The Daily Populous

Thursday October 3rd, 2019 night edition

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Independent Senator Angus King has claimed that some 20 minutes of the phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are missing from the White House memo detailing the conversation.

The full transcript of the now-infamous call between the two leaders has not been released.

King told Cooper he has a "hunch" about the edited transcript, the release of which pushed the Democratic Party to open an impeachment investigation into the president.

"I had two staff members from my office the other day read it aloud.

King admitted that some, or even all, of the missing time could have been taken up by translators facilitating the call.

"It may be there was a translator involved and that made it go much longer," the senator acknowledged.

If there was no translator that raises a question of what's in the other 20 minutes of that discussion.". »

Even meat lovers go veggie when plant-heavy meals abound

Authored by nature.com

Emma Garnett and her colleagues at the University of Cambridge, UK, collected data on more than 94,000 meals sold in 3 of the cafeterias at the university in 2017.

When the proportion of meatless options doubled from one to two of four choices, overall sales remained about constant.

The researchers found no evidence that higher sales of vegetarian dishes at lunch led to lower vegetarian sales at dinner. »

Looking for the optimal Rubik's Cube solution

Authored by ruwix.com

Perhaps the biggest secret of all, one that took over 30 years for mathematicians to crack is God’s Number.

The chances of generating a random scramble that can only be solved in 20 moves, no more no less, is around 1 in a billion.

Perhaps the most famous of the rare scrambles that require exactly 20 moves to solve is the super-flip position (pictured). »

Florida Boomer Caught on Video Cutting Brake Lines of Public E-Scooters

Authored by gizmodo.com
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Police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida have arrested a man who allegedly cut the brake lines on dozens of public scooters this year.

Williams has been linked to twenty of the vandalized scooters and has allegedly caused roughly $1,400 in damage, according to police.

But even if you hate the scooters, it’s a bad idea to cut the brake lines and endanger the lives of innocent people. »

Planned Parenthood has been building a secret abortion "mega-clinic" in Illinois

Authored by cbsnews.com

Other Planned Parenthood projects had run into problems once the public realized the construction was for an abortion provider.

Besides having just one clinic in their state, Missouri women face some of the country's most restrictive laws when seeking an abortion.

After that, the Illinois Planned Parenthood became flooded with abortion patients from Missouri. »