Новости за 27.02.2020

The gas utility responsible for fires and explosions across three communities north of Boston in 2018 is pleading guilty to violating federal safety regulations — and will pay a record fine.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with The Washington Post's Joanna Slater about the violence between supporters and opponents of India's citizenship law which occurred during President Trump's visit.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to classify lynching as a federal hate crime. The vote came at the end of Black History Month.

Syrian and Russian armed forces are advancing quickly on rebel areas, killing civilians and intensifying suffering as nearly 1 million refugees huddle in camps near Turkey. Little relief is in sight.

When some fast-food workers in New York went on strike one morning in 2012, they had no idea it was the beginning of an unusual movement that would propel an economic revolution.

Inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman "live a miserable and hopeless existence confronted daily by imminent risk of substantial harm," the suit said.

SATELLITE images show the latest weather system that will bring snow and ice to the UK on Thursday.

For years now, one of Google Chrome’s most-loved Easter eggs has been the offline Dino game, something that’s even spawned real-life figures. As Microsoft builds out its Chromium-based Edge browser as a Chrome competitor, it’s also showing off a Surf game that looks like a lot more fun.

The discovery expands the definition of what an "animal" can be, researchers say.

UK online gambling participation up, in-play betting down

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A statement by the accountant-general of Akwa Ibom state, Pastor Uwem Andrew-Essien noted that the new minimum wage came into effect with the February 2020 salary with January arrears also paid.

Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer said on Wednesday that he expects defensive end Everson Griffen to return to the team for the 2020 season, but it doesn’t sound like he has the same outlook for safety Anthony Harris. Harris is set for unrestricted free agency after starting 14 games and leading the league in interceptions [more]

MILWAUKEE (WITI)— Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales said five MillerCoors employees were fatally shot at their workplace Wednesday, Feb. 26. The shooter, a Milwaukee man, 51, was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. No members of the public were involved. On Wednesday evening, police were screening people and checking off workers one by […]

A new Star Tribune/MPR News Minnesota Poll of 500 likely Democratic voters found home-state Sen. Amy Klobuchar leading the field with 29% support, though Sanders trailed closely at 23%.

Terry Glavin: The UNHRC is so rife with oppressors and torture states that it just might serve the opposite of its founding purpose

The aftermath of the invasion of Markovia, among other things.

The death toll from a weekend cooking gas accident in a North Macedonian village has climbed to five, all members of the same family, after a severely injured woman died in hospital

Transitioning from novelty to artist on the rise, we look at the ways in which Doja Cat's first viral smash has informed her career from here on out.
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The comedian aired his dirty laundry to Charlamagne tha God in a YouTube interview this week

Researchers have created the first catalogue of genes that comprise the community of microbes, which inhabit the human vagina. The catalogue, called human vaginal non-redundant gene catalog (VIRGO), was recently released as a public resource that can be used by researchers to facilitate a more in-depth understanding of the role of vaginal microorganisms in women's health and to potentially develop future treatments.

1. Astronomers discover Earth has a second moon — for now  WTHR
2. Earth has acquired a brand new moon that’s about the size of a car  New Scientist News
3. Earth has a new mini-moon -- but it's only temporary  CNN
4. New 'mini-moon' orbiting Earth — for now, astronomers say  NBCNews.com
5. Possible New ‘Mini-Moon’ Detected in Orbit Around Earth  Gizmodo
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The commonwealth of Virginia became the first state in the American South to successfully pass an LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill through its legislature, sending the measure to the desk of Gov. Ralph Northam (D) for his signature into law. On Monday, House lawmakers had approved a revised version of the Virginia Values Act, a sweeping statewide […]

PARIS — Fourteen EU ministers called Wednesday for a ceasefire in Syria's Idlib, where hundreds of thousands have been displaced by ongoing violence in the northern province. 

Biologists have challenged old notions that communities with mutualistic interactions -- where the presence of one species benefits another -- are unstable. Their model, instead, shows that such interactions can make communities even more stable in some scenarios.