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Initial estimates showed the economy contracted by 4.8%.

03/06/2020

House Democrats pulled legislation Thursday that would have renewed expired domestic surveillance laws and strengthened transparency and privacy protections amid broad opposition from President Trump, House GOP leadership and progressive Democrats. Why it matters: The failure to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) comes as Trump continues to attack the intelligence community, which he claims abused the law to surveil his 2016 campaign and Trump administration officials.

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Silver Lake is playing both sides of the deal.

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03/06/2020

If you can't beat them, join them. And then beat them. Driving the news: Silver Lake acquired a 12% stake in Far Point Acquisition (NYSE: FPAC), in order to help force the blank-check acquisition company to complete its $2.6 billion takeover of Swiss payments firm Global Blue. Backstory: Far Point was formed in 2018 by former New York Stock Exchange president Tom Farley and activist investor Dan Loeb (via his Third Point hedge fund), and raised $550 million in its IPO. Far Point's goal was to buy a fintech, and in January 2020 agreed to acquire Global Blue from Silver Lake (which would retain a minority stake). Global Blue focuses on tax refunds related to tourism shopping.Like with all blank-check acquisition companies, or SPACs, Far Point requires shareholder approval for its takeover

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The former NBA point guard wasn’t a household name when he played alongside LeBron and D-Wade, but as his reggaeton career starts to take off, he’s got millions of fans dancing to his sounds.

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Carlos Arroyo was a good basketball player. He was mostly known for leading the Puerto Rican national team to an upset victory over the United States in 2004, Team USA's first Olympics loss in 16 years. He also carved out a nice career in the NBA. He only averaged 6.6 points per game for his career, but he hung around for nine years and even spent the majority of the 2010-11 seasonLeBron James' first in South Beachas the Miami Heat's starting point guard. Arroyo's career wound down after that, and he played his final NBA game that spring. Save for a few seasons overseasand a stint last summer with the BIG3he's mostly receded from the basketball spotlight. But Arroyo, it turns out, has another talent: He happens to be one of the biggest reggaeton stars in the world. In March, he released ...

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The request could inhibit protections in areas set aside, in part, for dwindling fish populations to recover.

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Science Advances – Interfacing gene circuits with microelectronics through engineered population dynamicsResea

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Science Advances – Interfacing gene circuits with microelectronics through engineered population dynamics Researchers interfaced synthetic biology with microelectronics through engineered population dynamics that regulate the accumulation of charged metabolites. They demonstrate electrical detection of the bacterial response to heavy metals via a population control circuit. They then implement this approach to a synchronized genetic oscillator where we obtain an oscillatory impedance profile from engineered bacteria. They lastly miniaturize an array of electrodes to form bacterial integrated circuits and demonstrate its applicability as an interface with genetic circuits. This approach paves the way for new advances in synthetic biology, analytical chemistry, and microelectronic technolog...

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FOX Sports NBA analyst Stephen Jackson who knew George Floyd very well since childhood, spoke at a rally in Minneapolis for Floyd on Friday. Hear what Stephen has to say about George Floyd and the protests happening in Minneapolis.

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Traveling to work by car is worse for your health than cycling, walking, or taking the train, according to a large study spanning 25 years.

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A recent study suggests that in comparison with those who cycle or take the train, people who drive to work have higher rates of cancer, death from heart disease, and total death from all causes. Traveling to work by car is worse for your health than cycling, walking, or taking the train, according to a large study spanning 25 years in England and Wales. Researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge, both in the United Kingdom, tracked the outcomes of more than 300,000 commuters between 1991 and 2016. They tapped into data from the Office for National Statistics’s Longitudinal Study, which collates information on people in England and Wales from several sources, including a national census that takes place every 10 years, cancer diagnoses, and death registration...

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A study combining analysis of patient samples with animal studies has identified new drug targets for alcohol-related liver disease.

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03/06/2020

A study combining analysis of patient samples with mice studies has identified new drug targets for alcohol-related liver disease, which, currently, doctors can only treat by transplant. Alcohol-related liver disease (ALD), as its name suggests, is damage to the liver that the excessive consumption of alcohol causes. Over time, excessive alcohol consumption can cause inflammation and scarring (fibrosis) of liver tissue, and may eventually lead to liver failure. According to an analysis of trends published in the World Journal of Hepatology in 2017, 16.5% of all liver transplants between 2002–2015 occurred as a result of ALD, making the disease the third most common reason for transplantation. ALD is irreversible, and there is currently no treatment except for liver transplant. Doct...

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The unofficial El DeBarge impersonator on her style secrets and making it to the Season 12 finale

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By Christopher Rudolph Crystal Methyd might not be Americas next drag superstar, but she was definitely crowned the kookiest queen of RuPauls Drag Race Season 12. The Missouri girl wowed Ru and the judges with her imaginative runway looks; somehow, she transformed Freddy Kreuger into a fashion icon. But Ru was also obsessed with her look out of drag, specifically her luscious mullet, which served major El DeBarge realness. Crystal cruised through the competition, never winning a maxi challenge that is, until the one-queen show, when she seductively slayed the audience as male exotic dancer Phenomenal Phil. If you can count on Crystal for one thing, its thinking outside the box; just look at her Im Like a Bird number from the Season 12 finale, where she craftily transformed into a pair o...

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The former NBA point guard wasn’t a household name when he played alongside LeBron and D-Wade, but as his reggaeton career starts to take off, he’s got millions of fans dancing to his sounds.

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02/06/2020