A biotech mosquito is kicking up a political storm in the Florida Keys
May 19, 2016

� Oxitec Ltd. , a British maker of genetically modified insects, is extolling the virtues of a modified mosquito that they say can help kill off wild populations known to spread maladies like the Zika virus and dengue fever.
� Oxitec says their GMO bugs are nontoxic and non-allergenic for animals, and that Aedes aegypti mosquitoes aren't a native Keys species and not a major food source for animals like frogs and bats
� Residents are concerned about GM female mosquitoes being released and the impact they will have if they bite humans

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Mark Zuckerberg meets with conservative leaders
May 19, 2016

�Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg met with conservative
�Facebook's trending topics feature was accused of anti-GOP
�Zuckerberg denied this claim and then agreed to set up the
�The social media giant was then forced pulled back the curtain leaders on Wednesday including Glenn Beck bias after a report that was released last week meeting with conservative leaders on how its trending topics feature works

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Amtrak Philadelphia Crash- NTSB Report
May 19, 2016

�The National Transportation Safety Board has concluded that the engineer of an Amtrak passenger train that crashed in Philadelphia in 2015 was distracted by radio traffic
�The derailment on May 12, 2015, killed eight people and injured more than 200
�The engineer, Brandon Bostian, who suffered a concussion in the crash, told investigators he had no memory of what occurred after the train pulled out of the North Philadelphia station, just before the crash

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Burlington College, once headed by Bernie Sanders' wife Jane closes due to 'crushing' debt
May 18, 2016

�Burlington College will close on May 27, after 44 years in operation
�Jane Sanders, the wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, ran the college from 2004 until 2011
�In 2010, Mrs Sanders led an effort to purchase $10million in land from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington to build a new campus
�Since the deal, the college has struggled with $11million in debt

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Google's access to the White House as visitor logs show 427 meeting
May 18, 2016

�Top lobbyist Johanna Shelton visited the White House 128 times, visitor logs show - more than any other lobbyist
�Google officials have been to the White House a total of 427 times, holding 363 meetings in 2014 Obama met with tech executives concerned about NSA snooping, a meeting organized by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
�Some of the visits were for educational projects like a White House science fair
�Google Says Microsoft had just as many visits to the White

House

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Mississippi town ordered to desegregate schools
May 18, 2016

-Federal court ruled Cleveland, Mississippi must merge its middle and high schools
-Judge said consolidating the institutions was only way�to�end segregation
-Black parents had complained children were being discriminated against for attending mostly African American schools in east Cleveland
-But the district complained less schools would affect education in the area and would see white parents putting their children in private school

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TSA Resorting to candy, clowns and miniature horses to calm angry passengers
May 18, 2016

-U.S. airports are trying to keep�travelers�entertainedTSA waits
-They have resorted to various methods including clowns, music and food
-One airport in KY is even using miniature therapy horses to reduce stress
-TSA now asking passengers at O'Hare to show up THREE hours before their domestic flight
-U.S. Sen Dirk Durbin said that 58 more TSA screeners and four bomb-sniffing dogs would be brought to Chicago immediately
-TSA has pledged to add 800 new screeners by June but 6000 are said to be needed

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New Orleans is sinking: NASA maps show the city dropping up to two inches a YEAR
May 18, 2016

-The study was a collaboration of multiple scientific groups andcovered the period from June 2009 to July 2012
-Maps were generated with data from Nasa's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR)
-Bonnet Carr� Spillway is sinking 1.6in a year, which is the area's last line of protection against springtime floods
-Other factors include withdrawal of water, oil and gas, compaction of shallow sediments, faulting, sinking of the Earth's crust from the weight of deposited sediments and ongoing vertical movement of land covered by glaciers

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Netflix Reverses Strategy
May 18, 2016

-People used to go to Netflix to binge watch a show before the new season came out on network or cable, but in an odd turnabout, Netflix will be airing reruns of season 1 of its original show, Narcos, on Univision's channel leading up to Season 2 debuting on Netflix
-Tech and TV insiders are wondering if this is going to be a new trend?

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Adele to Debut 'Send My Love (To Your New Lover)' Video at 2016 Billboard Music Awards, airing on May 22nd
May 17, 2016

Adele to Debut 'Send My Love (To Your New Lover)' Video at 2016 Billboard Music Awards, airing on May 22nd. Adele is up for eight awards at Sunday night's show. The video premiere will come during a broadcast that will feature performances from Meghan Trainor, Rihanna, Ariana Grande, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, Justin Bieber, Celine Dion, DNCE, Fifth Harmony, The Go-Go's, Demi Lovato, Shawn Mendes, Pink, Britney Spears and Troye Sivan. In addition, Madonna will be on hand to honor Prince.

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