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Healthcare company Kaiser Permanente has notified 3,900 people that they have received the wrong dose amount for their Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, CBS local reported. Those who were vaccinated between October 25 and December 10 at the Walnut Creek Medical Center are believed to be given between 0.01 and 0.04 ml less than the recommended (.30 ml) dose. The patients are offered a new shot of the correct dose, if desired. But according to the Health Maintenance Organization, experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have informed them that the low dose should not significantly affect the immunities of recipients […]

Virtually all polls over the past year have shown that Trump, if he decides to run, remains the undisputed leader of the Republican primaries in the 2024 election. But when pollsters remove Trump from the hypothetical lineup, DeSantis is the favorite of Republican voters. Former President Donald Trump privately sees fellow Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as an ingrate with a “dull personality” who stands no chance of defeating him in a potential 2024 Republican matchup, Axios reported, citing sources within Trump’s circle. “In the context of the 2024 election, he [Trump] usually gives DeSantis a pop in the nose in the middle […]

The first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic have helped doubling of fortunes of the world’s ten richest people, who now are six times wealthier than the poorest 3.1 billion people, Oxfam, international charitable NGO, reported on Monday, ahead of the World Economic Forum’s Davos from 17-21 January. “The world’s ten richest men more than doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion —at a rate of $15,000 per second or $1.3 billion a day— during the first two years of a pandemic that has seen the incomes of 99 percent of humanity fall and over 160 million more people […]

Microsoft has pledged to review its handling of sexual harassment allegations against some of its top executives, including co-founder Bill Gates, and release a report to this effect. The company announced that the review would be conducted by the independent law firm Arent Fox, with the findings expected to be released this spring. Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella stressed in a statement on Friday that the firm’s “culture remains our number one priority and the entire board appreciates the critical importance of a safe and inclusive environment for all Microsoft employees.” “We’re committed not just to reviewing the report but learning from […]

The US Army will conduct drills known as Robin Sage in North Carolina starting 23 January to prepare young recruits for the Special Forces to take part in guerrilla warfare against a “numerically superior enemy.” CIA operatives are not the only tool for overthrowing “unfriendly” regimes that Washington has at its disposal. All US Special Forces trainees pass the exercise during their final exam. The two-week-long exercise will see recruits put inside of a “politically unstable” fictional country known as Pineland, where they will be helping local guerrillas to carry out reconnaissance missions, conduct raids, and organise ambushes against the forces […]

The prime minister of the Canadian province of Quebec, Francois Legault, has proposed introducing tax for all adults who refuse COVID-19 vaccination for non-medical reasons. “Despite the fact that unvaccinated adults make up 10% of the population, they account for half of the COVID hospitalizations in intensive care units. This is an immense pressure on our health care system. Therefore, we are considering the issue of imposing health tax that will be paid by all adults who refuse vaccination for non-medical reasons,” Legault said on Facebook on Tuesday. The official added that the amount of the penalty is yet to be […]

As the US economy continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic fallout, Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to pay their bills. According to the Census Bureau’s “household pulse” survey, last May, 46.7 percent of respondents said they had no difficulty paying usual household expenses, but by December 2021, it was 39.9 percent. The number of those acknowledging it was “a little, somewhat or very difficult” to pay those bills rose from 45.9 percent to 49.9 percent during the same period. According to analysts cited by US media, this is happening as the US economy has been steadily bouncing back, growing at a […]

More US service members committed suicide in the third quarter (Q3) of 2021 than the total number of those who died from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to the Defence Department. There were 580 deaths by suicide among US service members in 2020 – a 16 percent increase as compared to 2019, when there had been 498 such cases, according to the Defense Department suicide report, cited in last September. Thus, released Pentagon data cited by Fox News showed that 163 service members took their own lives from July to September 2021, of which 70 were active service members, 56 […]

Senate Democrats have linked the Capitol protests anniversary to the necessity to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act as soon as possible. Former Reagan administration official Dr Paul Craig Roberts has weighed up Chuck Schumer’s chances of overhauling the US election system. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced earlier this week that the upper chamber would vote on whether to change the Senate rules on or before 17 January, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, if Republicans derail voting rights legislation again. GOP lawmakers have repeatedly blocked the Dem-sponsored voting bills in the evenly […]

Fully vaccinated people shouldn’t be particularly worried about infection, immunologist and vaccine researcher Gunnveig Grødeland at the University of Oslo has ventured, suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic is effectively over for the majority of the country’s population which has had their two shots and are in the process of getting boosters. According to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, the novel Omicron strain only causes around a third or half as serious a disease as the previously dominant Delta strain. At the same time, Omicron is seen as more infectious than predecessors and may result in a significant wave, encumbering the […]

Archaeologists from the University of Seville and the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage claim to have discovered the lost Temple of Hercules Gaditanus. Using information they obtained from documentaries and aerial photographs, the researchers found a large rectangular structure submerged in the Bay of Cadiz. The structure, nearly 1,000 feet long, 500 feet wide, and matches the ancient descriptions of the temple, is only visible in low tide. “We researchers are very reluctant to turn archaeology into a spectacle, but in this case, we are faced with some spectacular findings. They are of great significance”, said Francisco Jose Garcia, an archaeologist at […]

The Office of Police Accountability (OPA) has concluded its probe into the actions of Seattle Police in June 2020 during racial protests in the US and found that the department had led a “misinformation effort” on one of the days faking chatter on police radio frequencies involving the name of the right-wing group, the Proud Boys. The fake police radio chatter suggesting that right-wing group members were moving towards the Capitol Hill neighbourhood prompted protesters stationed there in 2020 to build barricades and arm themselves, further escalating the situation in Seattle. According to the probe, an unnamed member of the Seattle Police Department […]

Authorities in Hong Kong have ordered new COVID-19 restrictions over the first suspected case of the new Omicron variant in the Chinese territory. Government Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced a two-week ban on flights from eight countries, including the UK, on Wednesday. She also ordered bars and gyms closed and restaurants to stop serving after 6pm. That was after a 42-year-old male resident tested positive for the virus, with health officials suspecting he has the new strain — the first individual to catch the virus from an unknown source for three months. The autonomous territory’s government’s aim is to minimise the spread of […]

A poll conducted by The Economist and YouGov found that nearly two-thirds of unvaccinated participants had no plans to ever receive a covid shot. The poll, of 1,500 Americans, touched on a multitude of subjects and broke down respondents by age, race, education, and socio-economic status. Of the 1,500 respondents, 69% reported that they had received at least one covid shot. According to the Mayo Clinic, 72.8% of Americans have had at least one covid shot, and 31% have said they have had no covid shot. Of 391 polled individuals who say they have not had a covid shot, 62% said they […]

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday will announce new measures to fight the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, but his administration does not intend to impose more lockdowns, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said. “He will talk about what to expect as we head into the winter months, and detail additional steps that we will be taking”, Psaki said during a press briefing on Monday.Biden has said that so-called fully vaccinated individuals who have also received a booster dose will likely have mild or asymptomatic Omicron cases, Psaki said. “We continue to see, and our health experts assess that you are […]

The World Economic Forum set to be held in Davos from January 17-21 was postponed over the uncertainty over the outbreak of the Omicron coronavirus strain, the organizers said on Monday. “The World Economic Forum will defer its Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in the light of continued uncertainty over the Omicron outbreak. The Annual Meeting was scheduled to take place in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland between 17-21 January, 2022. It is now planned for early summer,” the organizers said in a statement. In lieu of the in-person conference, the organizers will offer participants an opportunity to hold virtual talks about global issues. “Participants […]

The POTUS also appeared to refer to the city of Charlottesville as “Charlestone” and “Charlotte”, as he was referring to the protests in Charlottesville from four years ago. US President Joe Biden has apparently made yet another gaffe as he described Vice President Kamala Harris using a seemingly incorrect job description. This presidential slip of the tongue occurred as Biden delivered a speech at South Carolina State University on Friday. “Of course, President Harris is a proud Howard alum,” the POTUS said, with Breitbart pointing out that he did not correct himself. Biden just called Kamala “President Harris.” pic.twitter.com/zzhZDFsAbq — Benny […]

The self-described moderate conservative West Virginia Democrat has spent weeks negotiating with Joe Biden and sparring with his fellow Democrats over the president’s signature $1.75 trillion social and climate spending bill. His vote is critical in a Senate split straight down the middle 50/50 between Republicans and Democrats. Senator Joe Manchin has apparently given up on President Biden’s Build Back Better Act legislation, saying he “just can’t” vote for the bill. “…I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can’t. I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there,” Manchin said, speaking to Fox News Sunday. “This […]

The French National Consultation Ethical Committee (CCNE) approved Friday COVID-19 vaccination for children aged 5-11 for the sake of individual and collective benefits for the child, the agency said. “The guiding principles of this ethical consideration of the CCNE were dictated by the individual benefit for the child and, secondly, by the collective benefit given that it also leads to the benefit of the child. They are primarily based on facts available and reflections connected to uncertainties of the current situation,” the CCNE press statement said. On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron said that vaccination for children between 5 and 11 […]

On Wednesday, the US Navy announced that it would enforce its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for service members and begin ‘administrative separation’ for those who have continued to refuse to be vaccinated against the highly-contagious disease. US Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek on Tuesday confirmed that 27 airmen were among the first to be discharged from the service over their failure to obey an order requiring them to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The active-duty members in question did not have exemptions and refused to be vaccinated by the November 2 deadline. Vice Adm. John B. Nowell, Jr., chief of naval personnel, highlighted in a December […]

Several global fashion retailers have filed legal complaints against the world’s two major financial services companies over their fees for card payments. Among them are UK-based AllSaints and Superdry, as well as American Levi, The Telegraph reported citing UK High Court writs. The companies reportedly accuse Visa and MasterCard of breaching competition laws with their high fees, and seek compensations for their losses. The fashion retailers thus joined around a dozen companies that seek to hold the two global credit cards operators accountable for high fees. Among other complainants are British supermarket chains Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s. One of them, Sainsbury’s, reportedly reached […]

The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) has banned travellers who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 from entering the country, overriding the government’s decision on the issue. “On Monday, Anvisa informed its border posts, especially at airports, of the need to immediately comply with the decision of the Federal Supreme Court, which ordered the requirement for vaccination certificates for travellers entering the country,” Anvisa said in a statement. The measures entered into force immediately. Anvisa has also begun to assess the cases of the passengers who were en route at the time of the change in the rules. On Saturday, Brazilian Supreme […]

Black, homosexual former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was accused of orchestrating a racist and homophobic attack against himself in January 2019 and of lying to the police, as a jury in Chicago delivered a verdict in the staged hate crime case on 9 December. Former President Donald Trump denounced Jussie Smollett’s hoax police report as “a hate crime in reverse” after a Chicago jury delivered the “Empire” star’s guilty verdict on Thursday. “This is really a hate crime. Sort of a hate crime in reverse. And he’s not going to get away with it,” Trump said in a phone interview with Fox […]

Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) has announced that he has resigned from the US Congress in order to pursue a new career as the CEO of the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG). According to a TMTG statement, Nunes will begin his new role in January 2022. “Recently, I was presented with a new opportunity to fight for the most important issues I believe in. I’m writing to let you know I’ve decided to pursue this opportunity, and therefore I will be leaving the House of Representatives at the end of 2021”, Nunes revealed. “Rest assured, I have not, by any means, […]

Earlier on Friday, the parents of accused Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley were charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the incident. The parents of a 15-year-old Michigan school shooter suspect, James and Jennifer Crumbley, have pled not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter after their son killed four using a gun one of them had bought. Judge Julie Nicholson has agreed with the arguments of the prosecutor that both parents pose a flight risk and set a bond of $500,000 for each of them. The judge also ruled to have the Crumbleys wear GPS trackers, should they be released on […]

The news is likely to add pressure to the Cuomo family as earlier this year former Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo was accused by 11 women of sexual harassment. The politician vehemently denied the accusations despite an investigation concluding that harassment had taken place. TV host Chris Cuomo, who on Saturday was fired by CNN for helping his brother Andrew Cuomo defend his reputation amid sexual harassment accusations, has himself been accused of sexual misconduct, The New York Times has reported. According to the newspaper, last week prominent lawyer Debra S Katz informed CNN about a woman, a client of hers, who came forward with accusations […]

Recent events such as the May 2021 ransomware attack that shut down a pipeline supplying gasoline to much of the US East Coast illustrate the need for national cybersecurity plan and a greater government role protecting the United States’ infrastructure, the General Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report. “To address critical infrastructure cybersecurity, key actions the federal government needs to take include (1) developing and executing a comprehensive national cyber strategy and (2) strengthening the federal role in protecting the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure,” the report said on Thursday. If the federal government does not act with greater urgency, “the […]

Symone Sanders, Kamala Harris’ chief spokesperson and senior advisor, is leaving the White House at the end of the year, according to CNN. “Symone has served honourably for three years,” the source said as quoted by the CNN. “The President and Vice President are grateful for Symone’s service and advocacy for this White House. She is a valued member, a team player; and she will be missed. We are grateful to have her working through the end of the year.” Symone reportedly sent a note to staff on Wednesday announcing her decision. “From my first days on the President’s campaign to travelling […]

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a memorandum ordering the withholding of pay to members of the National Guard that refuse to get vaccinated for the novel coronavirus disease. “No Department of Defense funding may be allocated for payment of duties performed under title 32 for members of the National Guard who do not comply with Department of Defense COVID-19 vaccination requirements,” Austin said in the memorandum on Tuesday. National Guardsmen opposing vaccination will also be marked absent without cause from drills and training, which means they will not get credit for service time, the memorandum said. The new policy must be imposed […]

More than 30 hospitals in New York State will cease elective procedures as a result of the insufficient bad capacity amid the COVID-19 surge, Governor Kathy Hochul said. “We are talking about approximately 32-36 hospitals that have fallen in that category of having 10 percent or less bad capacity,” Hochul said during a virtual press briefing on Monday. The hospitals will cease non-essential procedures beginning on December 3, Hochul said, adding that the state authorities will reassess the situation on January 15. “Currently, we have 2,829 people in hospitals right now. We know that the trend is continuing in a bad […]

Several left-wing student organizations at Arizona State University on Monday demanded that Kyle Rittenhouse be “withdrawn” from the school. On November 19, jurors concluded their deliberations and found Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges leveled against him. The teenager faced felony charges after fatally shooting two individuals and injuring a third during riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 25 last year. Students for Socialism at Arizona State University, Students for Justice in Palestine at Arizona State University, Multicultural Solidarity Coalition at Arizona State University, and MECHA de ASU are all urging the university administration to remove the 18-year-old from the campus and issue […]

Merriam-Webster said Monday it had chosen “vaccine” as the word of the year, one that went beyond its medical meaning to encapsulate debates about personal choice, political affiliation and much more. This year’s main word, according to the American dictionary company, follows the selection of “pandemic” as the world of 2020. “The promising medical solution to the pandemic that upended our lives in 2020 also became a political argument and source of division. The biggest science story of our time quickly became the biggest debate in our country, and the word at the centre of both stories is vaccine,” it said. […]

Dark money appears to play a significant role in US politics, with various elections drawing millions of dollars of outside spending. Earlier in August, the OpenSecrets watchdog revealed that secret donors have already begun contributing to the 2022 midterm elections. A nonpartisan Washington group called The Voter Participation Center reportedly spent over $100 million making sure that young people, people of colour and unmarried women turned out to vote during the 2020 White House race, The Hill reported, citing tax filings. “At a time when in-person voter contact was sidelined for health and safety reasons, the Voter Participation Center really stood up […]

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Joe Biden said on Friday that he is not concerned about the plunge in the US stock market and he had expected it over concerns related to the new Omicron coronavirus variant. “I expected it,” Biden told reporters when asked if he is worried about the stock market plunge. Earlier on Friday, the US stock market fell 900 points over concerns about the new variant of the novel coronavirus detected in southern Africa. The US Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 905 points lower, losing 2.5%, as all sectors slid sharply into negative. The S&P 500 slipped 2.27%, while […]

Lava from Tanzania’s mysterious Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano could reveal Earth’s secrets, according to a report in the publication New Scientist, citing Kate Laxton from University College London who has been studying the volcano for several years. One of the unique features of Ol Doinyo Lengai is that it produces effusive eruptions of natrocarbonatite, but every now and then also explodes with a silicate lava – a switch, Laxton says, which is not well understood by scientists. The natrocarbonatite lava has lower viscosity, which in turn makes it one of the fastest flowing lavas and it could easily be mistaken for oil or dirty water. […]

According to the World Health Organisation, all viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, that causes COVID-19, change, but only some deviations affect their properties, such as the speed with which it spreads, the associated severity of disease, and the effectiveness of vaccines. The Delta variant, detected a year ago, is now dominant across the globe.A new COVID-19 variant with an “extremely high” number of mutations in the spike protein has alarmed scientists due to its potential to dodge antibodies that can fight the virus.  The B.1.1.529 strain is described as an offshoot of an earlier variant called B.1.1 and has 32 spike mutations. In comparison, the Delta […]

Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who was jailed in Manhattan on charges of sex trafficking involving teenage girls, was awaiting trial when he died in his cell in August 2019. The New York City medical examiner ruled Epstein’s death a suicide by hanging. American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had told a jail psychologist he was too much of “a coward” to take his own life just two weeks before he was found dead in his cell on 10 August 2019, with a coroner ruling his death a suicide, reported The New York Times. The revelation comes as part of a detailed analysis […]

Amid the reported “Russian military buildup” near the Ukrainian border, the administration of US President Joe Biden is considering a lethal aid package to Kyiv, a new CNN report suggested earlier on Tuesday. Two “Island” patrol boats from Maryland arrived in Odessa, Ukraine on Tuesday, the Ukrainian navy announced via Facebook. The vessels were named “Fastiv” and “Sumy”. After the boats pass through customs, unload and are prepared for use, Ukrainian navy flags will be raised on them and they will proceed to “begin their military journey to ensure maritime security in the Black and Azov Seas”. “We are grateful to our American […]

Following its first COVID-related death, which occurred on Saturday, 20 November, Greenland has banned the unvaccinated from public places, reserving restaurants, hair salons and other facilities for the fully-vaccinated. According to the government, the measure is meant “to prevent the infection from spreading from schoolchildren to the rest of society”, Danish TV2 reported. “Every death is a tragedy. Unfortunately, we in this country are at a stage in the epidemic, where it is entirely expected that the disease will cost human lives and otherwise develop as elsewhere across the world,” national doctor Henrik Hansen said in a press release. Previously, one could […]

On Saturday, Joe Biden celebrated his 79th birthday amid the president’s plummeting approval ratings and soaring speculation that the US president may not ultimately seek re-election, not least due to senility. Over the past few days, US President Joe Biden and his aides have reassured allies that he plans to run again in the 5 November 2024 election, according to The Washington Post (WaPo). The newspaper claimed that the message is partly aimed at tamping down assumptions by some Democratic Party members that Biden may not seek re-election given his age and flagging popularity. The Washington Post quoted former Democratic Senator Chris Dodd, a Biden friend, […]

President Biden was seen on Thursday without a mask during his tour of Detroit, Michigan, where he addressed the public about some issues related to his recently adopted $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. According to a video posted on Twitter, Biden was talking to several people up close with his face uncovered before later putting on the mask for a selfie. The president was outdoors and COVID-19 safety rules don’t recommend that people wear masks while they are not in indoor settings. The White House, meanwhile, continues to follow a mask mandate despite the fact that Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser lifted […]

The relationship between the current US president Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris may be bad enough to lead to her dismissal, despite the fact that the White House does not want to give the impression there is a split between the two, Fox News’ “The Five” suggested Tuesday. Since the new administration came into office, some couldn’t resist speculating that Harris may sooner or later become the next president given the questions surrounding Biden’s capability to perform his duties. As she is the first woman to hold the office, also a woman of color – for some she seemed even more […]

In July, Paris and London signed an agreement on assistance in tackling illegal immigration. Yet, since the deal was inked the UK has accused its ally of not doing enough to prevent migrants arriving in France from later crossing into Britain. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged France to act on the migrant crisis as Britain saw a record number of daily arrivals this week. Some 1,185 people crossed from France into the UK on Thursday, the Home Office said. In a veiled attack on Paris, PM Johnson signalled that French authorities are unwilling to deal with the issue. “They are […]

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, 59, held on remand in a Brooklyn detention centre since her arrest in July 2020, is to go on trial in the downtown Manhattan US District Court on 29 November for sex trafficking children, perjury and the enticement of minors while a close associate of the late financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Ghislaine Maxwell, former girlfriend of disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, has consistently been denied bail by judges as she awaits her trial on charges of procuring underage girls for the late tycoon to sex-traffic and abuse. While repeatedly pronounced a “flight risk”, sources claim there […]

The phenomena named by the scientists “space weather” can affect Earth in a variety of ways: from creating fascinating light shows like auroral displays, to actually causing damage to satellite infrastructure. Earth can brace itself for solar storms “cannibalising” one another to hit the planet in the upcoming four years, scientists have estimated. “The last several years really we’ve had very little activity, as is the case during solar minimum, but now we’re ramping up and ramping up quite fast into the next solar cycle maximum, which we expect in 2025”, Bill Murtagh, a programme coordinator at the Space Weather Prediction Center […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has found herself in hot water after attending a luxurious wedding in San Francisco over the weekend – and failing to mask up as required by strict local guidelines. Pelosi officiated the wedding of the artist and billionaire Ivy Getty at San Francisco City Hall before the celebration continued at the Getty Mansion. Among the guests were California Governor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, actress Anya Taylor-Joy, and many other prominent guests. According to several photos of the attendees that emerged online, neither Pelosi nor the guests bothered to put on their masks. Gavin Newsom, […]

The Danish government has confirmed plans to reintroduce requirements that COVID-19 health passes be shown at bars, restaurants and public events. The recently proposed measures are, in effect, a reversal of steps taken earlier this autumn, when Denmark became one of the first European nations to remove restrictions and demote COVID-19’s threat level. Since then, however, the nation has been rocked by record infection figures unseen since 2020, which the prime minister blamed on the unvaxxed. The health pass will be required at indoor events with over 200 spectators and outdoors events with over 2,000 spectators. Furthermore, the government supported once […]

A group of 16 Swedish doctors and researchers have signed a petition demanding a stop in vaccination with Pfizer in Sweden due to suspected fraud. Earlier in November, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) revealed that a subcontractor to Pfizer was likely to conduct extensive research fraud during the pivotal phase III study of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine in the autumn of 2020. According to a former Pfizer subcontractor regional director in Texas, the company falsified data, unblinded patients, hired inadequately trained vaccinators and was slow to follow up on side effects reported in the Phase III study of the Pfizer vaccine. A whistleblower suggested […]

The House of Representatives passed President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill on Friday, putting an end to a months-long deadlock caused by wrangling between the progressive and fiscally conservative wings of the Democratic Party over just how big the president’s accompanying social and climate spending package will be. Some GOP lawmakers are baying for the blood of their fellow House Republicans after they joined Democrats to pass the president’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.13 of the 213 House Republicans voted ‘yes’ on the new infrastructure spending, sparking allegations of betrayal and threats of primaries in next year’s midterm election. Georgia congresswoman […]

Former president Donald Trump has claimed that the number of illegal immigrants who may have gotten through the southern border into the US over the past year could be close to 12 million people. Last month, US Customs and Border Patrol announced that its agents had stopped over 192,000 migrants in September, with the total number of encounters for fiscal year 2021 topping 1.7 million – surpassing the record of 1.64 million encounters set in the year 2000. “You can multiply times seven. I don’t know if you know that number. So if they have 1.7 [million], they say you multiply […]

China and India are currently the only nuclear weapons states with a definite ‘no first use’ policy – which commits them not to use their nukes unless such arms are first used against them. Russia’s military doctrine allows for nuclear weapons to be used in response to a conventional attack if it threatens the very existence of the state. Major US allies in Europe and Asia are reportedly lobbying the Biden administration not to change America’s policy on the use of nuclear weapons amid concerns that the White House is considering adding a nuclear “no first use” declaration in an ongoing […]

Officer Hector Lopez is one of 12 former New York Police Department officers who recently fled the liberal state for a career in Florida following a bonus offer from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, in addition to the growing anti-police sentiment gripping New York. Lopez, a Bronx Native, felt compelled to relocate to the Lakeland, Florida Police Department with his fiancé and children after outweighing the potential upsides that relate to growth and opportunity amid covid restrictions. A New York judge on Wednesday reportedly rejected the police union’s request for a temporary restraining order to halt NYC vaccine mandates for cops, set to take […]

Thursday’s massive X-class flare eruption on the Sun is expected to reach Earth on Saturday, and could wreak havoc on a range of manmade solar radiation-sensitive devices, the X-Ray Astronomy of the Sun Lab at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics has warned. “One of the largest and perhaps the largest burst of solar activity in recent years is currently taking place on our Sun. Over the past day, fourteen flares, including two M-class flares (strong) and one maximum X-class flare (especially strong) have been recorded,” the Lab said in a statement on Friday. Researchers explained that nearly all of the […]

Former President Donald Trump blasted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a statement, accusing the social media executive of being a “criminal” for donating $400 million in funding to local election offices last year. Reacting to his two-year ban from Facebook, Trump previously accused Facebook of bias for permanently suspending his account after the January 6 Capitol riot. Trump, who lost to President Biden by narrow margins in a handful of swing states, told political news host Bill O’Reilly last week that Zuckerberg’s donation to local election offices was “illegal” after an FGA analysis said the funding boosted Democratic turnout in key areas like Georgia. “Mark […]

The attorneys general of Missouri and Texas have joined to bring a new lawsuit against the Biden administration over border security measures, attempting to compel the government to resume construction of the southern border wall amid the ongoing crisis. One of Biden’s first actions as US president in January was to sign an executive order halting all border wall projects leftover from Trump’s administration. Nevertheless, the country has been overwhelmed by an unprecedented influx of illegal migrants from Latin America, stretching the resources of all border states and federal agencies. Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Ken Paxton of Texas argued […]

Sky-high gas prices in Europe could threaten food security throughout the world, the Norwegian fertiliser producer Yara has warned, emphasising that European nitrogen production is important for worldwide agriculture. In the company’s third-quarter report, Yara President Svein Tore Holsether warned that crop yields could fall as farmers may be forced to cut fertiliser use due to higher prices. This, in turn, may lead to plummeting food production. “If the farmer does not get nitrogen fertiliser out on the land, the grain crops fall by 50 percent from the first harvest. From there, you’d go quickly from an energy crisis to a […]

The size of Joe Biden’s much-touted $3.5 trillion Build Back Better economic plan, aimed, among other things, at expanding child care, paid leave, Medicare, extending enhanced household tax credits and promoting green energy, has met with both staunch Republican opposition and driven a wedge between progressive and moderate Democrats. US President Joe Biden appeared to fully acknowledge on Friday that despite repeatedly vowing to “get it done” and push though his $3.5 trillion spending bill, the price tag would have to be scaled back. As he spoke at the Capitol Child Development Center in Hartford, Connecticut, Biden admitted that his signature campaign promise of […]

The Bitcoin cryptocurrency has exceeded $60,000 for the first time since 18 April, Coindesk reported. After reaching the $60,000 mark, Bitcoin plunged a bit to $59,855.46 (at 14:37 GMT). Launched in 2009, Bitcoin is the world’s first decentralised cryptocurrency, a type of digital asset that uses public-key cryptography to record, sign and send transactions over a special technology – the Bitcoin blockchain. Mike Adams Joins Alex Jones to expose the collapse of society taking place as supply chains are disrupted. Source link

More than a hundred people have been inoculated with an expired COVID-19 vaccine in the Swedish city of Nyköping, Södermanland County, south of Stockholm. The authorities said that there are “no known medical risks” associated with getting vaccines that are stored past the expiration date, and assessed that the vaccine still provides protection against COVID-19. “We have breached our internal control,” regional vaccination manager Magnus Johansson admitted in a press release. The doses were administered on Monday. According to the local authorities, the vaccine has been stored correctly, but the manufacturer Pfizer’s recommended expiration date has passed. The people who received […]

Former first lady, ex-secretary of state, and the ever spiteful Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton is not planning to abandon the political arena. On the contrary, she has vowed to continue to be “involved” in what she described as the “game of politics.” There have been persistent rumours about the former secretary of state planning a political comeback. It seems, however, that these rumours were only partially true. Just don’t get your hopes (or disappointment) too high – she is not planning to run for any office just yet, but she is not planning to stay in the shadows either, as […]

UK Steel warned on Monday that spiking electricity prices could result in skyrocketing emissions and lead to chaos in supply chains. According to the industry association, the ongoing crisis may force plants into expensive shutdowns, which could damage equipment, increase costs and ultimately lead to “poorer environmental performance with higher emissions.” “These extraordinary electricity prices are leading to smaller or wiped-out profits and thus to less reinvestment,” UK Steel said in a briefing document. “With winter approaching, demand for gas and electricity will rise, and prices could get higher, which will make it impossible to profitably make steel.” According to the association, some […]

Eleven sailors were injured after a US submarine struck an object in international waters in the Indo-Pacific region on Saturday, USNI News outlet reported on Thursday citing a Navy official. The submarine stuck an object while operating in international waters in the Indo-Pacific region and there are no life-threatening injuries as a result of the incident, the Pacific Fleet Public Affairs Office said on Thursday. The Navy added that 11 sailors received moderate to minor injuries in the incident. The vessel will now sail to Guam, where it is expected to arrive within the next 24 hours. “The Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine […]

Having examined photos of Mars obtained by NASA’s Perseverance rover, a team of scientists has pinpointed a place where biosignatures may potentially be found. According to CNET, researchers suggest that certain areas in an ancient river delta that was once located near the rover’s landing zone in the Jezero Crater could still harbour “fossilised evidence of extraterrestrial life.” The team, whose study was recently published in the journal Science, also turned their attention toward the Kodiak, a butte that sits near the main delta. This butte, as the media outlet points out, serves as “geologic representation of the main river delta’s features”, […]

US space agency NASA has announced the opening of media accreditation for the upcoming launch of their Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. The launch is expected to take place on November 23 at 10:20 pm (PST) from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, with the NASA spacecraft to be propelled into space via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The mission is supposed to become the first demonstration of the “kinetic impactor technique”, which, according to a NASA press release, “involves sending one or more large, high-speed spacecraft into the path of an asteroid in space to change its motion.” […]

Oil prices in the United States have hit a seven-year high as a confluence of factors has seen the cost of a single barrel of crude oil go from $20.10 in April of 2020 to $78.03 as of Monday. The fallout from Hurricane Ida and a lack of truck and port workers, combined with a surge in demand as the US economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, has sent oil prices to their highest since November of 2014. With production lagging and demand soaring, the laws of supply and demand have sent the price of oil through the roof. The Organization […]

About 200 UK soldiers have started to deliver petrol to the country’s filling stations as part of the government’s effort to resolve a fuel crisis. In line with “Operation Escalin”, most personnel are being deployed in London and the southeastern portion of the UK, which are still in the grip of the worst fuel shortages. Soldiers were earlier spotted at a BP Oil Terminal in the town of Hemel Hempstead undergoing tanker driver training after the Ministry of Defence approved the request for assistance in the government’s drive to resolve the supply gridlock. This comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under pressure […]

The podcast host has recently been slammed by health experts for spreading misinformation about COVID-19. Rogan, who tested positive for the disease at the beginning of September, revealed that he took ivermectin, a drug used to treat parasites in animals. A US watchdog urged Americans not to believe reports that ivermectin can cure COVID-19. Joe Rogan has suggested that US President Joe Biden lied about getting a booster jab of COVID-19 vaccine. On Tuesday, the Democrat president posted a statement on social media calling on Americans to receive an additional dose of the inoculation in order to guarantee better protection against the disease. […]

In Europe and the United States, dementia is the third-most common cause of death, behind only circulatory diseases and cancer. It’s been argued that interrupting sleep cycles disrupts the brain’s own cleaning process, which was likened to a washing machine. The nightly urge to urinate may be bad news, as it may be an indicator of increased risk of developing dementia, a joint study by Aarhus University in Denmark and Stanford University in the US has concluded, having assessed the records of 1.4 million men in Denmark over a ten-year-stretch. The study’s initial focus group was men over the age of […]

Finland is set to vaccinate fur farm animals against COVID-19. The Finnish Breeders’ Association (FIFUR) will start vaccinating mink against coronavirus in the coming weeks, after receiving a conditional license by the Finnish Food Authority. “The Finnish fur industry will be the first EU operator to vaccinate animals against coronavirus,” FIFUR CEO Marja Tiura said in statement. FurcoVac, the vaccine in question, was developed by a research team at the University of Helsinki and tested at a fur farm in Kannus, Central Ostrobothnia. It has been classed as an experimental vaccine and has been granted a conditional license, but not a trade permit. […]

Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller has been taken to the brig after a series of videos and harsh comments condemning the US military’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. “All our son did is ask the questions that everybody was asking themselves, but they were too scared to speak out loud,” Scheller’s father, Stu Scheller Sr., told Task & Purpose. “He was asking for accountability. In fact, I think he even asked for an apology that we made mistakes, but they couldn’t do that, which is mind-blowing.” The videos posted by his son have been criticising the US high command for the departure […]

The discoveries made in the newly found chamber reportedly include a number of animal and avian bones, as well as a large dog whelk shell. A previously sealed chamber that remained isolated from the world for thousands of years has been discovered recently by researchers excavating the Gorham’s Cave complex located at the Rock of Gibraltar, which was occupied by Neanderthals “for a thousand centuries” in the distant past, The Guardian reports. According to the newspaper, this discovery was made when a team led by Professor Clive Finlayson, evolutionary biologist and director of the Gibraltar National Museum, stumbled upon a gap […]

Last week, Michael Sussmann, a former attorney in a law firm that represented Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, was indicted for allegedly lying to the FBI in 2016 about the capacity in which he was providing allegations of cyber links between Russia’s Alfa Bank and former US President Donald Trump’s Trump Organisation. Jake Sullivan, national security adviser in the Biden administration, may be guilty of perjury in connection with the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign’s ploy to push the Trump-Russia collusion story to the FBI. Sullivan, who served as Clinton’s chief foreign policy adviser during her second failed presidential bid, was identified […]

The former US president has recently gotten back in the rally saddle as part of a larger effort to boost the attention of his supporters ahead of the 2024 election cycle. However, despite the latest string of rallies, he has yet to announce whether he will officially contend in the looming presidential cycle. Former US President Donald Trump urged US voters to give their support to the Republican party in upcoming elections, should they want to keep their country, underscoring that a vote for the Democrats would send the nation into what he described as a downward spiral. The American president […]

The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol has issued a round of subpoenas to four individuals who either had close ties to then-US President Donald Trump, or were in close contact with the White House in the days leading up to the deadly storming of the US Capitol building.  The 45th US president issued a same-day response to the Select Committee’s Thursday decision, vowing pushback against the move.  “We will fight the Subpoenas on Executive Privilege and other grounds, for the good of our Country”, Trump said in a statement aimed at the Select Committee.It is […]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday said US President Joe Biden has not yet approved his request for a federal emergency declaration in response to the immigration crisis on the United States’ southern border with Mexico. “I have not yet heard back from the Biden administration,” Abbott said during a press conference. Abbott sent a letter to Biden on Monday requesting a federal emergency declaration in Texas in order to make available additional federal resources to deal with the influx of asylum-seeking migrants arriving at the US southern border. Abbott said on Monday that a surge of migrants, mostly Haitians, that illegally […]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio introduced a policy this summer that would require the city’s businesses to request a proof of COVID-19 vaccination for visitors wishing to enter restaurants, bars, gyms and theatres. Hundreds of protesters took part in anti-vaccine demonstrations at New York’s Times Square on Saturday, chanting “F**k Joe Biden” slogans and linking COVID-19 jab mandates to Nazi policies towards Jews. Footage from the scene has shown numerous demonstrators waving flags and “No to the vaccine” signs in a tightly packed crowd. One woman was pictured holding a poster that read “How did the Nazi’s [sic] do […]

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, tried to downplay the scale of the George Floyd protests in May 2020 and convince then-US President Donald Trump that the protesters were not “burning America down,” a new tell-all book “Peril” has claimed. The general reportedly argued that major demonstrations only erupted in two cities and the number of protesters rarely exceeded 300. The George Floyd protests, staged under the Black Lives Matter (BLM) banner, would later grip almost half of the country for months, with many of them descending into riots, looting and, in one instance, result in the temporary expulsion […]

The monthly number of asylum-seeking migrants apprehended on the US southern border in August reached more than 200,000 for a second consecutive month, but the total was slightly lower compared to July, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealed. CBP data showed on Wednesday that 208,887 migrants were apprehended on the US southern border in August, slightly lower compared to the 213,534 migrants apprehended in July. Most of the migrants apprehended in August were single adults and family units. A majority of the 97,270 single adult migrants apprehended in August were mostly from Mexico or from another country that is not […]

The United States has extended pause on the flights carrying Afghan refugees to the country for an additional week after at least five evacuees were diagnosed with measles, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said on Monday. “Operation Allies Welcome flights into the United States remain paused at the request of the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] for at least seven additional days from today because of recent diagnosed cases of measles among Afghans who recently arrived in the United States,” Kirby said at a press briefing. “There have been five diagnosed cases of measles among new arrivals so far.” […]

A bombshell report by the New York Times has raised new doubts about the soundness of the Kabul airstrike carried out by the US military on 29 August, which Washington said was targeting a suspected Daesh* terrorist. The report said that the strike had actually killed not three but 10 civilians, including seven children. US Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) reacted to a New York Times report which claimed that an Afghan man who worked for Americans was erroneously killed in a retaliatory US airstrike after the Kabul airport attack. Speaking to Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” on Friday, the Republican senator said that […]

Joe Biden’s approval ratings have slumped since the chaotic and bloody evacuation of the US embassy and tens of thousands of asylum from Kabul last month — with relatives of some of the 13 troops killed slamming his constant references to his own son’s death from cancer. Close allies of Donald Trump say he is ready for a rematch with Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election in the wake of the botched Afghan pull-out. A former spokesman and two Republican congressmen said the former president’s mind was made up by the hurried evacuation of the Kabul embassy — after the Taliban* walked into […]

Democrat Joe Biden won the November 2020 presidential elections with 51 percent of the vote to Donald Trump’s 47 percent. However, the current president’s approval rating has been taking a hit in the wake of the botched US and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan and ensuing evacuation effort. If former president Donald Trump and current POTUS Joe Biden were to be granted a hypothetical re-run of last year’s election, the Republican politician would beat his Democratic opponent, claims a new poll. A survey by Emerson College released on Friday shows that 47 percent of voters would favour Trump as opposed to 46 percent who said that they […]

Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and pal Ghislaine Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and perjury charges despite an avalanche of claims that she helped the financier abuse dozens of girls in the past. Her trial is currently scheduled for November. A New York judge has ordered federal prosecutors to reveal the “identities of any unnamed co-conspirators” they are going to reference in Ghislaine Maxwell’s upcoming trial, the New York Post reported, citing the Friday ruling. Maxwell, who is currently held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, has asked the government to disclose the names of people the feds […]

The US administration unveiled a $65.3 billion plan on Friday to arm the nation against future, potentially catastrophic biological threats, whether naturally occurring or deliberately set in motion by adversaries. US President Joe Biden’s top scientific adviser has acknowledged that the ongoing coronavirus health crisis has laid bare “fundamental issues” with America’s public health system that “go far beyond pandemic preparedness.” “The issues include the need to increase overall public health funding, strengthen the public health workforce, eliminate barriers to access, improve data systems, address disparities, improve communications, and improve coordination across federal, state, local, and Tribal authorities,” according to Eric Lander, Director […]

Billionaire investor George Soros has doubled an earlier donation to the cause of keeping Democrat California governor Gavin Newsom in office by pouring $500,000 into the “Stop the Republican Recall of Governor Newsom” organisation, Fox News has reported, citing financial disclosure records. The investor thus brought the total sum he allocated to help the embattled governor to one million dollars. The California governor may lose his post prior to the end of his term in 2023 after a massive petition for his recall gathered over 2 million signatures. Recent polls also suggest that the September 14 vote may have a negative […]

The Biden administration has vowed to tackle the US crisis of overpriced and undersupplied homes, announcing several regulatory changes on Wednesday and plans to add 100,000 new and affordable homes over the next three years. The White House said it was relaunching a partnership between the Treasury’s Federal Financing Bank and the Housing and Urban Development agency to provide affordable financing for buyers, while boosting the supply of manufactured homes through the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. “The agencies will work with state and local governments to boost housing supply by reducing exclusionary zoning and leveraging existing federal resources,” the White […]

Over the last 24 hours, 1,796 COVID-19 infections have been registered in Norway, which is the highest number since the start of the pandemic, the Norwegian Surveillance System for Communicable Diseases (MSIS) reported on 1 September. Infection rates three times higher than previously envisaged have already put on hold Norway’s reopening plans in order to boost vaccination rates. So far, Norway has managed to fully vaccinate 56.4 percent of its 5.3-million-strong population. The previous peak was 1,552 new cases and was registered last Friday, 27 August. Meanwhile, the number of hospitalisations is also rising. On Tuesday, 89 COVID patients were admitted […]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) issued an Executive Order earlier this month prohibiting the implementation of mask mandates in any applicable space, including schools. As the state continues to be a COVID-19 hotspot, DeSantis claims the order, in part, restores a parent’s right to have a say in their child’s education and healthcare decisions. Florida Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran issued a memo on Monday confirming the withholding of monthly school board member salaries in both Alachua and Broward County.  The effort, executed by the Florida Department of Education in accordance with DeSantis’ order, came as a response to both of the districts […]

New Zealand’s Ministry of Health said on 30 August that it had registered the first death believed to be linked to injection with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. “The COVID-19 Vaccine Independent Safety Monitoring Board (CV-ISMB) has advised the Ministry of Health to ensure that healthcare professionals and consumers remain vigilant and are aware of the signs of myocarditis and pericarditis. This advice follows the CV-ISMB’s review of the death of a woman following her Comirnaty Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination,” the ministry said in a statement. It is presumed that the woman died from myocarditis, which is a rare side effect of the […]

Maryam Monsef, Canada’s minister for women and gender equality, has referred to the Taliban as “our brothers” during a TV interview while updating people about the country’s evacuation efforts in Afghanistan.  “I want to take this opportunity to speak to our brothers, the Taliban. We call on you to ensure the safety and secure passage of any individual in Afghanistan out of their country,” Monsef said as she urged the militant organisation to stop killing people and damaging infrastructure. Baffled by her remark about the Taliban, the TV show host asked the minister to clarify her statement. Monsef said the “brothers” reference to […]

As Apple seeks to detect and report potential child abuse imagery, the tech giant also appears to be coming clean about the scope, and duration of its surveillance on users.  Eric Friedman, head of Apple’s Fraud Engineering Algorithms and Risk unit, puzzled many earlier this month when he claimed that the tech giant has “the greatest platform for distributing child porn.” His curious statement has provoked several questions for Apple regarding user privacy, phone scans and the details of its new anti-child abuse effort. The company confirmed to Apple-centered outlet 9To5Mac that its plan to periodically scan users’ iCloud photos and iCloud backups […]

The Taliban* marched into Kabul last Sunday, bringing a formal end to the West’s deadly, twenty-year $2.2 trillion experiment in nation-building. The US withdrawal from Afghanistan has increased the global terror threat to its highest level since the 11 September 2001 terror attacks, and a new al-Qaeda* attack on America may be in the offing, neocon researchers and a former CIA operative speaking to Fox News have suggested. Tom Copeland, director of research at the Centennial Institute, a neoconservative think tank at Colorado Christian University, believes that the Biden administration’s decision to pull US forces out of Afghanistan completely will allow al-Qaeda […]

NASA is keeping a close eye on 1,000 space rocks that are “potentially hazardous” to our planet. The asteroid known as “2016 AJ193,” classified as “potentially hazardous” by NASA, will whizz past Earth on Saturday, 21 August. The 1.4 km-wide space rock – which is traveling at 94,208 km per hour – will pass within 3,427,445 km of Earth. The asteroid will approach our planet at 11:10 am ET (8:40 pm IST and 3:10 pm GMT). NASA will observe the asteroid from 20 to 24 August using radar. It’s 1.5 times the size of the Burj Khalifa, more than three times the […]

While railing against government interference, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R) announced on Thursday that he signed an executive order to “protect Georgia businesses.”  Earlier this month, Johns Hopkins University determined that the US states of Florida, Georgia and Louisiana accounted for one in five new COVID-19 cases, and nearly 40% of all hospitalizations in the country. Per the order, dated August 19, businesses within the southern US state will not be required to adhere to local measures and mandates geared toward slowing the spread of COVID-19, including its highly contagious delta variant.  “Local governments will not be able to force businesses to […]

The US administration has frozen accounts at American banks that hosted part of Afghanistan’s national reserves, cutting off the Taliban’s access to the money left over from the previous government, The Washington Post has reported. The decision was made by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and officials from the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the media outlet said, citing an anonymous source in the government. “Any Central Bank assets the Afghan government have in the United States will not be made available to the Taliban”, the newspaper cited the anonymous US government official as saying. The asset freeze was reportedly carried out […]

Last month, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the second phase of the WHO’s probe into the origins of the coronavirus will include an audit of labs and research facilities in China’s Wuhan, where the first COVID-19 cases were registered in December 2019. China has rejected the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) call “to work together” on a second probe into the origins of the coronavirus, insisting that the initial WHO-led inquiry in March was enough and that Beijing prefers scientific efforts to political ones to find out how “the worst pandemic in a century” started. WHO spokesperson Fadela […]

The US Department of Defense revealed on Thursday that it will be sending approximately 3,000 US troops to Afghanistan as part of the branch’s efforts to assist in the departure of diplomats and other American civilians in the country. The Thursday revelation was announced by Pentagon spokesperson Adm. John Kirby, who also informed reporters that the additional troops would be on top of the 650 US troops already stationed in Afghanistan. Kirby explained that 3,000 troops would be deployed to the Hamid Karzai International Airport over the “next few days,” and that a reserve force of 3,500 to 4,000 will stage […]

The black hole emitting the X-rays in question is located in a binary system some 7,800 light years from Earth. A new image of what looks like a set of rings around a black hole has been released by NASA. According a statement by the US space agency, the image, produced with data obtained via NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, shows a set of separate, concentric rings circling the black hole that is part of a binary system called V404 Cygni and is located about 7,800 light years away from our planet. This spectacle is apparently […]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced late Monday that the Senate has managed to reach a final consensus on a bipartisan infrastructure bill, revealing that the chamber will proceed to a vote on Tuesday. “In a few minutes, I will announce that we have come to an agreement for final passage of the bipartisan infrastructure proposal,” Schumer revealed when speaking on the Senate floor on Monday night. “This will do a whole lot of good for America.” The bill, which has been subject to weeks of debate between lawmakers, has two tracks, with one including spending on roads, railways, bridges, and internet access and […]

Italian police on Monday raided homes and properties of the administrators of 32 Telegram channels selling fake COVID-19 passes. The operations were carried out in Rome, Milan and Bari, according to Il Messaggero newspaper. All 32 channels have been blocked, with minors being among the perpetrators. The perpetrators offered fake vaccination certificates, promising doctors’ help in issuing the document. In early July, Italy’s financial guard closed 10 illegal Telegram channels selling vaccines against COVID-19 and inoculation certificates. The government’s decision to introduce the use of certificates for visiting bars, restaurants and attending mass events since August 6 triggered a new spike in the […]