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Jeff Flake: Congress needs to 'suck up' and pass TPP 'because you know it has to be done'

BusinessInsider.com 

AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin

America's free trade agreements have been increasingly under fire during the 2016 presidential campaign — both by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

The presumptive Republican nominee and the Vermont senator have demanded that the US not ratify the historic Trans-Pacific Partnership, a landmark free trade agreement with many of the Pacific Rim nations.

The agreement is expected to be put before Congress during the lame-duck session after the election. Читать дальше...

Report: Jeremy Lin signing three-year, $36 million contract with the Nets

NBCSports.com 

Jeremy Lin is returning to the Big Apple. After dazzling with the Knicks during Linsanity, the point guard — in an unsurprising move — is headed to the Nets. The journey continues…thankful for the next chapter!! #Godisgood pic.twitter.com/1PLutlFbyO — Jeremy Lin (@JLin7) July 1, 2016 Adrian Wojnarowksi of Yahoo Sports: Sources: Jeremy Lin's deal with the […]

Trees to be planted along NH passing through Haryana

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

Trees will be planted along the National Highways passing through Haryana as an memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect has been signed between Haryana Forest Department and National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) in the presence of Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari and Haryana Forest and Public Works (Building and Roads) Minister Rao Narbir Singh in Delhi on Friday.

28 Pictures That Are True For Absolutely No Reason At All

BuzzFeed 

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The best short stories are on shampoo bottles:

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A former Pope wrote the first tell-all about the Vatican

BusinessInsider.com 

AP

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Former Pope Benedict says in his memoirs that no-one pressured him to resign but alleges that a "gay lobby" in the Vaticanhad tried to influence decisions, a leading Italian newspaper reported on Friday.

The book, called "The Last Conversations", is the first time in history that a former pope judges his own pontificate after it is over. It is due to be published on Sept. 9.

Citing health reasons, Benedict in 2013 became the first pope in six centuries to resign. Читать дальше...

Through play, Korean juvenile inmates heal, connect, grow

Yonhap News Agency (en) 

By Woo Jae-yeon UIWANG, South Korea, July 1 (Yonhap) -- On a recent stuffy summer afternoon, a play was performed at a school in Uiwang city, Gyeonggi Province. High fences and a strict entry process indicate this is no ordinary school. Visitors

Air India aircraft rams aerobridge at Mumbai arport

Zee News (zeenews.india.com) 

An Air India flight which arrived from Riyadh rammed into an aerobridge at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport here on Friday afternoon, officials said.

Here's how your Fourth of July fireworks work

BusinessInsider.com 

Spencer Platt / Getty Images

As you gear up to watch fireworks this Fourth of July, you might wonder: How exactly do fireworks work?

How is it that there are fabulous, colorful explosions in the sky that come in different shapes and sizes?

Well, we're here to help you out. The short answer: It's a whole lot of chemical reactions happening all at once.

The explosion

Simply, a firework is a container (typically a tube or a ball shape) that holds explosives, hitched up to a time-delay fuse. Читать дальше...





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