme' abortion ban
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood, an abortion and healthcare provider, have sued Alabama over its ban on abortion.
The groups called the "extreme" law a "manmade public health emergency".
The point of the laws are an attempt to get to the Supreme Court and overturn / settle Roe v Wade. So Alabama is welcoming the battle, along with every other state that has made such laws recently.
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BBC News - Theresa May quits: UK set for new PM by end of July
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@DustinB3403 it's truly embarrassing to be from the south right now. The GA law has a "charge the mother with 2nd degree murder" clause if she dares to go elsewhere to exercise her personal sovereignty.
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Remember that math thing I was talking about a lot at MangoCon?
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/25/the-cost-of-owning-a-tesla-after-200000-miles/
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@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
Remember that math thing I was talking about a lot at MangoCon?
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/25/the-cost-of-owning-a-tesla-after-200000-miles/
That was a good break down of owning a tesla.
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Amazon defeated Rekognition revolt by a large margin
An attempted shareholder revolt over Amazon's sale of facial recognition technology to the police mustered less than 3% of votes cast at the firm's annual general meeting.
The tally was revealed in a corporate filing.
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Sebastian Kurz, Austrian chancellor, loses confidence vote
Austria's parliament has voted to remove Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his government from office in a special parliamentary session.
His previous coalition ally, the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), backed the motions brought by the opposition Social Democrats (SPÖ).
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Oklahoma tornado: Two killed and several injured in El Reno
At least two people have been killed after a tornado tore through the city of El Reno in Oklahoma, destroying a hotel and damaging a mobile home park, officials said.
The tornado struck the south-east of El Reno at about 22:30 local time (03:30 GMT) on Saturday.
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Colorado: Boulders 'the size of a building' hit US road
A section of highway in the US state of Colorado has been totally destroyed by two boulders "the size of a building", officials say.
The road was hit by a slide "consisting of dirt, rock and two huge boulders", the Colorado Department of Transportation said.
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Japan attack: Child among three dead in Kawasaki stabbing
A knife-wielding man has attacked a group of schoolchildren waiting for a bus in the Japanese city of Kawasaki near Tokyo.
At least 18 people were injured in a residential area. Two of them, an 11-year-old girl and a 39-year-old man, have died.
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Washington Governor signs bill to allow composting human bodies
Recompose is spearheading a greener green burial.
This week, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill to allow the composting of human remains within the state. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Washington Governor signs bill to allow composting human bodies
Recompose is spearheading a greener green burial.
This week, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill to allow the composting of human remains within the state.While I don't disagree with this, the entire idea of burials is also just weird, at least from a modern perspective of pumping people full of chemicals to preserve the body and then putting a really expensive box in the ground inside of another larger concrete box.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Washington Governor signs bill to allow composting human bodies
Recompose is spearheading a greener green burial.
This week, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill to allow the composting of human remains within the state.While I don't disagree with this, the entire idea of burials is also just weird, at least from a modern perspective of pumping people full of chemicals to preserve the body and then putting a really expensive box in the ground inside of another larger concrete box.
Screw all of that, just burn me after I'm gone. Not that that's better, it's just done with quicker.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Washington Governor signs bill to allow composting human bodies
Recompose is spearheading a greener green burial.
This week, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill to allow the composting of human remains within the state.While I don't disagree with this, the entire idea of burials is also just weird, at least from a modern perspective of pumping people full of chemicals to preserve the body and then putting a really expensive box in the ground inside of another larger concrete box.
Screw all of that, just burn me after I'm gone. Not that that's better, it's just done with quicker.
At least with a cremation, assuming the ashes aren't stored in an urn everything "goes back to nature".
