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Enlarge (credit: Wikimedia Commons) While the EPA is often portrayed as a massive bureaucracy, about half of its budget goes directly to other organizations through grants. While many of these are focused on cleanups and reducing environmental risks, the agency also funds scientific research into various health and environmental risks. The money for these research […]
San Francisco, a “sanctuary city,” stands to lose $ 1.5 million in police-related federal funding, but now the city and California are suing the US Department of Justice over this rule. Some $ 500,000 of the funding is distributed by the federal government. On Monday, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera slapped the US Department […]
REUTERS/Kate Munsch (Reuters) – A US judge on Thursday granted the state of Hawaii’s bid to exempt grandparents and other relatives from President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on residents from six Muslim-majority countries and refugees. US District Judge Derrick Watson in Honolulu had been asked to narrowly interpret a US Supreme Court ruling that […]
Enlarge (credit: Arizona Cardinals) In 2013, Megan Welter had a really bad night. Welter, at that time a cheerleader for the Arizona Cardinals, got into a drunken fight with her boyfriend. It ended with her calling 911 and reporting him for domestic violence. Welter’s boyfriend was a professional fighter, who “smashed [her] head into the tile” and […]
Associated Press/Susan Walsh The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it has awarded 26 grants totaling $ 10 million to communities across the US in an effort to fight radicalization and recruitment of American citizens by terrorist groups. The awards are part of the department’s Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Grant Program, which gives money to […]
The Department of Energy has awarded six grants totaling $ 258 million for research on the Exascale Computing Project (ECP). The mission of the ECP is to deliver at least one exascale-capable system by 2021. Such a system would be able to execute one exaflop, a billion billion calculations per second. U.S. Secretary of Energy […]
Starz This week Ars Technica’s podcast Decrypted explores the action-packed third episode of American Gods, where we meet a jinn from the ancient city of Uran (located today in Oman), a disgruntled traveling salesman, and an ancient Egyptian death god. And that’s just the part where Mr. Wednesday isn’t up to one of his more […]
Published time: 9 May, 2017 00:25 Germany has granted refugee status to Turkish nationals who were stationed at NATO bases and applied for asylum amid Ankara’s wide scale crackdown on disloyal officials after a failed coup in Turkey last July, according to local media reports. Only “several” Turkish soldiers and their families have been so […]
Enlarge / Martin Shkreli. (credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Martin Shkreli will have his federal securities fraud trial separated from that of his former counsel and co-defendant Evan Greebel, US District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto wrote in an order filed Wednesday. Shkreli and Greebel were jointly indicted by the FBI in December of 2015 on allegations that […]
If there is one critical weapon in the fight against inequality, it’s education. After all, Google points out, there remain 130 million students around the world have yet to fully grasp basic subjects like reading and math, even after four years of primary education. But now, the tech giant is hoping to tackle this problem head on by […]
