“Trump impeachment defense team members Ken Starr and Robert Ray gave large campaign contributions to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last year.”
(www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/01/senators-overseeing-impeachment-got-campaign-cash-from-trump-team/)
“The worst outbreak of desert locusts in Kenya in 70 years has seen hundreds of millions of the bugs swarm into the East African nation from Somalia and Ethiopia. Those two countries have not had an infestation like this in a quarter-century, destroying farmland and threatening an already vulnerable region with devastating hunger.”
“About 70,000 hectares (172,973 acres) of land in Kenya are already infested.”
“They are now heading toward Uganda and fragile South Sudan, where almost half the country faces hunger as it emerges from civil war. Uganda has not had such an outbreak since the 1960s and is already on alert.”
“The locusts also are moving steadily toward Ethiopia’s Rift Valley, the breadbasket for Africa’s second-most populous country, the U.N. says.”
“Even before this outbreak, nearly 20 million people faced high levels of food insecurity across the East African region long challenged by periodic droughts and floods.”
“A 46 per cent fall in suicides among people in same-sex marriages was recorded by comparing two time periods in Denmark and Sweden – from 1989 to 2002, and 2003 to 2016.”
Yesterday Kayla and I went to Mystic Seaport Museum to see the Turner watercolors on loan from Tate and then had lunch at Latitude41
(https://www.instagram.com/p/B7giXQEnv1M/?igshid=16mzx6hm6jkub)
“This award recognizes one student chapter each year who exemplifies EWB-USA’s mission through efficient organization, effective fundraising, and an engaged student body. The group has recently worked on projects in Guatemala, Panama, and Uganda.”
“This is the second time Northeastern’s EWB has won this prestigious award, having first been selected in 2014. This year’s selection saw them chosen from a total of 163 student chapters.”
(https://coe.northeastern.edu/news/ewb-wins-2019-premier-chapter-award)
“Defense Secretary Mark Esper explicitly said Sunday that he had seen no hard evidence that four American embassies had been under possible threat when President Donald Trump authorized the targeting of Iran’s top commander, raising questions about the scale of the threat described by Trump last week.”
danelabonte 