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Exxon’s Climate Denial Set To Face First Public Scrutiny As Legal Woes Mount

It’s been nearly four years since leaked documents revealed Exxon Mobil Corp. understood that fossil fuel emissions caused the planet to warm before it began funding a Big Tobacco-style misinformation campaign to discredit climate science. Now the world’s largest publicly traded oil company will face public questions for the first time over its role in […]

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How Russia wants to control the internet

World / En Sound Media

All the stages have been passed for President Putin to sign the controversial ‘sovereign internet’ bill into law. This is part of the Kremlin’s wider aim to control internet access for Russians, which critics say is a form of censorship. BBC Monitoring looks at the ways the Russian government is changing its cyber rules, and

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Another Grand Canyon visitor dies in fall from edge

Travel / En Sound Media

Another visitor to Grand Canyon National Park has died after falling over the edge of the South Rim, authorities said Tuesday. A 70-year-old woman fell about 200 feet (61 meters) over the rim, the second over-the-edge death this month within the confines of the park, according to Grand Canyon officials. The woman had been walking

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Wing, Owned by Google’s Parent Company, Gets First Approval for Drone Deliveries

Technology / En Sound Media

Millions of drones buzzing through the air, delivering the groceries you need to make your dinner, the medicine you forgot to pick up from the pharmacy or even a hot cup of coffee. To some, it’s the inevitable, efficient future. To others, it might sound more like the beginnings of a dystopian horror story. Either

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Dyson’s dive gets run on review, D-backs beat Pirates 2-1

Sports / En Sound Media

Jarrod Dyson watched the ball hit the dirt and bolted for home, an impressive read by the veteran speedster. He saw the play at plate better than some, too. Dyson slid around catcher Francisco Cervelli and signaled that he was safe, but he was only credited with the go-ahead run after a replay review. That

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Joe Biden Plans to Enter the 2020 Race on Thursday. He’s Starting With $0.

Politics / En Sound Media

“The one race, of all political races, where money is less important is president,” Mr. Rendell said, adding of Mr. Biden, “If he wins or loses it will not be because he raised — or didn’t — enough.” Mr. Biden re-established his political action committee, the American Possibilities PAC, in mid-2017 and raised about $2.6

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The Unbearable Lightness of Money Diaries

Finance / En Sound Media

This problem is exemplified by another confessor, whom Refinery29 asked to reflect on her life after her diary posted online (she now earns $69,000 a year). She says she appreciated the experience of documenting her spending because she learned that it’s all right to talk about money, even if that involves mistakes. She also says

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Washington state bill limits measles vaccine exemptions

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

Washington state lawmakers voted Tuesday to remove parents’ ability to claim a personal or philosophical exemption from vaccinating their children for measles, although medical and religious exemptions will remain. The vote comes as the number of measles cases nationwide this year has passed 600. The measure now heads to Gov. Jay Inslee, who has expressed

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Fighter: Why we’re seeing more female boxers on stage and screen

Entertainment / En Sound Media

Image copyright Kasia Burke Image caption Libby Liburd (pictured with a young member of the motivational group Fight For Peace) writes and stars in Fighter In a small theatre in Oval, south London, rehearsals are taking place for a new play about boxing. We try to enter the studios quietly, without disrupting any of the

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Jailed French executive who felt force of US bribery law

Business / En Sound Media

Image copyright Brigitte Baudresson Image caption Pierucci’s five-year ordeal is a cautionary tale for globe-trotting executives In April 2013, as Frédéric Pierucci stepped off a plane at New York’s JFK airport during a routine business trip, he was seized and handcuffed by uniformed men. The 45-year-old executive for Alstom, a French energy and transport group,

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