The Daily Populous

Thursday October 11st, 2018 night edition

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Melania Trump says she is “the most bullied person in the world.”.

The First Lady told ABC News that personal attacks on her inspired her to launch the “Be Best” anti-bullying initiative.

“I could say that I’m the most bullied person in the world,” she said in an interview recorded during her recent tour of Africa.

“One of them – if you really see what people are saying about me.”.

The First Lady has made cyberbullying a key part of her public platform, having pledged to fight it while campaigning for her husband in 2016.

But many have questioned the choice of subject, given her husband’s well-known habit of insulting his critics on Twitter.

Being Melania – The First Lady, airs at 10 p.m. Friday on ABC. »

Lung Cancer Deaths are 28 Percent Lower in California

Authored by health.ucsd.edu

Lung cancer mortality rates were derived from a collection of all death certificates filed in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Age-adjusted lung cancer mortality rates for those 35 years or older were calculated using the national SEER statistical database.

This research was funded, in part, by the California Tobacco Related Disease Research Program (24ST-0050, 26IR-0024, 24RT-0036, 23RT-0016). »

It Seems Bad That the Guy Running for Governor in Georgia Is Also In Charge of Who Gets to Vote in Georgia

Authored by slate.com
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Appling-Nunez’s application [to register to vote] is one of over 53,000 sitting on hold with Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s office.

… Kemp, who’s also the Republican candidate for governor, is in charge of elections and voter registration in Georgia.

—is not the ideal person to have in charge of deciding which black voters get to vote in the election he’s running in?. »

Shocking Video of Iraqi Teenager Brutally Killed Because He 'Looks Gay' Goes Viral

Authored by albawaba.com
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Mohammed al-Motteri, a 14-year-old Iraqi teenager who was brutally killed in the street with the awful crime videotaped and documented on social media by his murderers.

Last week, Tara Fares, an Iraqi model and social media influencer was shot dead by unknown attackers in Baghdad.

Few days after there was the killing of Suad al-Ali, an Iraqi human rights activist who was shot and killed in her car in the southern city of Basra. »

Huge reduction in meat-eating ‘essential’ to avoid climate breakdown

Authored by theguardian.com
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The research also finds that enormous changes to farming are needed to avoid destroying the planet’s ability to feed the 10 billion people expected to be on the planet in a few decades.

This trajectory would smash critical environmental limits beyond which humanity will struggle to live, the new research indicates.

To halt deforestation, water shortages and pollution from overuse of fertiliser, profound changes in farming practices are needed. »