Tag Archives: Daily Digest

• Americans’ Life Savings Disappear From Mexican Bank Accounts
• Malaria back with a vengeance in crisis-hit Venezuela
• After laying off 7,000 workers, what’s next for Ford?
• Oil Market Is Set To Become Very Tight Later This Year
• Beijing is building hundreds of airports as millions of Chinese take to the skies

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• Summer Bummer: A Young Camper’s $142,938 Snakebite
• Treasurer: Local pension plans are $2.5B in the hole (Rhode Island)
• Indebted Chinese seek wisdom of credit card ‘goddesses’ as retail lending surges
• Social Security is approaching crisis territory
• Student loan debt has topped $1.47
• China Triple Whammy Sees Stocks, Bonds, Yuan All Sink in April
• China’s military expands its influence in Africa
• The Next Flashpoint In This Emerging Energy Hub
• If Politicians Can’t Face Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion Will

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• Starbucks, Dunkin Race Against Bans, Taxes on Disposable Cups
• Trump says he wants asylum seekers to pay a fee to apply
• What if a killer asteroid were headed toward Earth? NASA plans to find out this week
• Planetary Defense Conference Exercise – 2019
• Space scientists have big plans to avert an asteroid apocalypse
• John Bolton On The Warpath
• 19 Historical Oil Disruptions, And How No.20 Will Shock Markets
• The Fastest-Growing U.S. City Is Scrambling to Survive the Shale Boom
• Raw And Red-Hot

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• Blame my brain: A killer's bold defense gets a court hearing
• Goldilocks Economy Sends Dow Soaring in 2019, but Can the Party Last?
• Woman died jumping in front of rabbi during California synagogue shooting
• This $1,650 pill will tell your doctors whether you’ve taken it. Is it the future of medicine?
• All Eyes on China as Firms Worth Trillions Report
• Where Will Microsoft Be in 5 Years?
• Ukraine president offers Russians citizenship in snub to Putin
• Can China's Electric Automakers Compete With Tesla?
• U.S. sanctions on Iran, Venezuela set up crunch for heavier oil
• Scientists Discover Nearly 200,000 Kinds of Ocean Viruses

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• Bitcoin Tumbles After Officials Allege $850 Million Fraud 
• The antibiotics industry is broken—but there’s a fix
• Over 1,000 quarantined in measles scare at LA universities
• Just how hard is it to fight a parking ticket in L.A.? Here’s one Angeleno’s story
• From Uganda To Tokyo: Meet the kids of the global climate strike movement
• The Teenager Schooling World Leaders on Climate Change
• Hundreds of dead dolphins wash up on French coast
• A running list of how President Trump is changing environmental policy 

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• 'Exhilarating' implant turns thoughts to speech
• Kentucky Becomes 25th State to Protect Pregnant Employees at Work
• Report: Voter Rolls Are Growing Owing To Automatic Voter Registration
• Stronger Together: Vera’s Policing Program Works to Bridge the Divide between Police and Community
• Want to save Social Security? Let in more immigrants.
• Don't Just Do It: Thinking On Your Feet
• A Wave Of Clean Energy Policies Are Killing Coal
• Paris orders 800 new electric buses to fight smog
• New York approves statewide plastic bag ban
• Oliver Sacks: The Healing Power of Gardens
• ‘Forest Bathing’ Is Great for Your Health. Here’s How to Do It
• These Scientists Are Radically Changing How They Live To Cope With Climate Change

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• Walmart is quietly closing stores — here's the full list
• These five charts show how bad the student loan debt situation is
• Magic Money Tree Economics
• World's first malaria vaccine to go to 360,000 African children
• What if America Tried Capitalism
• Rumour and violence rife as Congo Ebola outbreak surges out of control
• Doctors at Ebola epicenter in Congo threaten strike
• America Dancing On The Crumbling Precipice
• The Coming of American Fascism, 1920–1940 
• Antarctica: Thousands of emperor penguin chicks wiped out
• How an ‘unripe snowpack’ will impact Lake Tahoe this summer

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• Italy's coaltion partners to discuss urgent bailout for crisis-hit Rome
• Bay Area student debt levels soar, hitting poor people hardest, study shows
• Medicare, Social Security Face Shaky Fiscal Futures
• Social Security Is Running Out Of Money, With Benefits On Track To Be Reduced By 2035
• BOJ signals readiness to combine steps if more stimulus needed
• Canada’s 'historical' debt bubble could hit banks: Rosenberg
• Ground zero for Australia's house price meltdown
• China’s Fake Numbers And The Risk They Pose For The Rest Of The World
• “Trend” Yield for 2019 U.S. Corn Crop

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• From Gentrification to Decline: How Neighborhoods Really Change
• Ominous Tendings in the Nervous Here and Now
• Death Of The Calorie
• Moms Call Out Anti-Vax Neighbor With Scathing Letter Of Warning To Other Residents
• Trump’s Hardline On Iran Catches Markets Off-Guard
• Great eggspectations
• Melting permafrost in Arctic will have $70tn climate impact – study 
• There’s just no getting away from microplastic contamination
• Bernie The Idiot On Earth Day
• Canadian researchers warn of 'cascading impacts' as bumblebee species decline

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• Italy's 'perma-recession' could trigger a €2 trillion financial crisis that threatens the eurozone itself
• Seattle’s Revolt of the Elites
• We'll be eating the first Crispr'd foods within 5 years, according to a geneticist who helped invent the blockbuster gene-editing tool
• Police Warned That Sri Lanka Churches Were Bombing Targets
• Yellow Vest Protesters Fueled By Anger Over Notre Dame Funds March In Paris
• Physicians Get Addicted Too
• “Natural” bottled water has natural arsenic contamination, testing finds
• More than 1,000 people arrested at London climate protests 

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