Business mogul Kevin O’Leary wants to invest in a US refinery, says fossil fuels will stick around
April 13, 2023
South African government officials are saying that their country is being punished for discovering the COVID-19 Omicron variant after flights to the country have been cancelled. On Saturday, the South African Union released a statement criticizing the new travel bans to South Africa that several countries have implemented. “Excellent science[Read More…]
The country of Madagascar has an increasing number of people facing hunger and food insecurity, which some experts are saying is a result of a climate change induced famine. A lack of food has been growing and becoming a constant for people in Madagascar. For the past four years, crop[Read More…]
Israel closed its borders due to the Covid-19 Omicron variant over the weekend, becoming the first country to do so. After it was discovered that a traveler to Israel from Malawi tested positive for the Covid-19 Omicron variant, officials met for several hours on Saturday night to discuss the best[Read More…]
A security guard who accompanied a TV reporter to an Oakland, CA store to report on recent burglaries was shot and killed at the scene. Kevin Nishita, a former cop, was hired through Star Protection Agency to provide security for a KRON4 news crew as they reported in downtown Oakland.[Read More…]
The two senators from Wisconsin issued a bipartisan statement commanding people to cease using the recent Waukesha incident for political purposes. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) issued a joint statement on Saturday demanding that people quit making last week’s Waukesha Christmas parade incident political. “It has come[Read More…]
Former Trump White House advisor Stephen Miller claims that if Donald Trump were still president, there would already be a vaccine for the COVID-19 Omicron variant. While speaking on Fox News’ Hannity, Miller said that the US would “already have modified vaccines to deal with the new variants” if Trump[Read More…]
The incoming leadership team in Germany’s government promised to minimize the country’s gender pay gap. In September, Germans voted to elect Olaf Scholz as its next chancellor. Scholz won by a narrow margin, with the results being announced earlier this week. He and other newly elected government officials are vowing[Read More…]
Around 30,000 people with student loans will be awarded a collective $2 billion under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program in the coming weeks. The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program (PSLF) is structured to help those who have large student debt but work in low-paying government fields, such as teaching[Read More…]
A Florida teen and her mother are facing 16 years each of jail time after allegedly rigging votes in the teen’s homecoming court vote. Emily Grover, 18, and Laura Carroll, 50, have pleaded not guilty to felony charges of interfering with Grover’s homecoming election last year. Investigations into the allegations[Read More…]
A report from the Department of the Interior recommends increasing fees for those who drill on public land as a service to taxpayers. The report suggests that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) implement a higher royalty rate to match those fossil fuel developers are charged to drill on private[Read More…]