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Righting ‘sins of omission’: Monument honors Virginia women

TheRepublic.com 

RICHMOND, Va. — Around a thousand people filled Virginia’s Capitol Square for the dedication Monday of statues honoring some of the state’s trailblazing women, part of a monument organizers say is unlike any other in the country. The new women’s monument, about a decade in the making, will eventually feature a dozen life-sized bronze statues

Statues of Christopher Columbus vandalized amid controversy over the holiday - ABC News

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  1. Statues of Christopher Columbus vandalized amid controversy over the holiday  ABC News
  2. Protesters douse Columbus statue in red paint to decry ‘genocide’ in San Francisco  Sacramento Bee
  3. Christopher Columbus statues vandalized in California and Rhode Island  CNN
  4. On Columbus Day, statue in Providence vandalized: ‘Stop celebrating genocide’  The Boston Globe
  5. Christopher Columbus statues in Providence, San Francisco vandalized on Columbus Day  NBC News
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Commission releases draft report on Fonterra’s Milk Price

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The Commerce Commission today released its draft report on its annual review of Fonterra’s Farmgate Milk Price Manual for the 2019/20 dairy season (Manual). The draft report builds on our previous reviews of the Manual.

22 nostalgic photos that show what Tokyo looked like in the 1970s

ThisIsinsider.com 

  • Photographer Greg Girard spent his teenage days capturing images of the streets and people of Vancouver before he moved on to exploring Asian cities like Hong Kong and Tokyo. 
  • In his book, "Tokyo-Yokosuka 1976-83," Girard shares largely unseen photos of the Japanese city right before its economic boom. 
  • Through his series of colored and black-and-white photos, he also explores Yokosuka, a town south of Tokyo that was home to a sprawling US Navy base. 
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Admedus Turns Attention to TAVR Program

Mddionline.com 

Change is in the air for Admedus. The Brisbane, Australia-based company is selling off its CardioCel and VascuCel businesses to LeMaitre Vascular. The deal would give Admedus the space to focus on its transcatheter aortic valve replacement products.

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How the Two-Hour Marathon Limit Was Broken

WIRED 

On Saturday, October 12, 2019, Eliud Kipchoge became the first person ever to run a marathon in under two hours, a staggering achievement in athletics and human performance. Dr. Michael Joyner, an exercise physiologist at the Mayo Clinic, first predicted it might be possible in a paper he wrote in 1991. WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez has been following Kipchoge's attempts for years, and spoke with Joyner about how Kipchoge finally made it happen.

Budget 2020 at-a-glance: What's in it for you?

Times of Malta 

It was a budget that prioritised the vulnerable and offered low-income property buyers a way to enter the housing market. So what did Budget 2020 offer you? Parents  • €300 grant for every child born or adopted as of next year • Parents who quit work to care for a very sick child will be given 8 years of National Insurance contributions • Widows and widowers who choose to work will still receive a full €10 per week in children’s allowance, instead of the reduced one they were eligible for before. Читать дальше...

Warren, Buttigieg Dismiss O’Rourke’s Call to Strip Churches of Tax-Exempt Status If They Oppose Gay Marriage

Yahoo! News 

Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg have both distanced themselves from fellow candidate Beto O’Rourke's call to revoke the tax-exempt status afforded to religious institutions that oppose same-sex marriage.“There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for anyone … that denies the full human rights and the full civil rights of every single one of us.” O'Rourke said during CNN’s “Equality in America” town hall last Thursday night. “And so as president, we are going to make that a priority... Читать дальше...

Cardi B downplays Sanders heart attack: It's not 'a problem'

TheHill.com 

Rapper Cardi B is downplaying Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) recent heart attack, saying she does not think it is "a problem" for the 2020 Democratic hopeful.The artist defended the presidential candidate in an interview with...

US nuclear weapons are now being held as ‘essentially Erdogan’s hostages’ in Turkey: report

Raw Story 

When President Donald Trump pulled American troops out of northern Syria, virtually giving Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the green light to attack the region’s Kurds, he likely didn’t anticipate a key factor that might get caught in the crossfire: control of U.S. nuclear weapons. Erdogan’s forces have been raining down terror on the Kurds, […]


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