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Israel’s Attorney General Recommends Indicting Netanyahu...(don't tell me, Pelosi and Schumer and all the other leftists of the U.S. Democratic Socialist Bolshevik party have moved on to target Israeli leadership now?)

2/28/2019

www.voanews.com/a/israel-awaits-decision-on-netanyahu-corruption-indictment/4807655.html

Turkey Flexes Naval Muscle Amid Regional Tensions: Dubbed "The Blue Homeland," the drills involve more than 100 ships operating across the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea and eastern Mediterranean.

2/28/2019

www.voanews.com/a/drills-flex-turkey-naval-muscle-amid-regional-tensions/4808121.html

Pompeo: US Worried Over Chinese Moves Threatening Navigation...Chinese actions that threaten freedom of navigation in the disputed South China Sea to be discussed with Philippine officials in Manila.

2/28/2019

www.voanews.com/a/pompeo-us-worried-over-chinese-moves-threatening-navigation/4807808.html

TikTok Fined in US for Illegally Gathering Children's Data: Chinese-owned video sharing network TikTok agreed to pay a $5.7 million fine to U.S. authorities to settle charges that it illegally collected personal information from children

2/28/2019

www.voanews.com/a/tiktok-fined-in-us-for-illegally-gathering-children-s-data-/4806699.html

How ‘Completely Avoidable’ Measles Cases Continue to Climb: The U.S. has counted more measles cases in the first 2 months of 2019 than in all of 2017, the rising threat is misinformation that makes some parents balk at a crucial vaccine.

2/28/2019

www.voanews.com/a/how-completely-avoidable-measles-cases-continue-to-climb/4807278.html

India And Pakistan Were On The Brink Of War, But A Full-Blown Online Misinformation Battle Is Already Underway“...There’s politics, religion, enemy nations, and a surge of nationalism in this situation. It’s the perfect storm.”

2/28/2019

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/india-and-pakistan-were-on-the-brink-of-war-but-a-full

Sussex UK earthquakes: Two more hit Gatwick region...making a total of six quakes to have struck the region this month - But experts say that the quakes are nothing to worry about (we've heard this before, haven't we)

2/28/2019

www.shorehamherald.co.uk/news/sussex-earthquakes-two-more-hit-gatwick-region-1-8829046

Deep Learning Shakes Up Seismology with Quake Early Warning System: With a speedy warning, government officials and energy companies could halt trains and shut off power lines to mitigate damage — and give people a chance to brace themselves.

2/28/2019

blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/02/28/deep-learning-seismology-earthquake-early-warning/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nvidiablog+%28The+NVIDIA+Blog%29

Key to a happy marriage? It's in your genes, scientists discover...new research finds a predisposition not to be anxious is the key to marital stability.

2/28/2019

www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/02/28/key-happy-marriage-genes-scientists-discover/

Ocean warming has caused ‘sustainable’ fish stocks to drop by 4% since 1930s: Damage to harvests has been severe around the UK in the North and Irish seas, data shows fish particularly affected in the North Sea include Atlantic cod, sole and haddock

2/28/2019

www.carbonbrief.org/ocean-warming-has-caused-sustainable-fish-stocks-to-drop-by-4-since-1930s

Can We Conserve Endangered Parrots By Keeping Them In Cities?...important data for conservation of endangered parrots by allowing them to live in cities. (weird, but interesting article)

2/28/2019

www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2019/02/28/can-we-conserve-endangered-parrots-by-keeping-them-in-cities/#4d5c368d3960

Earth's fish are disappearing because of climate change, study says: Climate change is endangering fish worldwide, shrinking populations by up to 35% in coastal regions near China and Japan...(caution - could be fake news - it's from CNN)

2/28/2019

us.cnn.com/2019/02/28/world/climate-change-fishing-oceans-global-warming-intl/index.html

China’s Communist Party Runs This U.S. TV Station. How Independent Can It Be? CGTN America, which based in Washington and available in 30 million United States households, insists it does not do Beijing’s bidding. Some people are skeptical.

2/28/2019

www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/business/cctv-china-usa-propaganda.html

America Has Revamped Their Trident Nuclear Missiles: Here’s all the upgrades...improved electronics, firing circuitry and targeting technology to arm the emerging Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines (top secret)

2/28/2019

nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/america-has-revamped-their-trident-nuclear-missiles-45852

Underwater Game-Changer: The U.S. Navy Might Soon Have Submarine 'Motherships'...drones designed to conduct reconnaissance, share combat data with submarine “motherships,” others to launch attacks on enemy vessels

2/28/2019

nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/underwater-game-changer-us-navy-might-soon-have-submarine-motherships-45832

Doctors Report World’s Second Case of “Semi-Identical” Twins - a "3rd type of Twinning": The extremely rare event, thought to be caused by two sperm cells fertilizing the same egg simultaneously, was last reported in 2007.

2/28/2019

www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/doctors-report-worlds-second-case-of-semi-identical-twins-65546

2015-2016 El Nino triggered disease outbreaks across globe: an uptick in reported cases for plague and hantavirus in Colorado and New Mexico, cholera in Tanzania, and dengue fever in Brazil and Southeast Asia, among others.

2/28/2019

phys.org/news/2019-02-el-nino-triggered-disease.html

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – Saudi Arabia: WHO encourages all Member States to continue their surveillance for acute respiratory infections and to carefully review any unusual patterns.

2/28/2019

www.who.int/csr/don/16-january-2019-mers-saudi-arabia/en/

HIV, Hepatitis C Drugs Continue to Be Most Costly Group of Outpatient Drugs for Medicaid: Between 2014 - 2017, antiviral meds that treat HIV and hepatitis C cost the Medicaid program more than any other group of outpatient prescription drugs

2/28/2019

www.ajmc.com/newsroom/hiv-hepatitis-c-drugs-continue-to-be-most-costly-group-of-outpatient-drugs-for-medicaid

Ebola Escalated Response: $80 Million Commitment from the World Bank to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for an escalated six-month Ebola response effort (good luck with that)

2/28/2019

reliefweb.int/report/democratic-republic-congo/ebola-escalated-response-us80-million-commitment-democratic

Ducks, geese in Colorado dying from ‘new duck disease,' prompting warning from wildlife officials: A bacterial infection has killed off ducks and geese in Denver, officials announced Thursday.

2/28/2019

www.foxnews.com/science/duck-geese-in-colorado-dying-from-new-duck-disease-prompting-warning-wildlife-officials

4 red flags about high-yield bank accounts: The old saying "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is," still applies in today's online and mobile banking world.

2/28/2019

www.cbsnews.com/news/4-red-flags-about-high-yield-bank-accounts/

Family money is now behind 1 in 5 home purchases: Baby boomers in America have a problem, they're paying too much for their grown-up children's new homes.One in five home purchases in the U.S. is made possible by a parent's financial support.

2/28/2019

www.cbsnews.com/news/buying-a-house-family-money-makes-it-possible-for-1-in-5-people/

Hyundai, Kia recall over 500,000 vehicles due to engine fire risk: high exhaust gas temperatures can damage the catalytic converters. That can cause combustion and cause oil leaks that can cause fires.

2/28/2019

www.cbsnews.com/news/hyundai-kia-recall-over-500000-vehicles-due-to-engine-fire-risk/

"Operation crocodile": Drug traffickers fed bodies of victims to reptiles, feds say: 75 people accused of running a multimillion-dollar drug trafficking ring and of throwing bodies of victims to caimans...(don't do drugs is the message)

2/28/2019

www.cbsnews.com/news/operation-crocodile-puerto-rico-drug-traffickers-fed-bodies-of-victims-to-caimans-feds-say/

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