Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): Republicans struggled with setting debate criteria during the 2016 presidential election because of their large and unwieldy field, and Democrats seem as though they’ll have their own issues in 2020. We already count 20 candidates who have […]
A US committee on government spending voted to increase financial aid to Colombia with $ 40 million unless the US government decertifies the South American country as a counternarcotics ally. Upon releasing the bill, the House Committee on Appropriations released a statement, saying it would conditionally increase next year’s aid package to $ 457 million. […]
The potential use of real-time facial recognition technology, paired with the tens of millions of surveillance cameras that already exist in the US, amounts to a “1984 George Orwell scenario that I think troubles us all,” Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio warned at a congressional hearing Wednesday. Jordan and other members of the House […]
I’m Karen Roby with your TR and ZDNet mid-week news roundup. Google has revoked Huawei’s Android license leading to concern and confusion for many…this comes after the tech giant responded to an executive order by President Trump. We have the latest on the saga and what you need to know. This week marks the one […]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Indian government’s leading think-tank has proposed electrifying most motorbikes and scooters within the next six to eight years to curb pollution and reduce dependency on fossil fuels, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said. FILE PHOTO: People commute on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, November 8, […]
Quito, capital of Ecuador, has boosted its connections to the world. In 2019, Santiago, Paris and Toronto will be reached thanks to new partnerships with LATAM, Air France and Air Canada Rouge. Imagine being just one flight away from the famous Plaza de Armas in Santiago, being able to dine 500 meters in the air […]
Lights, camera, action! The first reviews are in for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the latest movie from director Quentin Tarantino, following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday. The filmmaker’s ninth effort, a typically flamboyant take on 1969 Tinseltown prior to the Manson murders, has so far received glowing praise from critics, […]
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One Russian has died and 19 other people have been hospitalized after a tour bus they were traveling on crashed in the central Italian province of Tuscany, according to the Russian Embassy in Rome. The embassy said in a statement on Facebook that it had sent staff to Siena, where victims of the May 22 […]
© AFP 2019 / Michal Cizek Late last week, a new twist occurred in the ongoing US-China trade spat, after Washington put Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei on a so-called “entity list” along with 70 affiliates. The move effectively banned the Chinese firms from acquiring technology from American companies without the US government’s consent. The […]