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Fast Forward Physicist Who Fled Nazis Wins Nobel For Gravity Waves Breakthrough
Scientists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for decisive contributions in the observation of gravitational waves, the award-giving body said on Tuesday. Weiss, a professor emeritus at MIT, was born in Germany in 1932 and immigrated to the United States in January of 1939, escaping the Nazi…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Prime Minister Heads To Gaza In Reconciliation Push
The West Bank-based Palestinian prime minister crossed into the Gaza Strip on Monday in a move towards reconciliation between the mainstream Fatah party and Hamas, a decade after the Islamist group seized the territory in a civil war. Rami al-Hamdallah said at a welcome ceremony his unity government would begin assuming control of Gaza’s administrative…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Scientists Share Nobel Prize For Medicine
Scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling our biological clocks, the award-giving body said on Monday. Hall and Robash are affiliated with Brandeis University. The mechanisms help explain issues such as why people traveling long distances over several…
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Fast Forward Mnuchin Defends Using Government Plane To Watch Solar Eclipse
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday he does not regret using a government plane to travel to Kentucky in August with his wife to view the solar eclipse and speak to business leaders, calling it “completely justifiable.” Mnuchin’s use of the plane at taxpayers’ expense prompted an outcry from Democratic…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi March On Yom Kippur Turns Violent In Sweden
More than 30 people were arrested on Saturday as both neo-Nazis and anti-fascists clashed with police during a march by the extreme right-wing Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) on Yom Kippur in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, police said. The NMR gathered hundreds of people for the march, many armed with shields and helmets, while many…
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Fast Forward Adam Silver Expects No #TakeAKnee Anthem Protests In NBA
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said on Thursday he expects players to stand during the U.S. national anthem, which has long been a league rule, rather than follow the lead of NFL players who have been kneeling in protest. The controversial issue of kneeling during the anthem has become more prevalent in the NFL in a…
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Fast Forward White House Launches Probe Into Private Emails
The White House has launched an internal investigation into the use of private email by senior aides, pulling batches of emails on the White House server to and from their private accounts, Politico reported on Thursday. Citing four unnamed officials, Politico said the effort began this week after it reported that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law…
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Fast Forward Otto Warmbier Died From Lack Of Oxygen And Blood To Brain
An American student imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months died from lack of oxygen and blood to the brain, according to an Ohio coroner’s report released on Wednesday. Otto Warmbier’s death on June 19 was due to an unknown injury that occurred more than a year before his death, according to Hamilton County Coroner’s…
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