Files show Ex-Ukraine prosecutor said he was told to back off probe of Biden-linked firm…
October 3, 2019
The fired prosecutor at the center of the Ukraine controversy said during a private interview with President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani earlier this year that he was told to back off an investigation involving a natural gas firm that was linked to Joe Biden’s son, according to details of that interview that were handed over to Congress by the State Department’s inspector general Wednesday.
Fox News obtained a copy of Giuliani’s notes from his January 2019 interview with fired Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin in which he claimed that his “investigations stopped out of fear of the United States.”
Biden to Trump: ‘You’re not going to destroy me’…
October 3, 2019
“I’m not going anywhere”: Joe Biden delivered a forceful speech in response to Pres. Trump’s attacks of him in the midst of the Ukraine call controversy. https://t.co/IEnjk0M6tW pic.twitter.com/1d3Qw9xsgt
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 3, 2019
Twin Birth Rate Drops For First Time Since The ’80s…
October 3, 2019
According to a data brief published Thursday from the National Center for Health Statistics, twin births declined in the U.S. by 4% from 2014 to 2018. The decline follows decades of steady growth which began in the 1980s and lasted through the early 2000s. The leading theory for the trend reversal is that fertility treatments — generally thought to have caused the twin boom in the first place — have gotten more sophisticated.
Getting a new mobile number in China will involve a facial-recognition test…
October 3, 2019
China is taking every measure it can to verify the identities of its over 850 million mobile internet users. From Dec. 1, people applying for new mobile and data services will have to have their faces scanned by telecom providers, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said (link in Chinese) in a Sept. 27 statement. MIIT said the step was part of its efforts to “safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of citizens in the cyberspace” and to control phone and internet fraud.
WHAT? ID2020 and partners launch program to provide digital ID with vaccines…
October 3, 2019
The ID2020 Alliance has launched a new digital identity program at its annual summit in New York, in collaboration with the Government of Bangladesh, vaccine alliance Gavi, and new partners in government, academia, and humanitarian relief.
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“We are implementing a forward-looking approach to digital identity that gives individuals control over their own personal information, while still building off existing systems and programs,” says Anir Chowdhury, policy advisor at a2i.
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The City of Austin, ID2020, and several other partners are working together with homeless people and the service providers who engage with them to develop a blockchain-enabled digital identity platform called MyPass to empower homeless people with their own identity data...Here we go. What was thought to be a conspiracy theory, is turning out to be a fact.
Stunning cargo discovered on well-preserved Roman shipwreck…
October 3, 2019
The ship, which dates to some time from the middle to late third century A.D., is believed to have been traveling from the Iberian Peninsula to Rome when it sank. It had been loaded up with oil, wine and fish sauces, according to the council. Experts said the well-preserved wreck is unlikely to have gone down in a violent storm. Indeed, a number of theories have arisen about the ship’s demise, including the possibility that it may have sunk as a result of a leak or unrest among its crew.
5 bulls found dead in Oregon drained of blood with genitals removed…
October 3, 2019
The first dead bull was found in a timbered ravine in eastern Oregon. There was no indication it had been shot, attacked by predators or eaten poisonous plants. The animal’s sex organs and tongue had been removed. All the blood was gone. In the next few days, four more Hereford bulls were found within 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) in the same condition. There were no tracks around the carcasses. Ranch management and law enforcement suspect that someone killed the bulls. Ranch hands have been advised to travel in pairs and to go armed...
Common herbs, like lavender, fennel, and chamomile, have a history of use as folk medicines used to lower blood pressure. In a new study, researchers explain the molecular mechanisms that make them work…
October 3, 2019
Trump and Republicans break fundraising record and bring in $125M haul during the third quarter of this year…
October 3, 2019
Since the beginning of the year, the group has raised more than $308 million. It also has a war chest of more than $156 million in the bank, according to the Washington Post. President Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee by comparison raised over $70 million during the same quarter in the lead up to his 2012 reelection.
Republicans and the Trump campaign have recently been fundraising off of impeachment efforts by House Democrats. The campaign announced last week that it would spend $8 million to air an ad on television and radio attacking Democrats over the impeachment inquiry and accusing them of trying to “steal” the upcoming election. The RNC additionally is spending $2 million attacking Democrats for supporting impeachment.
‘Dinks and Donks’ and Marsquakes: Hear Weird Red Planet Sounds from a NASA Lander…
October 3, 2019
NASA's Mars Insight's seismometer detects "seismic signals, including some produced by the spacecraft itself," according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Story: 'Dinks and Donks' and Marsquakes: Hear Weird Red Planet Sounds from a NASA Lander...
Christian doctor of 30 years loses job for refusing to use transgender pronoun…
October 3, 2019
Dr. David Mackereth, 56, a National Health Service employee, was fired from his post at the Department for Work and Pensions in July because he would not use a transgender pronoun, saying he believes "gender is defined by biology and genetics" and the "Bible teaches us that God made humans male or female." This week he lost his case before an Employment Tribunal in England, where the judge ruled his beliefs were "incompatible with human dignity."
Four officers die in Paris knife attack at police headquarters…
October 3, 2019
The attack took place on Thursday afternoon at the Paris police headquarters on Île de la Cité, located across the street from the Notre-Dame Cathedral. The attacker was a staffer at the police headquarters, according to a police union spokesman. While the motive for the attack remains unknown, the police union spokesman said the assailant had suffered “a moment of madness”.
Middle class Is getting richer: Family incomes increased $4,100 since Trump took office…
October 3, 2019
Economist and author Stephen Moore highlighted a new study that says the middle class is getting richer, faster for President Trump than it did for recent presidents. Moore, who helped write the 2017 tax cuts, cited a report from the Census Bureau and said: 'Since Donald Trump was elected and took office through July of 2019, median family incomes, middle-class incomes are up $4,100.' For the 12 months ending in July, the real median household income - those in the very middle - was $65,084.
Google to commit 250,000 new training opportunities for the White House Pledge to American Workers…
October 3, 2019
CEO Sundar Pichai was making the announcement Thursday during an appearance with White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump at El Centro community college in downtown Dallas... Google says it’s also expanding a program it developed to train people who don’t have experience or a college degree for entry-level jobs information technology support in less than six months... “Today I am proud to join more than 350 American businesses in signing ‘The Pledge to America’s Workers. ’ This will take Google’s commitment even further by creating 250,000 new training opportunities for American workers over the next five years,” Pichai says.
Justice Department planning to collect DNA from illegals crossing U.S.-Mexico border and others in detention centers for use in a national criminal database…
October 3, 2019
Senior administration officials said Wednesday a proposed rule requiring the Department of Homeland Security to collect DNA from migrants taken into custody could be published in coming days.
The rule—which injects a new civil-rights issue into the debate about U.S. immigration-policy changes—would require collection of cheek swabs from what could amount to hundreds of thousands of migrants, including unauthorized immigrants taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
At least 20 JBER paratroopers injured in Mississippi training incident…
October 3, 2019
Capt. Ashley Bain-Sangster, a spokesperson for the 4th Brigade Combat Team 25th Infantry Division, said the paratroopers were in the middle of an airborne operation around 8 p.m. CDT when the incident occurred. Recovery efforts are ongoing. Bain-Sangster said three aircraft were performing operations near two separate drop zones. On the first pass to one of the drop zones, something went wrong and several paratroopers went off the drop zone and landed in trees. A second pass scheduled for 8:30 p.m. CDT was canceled.
North Korea confirms it fired missile from submarine…
October 3, 2019
The Pukguksong-3 missile was launched “in vertical mode” on Wednesday from the water near the eastern city of Wonsan, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported.
“The test-firing scientifically and technically confirmed the key tactical and technical indexes of the newly designed ballistic missile and had no adverse impact on the security of neighboring countries,” KCNA said.
It didn’t provide more details, but South Korean officials said the missile flew 280 miles and reached an altitude of 565 miles before crashing into the sea off the eastern coast.‘Toxic chemical fumes,’ not oils, may be causing vaping illness, Mayo Clinic researchers find…
October 3, 2019
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic examine lung biopsies from 17 patients suspected of having a vaping illness that's sickened more than 805 people since April. Doctors have previously said it resembled a rare form of pneumonia caused by the accumulation of fatty substances known as lipids. However, none of the cases examined by the Mayo Clinic researchers show any evidence of lipoid pneumonia...
Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have invented an ultra-thin second skin that can deform and adapt to your moving body. The skin is designed to give you touch feedback that feels natural without using electronic vibration…
October 3, 2019
Published in the journal Soft Robotics, the research describes a soft skin that is less than 500 nanometers in thickness. The skin is equipped with pneumatic actuators that will actually make you feel are touching something real, rather than just the simulation of an electronic haptic engine, which doesn’t really feel like the real thing at all. The artificial skin also has integrated sensors that sends data used to modulate the pressure. The scientist claim this is the first time this has been accomplished...
Giuliani slams ‘swamp media’, says it’s time to fight back against Dems…
October 3, 2019
"I Got A Whole New Set Of Allegations Today That Could Be Even More Serious."