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- Are cities the New Countries? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5179232.stm 12 comments reddit.com
- Thousand of women protesting against Poland’s new abortion laws in cities across the country https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54669257 324 comments worldnews
- "Hospitals across the U.S. are unprepared to identify and treat the new coronavirus, which has begun to spread across the country," says New York City-based physician. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/02/coronavirus-new-york-city-doctor-has-to-plead-to-test-people.html 15 comments worldnews
- New York City Passes Bill to Study Biases in Algorithms Used by the City - The bill is believed to be the first in the country to push for open sourcing of the algorithms used by courts, police, and city agencies. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw4xdw/new-york-city-algorithmic-bias-bill-law 3 comments technology
- Egyptian archeologists have uncovered a new sphinx in Kom Ombo, an ancient temple near the country's southern city of Aswan. The sphinx is believed to be older than 2,000 years. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/egypt-sphinx-kom-ombo-africa/index.html 6 comments worldnews
- The top countries of origin of New York City's foreign-born population https://visual.ly/community/infographics/human-rights/origins-new-york-citys-immigrants 6 comments europe
- Many New York City Teachers Denied Tenure in Policy Shift: This trend reflects a reversal in the way tenure is granted around the country. http://truth-out.org/news/item/10972-many-new-york-city-teachers-denied-tenure-in-policy-shift 3 comments politics
- Coronavirus has broken out again in New Zealand after more than 100 days and prompted the country's government to put its largest city into strict lockdown. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-breaks-out-again-in-new-zealand-after-102-days-12047011 3 comments worldnews
- Expert Warns US Cities Could Face 'Apocalyptic' Future as Country Sets Record for New Covid-19 Cases in One Day https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/26/expert-warns-us-cities-could-face-apocalyptic-future-country-sets-record-new-covid 27 comments politics
- Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, was warmer than New York City soaring to 75 degrees (24 Celsius) Thursday, marking the warmest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic country during June. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/06/10/greenland-witnessed-its-highest-june-temperature-ever-recorded-on-thursday/?postshare=6151465666448937&tid=ss_tw 124 comments worldnews
- A new study found birds living among suburban environs exhibit higher levels of territorial aggression than their peers from the country. The closer to the city, the angrier the birds. http://phys.org/news/2016-07-aggressive-behavior-city-birds-rural.html 4 comments science
- New Zealand Auckland lockdown ordered - New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered the country's biggest city Auckland to go into lockdown after the discovery of three new local cases of Covid-19. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56059960 15 comments worldnews
- A city in China’s northeastern province of Jilin has upgraded its Covid-19 risk level from low to medium following a new case of the disease. It came just two days after China’s government declared the whole country was low-risk after new cases dropped to almost zero https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3083645/chinese-city-raises-coronavirus-threat-level-after-recording-new 4 comments worldnews
- White House: Everyone Who’s Visited New York City Should Self-Quarantine| The president said it’s “very unfortunate” that New York City has become the country’s main coronavirus “hot spot” even as he predicts a quick recovery for the rest of the nation. https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-everyone-whos-visited-new-york-city-should-self-quarantine?ref=wrap 18 comments politics
- Sea-Level Rise Could Reshape the United States, Trigger Migration Inland. In the US alone, 13 million people could be forced to relocate due to rising sea levels by 2100. As a result, cities throughout the country will grapple with new populations. https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2020/01/sea-level-rise-could-reshape-the-united-states-trigger-migration-inland/ 10 comments science
- Researchers measured urban sprawl and found that streets in new developments in 90% of the 134 most populous countries have become less connected since 1975, suggesting that current trends of poorly connected urban sprawl can restrict future resilience of cities https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/01/13/1905232116 4 comments science
- Spread of measles to at-risk Pacific Islands 'inevitable' after major New Zealand outbreak - Prime minister Jacinda Ardern has taken the unprecedented step of warning anyone unvaccinated to stay away from the country’s largest city, home to 1.7 million people. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/30/spread-of-measles-to-at-risk-pacific-islands-inevitable-after-major-new-zealand-outbreak 13 comments worldnews
- People in the Muslim-majority southern Philippines have voted by a landslide to create a new autonomous region covering five provinces and three cities, a result the government hopes will bring peace to a war-torn part of the country and address issues that lure recruits to Isis-inspired groups. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/25/southern-philippines-backs-muslim-self-rule-in-landslide-victory 13 comments worldnews
- U.S. Cities Are Losing 36 Million Trees a Year. Cities in half the states in the country lost a significant amount of tree cover over a five year period, according to a new study. In some cases, the changes were drastic, amounting to almost half a percent of a city’s tree cover every year http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/us-urban-forest-crisis/ 165 comments science
- More than half of Norway's new car sales now electric or hybrid, figures show: Generous tax breaks and incentives like free city tolls and parking put country en route to meet electric-only vehicle market by 2025. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/04/over-half-of-norways-new-car-sales-now-electric-or-hybrid-figures-show 8 comments worldnews
- In scattered state capitals and city halls around the country, a new group of elected officials is telling the federal government to take a hike: Up-and-coming Democrats. http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/2014-elections-democrats-go-rogue-110297.html?hp=t1 5 comments politics
- Senators Gillibrand (D-NY) and Kirk (R-IL) introduce the first bipartisan gun safety law of the new Congress. The two senators say their bill will for the first time define gun trafficking as a federal crime, a move long sought by local law enforcement and mayors in cities across the country. http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/today_in_washington_sen_gillib.html 19 comments politics
- God Is in the Basement of the Empire State Building: Dinesh D’Souza, producer of new documentary "Obama 2016" and is the new president of the city’s only Evangelical college, (and whose motto is “God, Money, Power”) wants to build a “Christian A-team” to take over the country and the world http://nymag.com/news/features/kings-college-2011-8/ 4 comments politics
- Strategy is all about setting priorities: Here in America, we spend endless hours arguing and debating trivialities, like who is going to get to run Afghanistan (a country whose entire GDP is about one-third the size of the municipal budget for New York City). http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/11/a_heated_rant_about_climate_change 6 comments worldevents
- A new independent report from Japan details just how close that country came to a "devil's chain reaction" of nuclear plant after nuclear plant melting down and sending a plume of radiation over the city of Tokyo and its 30 million inhabitants http://www.pri.org/stories/world/asia/new-report-says-in-japan-s-2011-nuclear-disaster-narrowly-avoided-being-much-worse-8670.html 21 comments science
- Prime Minister David Cameron put forward on Friday a new way of punishing the looters and vandals who rampaged through many of the country’s cities and towns: kick them and their families out of their government-subsidized homes. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/world/europe/13britain.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss 5 comments worldnews
- Decades from now, historians will look back and wonder how the United States allowed itself to get bogged down in a long and costly war to determine the political fate of landlocked country whose entire gross national product is about a quarter the size of the New York city budget. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/12/17/the_zombie_war_in_afghanistan 5 comments politics
- Top 10 Reasons for Higher Taxes on the Top 1% | "Funding for our country's children is being cut, but we allow a hedge fund manager to make enough money to pay the salaries of every public school teacher in New York City. Most of his earnings are taxed at a rate less than that of his secretary." http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/02-8 26 comments politics
- Bloomberg Suggests Disarming the Drunks : New York City has some of the toughest gun laws in the country and Mayor Bloomberg wants to make them tougher with a new law that would criminalize carrying a firearm while drunk. http://odonnell.lohudblogs.com/2009/09/02/bloombergs-latest-gun-blitz/ 6 comments politics
- After 3 days of lockdown due to 3 Covid cases in the community. New Zealand’s largest city Auckland to drop to alert level 2, rest of country to Alert level 1. https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300232027/live-a-new-positive-covid19-case-identified-as-jacinda-ardern-and-ashley-bloomfield-make-announcement-on-alert-level-changes 18 comments worldnews
- For a jump in cases of a new coronavirus emerging in different mainland cities & three other Asian countries, the HK govt will introduce health declaration forms – but only for travellers arriving on flights from Wuhan and not including those travel via other vehicles such as train and coach https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1503814-20200120.htm?sptabchangeable=0 4 comments worldnews
- Congrats on That New Citywide Minimum Wage. Now Republicans Are Going to Try to Kill It. As cities throughout the country pass minimum-wage raises, GOP state legislators have a wicked little plan to undo them. http://www.thenation.com/article/congrats-that-new-citywide-minimum-wage/ 3 comments politics
- Occupy Blue Wall Street? New Yorkers get uncomfortable look at the ugly realities behind the country’s bluest and most enlightened city. A series of trials now underway in the Bronx reveal the harsh truth of embedded corruption and contempt for the public at the heart of the NY City police union http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/11/06/occupy-blue-wall-street/ 37 comments politics
- Beijing (CN) committed to ‘one country, two systems’ governing principle for Hong Kong, preserving city’s strengths, Xi Jinping says 'preserving its unique strengths as an international hub, while also laying down a list of tasks for the city’s new leader to deliver in the next five years.' https://www.scmp.com/hong-kong-25/politics/article/3183873/beijing-committed-one-country-two-systems-governing-principle?module=lead_hero_story&pgtype=homepage 11 comments internationalpolitics
- The Billionaire King Of Techtopia --- Profile of Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, angel investor in Facebook. Champion of "seasteading": Building new sovereign city-states on oil-rig-type platforms in international waters. "The next frontier is start-up countries" http://www.details.com/culture-trends/critical-eye/201109/peter-thiel-billionaire-paypal-facebook-internet-success?printable=true 70 comments business
- A Texas city had a bold new climate plan – until a gas company got involved | The fossil fuel industry is using the same playbook to fight city climate plans around the country https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/01/a-texas-city-had-a-bold-new-climate-plan-until-a-gas-company-got-involved 12 comments politics
- A New Rule Change Could Mean a Multibillion-Dollar Windfall for New York City's LGBTQ BusinessesNew York just became the largest city in the country to recognize LGBTQ business owners as minorities, unlocking access to $17 billion in city contracts. https://www.inc.com/tim-crino/lgbtq-businesses-new-york-city-contracts.html 4 comments business
- Islamic exorcisms used as conversion therapy as Indonesian city moves against LGBT population: Indonesian city launched new campaign to "cleanse" LGBT people of their "social sickness" through religious exorcisms, move that's been seen as part of country's growing intolerance towards community. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-06/indonesia-lgbtqi-conversion-therapy/10576900 17 comments worldnews
- Billions in Climate Deal Funding Could Help Protect U.S. Coastal Cities: Communities across the country hope to tap into funds from Democrats’ new climate law to restore coastal habitats, part of a program that emphasizes nature-based solutions. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/us/politics/climate-law-coastal-projects.html 10 comments politics