New UMiami research reveals how fresh water stokes Caribbean hurricanes
By TIM PADGETT From WLRN It’s August. And as we approach the most intense period of the hurricane season, a lot of us are thinking: How warm are the waters in the Atlantic and the Caribbean? How much fuel is…
Reshaped & ruined video landscape
How one company reshaped — and kind of ruined — the viral video landscape BY BRIAN KOERBER From Mashable It’s Viral Market Crash week on Mashable. Join us as we take stock of the viral economy and investigate how the…
Gadgets of the week
The greedy ways Apple got to $1 trillion By Josh Constine From TechCrunch Broken Apple Chargers For being the richest company ever with $243 billion in cash, Apple sure cuts corners in the stingiest ways. The hardware giant became the…
A CenturyLink growth engine that nobody talks about
By Esekla From Seeking Alpha Summary Market assessment and incumbent comparison. CenturyLink’s moat and competitive sales edge. Thoughts on duration and scale of the opportunity. Back when I still worked for others on Wall St., network security was often a…
Shooting incident in Turks and Caicos leaves one dead and two injured
From Caribbean News Now PROVIDENCIALES, TCI — Police in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) are investigating a shooting incident that left one man dead and two other males with gunshot wounds. According to reports, at 9:30 pm on Friday,…
Crackdown feared in Venezuela after alleged assassination attempt on Maduro
By Chas Danner From New York Mag Venezuelan opposition leaders are fearing a crackdown and increased repression following a bizarre, alleged assassination attempt against the country’s strongman president, Nicolas Maduro on Saturday night in Caracas. There was some kind of…
Beyond tariffs: China’s ‘precision strikes’ on US businesses
By Wendy Wu From South China Morning Post American firms in China report higher costs and much greater regulatory scrutiny, and fear a major drop-off in business from rising nationalism, observers say US companies in China are bracing for more…
Forced into abusive marriages, Syrian child brides increasingly turn to suicide
By LISA KHOURY From the Times of Israel WEST BEKAA, Lebanon — Fourteen-year-old Salwa chugged the bleach for as long as she could. She ignored the agonizing burn going from her throat to stomach. She tuned out the sound of…
New Haitian prime minister appointed
By Youri Kemp From Caribbean News Now PORT-AU PRINCE, Haiti — Almost a month after the Haitian fuel-price subsidy riots that caused previous Haitian prime minister, Jack Guy Lafontant, to resign his position, President Jovenel Moïse has appointed Jean-Henry Céant…
White South Africans are being slaughtered and the media ignores it
By Michael Savage From Newsmax There is a genocide going on in South Africa as its leaders are set to change their constitution to legally steal white farmers’ lands and throw them out of the country. Liberals may believe that…