Business mogul Kevin O’Leary wants to invest in a US refinery, says fossil fuels will stick around
April 13, 2023
The US National Institutes of Health has deleted gene sequences of early Covid-19 cases from a key scientific database at the request of Chinese researchers, a Seattle-based virologist has alleged. Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, described the removal of the sequencing data[Read More…]
The half-billion-dollar National Guard price tag to man the U.S. Capitol for more than five months following the Jan. 6 riot has depleted the Guard’s funds and will affect readiness if Congress does not act, National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Daniel Hokanson said Wednesday. Hokanson told Pentagon reporters, “It’s critical[Read More…]
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock apologized Friday after a front-page expose showed him kissing an aide, saying he was “very sorry” for breaking his social-distancing rules. “I accept that I breached the social distancing guidance in these circumstances,” the 42-year-old politician said of the images, one of which showed him[Read More…]
Republicans in Florida have intensified their assault on what they call “Marxist professors and students” in the state’s public universities and colleges with a bill that encourages the reporting of lecturers perceived to be stopping “viewpoint diversity” on campus. The 12-page bill, which is awaiting the signature of the Florida[Read More…]
Bumble is giving its entire staff “a paid, fully offline” vacation this week to help them recover from burnout after a year of working through a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic. “As vaccination rates rise and restrictions ease, we wanted to give the teams a much-deserved week off to recover and refresh[Read More…]
Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), described American children as an “environmental hazard” while advocating for slowing U.S. population growth in her 1992 graduate thesis. The Daily Caller reported on Stone-Manning’s thesis, titled “Into the Heart of the Beast, a[Read More…]
The Trump Organization sued New York City, claiming it wrongfully terminated its contract to operate the Ferry Point golf course in the Bronx. The city ended $17 million worth of contracts with Former President Donald Trump’s company in February after the January 6 assault on the Capitol in Washington, including[Read More…]
The transmission of the more contagious Delta variant in the United States could spur a fall surge in coronavirus infections if only 75% of the country’s eligible population is vaccinated, former Food and Drug Administration chief Scott Gottlieb said Sunday. While Gottlieb cited one projection forecasting an increase in infections[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with a former high-school cheerleader who was punished after posting a profane rant on Snapchat, ruling that a Pennsylvania school district violated the First Amendment by suspending her from the team. Brandi Levy and her parents had sued Mahanoy Area High School after she[Read More…]
The Texas Legislature is on the verge of approving a new law that would require some public schools and universities to display the phrase “In God We Trust” in prominent places inside all campus buildings. Under Senate Bill 797, authored by Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, any school that had a[Read More…]