An emu named Carol, age 3, walks around behind a fence, in Yaraka, a small town in Australia. An Australian Outback pub has banned Carol and her brother Kevin for “bad behavior” after they learned to climb the stairs and created havoc inside. Leanne Byrne/AP hide caption toggle caption Leanne […]
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The tech billionaire, who has donated massively to vaccine development, has been the subject of conspiracy talk over his role in the coronavirus pandemic. Bill Gates has staunchly denied theories that accused him of being behind the COVID-19 outbreak. The Microsoft founder blamed the spread of the theories on penchant […]
Major shifts in the way economies function around the world can be expected as a result of significant reductions in the global population owing to rising ‘infertility’, according to a forecast which examined 195 countries. An overall drop in the global population by the year 2100, forecasted by two dozen researchers […]
Following weeks of nationwide protests over a spate of police killings of Black people, President Donald Trump has claimed that “more white people” actually die at the hands of law enforcement. The president made the comment after appearing to briefly lose it when asked about the hot button topic in […]
Unidentified attackers exploited a Ravencoin vulnerability to mint extra RVN “beyond the coinbase of 5000 RVN per block,” Ravencoin lead developer Tron Black wrote in a Medium post on Thursday. According to Black, members of Ravencoin’s CryptoScope team, who developed Solus Explorer, reached out to the Ravencoin developer team recently […]
Criticism of the US administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and response to the protests sweeping the country following the death of black man George Floyd in police custody in late May has resulted in President Donald Trump’s poll numbers trending downward lately. As poll data has not been particularly […]
The days of the good old ‘transatlantic partnership’ have passed, Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has admitted, adding that even the Democrats returning to power is unlikely to automatically bring those days back. “Anyone, who believes that the transatlantic partnership will once again be what it once was with a […]
Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn is assistant professor of International Political Economy at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is editor of the book Bitcoin and Beyond. Moritz Hütten is researcher on blockchains and the future of work at Darmstadt Business School, in Germany. The Travel Rule officially extends to ‘virtual […]
The Israeli government’s decision to open up the country was way too hasty, believes an expert from the state’s largest healthcare organisation, adding that mistakes could have been avoided if politicians listened to professionals instead of pursuing their own agendas. After almost three months of restrictions imposed in response to […]
The New York Times will seemingly disregard sky-high homicide rates in America’s cities if doing so makes President Donald Trump look bad. To much of the media, the only facts that matter are those that hurt Trump. The US president is known for his bombastic declarations, hyperbole, and generous use […]
Health Editor’s Note: With protests, opening up of states and facilities, decreased interest in physical distancing, decrease in mask wearing, increases in coronavirus cases would be expected to be rising. Trump wanting to “slow down testing because too many cases are showing up” is certainly going to keep the U.S. […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox every Sunday. Prince William’s 38th birthday today has been happy and also a tad dramatic, with reports claiming royal aides fear […]
Comets are not harbingers of doom, just harmless lumps of ice that produce majestic sky displays when passing the Sun, right? Not according to the European Space Agency, which has warned of their deadly capabilities. A comet is “likely to cause more damage than an average asteroid of the same […]
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio had harsh words for parents and neighborhood groups “taking the law into their own hands” by cutting locks on city playgrounds, but has continued to defend the protesters who crowd city streets. The mayor scolded New Yorkers for busting open padlocked playgrounds, during a […]
Robert Gates is interviewed for “The Spymasters” on Dec. 15, 2014. David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images Robert Gates is interviewed for “The Spymasters” on Dec. 15, 2014. David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images Former Defense Secretary and CIA chief Robert Gates said Thursday that it […]
Signs outside the boarded-up entrance to AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C. read “Black Lives Matter” and “Criminal Justice Reform Now.” Smaller white signs are now attached to them reading: “HEY AFL-CIO, The Posters Are Nice, But If You Believed It You Would KICK THE POLICE UNIONS OUT.” Patrick Semansky/AP hide […]
This story was published in partnership with Investigative Post, a non-profit investigative reporting center in Buffalo, New York. It’s the shove seen round the world: two Buffalo cops push a demonstrator who falls, slams his head on the pavement, and immediately begins to bleed from the ears. City officials wasted […]
YouTube This story was published in partnership with Investigative Post, a non-profit investigative reporting center in Buffalo, New York. It’s the shove seen round the world: two Buffalo cops push a demonstrator who falls, slams his head on the pavement, and immediately begins to bleed from the ears. #MartinGugino, the 75 year old […]
Angela Stanton King, a candidate for Georgia’s 5th District and goddaughter of Dr. Alveda King, joined Laura Ingraham tonight to discuss Barack Obama’s town hall today on racism and race relations. Former Attorney General Eric Holder also spoke out against racism in America today. Here was Angela’s response to Obama […]
Deploying Federal Troops In A War At Home Would Make A Bad Situation Worse By Zoltan Grossman, Counterpunch. June 2, 2020 Deploying Federal Troops In A War At Home Would Make A Bad Situation Worse2020-06-022020-06-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/img_1816-scaled-e1591145450374.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Nathaniel St. Clair. As the George Floyd Uprising intensified in Minneapolis on Friday and […]
Minnesota law enforcement’s latest spate of terror started with the murder of George Floyd and has continued unabated with cops firing rubber bullets and tear gas—in the midst of a respiratory pandemic—at peaceful protesters. They’re far from alone. Officers have launched attacks against demonstrators in cities all over the country, […]
The planned NASA/SpaceX launch out of Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station was nixed on Wednesday due to bad weather. Thunderstorms and cloudy skies threatened the effort going into Wednesday and with conditions not clearing less than a half hour before the planned launch, the mission […]
US 20:21 GMT 27.05.2020(updated 20:46 GMT 27.05.2020) Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107943/60/1079436023_0:63:3059:1784_1200x675_80_0_0_182cd2f629867a77a9c80ae212fc28a9.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202005271079435936-spacex-launch-of-two-us-astronauts-postponed-due-to-bad-weather/ The NASA and SpaceX launch, which was scheduled to take place from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, has been postponed due to bad weather. The launch was scrubbed around 20 minutes before […]
There’s a very annoying thing in the age of streaming. It’s the “just wait until episode five… it gets real good” thing. The “I know there are close to 1,000 TV series to watch but spend several hours not enjoying yourself so you can appreciate when this arbitrary show finds […]