The British government has announced that starting next year, telecommunications companies would be banned from buying Huawei equipment for the U.K.’s 5G network. Existing Huawei equipment will need to be removed by 2027. Leon Neal/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Leon Neal/Getty Images Months after approving some limited involvement by […]
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Police departments that get more equipment from the military kill more civilians than departments that get less military gear. That’s the finding from research on a federal program that has operated since 1997 that I have helped conduct as a scholar of police militarization. That finding was recently confirmed and […]
The 2018 Camp Fire killed 85 people in all and destroyed nearly 19,000 buildings. Noah Berger/AP hide caption toggle caption Noah Berger/AP The 2018 Camp Fire killed 85 people in all and destroyed nearly 19,000 buildings. Noah Berger/AP Pacific Gas & Electric pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 84 separate counts […]
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News WOODBRIDGE, Va.—As Inova Health System sought donations in March to buy personal protective equipment for its staff to treat COVID-19, Zach Mote, a police officer turned brewer, came to their aid. Even though his Water’s End Brewery taproom in this Washington, D.C., suburb had […]
Opinion 00:54 GMT 21.05.2020(updated 00:55 GMT 21.05.2020) Get short URL Although the US COVID-19 pandemic has mostly ravaged urban areas to date, it will soon bear down on rural areas home to more vulnerable populations, Dr. Tara Smith, an epidemiologist and professor at the Kent State University College of Public […]