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Sometime in the nineteen-eighties, riding the monorail into Tokyo, Naoya Hatakeyama had an epiphany about limestone—namely, that it was everywhere, except in the vast holes where it used to be. Blast after blast, truckload by truckload, humanity had embarked on…
In September, when the Trump administration announced that it was winding down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that protected young unauthorized immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation, tens of thousands of immigrants were…
Major media wants to make sure you know that departing White House communications director Hope Hicks was a model. When news broke Wednesday that the influential aide who’s been a fixture in Trumpworld since 2015 plans to step down, the…
For the first time in decades, Democrats are making a big play for Texas in 2018. There are Democratic candidates running in all of the state’s 36 congressional districts for the first time in 25 years. Democrats know they won’t…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued dozens of subpoenas and requests for information to companies and individuals linked to the booming cryptocurrencies market, The Wall Street Journal reported. The SEC requested information on sales and…
Probe launched by Chinese authorities against the chairman of finance and energy conglomerate CEFC puts company’s acquisition of a 14.16-percent stake in Russian oil giant Rosneft from the consortium of the Swiss commodities giant Glencore and the Qatar Investment Authority…
