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Utah Hospital Bars Police From Patient-Care Areas After Nurse’s Arrest
The police are conducting a criminal investigation into the arrest of a nurse at the University of Utah Hospital that was captured on video and led to widespread condemnation.
Backyard Chickens Carry a Hidden Risk: Salmonella
Bird flu not far behind More than 900 people have contracted it from backyard poultry this year — the highest number ever — and the trend is expected to continue.
France to start using armed drones
When will someone hack into one of these drones and use it for??? Or is skynet the real future? France unveiled plans on Tuesday to start using armed drones, joining a growing number of countries worldwide to operate the deadly unmanned aircraft.
Leaked document reveals UK Brexit plan to deter EU immigrants
Murder of democracy most foul!
Exclusive: Home Office paper sets out detailed proposals including measures to drive down number of low-skilled migrants from Europe
Britain will end the free movement of labour immediately after Brexit and introduce restrictions to deter all but highly-skilled EU workers under detailed proposals set out in a Home Office document leaked to the Guardian.
The 82-page paper, marked as extremely sensitive and dated August 2017, sets out for the first time how Britain intends to approach the politically charged issue of immigration, dramatically refocusing policy to put British workers first.
Trump to scrap protection for ‘Dreamers’, give Congress six months to fix
Typical of a dolt who doesn’t have a clue about the job he is supposed to be doing #TraitorTrumP WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has decided to scrap a program shielding immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children from deportation but will give Congress six months to craft a bill to replace it, sources familiar with the situation said.
Calhoun Who? Yale Drops Name of Slavery Advocate for Computer Pioneer
A residential college named for a proponent of white supremacy will be rededicated to Rear Adm. Grace Hopper, a computer programmer.
Ex Libris: New York Public Library review – the restless mind of the city
A treasured US institution opens itself to the painstaking view of fly-on-the-wall master Frederick Wiseman, who finds enlightenment, humour, compassion and soul within its walls
Frederick Wiseman, who can reasonably be called one of the most groundbreaking film-makers still working, has spent his entire career taking deep dives on very specific topics. It’s maybe something of a punchline that now, at age 87, his latest subject is everything.
For over 50 years Wiseman’s all-seeing, fly-on-the-wall cinema has visited institutions (a psychiatric hospital, a park, a museum, a concert venue, a school), gobbled it all up and served it back in an edited form that, while avoiding a traditional three-act structure, links sequences that build to a rich, almost-transcendent understanding. Lord knows others ape the style, but few compare.
Brazil’s leftist hero basks in adulation as he bids to revive political fortunes
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was convicted of corruption in July. Now he is on the road mobilising those he lifted out of poverty
Wearing their best red T-shirts, carrying flags and banners, and buzzing with excitement, thousands of people in this poor, dusty farming town had thronged the main square to see Lula and they screamed and stretched out their hands when he walked on stage.
The bearded, gravel-voiced leftist leader’s rule ended seven years ago, yet he remains the most popular Brazilian president in decades, if not in the country’s history.
US officer manhandles nurse for not drawing blood from patient
viral means viral – Germany picks up story. The violent incident has shocked the nation after video emerged online of a nurse being arrested by force. The nurse had said she was merely following normal hospital protocol, and the officer was put on leave.
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