Category: Politic

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The world can be a scary place for an unprotected Nintendo Switch, so protect your portable console with one of the best cases.

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02/05/2020

Seemingly everyone who owns a Nintendo Switch feels deeply connected to it, which is reflected in overall sales. Nintendo has sold about 50 million Switches, surpassing the SNES in just two years and quadrupling the total number of Wii U consoles ever sold. Whether your jam is Animal Crossing, the Spiro Reignited Trilogy, or a sublime session of Minecraft, you no doubt want to keep your Switch safe and secure when youre on the go. Thats where cases come in.Theres a huge variety of Switch cases to choose from. Some emphasize protection, with hard-shell enclosures you can drive a Jeep over. Others allow on-the-go charging, add some style-first flair, or give you additional room for other mobile gadgets. Whatever you need, youll find the best cases that Switch accessory makers have to offer d...

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The political opportunity for the Liberals to act has surely arrived – but will they act?

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02/05/2020

A.J. Somerset is the author of Arms: the Culture and Credo of the Gun. For a month, anything thats not COVID-19 related has been confined to parentheses. But the murders of 22 people in Nova Scotia last weekend have, for now at least, reminded us of the Canadian gun-control debate and politics as usual. Justin Trudeau, recalling his planned assault weapons ban, promised that we have every intention of moving forward on that measure; Minister of Public Safety Bill Blair, in stiff Cabinet Ministerese, said, it is my intention to bring forward the measures that will fulfill our commitment to Canadians. Translated: that ban remains the plan. But as details emerge, the deadliest mass shooting in modern Canadian history may expose the shortcomings of Liberal gun control plans. At present, we d...

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“The result suggests that the novel coronavirus outbreak is highly relevant to the trading of wild animals,” the CDC said

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01/05/2020

Tests have confirmed that the current coronavirus outbreak did start at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, as suspected. Experts from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have said the virus was first caught by humans from animals at the food market, where everything from snakes, rats, beavers, wolf cubs and even koalas were reportedly on sale. This is a price list reportedly from the Huanan Seafood Market and one of the items is said to be 'koala' or 'live tree bears' As reported by state-owned Xinhua news agency, the CDC said: "Thirty-one of the 33 positive samples were collected from the western zone of the market, where booths of wildlife trading concentrated. "The result suggests that the novel coronavirus outbreak is highly relevant to the trading of wild ...

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‘Criminal Minds’ star Joe Mantegna says working with Madonna is like ‘working with Godzilla’ — and he means it as a compliment!

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01/05/2020

Watch the full episode of Couch Surfing streaming now on PeopleTV.com, or download the PeopleTV app on your favorite device. A 400-foot-tall radioactive lizard is probably not what comes to most people’s minds when thinking of Madonna. Yet Joe Mantegna, who costarred with her in the 1993 film Body of Evidence, insists that comparing the iconic musician to Godzilla is meant in the best possible way. “It’s not because of her acting ability, and not about her personally. It’s like working with Godzilla because she was so huge in the whole world,” Mantegna explains in the latest episode of PeopleTV’s Couch Surfing. He adds that the two of them “got along really well,” both while working on the infamous film and, earlier, on the original Broadway production of David Mamet’s play Speed-the-Plo...

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01/05/2020

The Premier League season remains in limbo due to the coronavirus outbreak, with a month now having elapsed since the most recent fixture. Here, the PA news agency takes a statistical look at the season so far. 82 points for leaders Liverpool, from a possible 87 after winning 27 of their 29 games. WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW 18 @premierleague wins in a row pic.twitter.com/t24jC1Lcr8 Liverpool FC (@LFC) February 24, 2020 18 record-equalling winning run for the Reds, from October 27s win over Tottenham to February 24s victory against West Ham. 57 second-placed Manchester City are 25 points behind, and closer in terms of points to 14th-placed Southampton on 34 than to Liverpool. 19 goals for Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, two clear of the pack as the leagues top scorer. Jamie Vardy leads the...

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Shelters and rescues are seeing about a 90% increase in foster requests nationwide amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

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01/05/2020

Anne Bonney doesn’t typically consider herself an ideal pet owner. While she loves animals, the 46-year-old professional speaker spends lots of time on the road, making it hard to justify keeping a furry friend at home. But many of Bonney’s upcoming events have been cancelled or moved online amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Bonney, a frequent flyer who’s used to being around lots of people, found herself stuck at home alone in Traverse City, Mich. When a friend who runs a rabbit rescue center reached out about a fostering opportunity, she leapt at the chance, and soon found herself taking care of Pepper, a “spunky little thing” that offers both companionship and a distraction from world events. “I love animals and can’t normally have them,” says Bonney, who’s allergic to more traditional pets...

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Here’s their advice on how to get through the coronavirus pandemic

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01/05/2020

The TIME 100 community on navigating our new reality

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The global outbreak of a new coronavirus has rocked international communities. In this article, find out what we know about it so far.

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01/05/2020

The current outbreak of COVID-19 has sparked global anxiety and concern that it might spread too far and too fast and cause dramatic harm before health officials find a way to stop it. What are the realities of the pandemic? We investigate. This article was updated on April 22, 2020. In December last year, reports started to emerge that a coronavirus that specialists had never before seen in humans had begun to spread among the population of Wuhan, a large city in the Chinese province of Hubei. Since then, the virus has spread to other countries, both inside and outside Asia, leading the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare this as a pandemic. To date, the novel coronavirus — currently dubbed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) — has been responsible for...

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Critics say social engineering has infiltrated the armed forces, putting readiness at risk.

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20/04/2020

As a U.S. Army medic in the early 1970s, my father worked with wounded veterans who were suffering from what we would now call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. At the time, so my dad told me, many of these PTSD victims were heavily medicated, their rational and physical capacities greatly impaired. The result was both depressing and comical. My father recounted to me stories of trying to play basketball with these wounded warriors, passing the ball to vets so drugged up that it would slam into their faces to little effect. On other occasions, the men would sit in a circle to talk about their feelings. Battle-hardened vets would announce, slowly and articulately, with smiles on their faces, I feel like shit. These anecdotes recently came to mind when reading James Hassons Stand Down: How So...