Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Could better tracking of air pollution help us choose safer routes? The air we breathe is killing us. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says air pollution causes the death of seven million people a year and accounts for a third of fatalities from stroke, lung cancer and heart disease, […]
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After the tour, Bill put me in touch with Mary Rivers Legree, who maintains the praise house as president of the Coffin Point Community Association. Ms. Legree’s family has lived on the same land on Coffin Point since the era of slavery. She was raised there until the age of 9, then moved north. Amid
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Drones ferrying medical supplies, packages and even pizza could one day be crisscrossing the skies above U.S. cities, and a team at the University of Utah is working with regulators to keep that future traffic in check using a video game. The simulation unveiled Wednesday uses a 3-D model of Salt Lake City, similar to
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A television station aired audio Thursday it says shows Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill telling his fiancee about punching and using a belt to discipline their son one day after prosecutors reluctantly declined to file charges in a domestic incident. Police were called to Hill’s home twice last month and investigators determined the
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WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Thursday that China’s president, Xi Jinping, would be coming soon to the White House, fueling anticipation that the world’s two largest economies may be close to finishing a trade deal. Mr. Trump, in remarks to White House staff, parents and children gathered on the lawn for Take Your Children
WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on two Chinese shipping companies it says helped North Korea evade sanctions over its nuclear weapons program, the first such steps since a U.S.-North Korean summit collapsed last month. The U.S. Treasury Department also issued an updated advisory that listed 67 vessels that
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Blue Peter has named Richie Driss as its 38th and newest presenter. Driss will make his debut on the CBBC show on 16 May, co-hosting with Lindsey Russell and the show’s new dog, Henry. The 30-year-old from St Albans previously worked as a presenter for Joe Media and had his own series on urban culture
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Nearly 1,700 workers at a GE Transportation plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, went on strike Tuesday, marking the first large-scale work stoppage in the U.S. manufacturing sector in three years. Union members with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) say the factory’s incoming owner, Pennsylvania-based Wabtec Corp., is trying to impose mandatory
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“The art world should be understood as a complex ecology with many microclimates and some macro ones,” said the curator Okwui Enwezor, who died in March. He could have been describing the geography of New York City galleries. In the 1970s, the climates were macro and few (the Upper East Side, SoHo). In the 1980s,
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In the days leading up to the New Zealand massacre that left dozens of Muslim worshippers dead, the suspected shooter, a 28-year-old Australian man, left a trail of xenophobic and Islamophobic postings online. On Tuesday, he appeared to share a series of YouTube videos on Twitter, including a montage of bloodied corpses from previous terror
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