California Is Ready to Pull the Plug on Gas Vehicles

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At least 15 other countries have already made similar commitments, including Germany, France and Norway. In this March 31, 2016, file photo, Tesla Motors unveils the new lower-priced Model 3 sedan at the Tesla Motors design studio in Hawthorne, Calif. … Read More

The Latest: Venezuela’s Guaidó urges nations to decry Maduro

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UNITED NATIONS — The Latest from the U.N. General Assembly (all times EDT): 8:10 p.m. He didn’t get a spot at the U.N. General Assembly. But U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó still put out his own online message during … Read More

Pompeo visits refugees in Brazil, pressuring Venezuela’s Maduro

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BRASILIA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Venezuelan migrants at a refugee reception center in northern Brazil on Friday at the third stop of a regional tour to ramp up pressure to oust Venezuela’s leftist President … Read More

More Than 1,000 Californians May Have Died from Wildfire Smoke

Between Aug. 1 and Sept. 10, the historically bad concentrations of wildfire smoke were responsible for at least 1,200 and possibly up to 3,000 deaths in California that otherwise would not have occurred, according to an estimate by researchers at … Read More

Magnitude 6.1 quake hits Philippines Surigao del Sur’s City

The quake struck 41 kilometres northwest of the municipality of Don Marcelino. A 6.1 magnitude earthquake jolted Surigao del Sur province in southern Philippines today morning. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported that the strong temblor struck … Read More

Assaults, arson, slurs: Report finds rising anti-Semitism in Berlin

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Local research institute documents 410 incidents in German capital during first half of 2020, more than two a day, including physical attacks, property damage, threats, harmful behavior and anti-Semitic propaganda. Small square brass plates set in the pavement remember Jewish … Read More

House approves spending bill in effort to avoid government shutdown during pandemic

The House voted 359-57 to approve the stop-gap measure. The House easily passed a temporary government-wide funding bill Tuesday evening in a bipartisan effort to keep the government funded through the beginning of December. The House voted 359-57 to approve the stop … Read More

China forces 500,000 Tibetans into labour camps

Farmers in Tibet: In the first seven months of this year over 500,000 rural Tibetan labourers have been pushed into military-style training centres. CREDIT:AP The evidence has been compiled by German anthropologist Dr Adrian Zenz, whose research was instrumental in … Read More

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