"Astronomers developed a mosaic of the distant universe, called the Hubble Legacy Field, that documents 16 years of observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope."
"Skin contact with a frothy surface water foam found near some PFAS contamination sites poses a greater health risk than previously thought, Michigan officials now say." Do not taunt happy fun ball. (Grokked from Julie)
"Small amounts of cocaine, pesticides and other contaminants have been detected in U.K. freshwater shrimp." Druggie shrimp.
"A federal jury on Thursday found the top executives of pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics guilty of criminal racketeering for orchestrating an elaborate scheme of bribes and kickbacks to doctors to boost the prescribing of an opioid painkiller it manufactured." Boom, there it is.
"Workers with a steady paycheck already know that wages have been stubbornly slow to rise. Meanwhile, those who get health insurance through a job have seen their deductibles shoot up. In fact, says Noam Levey, a health care reporter for the Los Angeles Times, deductibles have, on average, quadrupled over the last dozen years. As a result, even some people who have health insurance are having trouble affording medical care."
"Nearly 2,300 teachers have just had a mountain of student loan debt lifted off their backs, according to previously unreleased figures from the U.S. Department of Education. The move follows reporting by NPR that exposed a nightmare for public school teachers across the country." It's about time.
"U.S. employers added a better-than-expected 263,000 jobs in April, as the nearly decade-old economic expansion shows no signs of slowing. And the unemployment rate dropped to 3.6% — the lowest in nearly 50 years." Whispers, some of that drop is because people are dropping out of the labor force. And wages are finally going up. "One weak spot in Friday's jobs report was manufacturing employment. Factories added just 4,000 jobs in April and revised figures showed no growth in March. Manufacturing had been adding an average of 22,000 jobs a month in the 12 months before February." So it's not all peaches and cream.
How goes Brexit? "The Conservatives and Labour have faced a backlash at the ballot box over the Brexit deadlock, with smaller parties and independents winning seats."
"China continues building up its military to transform from regional power to 'world-class,' investing heavily in modernization and expanding its global influence, according to a new Pentagon report that was released on Thursday."
How that N. Korea thing going? "North Korea fired a short-range missile from the east coast city of Wonsan toward the east on Saturday morning, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff." (Grokked from Xeni Jardin)
"Authorities in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia have quarantined a cruise ship after discovering a confirmed case of measles aboard. Dr. Merlene Fredericks-James, the island's chief medical officer, said Thursday that the ship is still in port and that no one has been allowed to leave it… 'Whilst in our ports, we will continue to monitor and will not allow disembarkation, given the contagious nature of the disease,' she said in a statement provided to CBS News, adding that the ship was free to leave St. Lucia if it chooses."
"Facebook Inc said on Thursday it was banning Alex Jones and other controversial U.S. political personalities for violating the social media company’s policies on 'dangerous individuals and organizations.'" Well see if it sticks and if this is just a balm to critics or an actual policy change.
"Giant tent structures have been erected in Texas to serve as short-term detention facilities to process a huge influx of families and unaccompanied minors from Central America arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border." So I see our attempts to stem the tide of human migration is meeting the same success as the war on drugs. Stands to figure since we're approaching the problem the same way.
"The fallout from special counsel Robert Mueller's probe is deepening fracture lines in the Senate… Tensions spiked during the Judiciary Committee’s questioning of Attorney General William Barr, marking the latest point of frustration on the high-profile panel." Gee, ya think?
An opinion piece by Adam Schiff (D-California), "The attorney general of the United States misled the country about an investigation implicating the president. Then he lied to Congress. Then he did something worse: He effectively said that the president of the United States is above the law… William Barr should resign."
"F.B.I. sent investigator posing as assistant to meet with (George Papadopoulos) in 2016." Like you do when you're investing a person in an espionage case.
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