November 9, 2015
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If countries fail to sustain policies that combat the impacts of climate change while also providing safety nets for the world’s poor, global warming will drive an additional 100 million people into poverty by 2030, a new World Bank report finds.
The report, titled “Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty,” argues that climate change is a “significant obstacle” to the eradication of poverty. Poor people are more likely to be impacted by climate-related “shocks” such as flooding, drought, crop failure, spikes in food prices, waterborne disease and the long list of extreme weather patterns that scientists have said will increase due to climate change.
“This report sends a clear message that ending poverty will not be possible unless we take strong action to reduce the threat of climate change on poor people and dramatically reduce harmful emissions,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim.
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November 8, 2015
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GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump remains slated to host this week’s “Saturday Night Live” after the show’s parent company disregarded a campaign by immigrant rights groups and Latino politicians based on the billionaire’s anti-immigrant comments.
The invitation to Trump draws “SNL,” the four-decade-old pop culture fixture, into a controversy that has long dogged the Republican Party: How to harness the enthusiasm generated by the GOP’s nativist elements without alienating Latinos and other minority groups often turned off by hard-line rhetoric.
There’s no doubt that Trump attracts eyeballs. Since hitting the campaign trail, he has blurted out controversial statements that have been enthusiastically embraced by many among the GOP’s conservative core. But those comments have been reviled by Latinos and viewed with dismay by the Republican establishment that hopes to diversify the party. Most memorably, he painted Mexican immigrants in broad strokes as “rapists” who are “bringing crime” and “bringing drugs” to the United States.
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November 6, 2015
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President Barack Obama on Friday rejected TransCanada’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have transported oil across the United States-Canada border.
After seven years of reviewing the project, Obama announced his decision from the Roosevelt Room in the White House.
“The State Department has decided that the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the national interest of the United States,” he said. “I agree with that decision.”
Tensions over the proposed pipeline had been high for years, with Obama’s environmental base pressuring him to reject the project — citing its impact on emissions — and Republicans in Congress voting repeatedly to force its approval, citing the economic boost it would provide.
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November 5, 2015
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In April, Dan Price, the founder of Gravity Payments, a credit card payment processing company, took a leap of faith. He instituted a new minimum salary policy — one that raised the wages of his lowest-paid workers to an astounding $70,000 per year.
Now, six months later, Gravity appears to be doing just fine.
A recent story in Inc magazine included a rundown of the most glowing statistics. According to the company, revenue growth is twice as strong and the company’s profits have increased twofold since the salary hike. Customer requests ballooned from 30 per month to 2,000 in just two weeks, and customer retention rate went from 91% to 95% in the second quarter of 2015.
Gravity’s employees also appear to be happy with the changes. “People back in Idaho said he was nuts,” G, who does sales for Gravity Payments in Idaho, told Inc. “But it really energized the employees.”
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November 4, 2015
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New intelligence suggests that ISIS may have planted a bomb on the Russian passenger jet that crashed in Egypt on Saturday, an anonymous U.S. official told CNN. The source stressed that the U.S. has not conclusively determined the cause of the plane crash.
U.S. investigators are focusing on “ISIS operatives or sympathizers” as the perpetrators, NBC News reports.
Evidence suggests a Russian jet that crashed over Egypt’s Sinai desert may have been brought down by a bomb, the British government said Wednesday, suspending flights to and from the Sinai Peninsula as a precaution.
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The United Kingdom says it is concerned that the Russian jet was brought down by a bomb on Saturday, and is suspending flights to and from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
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November 3, 2015
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Yemen is expected to see its first hurricane on record early this week, as Tropical Cyclone Chapala hits just southwest of the city of Al Mukallah on Monday evening or Tuesday morning, eastern time (that’s between early Tuesday morning and early afternoon, local time). Since records began in the region in 1945, no hurricane-strength tropical cyclone has hit the desert country; hurricanes are referred to as tropical cyclones in this region, just as they are known as typhoons in the western Pacific.
The storm may bring catastrophic amounts of rain — at least a decade’s worth of rain over the course of just a day or two in populated areas of war-torn Yemen, a country currently involved in a complicated civil war that involves regional powers, including Saudi Arabia.
The war will severely limit the ability of Yemen’s government to respond to any flooding and other storm damage with aid and other assistance, placing an even greater burden on already-stretched international aid groups and the United Nations.
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Computer model simulation showing Tropical Cyclone Chapala’s winds as the small but intense storm approaches the coast of Yemen.
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November 2, 2015
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The Kansas City Royals defeated the New York Mets 7-2 to win the World Series early Monday. This is the team’s first World Series title since 1985.
Game 5 was another example of “death by Royals” for the Mets, and this one was by far the most painful for the team and their fans.
With their “Dark Knight” Matt Harvey working on an absolute gem through eight innings and a two-run lead, it appeared New York was on its way to forcing a Game 6. But, as it was in Games 1 and 4, things fell apart in the late innings.
Manager Terry Collins decided to let Matt Harvey start the ninth inning after the pitcher, despite having thrown well over 100 pitches, was persistent on staying in.
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Hosmer slides into home with the game-tying run.
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October 31, 2015
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A Russian passenger plane carrying 224 people crashed in the Sinai peninsula Saturday, killing all on board, officials said.
Egypt’s government said the plane disappeared about 25 minutes after takeoff from the airport in Sharm el-Sheikh — a popular tourist destination — en route for St. Petersburg. The Airbus A321 operated by Metrojet had 217 passengers and seven crew on board. Seventeen children were among the dead, Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Egyptian Air Force planes later spotted wreckage from the missing airliner close to al Hassana, in a mountainous area of the Sinai peninsula, according to a statement from the government which said 45 ambulances had been dispatched to the crash site.
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October 30, 2015
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Greece’s prime minister angrily condemned Europe’s response to the refugee crisis Friday, accusing leaders of “crocodile tears” after 22 people drowned in two shipwrecks.
Alex Tsipras expressed “endless grief” at the latest tragedies, saying they had left Europe shamed.
He was speaking as the migrant death toll in the Aegean Sea reached nearly 50 over the past three days.
The Merchant Marine Ministry said 19 people were killed and 138 were rescued near the eastern Aegean Sea island of Kalymnos, in one of the worst accidents in Greek waters since the mass migrant flows started fleeing the war in Syria.
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October 29, 2015
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After years of gridlock and frequent threats of government shutdowns over funding levels, the House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a two-year bipartisan budget deal cut between congressional leadership and the White House.
Seventy-nine Republicans joined every House Democrat in passing the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which extends the nation’s debt limit through 2017 and also sets spending levels through September of that year. It also raises the spending caps set in place in 2011 providing for $80 billion in sequester relief.
The final vote was 266 to 167.
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