Business mogul Kevin O’Leary wants to invest in a US refinery, says fossil fuels will stick around
April 13, 2023
Cornell University’s student assembly has voted unanimously in favor of requiring trigger warnings for “traumatic” content in classes, a move that some people have said will restrict freedom of speech on campus. The recently introduced resolution “implores all instructors to provide content warnings on the syllabus that may be discussed,” meaning professors[Read More…]
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has returned a piece of legislation to the table that would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide. Rubio said this would bring to an end the “antiquated practice” of changing clocks bi-annually. “This ritual of changing time twice a year is stupid. Locking the clock has overwhelming[Read More…]
The Virginia resident and US Army officer who was pepper sprayed by two Windsor, Virginia, police officers while in uniform during a traffic stop in 2021 was awarded less than $4,000 of his $1 million lawsuit. Caron Nazario was driving at night in Windsor in December 2020 when two officers[Read More…]
On Wednesday, Elon Musk confirmed that “Twitter will not allow anyone who was de-platformed for violating Twitter rules back on platform until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks.” The billionaire Twitter owner had previously said he would start a “content[Read More…]
The FBI announced on Monday that it has located 121 children who had been reported missing, some were victims of trafficking. In a news release, the FBI said that its nationwide sting, dubbed “Operation Cross Country” initiative was able to locate over 200 victims of human trafficking and related crimes[Read More…]
At least 25 people have died as a result of severe flash flooding in the Kentucky. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear cautioned that the death toll could rise over the next few days. “Folks, that’s going to get a lot higher,” Bashear said, adding that deaths have been reported in Perry,[Read More…]
Bill De Blasio, who served as Mayor of New York from 2014 to 2021, ended his bid to represent the 10th Congressional District by conceding that “it’s not going work out.” “I’ve really listened carefully to people and it’s clear to me that when it comes to this congressional district,[Read More…]
President Joe Biden indicated that he may have cancer in a speech on clean energy Wednesday, sparking controversy online. It remains unclear whether or not President Biden meant that he indeed currently has cancer, is speaking about his experience getting non-melanoma skin cancers were removed in 2015, or just mispoke.[Read More…]
In body-camera footage released by the Unified Police Department, officers can be seen detaining a man at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Midvale, Utah. As they’re doing so, a 4-year-old in the backseat of the man’s car fires a gun at the officers. In the body-camera footage from the Unified Police[Read More…]
The first polio case in the United States since 2007 has been identified in a young adult from Rockland County, New York. The county health commissioner, Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, said Thursday that the unvaccinated person began suffering from limb and nerve paralysis about a month ago. This case comes[Read More…]