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Americans watched helplessly as their cars had paint flaking off due to toxic emissions Thousands of tonnes of film forming foam, or AFFF, have been secretly incinerated across the US for years. This highly controversial campaign was spearheaded by Pentagon officials who effectively sanctioned the mass poisoning of Americans, writes The Guardian. According to Bennington […]

The principality’s ruler believed the couple should have spoken ‘within the intimate quarters of the family’.

Shelves are lined with pink ribbon products during Breast Cancer Awareness month, but consumers are often unsure how their donations support the cause. Christina Rose, the chief partnerships officer for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, offers insight into cause-marketing and the corporate sector's impact.

TOKYO, Japan: The Japanese are coming out to view the early blooming of their famed cherry blossoms, but during Covid lockdowns the nation is being asked to restrict their normal cherry blossom fes

The Seahawks signed defensive end Kerry Hyder Jr., who led the 49ers in sacks last season.  John Boyle

The Tokyo Olympics are a disaster. There is no way of getting around it: from controversy over a potentially plagiarized logo to the resignation of the organizing committee's president, to the games' pandemic-induced postponement from 2020 to 2021 (costing the country an additional $2.8 billion), to accusations that the Olympic bid was a vanity project for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, almost nothing about the lead-up to Tokyo has gone smoothly or as planned.

As I write this article, I am listening to the band TesseracT on Spotify. The service is quite a bargain for me — I can listen to virtually any record ever made, for just $9.99 a month. But it's not such a great deal for TesseracT, which gets just $0.00348 for each song of theirs I play. If I listened to their album "Sonder" on continuous repeat 24 hours a day for the next year straight, they would receive just $355.90.

Our rights to open, even crude, dissent are relatively recent—and vulnerable to legislative and judicial crackdowns

A new book reduces centuries of passionate art into the stuff of self-help videos.

The top finance stories for March 26, including the latest news on the highlights from $5 billion Hippo's recently filed S-4.

A PLACE in the Sun’s Jonnie Irwin was baffled when a couple dismissed a property after slamming the tiny kitchen as “an oven in the living room”. The 47-year-old TV host responded with harsh sarcasm as couple Teresa and Robin turned down the Tenerife apartment, which was within their £120,000 budget. The British couple were […]

Beacon Hospital apologises for the upset that this decision has caused

The legal experts weigh in.

I think they look at Super League players almost like we look at academy players. As though SL players are promising but unproven until they've played top level. You would have thought Williams had just come from St Pats u16s the way they were talking about him in his first NRL season. Bearing that in mind I do think age matters to them because they'll want a player who will learn and improve whilst he's there. Having said that, they did take a flyer on Ryan Hall late in his career, and I do agree... Читать дальше...

THE POLICE OF FINLAND has started preparing to monitor public compliance with the movement restrictions made possible under a draft bill presented to the Finnish Parliament.

Give over Frosties. Maybe a thread about Leeds Utd shouldnt exist on a Rugby League site????

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1. Uighurs: China bans UK MPs after abuse sanctions  BBC News
2. Nike and H&M face China fury over Xinjiang cotton 'concerns' - BBC News  BBC News
3. China sanctions: Iain Duncan Smith describes Beijing censure over human rights criticism as ‘badge of honour’  Evening Standard
4. Beijing strikes back after UK sanctions - and adds senior British politicians to its own list  Sky News
5. Nike and H&M face China backlash after warning of Uighur forced labour in cotton... Читать дальше...

As Apple prepares to unveil its next generation of iPads and more, CNET's Dan Ackerman joins us to talk about the expected highlights.