Imperial Valley News Center
Secretary of State John Kerry's Phone Call With Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida
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Washington, DC - Secretary Kerry spoke separately this morning via phone with Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida regarding the launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea using ballistic missile technology.
Scientists Map Movement of Greenland Ice During Past 9,000 Years
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- Written by Anton Caputo
Austin, Texas - Scientists have created the first map that shows how the Greenland Ice Sheet has moved over time, revealing that ice in the interior is moving more slowly toward the edges than it has, on average, during the past 9,000 years.
Overall US crime rates unaffected by so-called ‘Ferguson effect’
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- Written by Julie Poppen
Boulder, Colorado - A new study finds no evidence of a widespread surge in total, violent or property crime in large U.S. cities in the aftermath of the highly publicized police shooting of Michael Brown. But the research does show the overall rate of robberies across the country has increased, as has the murder rate in certain cities.
‘Pushback’ against constant connectivity also reflected in images, study follow-up finds
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- Written by Peter Kelley
Seattle, Washington - People expressing the wish to resist constant online connectivity - dubbed “pushback” by University of Washington Information School researchers - is manifested as powerfully in images as in text, further study has found.
Common ownership of big banks kills competition
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- Written by Greta Guest
Ann Arbor, Michigan - Does the city you live in have a lot of different banks but they all seem to have high fees and offer low interest rates for savings? Those banks might have more in common than you think.
‘Stakes are high’ in Pope’s visit to Mexico
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- Written by Michael O. Garvey
Notre Dame, Indiana - When Pope Francis travels to Mexico February 12-17, he will visit six cities - including two in the state of Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest state - and will celebrate a Mass in Ciudad Juárez across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. The first pope from Latin America, where 40 percent of the world’s Catholics live, he will be touring the country that’s home to the second largest Catholic population in the world.
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