Welcome to Finest News. Subscribe to the channel at https://goo.gl/VjHw6T Welcome to Finest News. Subscribe to the channel at https://goo.gl/VjHw6T Japan has been hit by one of the strongest typhoons in 25 years, with officials warning more than a million people to evacuate their homes. + We report daily news, the latest news. + We are very pleased to cooperate with other electronic newspapers. + Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use (https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOClqx6KaJ8

Welcome to Finest News. Subscribe to the channel at https://goo.gl/VjHw6T He tried to take down Kavanaugh, but a legendary justice paid him back in spades. Last week, Sen. Cory Booker exposed his own dishonesty when he called himself “Spartacus.” The arrogant liberal claimed to be releasing classified documents that would expose Brett Kavanaugh. Not only did the documents do nothing to tarnish Kavanaugh’s reputation, they weren’t even classified. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6vpeW7YCXk

Welcome to Finest News. Subscribe to the channel at https://goo.gl/VjHw6T Gov. Andrew Cuomo stood last June with Nancy Pelosi and said he would do whatever it took to defeat Republican incumbents in competitive House races across New York. Many of those Democratic candidates are still waiting for him to show up. Cuomo’s 2017 pronouncement came before he found himself in an unexpectedly heated primary with Cynthia Nixon. In the more than 15 months since he announced the effort to help House Democratic candidates, and with just seven weeks to go until the general election, much of what he promised has yet to materialize. Democrats working on House races this year said they'd forgotten Cuomo had even made the promise. The governor held a few campaign rallies where he's taken a noticeably light touch on the incumbents and done little fundraising. When he held a rally Tuesday in New York City with labor unions and argued New York needed to elect a blue Congress to stop President Donald Trump, it was one of only a handful of rallies he’s done for Democrats across the state in the past year. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1K17V-4U5k

Since 2005, he has been helping customs officials analyze the vast quantities of illegally smuggled elephant ivory that circulate around the world. Such shipments are on the rise, and more than 40 tons are seized every year. At the same time, the average size of the confiscated tusks has fallen; having killed off many of the largest elephants, poachers are now turning their attention to younger individuals. For example, Wasser, who is a conservationist at the University of Washington, recently investigated a seizure that comprised 1,800 tusks, most of which were under two feet long. A hundred or so were barely longer than a pencil, and hollow on the inside. Each one belonged to a calf who was just a few years old, and still dependent on its mother’s milk. Every pair represented a life that was ended for the sake of piddling amounts of ivory. Elephant poaching really took off during the last decade, and it’s estimated that 111,000 individuals—up to a fifth of the full African population—have been killed since 2006. The slaughter is a local problem, but it eventually ties into organized crime networks that ship the plundered ivory around in huge containers that weigh half a ton or more. Once they leave port, these shipments are very hard to find. “There are so many containers on cargo ships that even the most sophisticated ports can inspect just 1 to 2 percent of them,” Wasser says. “If you’re a transnational criminal, you really just have to get your contraband into a container on a ship, and there’s a very low chance someone will find it in a search. We need to stop the trade before it enters into transit.” To do that, Wasser first needed to find out where the ivory is coming from—and he began with poop. By collecting elephant dung from across Africa, and extracting DNA from them, he and his colleagues created a genetic map of the continent’s pachyderms. By cross-referencing the DNA from an unknown tusk to this map, Wasser can pinpoint the tooth’s source to within 200 miles. In this way, he showed that almost all the ivory that’s been seized in the last decade has come from just two poaching hotspots—one that includes Gabon and the Congo, and another centered in Tanzania. [What is it about an elephant’s tusks that make them so valuable?] ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjjQt9aejzU