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Provocative analysis of sea-floor cores suggests that quakes on the Cascadia fault off California can trigger tremors on the San Andreas. Two of North America’s most fearsome earthquake zones could be linked. A controversial study argues that at least eight times in the past 3,000 years, quakes made a one–two punch off the west coast … Read more

Bernie Sanders announces a plan to expand rural broadband internet access and break up giant internet service providers. The senator and 2020 presidential candidate’s campaign criticizes companies such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon. Several of Sanders’ competitors such as Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg have also released plans to boost access to broadband. … Read more

A new study from the National Institutes of Health finds that women who use permanent hair dye and chemical hair straighteners are at a higher risk of developing breast cancer — and the risk is particularly high for black women. The study, published on Dec. 4 in the International Journal of Cancer, looked at hair product use over a 12-month period in … Read more

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com More than 200 miles of roads in and around Paris were reported to be clogged with traffic jams Friday as a general strike aimed at President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to overhaul the country’s pension system continues to wreak havoc on commuters and tourists. For a second straight day, subway … Read more

Six Saudis are arrested over Pensacola naval base shooting including three who FILMED the attack by countryman who killed three and wounded eight before being shot dead – as FBI probes terror link. Terror link? What would make you think there was a terror link? Also: Naval Station’s Gun Restrictions Didn’t Stop Shooter but Did Stop Sailors … Read more

The polls show a moderate to large lead for Boris Johnson and the Conservatives, but because the electoral calculus has changed it’s still difficult to predict what might happen next week. Nevertheless, this analysis is extremely interesting. Key paragraphs: The media conception of who the swing voter in the UK is much the same as in the … Read more

Trump’s Tax Cuts Push U.S. Burden Lower in World. “Report says U.S. total tax rate lowest among grouping of major economies except Ireland, Chile and Mexico.” Driven by the federal tax cut that Congress and Mr. Trump enacted at the end of 2017, U.S. taxes at all levels of government fell to 24.3% of gross domestic … Read more

via Forbes: Two issues have hit the company in the last week—they are unrelated but share a common theme: Total Dependence on China to ride out the U.S. blacklist, it seems, may not be such smooth sailing after all. Huawei needs to keep Beijing and China’s consumers onside—and that may be harder than it once … Read more

The article tells it all. They have 269k watchers out of 36M Canadians, for a yearly tab of $1.2 Billion, plus whatever their share is of the slush fund Trudeau provided to make sure they toed the party line during the election. Their ad earnings were $58 M, if you remove their umbilical cord, they … Read more

by Shaun Richards The year so far has seen a development which has changed the economic debate especially in Europe.This is the malaise affecting the German economy which for so long has been lauded. This continued in 2017 which saw quarterly GDP growth of 1.2%, 0.6%, 0.9% and 0.7% giving the impression that it had … Read more