Business mogul Kevin O’Leary wants to invest in a US refinery, says fossil fuels will stick around
April 13, 2023
Earlier this week, T-Mobile agreed to pay a nearly $20 million settlement to the Federal Communications Commission after a 12-hour outage in June 2020 led to 23,000 failed 911 calls. The FCC said that T-Mobile will have to work towards improved communications of call centers amidst outages, along with other[Read More…]
Kevin Strickland, 62, was wrongfully convicted for a triple homicide in 1979 and spent 43 years in prison; upon his release thousands of people came together to provide him with more than $1 million. Judge James Welsh ordered for Strickland’s release earlier this week, recognizing that the evidence used to[Read More…]
Juul has agreed to pay $14.5 million to the state of Arizona to settle a lawsuit. In January 2020, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich filed a lawsuit against Juul and another e-cigarette maker over claims that they had targeted an underage audience, which is illegal. The company still faces ongoing[Read More…]
A new study found that 43% of adults have financially cheated on a current or past partner. The Harris Poll conducted a survey on behalf of the National Endowment for Financial Education and determined that in relationships where couples share finances, 43% admit to financially cheating on a partner. The[Read More…]
GoFundMe removed a fundraiser page on its site which aimed to raise $5 million to bail out the man suspected of driving through the Waukesha Christmas parade. Last week, Darrell Brooks, 33, allegedly drove through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. At the time of the parade, he was already[Read More…]
Out of the 82,000 people brought to the US from Afghanistan in the past few months, almost none were vetted according to protocol. Following the US exiting Afghanistan and the Taliban’s subsequent takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan, 82,000 people entered the US. Senate Republicans drafted a memo outlining the process that[Read More…]
The Department of Labor said last week’s jobless claims totaled 199,000, which is lower than any week in the last 52 years. On Wednesday, the DOL reported its new jobless claims for the previous week. The numbers are usually released on Thursday but due to Thanksgiving, it was pushed forward[Read More…]
A high schooler in Texas struck her teacher and made racially charged comments towards her before storming out of the classroom. A video recording by another student captured the whole event. While the teacher was talking on her desk phone, the student walked up, hit her, and hung up her[Read More…]
Santa Cruz County, California has reimplemented an indoor mask mandate. This includes inside private homes. The mandate comes as the number of Covid-19 cases are increasing as the weather is getting colder. Indoor businesses and offices must require guests to wear masks, as well as have signage posted reminding people[Read More…]
On Tuesday, the White House and Department of Energy announced that the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve would be made available. President Joe Biden authorized the release of 32 million barrels of crude. They will come from four separate Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR). It will be delivered between December 2021 and[Read More…]