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Month: December 2019

Judge blocks law that would stop ‘fake meat’ from marketing with ‘real meat’ terminology

Veggie burgers are safe for now after a federal judge temporarily blocked Arkansas legislation banning the use of meat-related terminology to describe meatless products. The state’s “truth in labeling” bill made it the latest in a string of states to pass laws controlling how meat-substitutes are marketed. The bill’s authors say it’s an effort to

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Europe is sending a robot to clean up space. Why is the junk there in the first place?

A self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit on the world’s first space cleanup mission, European scientists announced Monday, a fresh approach to fixing up the galaxy’s junk graveyard. Our orbit is filled with garbage, including chunks of dead satellites, discarded rockets, and paint flecks that have fallen off them. The mission, named ClearSpace-1, will

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Juan Manuel Santos se defiende de acusaciones de violar el régimen de financiación de las campañas: “No hay una sola prueba, no existe”

(CNN Español) — El expresidente de Colombia Juan Manuel Santos acudió voluntariamente este miércoles ante una Comisión Especial de investigación del Consejo Nacional Electoral a defenderse de las acusaciones de infracción al régimen de financiación de las campañas electorales originado en la campaña presidencial de 2014. “No hay una sola prueba, no existe, no se

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Trump’s anti-Semitism executive order, explained

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday expanding his administration’s interpretation of race and national origin to include Judaism — a move that extends certain civil rights protections to Jews in education settings. The move is part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to combat what it considers anti-Israel and anti-Semitic movements on

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