New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says that he didn’t speak with President Donald Trump about any potential quarantine of New York, despite the president telling reporters that there is a possibility that some time today the administration could impose such a quarantine and restrict travel to and from the state. A reporter asked Cuomo about the remarks from the president about the quarantine, and Trump saying […]
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As the real state of affairs in China, now months into its coronavirus outbreak, remains unknown, the country is trying to at least give the impression that things are fine and that it is genuinely interested in helping out the rest of the world. China has claimed to have made donations of ventilators and testing kits to countries like Iran and Italy over the last week, seemingly trying […]
Well, here’s a plot twist: Years after The Office sang its swan song on NBC in 2013, multiple members of the show’s crew say that Steve Carell, who left the show in 2011, had not wanted to leave. The actor, they say, was willing to sign on for a couple more years—but Peacock execs never asked him back. Rolling Stone writer Andy Greene’s book The Office: […]
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said she “didn’t know how well-informed” the Coronavirus Task Force was of President Donald Trump‘s Easter deadline to re-open the country Wednesday morning on Fox and Friends. Co-host Brian Kilmeade began by asking, “Stephanie, how real is this Easter date and how well-informed was the rest of the task force that the president was going to say that yesterday, that his goal […]
Via HarvardToTheBigHouse.com, Maybe you shouldn’t blindly believe everything you read? Even if the source has a pretty solid reputation? Nature magazine has censored over 1,000 articles at the request of the Chinese government over the past several years. And it seems pretty clear that their recent article, “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” is just one more example of their influence. China bought off the head of Harvard’s chemistry department, you […]
Gamers who act soon could be among the first to own a very rare game asset in the Initialized Capital-backed Skyweaver – that is, if they play their digital cards right. Skyweaver is a collectible card game (CCG) where players acquire cards for excelling that can be traded like any other Ethereum-based asset. On Friday, the company creating it, Horizon Games, opened its final closed-beta season, […]
In an effort to confront the challenges presented by coronavirus global pandemic, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hosted a “virtual town hall” on Friday that was streamed on Facebook Live. While the town hall was a technical disaster, rife with a cascading series of visual and audio problems, a more pressing concern for the former vice president’s campaign was the false claim that he sponsored the […]
The European Union condemned President Donald Trump’s restrictions on travel between the United States and Europe announced at a messy Oval Office address that tanked markets and sent travelers into a panic. In a joint statement, European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the E.U. was not alerted to Trump’s decision to restrict travel, which he said was necessary […]
The chair of a prestigious UK think tank has caught flak on social media after suggesting that the coronavirus epidemic would be noticeably worse if it had started in India. The numbers seem to work against him, though. hatam House chair Jim O’Neill told CNBC that he was impressed by Beijing’s swift response to the coronavirus outbreak, which began in Wuhan, China more than two months […]
The assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) Quds Forces has not affected Iran’s capabilities or activities in Syria, according to Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. Columnist Ron Ben-Yishai – attempting to draw connections with Iran’s nuclear ambitions with “regional aggression” against the backdrop of US President Donald Trump pulling out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) […]
The new Hulu docuseries “Hillary” is a vastly entertaining and informative look at the life — so far — of iconic former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that traces, among other things, her emergence as a culturally polarizing figure, symbolic of a growing generation of strong women for those who love strong women, and those who are threatened by them. That phenomenon exploded in 1992 when […]
When it comes to Princess Margaret portrayals, her lady-in-waiting, Lady Anne Glenconner, does play favorites. Discussing Netflix’s fictional take on the monarchy, The Crown, Glenconner told People that she only liked one actress’s take on the princess: “I didn’t like the first one at all,” she said. “She was too tall.” Vanessa Kirby played Princess Margaret during the drama’s first two seasons, when Claire Foy occupied […]
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace had some relatively sharp criticism for President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, saying that Trump’s press conference “clearly didn’t” ease concerns, and that combined with his earlier comments, it contributed to the stock market crashing this week. On Friday morning’s edition of Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, host Ed Henry cited a particular Washington Post article, and said”I get that […]
Hoping to sink Democratic frontrunner Bernie Sanders ahead of the South Carolina primary, a new ad from former VP Joe Biden accused the Vermont senator of a plot to run against Obama in 2012 – but netizens had trouble buying it. Taking Sanders to task for “seriously thinking about” a 2012 primary run against the former POTUS – but never acting on it – Biden’s latest […]
Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, The metaphysical question, what does Russia want, is sounding a lot like the cosmic conundrum posed by Sigmund Freud: what do women want? Is Vladimir Putin transitioning to “become” a woman? It seems like the hormones are getting to him. One day he’s got a crush on Donald Trump, the next day he’s mashed on Bernie Sanders. At least according to […]
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took aim at foreign media outlets, claiming they did their utmost to “discourage” Iranians from voting this Friday in the parliamentary election. “This negative propaganda began a few months ago and grew closer to the elections,” the supreme leader proclaimed on Sunday. “In the last two days, citing [the danger of] coronavirus, their media did not miss the slightest opportunity to […]
Massachusetts Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren alternately defended and knocked billionaire Tom Steyer and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar over their failure to recall the name of Mexico’s president, saying they were likely “surprised” by the question, but noting with a slight chuckle that “it was a surprise” that they didn’t know the answer. On Monday, MSNBC campaign embed Ali Vitali asked Warren about Steyer’s and Klobuchar’s […]
The movement of the Cosmos-2542 satellite, a matter of concern for the US, posed no threat and did not violate international law, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. It added that the continuing propaganda campaign against Russia is aimed “at masking Washington’s destructive actions, which provoke an arms race in outer space and its transformation into a new field of military confrontation.” US Space Force […]
When I was in grade school, my history teacher asked us, “What is the most perfect form of government?” It was kind of a trick question, because when most of us named our American democracy as the correct answer, he said no. He told us that the ideal government is a benevolent dictator. He even put it in a test, and we all answered the way […]
By Jonny Tickle and Bryan MacDonald Billionaire Oleg Deripaska has poured cold water on American insinuations that he washed funds on behalf of President Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian officials. According to Britain’s Financial Times (FT), Deripaska called the accusations “unsupported” and “just guesses, rumors and balderdash,” adding that if someone brought “something like this to a court in London … the judge would just […]