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How Dangerous Is It to Be a Bird in Your City? Buildings Kill Hundreds of Millions a Year

A new study shows how efforts to prevent migrating birds from flying into skyscrapers and other brightly lit buildings could be honed.

S.Res. 171: A resolution expressing the sense of Congress regarding restoring United States bilateral assistance to the West Bank and Gaza.

Introduced: Sponsor: Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]

This resolution was referred to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations which will consider it before sending it to the Senate floor for consideration.

Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR] is a member of the committee.

The Chemical Brothers: No Geography review – revitalised back-to-skool anthems

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(Virgin EMI)

Three decades after they emerged – along with Underworld, Orbital and the Prodigy – as field-filling dance-music big beasts, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons’s ninth album journeys back to the source. During recording, they built a “studio within a studio”, containing all their old vintage/analogue gear, which had been gathering dust since the 1990s. The idea was presumably that by making music how they used to, they’d rekindle some of the old inspiration and then tweak it for 2019 with the larger studio’s modern tech. Which is pretty much how No Geography sounds.

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Georgia lawmakers consider bill that takes aim at the state’s journalists

Brown shirts in Georgia

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Congressman Andrew Welch introduced legislation that would create a state board to oversee the work of media outlets

In a move slammed by proponents of press freedom, Georgia politicians are considering a law that would create a journalism board to oversee the work of journalists in the state.

The move, introduced by the Republican state legislator Andrew Welch just before he resigned his seat, has generated widespread outrage, though it fits into a pattern of attacks on the media by Republican figures, including Donald Trump.

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