The Daily Populous

Monday March 26th, 2018 day edition

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A new report from a Democrat-aligned group lays out the ways in which the House Intelligence Committee failed to conduct a thorough investigation into the President Donald Trump campaign's contacts with Russia.

The committee's Republican majority voted to release their final report on Thursday, which officially closed their investigation.

The House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines on Thursday to release its Republican majority's report on the Russia investigation, therefore concluding the probe.

In total, the report claims that at least 12 people on Trump's team had contacts with Russians, and that at least another 10 people knew about them.

According to the report, the 12 people who had such contacts with Russians were:.

In a summary report released last week, Republicans concluded that no collusion had taken place between the Trump campaign and Russia.

"They say they have stolen [Democratic presidential nominee Hillary] Clinton emails, they preview the dissemination, they want a relationship with the campaign. »

Rick Santorum to Student Activists: Don’t March, Learn CPR

Authored by thedailybeast.com
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He went on to dismiss the “action” taken by the student activists who survived a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, last month as little more than asking someone else to pass a law.

“They didn’t take action to say, ‘How do I, as an individual, deal with this problem?

What am I going to do to actually help respond to a shooter?’” Santorum said. »

The U.S. military has a weapon that can create human speech miles away

Authored by bigthink.com
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One device that the lab is making is an energy weapon that can use lasers to create the Laser-Induced Plasma Effect, which allows it to alter atoms and create words out of thin air.

For now, it makes strange human-like sounds, but intelligible words are coming within the next three years.

The goal is to have the weapon being able to create particular noises or heat at particular distant points in space. »

Mark Zuckerberg drops Hawaiian land lawsuits after outcry

Authored by theverge.com
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In a letter printed in Kauai’s The Garden Island, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan explained their decision.

“We understand that for native Hawaiians, kuleana are sacred and the quiet title process can be difficult.

The legal action forces owners of undeveloped land to sell the property in a public auction to the highest bidder. »