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Australia’s Kyle Chalmers claims silver at world swimming championships
Updated July 25, 2019 22:02:20 Australia’s Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers has fallen just short of claiming gold at the world swimming titles after finishing second to American Caeleb Dressel in the men’s 100 metres freestyle final in Gwangju, South Korea. Chalmers came home strongly in the second lap to produce a personal best time of …
Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 To Boast Ground-Breaking New Feature, Report Claims
Samsung’s next smartwatch will have a new way of interacting with it, that will satisfy users who mourn the absence of the rotating bezel found on earlier models. Samsung Galaxy Watch Active – the current version Samsung That’s the claim made by Sammobile, which has a strong track record in these things. The absence of …
Fact Check: China ‘Claims’ Massive Breakthrough in Stealth Technology
Chinese scientists claim they have developed a new kind of material for making aircraft less detectable by radar. But the development probably is not the breakthrough that some observers claim it is. Prof. Luo Xiangang and colleagues at the Institute of Optics and Electronics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Chengdu, said they …
Iran CIA arrests: Iran claims it’s nabbed 17 spies working for CIA and sentenced some to death today — live updates
Tehran, Iran — Iran said Monday it has arrested 17 Iranian nationals allegedly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on the country’s nuclear and military sites, and that some have already been sentenced to death. The arrests took place in the Iranian calendar year ending in March 2019 and those taken into custody …
Unlicensed “health coach” claims health advice is free speech—court disagrees
Enlarge / Unlicensed “health coach” Heather Del Castillo A federal court on Wednesday rejected claims by an unlicensed “health coach” that the unqualified health advice she provided to paying clients was protected speech under the First Amendment. In rejecting her claim, the court affirmed that states do indeed have the right to require that anyone …
Breaking down the key claims in Auburn’s Victim Impact Statement
The headlining news from Auburn’s Victim Impact Statement was its internal belief that it will receive a formal Notice of Allegations from the NCAA< and possibly further sanctions. However, the entire five-page letter that the university filed to Manhattan federal court last week provided the most transparent look that anyone has given about how the …
Jane Technologies Closes $21 Million Funding Round, Claims It’s ‘The Biggest Series B In Cannabis Tech’
iheartjane.com Jane Technologies I first met former military commander and MIT graduate Socrates Rosenfeld a couple years ago, when he was getting ready to start raising a Series A funding round for his online cannabis products marketplace, Jane Technologies. I remember this vividly because I was very impressed by Socrates’ personality and backstory. He’d gone …
New leak claims Trump scrapped Iran nuclear deal ‘to spite Obama’
Image copyright AFP Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal to spite Barack Obama, according to a leaked memo written by the UK’s former ambassador to the US. Sir Kim Darroch described the move as an act of “diplomatic vandalism”, according to the Mail on Sunday. It says the memo was written after the then …
Australia’s biggest private health insurers illegally rejected thousands of claims | Australia news
The nation’s biggest health insurers illegally rejected the claims of thousands of sick or injured Australians over seven years, leaked documents show. A government whistleblower who investigated their conduct has also revealed how his efforts were frustrated by years of inaction, failures to fully alert the public, intervention from his superiors, and suspicions that the …
Pride in London organisers fend off pinkwashing claims | World news
The organisers of Pride in London have claimed Saturday’s event will be the most sustainable and diverse in its 47-year history, despite criticism from some campaigners that it has become too regimented and commercialised. Peter Tatchell, one of the organisers of the UK’s first Pride parade in 1972, criticised local authority-imposed limits on marcher numbers. …
