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White House official ordered aid to Ukraine be withheld 90 minutes after Trump call with Ukraine president, documents show
White House officials requested that aid to Ukraine be held within 90 minutes of President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, according to newly obtained documents. While the Trump administration has yet to release a single document subpoenaed by Congress during its impeachment inquiry of the president, the administration was forced to …
Enabled by technology, young Indians show what it means to be a citizen
What does it mean to be a citizen? I have had reason to think a lot about that term recently, in all its different shades of meaning. At one level, citizenship is a legal status. Our government has tried to sharpen its definition with the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). At another level, citizenship denotes a …
Religions show faith in power of technology
The Vatican is praying that this year’s must-have Christmas gadget will not be an Apple Watch or Kindle, but rather its eRosary device. The £99 bracelet, which is activated by making the sign of the cross with it, is aimed at tracking a devotee’s progress through a range of prayers and is accessed using an …
Pete Davidson asks fans to sign $1 million NDA before comedy show
Whatever you do, never tweet at a Pete Davidson comedy show. The “Saturday Night Live” cast member has recently been dolling out non-disclosure agreements before each of his recent comedy shows. Most recently fans attending Davidson’s standup at the Sydney Goldstein Theater were asked to sign a lengthy contract that forbid them from tweeting or instagramming …
Bett Show 2020: advancing education with technology
The 36th edition of the Bett Show will take place on 22-25 January 2020 at ExCeL London, UK. Attendees can hear from over 800 industry suppliers, enterprises and start-ups in education technology and over 34,000 educators. The show aims to further the sector’s opportunities with a line-up of 300 influential figures in teaching and learning. …
Dubai Air Show: The challenges for us all in flying green
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The airline industry is trying to develop greener solutions for our air travel, but will it be enough? Sustainable, renewable, green: the buzz words of the environmentalists figured large at this week’s Dubai Air Show. At the last show two years ago, such things barely registered. This time we’ve …
BREAKING: New filings show judge in Rodney Reed case ‘no longer sitting’
AUSTIN, TX (KXAN) – A new filing in Rodney Reed’s fight to stay alive shows the judge in Reed’s case is no longer serving as a judge in Texas. That new information is included in a filing sent to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Tuesday. Judge Doug Shaver signed Reed’s death warrant in July …
Review: On Disney Plus, a Show That Goldblumsplains the World
For a game-changing, earthshaking new player in the entertainment market, Disney Plus arrives Tuesday with a pretty motley assortment of original shows. There are a couple of franchise extensions (the Star Wars series “The Mandalorian,” the strenuously named “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series”), a few self-promotional reality series (“The Imagineering Story,” “Marvel’s Hero …
TV producer mum takes baby with her round world to shoot David Attenborough show
I had no idea producing natural history programmes was an actual career, but when I was six, I decided I wanted to be David Attenborough. I grew up in Manchester so I wasn’t exactly surrounded by wildlife, but there were ants in my garden and I loved them. I was so desperate to be out …
Quebec denies Frenchwoman residency for failing to show command of French | World news
A French doctoral student has been denied residency in Quebec after officials in Canada’s francophone province ruled that she had an inadequate command of her mother tongue. Emilie Dubois, a graphic designer who has lived and studied in Quebec City for eight years, was stunned to find her recent residency application denied on the grounds …
