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A suspected drone attack may have caused an explosion that struck three oil tankers in Abu Dhabi, which is the capital of the United Arab Emirates, and another fire at an extension of Abu Dhabi International Airport on Monday that killed three people and wounded six, police said. Abu Dhabi police identified[Read More…]
The rabbi of a Texas synagogue that was the scene of a hostage stand-off recounted on Monday how he threw a chair at the gunman, allowing those being held to escape. During the “last hour” of the 10-hour ordeal Saturday their captor “wasn’t getting what he wanted,” Charlie Cytron-Walker, rabbi of Congregation[Read More…]
Microsoft on Tuesday announced plans to acquire Activision Blizzard in a blockbuster deal worth nearly $70 billion. The all-cash transaction is valued at $68.7 billion, and Microsoft says it will make the company the third-largest gaming company by revenue, after Tencent and Sony. “When the transaction closes, Microsoft will become[Read More…]
More than 30 years after Jamaican bobsledders debuted at the Calgary Olympics, which inspired the movie “Cool Running,” a Jamaican team will compete at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The Jamaica Olympic Association announced the news in a tweet Monday, writing, “Jamaica, we have a bobsled team heading to Beijing.” Jamaica took[Read More…]
On Friday, the Washington state House Public Safety Committee heard testimony regarding two bills that look to address the current crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women. The bills come, following years of grassroots activism and data analysis conducted by native researchers, as updates to a previous measure passed in[Read More…]
In her Martin Luther King Day speech, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the United States economy “has never worked fairly for black Americans or, really, for any American of color.” Yellen took the words from the late civil rights leader’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and interpreted them in light[Read More…]
Republican state legislators in Wisconsin are pushing a plan to lower the minimum age required to legally carry a concealed weapon in the state. As of now, a Wisconsin resident must be 21-years-old before applying for a concealed carry permit, but the GOP-supported bill would lower the age to 18. [Read More…]
According to a new Gallup poll, political preferences among Americans have apparently shifted from Democratic to Republican over the course of 2021. The survey results mirror the respective popularities of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. For the first quarter of last year, 49 percent of Americans answered[Read More…]
Conservative radio talk show host Glenn Beck will be the keynote speaker at the Collin County GOP’s Lincoln Day Dinner on Thursday, Feb. 24th. According to the Dallas Morning News, a VIP redemption will begin at 6 p.m., just prior to the dinner, which will start at 7 p.m. with[Read More…]
Hawaii will be requiring visitors to the state to have received a COVID-19 booster shot to be considered fully vaccinated. Currently travelers into the state must quarantine for 5 days, or be fully vaccinated (the proper doses of an available Covid vaccine) or test negative within one day of travel.[Read More…]
