The Daily Populous

Sunday April 2nd, 2017 day edition

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It’s 3.34pm on Tuesday 7 March, and time is running out to find Maow Maow.

The nine-month-old Bengal cross – or ‘cat’ to the uninitiated – went missing from his semi-detached home on a housing estate near Hereford precisely 12 days, 18 hours and, well, 30 minutes ago.

Maow Maow probably hasn’t gone far.

According to his owners, he has always been self-assured and out-going, but it’s not in his nature to stray far from their small garden.

Nor was there anything particularly out of the ordinary when they let him out for his evening constitutional at 9pm that fateful Wednesday.

Like a tiny, fur-covered Captain Oates, Maow Maow simply went outside and never returned.

President Trump Takes Aim at Net Neutrality Laws Next

Authored by fortune.com

Unraveling Obama-era net neutrality rules, the president's spokesman Sean Spicer said late this week .

Enacted in February 2015 under then-president Barack Obama, these rules classified large companies like Comcast ( cmcsa ) that deliver Internet to consumers as public utilities.

Supporters of the reversal said those rules force ISPs to do more to protect user privacy than companies like Google ( goog ) and Facebook ( fb ) .

$13M Paid to Women Who Accused Bill O’Reilly of Harassment

Authored by nymag.com

Fox News and Bill O’Reilly have paid out around $13 million in settlements to five women who accused O’Reilly of sexual harassment or verbal abuse, the New York Times reports.

21st Century Fox, Fox News’s parent company, indicated in a statement to the Times that they are continuing to stand behind O’Reilly:.

The Journal also reports that with regards to who made the payments, O’Reilly paid $10 million while Fox paid $3 million.

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Himalayan glaciers granted status of 'living entities'

Authored by france24.com

An Indian court has recognised Himalayan glaciers, lakes and forests as "legal persons" in an effort to curb environmental destruction, weeks after it granted similar status to the country's two most sacred rivers.

It said Yamunotri glacier, which is the source for Yamuna river was shrinking at an alarming rate.

The court also extended the status of "living entity" to swathes of the Himalayan environment, including waterfalls, meadows, lakes and forests.