Business mogul Kevin O’Leary wants to invest in a US refinery, says fossil fuels will stick around
April 13, 2023
The new University of Austin in Texas, which is set to open its first campus in Dallas in the near future, has begun offering a summer program made up of what the school calls “Forbidden Courses,” which opened last summer to rave reviews from students. The program, which the University[Read More…]
In spite of a bill making its way through Congress to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, 48 of the 50 US states will once again reset their clocks on March 12 and lose an hour. The “Sunshine Protection Act,” introduced by Florida Senator Marco Rubio in 2022, aims to make[Read More…]
United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg penned a letter to the railroad company responsible for the disastrous and toxic freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month, urging the company to make residents whole as swiftly as possible, and clean up its act. In the strongly-worded Sunday[Read More…]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Wang Yi, China’s most senior diplomat, in Munich this weekend, but says he did not receive an official apology from China over the recent spy balloon incident that made global headlines and raised military tensions between the two countries. Blinken and Wang[Read More…]
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders eviscerated big pharmaceutical companies in an appearance on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’ on Sunday, slamming them for a planned spike in the price of COVID-19 vaccines. Sanders, head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, pledged to use his seat on the panel[Read More…]
A group of parents in the United Kingdom expressed their concern this week over an adult transgender cricketer being allowed to play club cricket against their daughters as young as 12 years old, saying the player’s strength is a danger to their children. The adult woman was allowed to play[Read More…]
The United States Forest Service announced this week that it will begin culling 150 feral cattle currently roaming the Gila National Forest in New Mexico this week in order to protect the wilderness and visitors to the forest. According to the Thursday announcement from the Gila National Forest, “These feral[Read More…]
Former United States president Jimmy Carter has opted to enter hospice care at his home in Georgia at the age of 98. According to an announcement from The Carter Center, the 39th US president elected to begin hospice care at his longtime home in Plains, Georgia, today. “After a series[Read More…]
Florida lawmakers are considering making a change to the way high schoolers in the state are tested for academic aptitude by doing away with the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and replacing it with the Classic Learning Test. In response to a public scuffle with the College Board over an Advanced[Read More…]
Republicans have reacted publicly this week to former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley’s announcement that she is running for president in 2024, with some in the GOP camp warning that her prospects may be surprisingly promising, and others telling her to “go back to [her] own country.” Republican lawmakers and[Read More…]