Twitter has issued a mea culpa after using its “hacked materials” policy to bury a controversial story alleging shady backroom dealings by the Biden family, with the platform vowing to alter its rules and how it enforces them. “Over the last 24 hours, we’ve received significant feedback (from critical to supportive) about how we enforced our Hacked Materials Policy yesterday,” Twitter policy head Vijaya Gadde said in […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/12/1080208974_0:320:3073:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_9ee2007ef353eb6dbbc94b8da03bfd95.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202010141080763918-us-navy-reluctant-to-build-sixth-generation-jet-after-f-35-fiasco-naval-operations-chief-says/ WASHINGTON(Sputnik) – The US military does not have the time or money to waste on any ill-thought-out, enormously expensive and long-delayed sixth-generation fighter plane project like the F-35 fifth-generation jet, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Michael Gilday told a Defence One State of the Navy podcast on Tuesday. When asked, Gilday refused to commit to any decision to […]
The tax, introduced in a bid to achieve the EU goal of limiting the annual consumption of plastic bags, has been previously slammed as “tokenism” and “virtue signalling”, resulting in no real accomplishment. Merely four months since Sweden’s new tax on plastic bags, touted as a step toward a greener world, came into force, it is now being judged by experts as a massive failure. The […]
by Salman Rafi Sheikh, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ Editor’s Note: Since Mr. Sheikh wrote this on September 1, Trump’s world has changed. The US is totally isolated from the other members of the JCPOA and the UN Security Council, […]
The Republican chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee has called on the DOJ to investigate why members of Robert Mueller’s Russiagate team wiped data from dozens of cell phones during the Trump-Russia probe. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) penned a letter to the Justice Department on Friday, asking DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to launch a probe after documents surfaced this week showing that Mueller’s team […]
Search terms such as “what is crippling anxiety” increased by 800 per cent via Google amid the exam results fiasco in the UK, according to research conducted by a health management firm. If left unchecked, anxiety and stress can have a serious impact on the mental and physical health of students, a long-time health access advocate tells Sputnik. Google search witnessed an explosion in terms centred […]
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had been warned that the A-level and GCSE grading algorithms might result in students being given lower-than-anticipated grades, The Times had earlier reported, citing a source within the Department for Education, who revealed that the minister had opted to push ahead with the controversial algorithm regardless. Fresh speculations have been unleashed regarding the future of UK Education Secretary Gavin Williamson after reports […]
On Monday, the UK Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) announced that A-level and GCSE students in Britain would be given the exam grades predicted by their teachers instead of those awarded by a controversial algorithm that had triggered a grading fiasco. At least 79 percent of respondents believe that the UK government “badly” handled advanced (A)-level and General Certificate of Secondary Education (GSCE) results […]
No right-wing cause célèbre would be complete without some on-air boosting from Fox News. And in the case of Steve Bannon’s allegedly fraudulent “We Build the Wall” fundraiser, the conservative cable channel obliged. Bannon, a former chief strategist to President Donald Trump, was arrested Thursday morning on charges of using that border wall fundraising campaign to enrich himself and the fund’s founder Brian Kolfage, a triple-amputee […]
Thousands of A-level students were met with disappointing marks on results day after a new government algorithm was introduced to deal with nationwide homeschooling as education facilities remain shut amid the coronavirus pandemic. Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said on Saturday that he is considering legal action against the government over the A-level results scandal, calling the reduction of students grades the “single biggest act of levelling […]
Juventus suffered a major defeat on Friday after failing to reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League, despite actually winning against Lyon. Juve’s manager Maurizio Sarri was subsequently fired by the club on Saturday. Chairman Andrea Agnelli addressed rumours about Cristiano Ronaldo’s possible exit from Juventus, telling Sky Sport Italia on Friday that he is “convinced” that the 35-year-old footballer will stay with the club. His […]
Like so many before me, I was recently trumped by Trump. I’m not the first, and I certainly won’t be the last, but I think I can at least lay claim to one novelty: He spoiled my movie. Well, not exactly spoiled—but he certainly gave away the premise when he “inspected” the White House bunker a few weeks back and then made headlines doubling down on […]
Serbian tennis star and the world’s number one player Novak Djokovic has responded to accusations over the Adria Tour coronavirus outbreak, saying he has been subjected to a “witch hunt.” The 17-time Grand Slam winner stressed that much of the backlash he faced was “malicious,” with some critics intentionally hounding him. READ MORE: ‘NONE of you have the intellectual level’: Kyrgios slams Djokovic & Zverev for ‘partying […]
The manager of Austrian world number three Dominic Thiem says Novak Djokovic should be the only one to apologize after his ill-fated Adria Tour collapsed following a spate of coronavirus cases. The Serbian 17-time Grand Slam king confirmed on Tuesday that he was the latest player from his new Balkan tour to test positive for coronavirus, after spending the past fortnight mingling with fellow players on […]
Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein is being lambasted for apparent double standards after attacking Tara Reade, the former Joe Biden staffer who alleges the Democrat presidential candidate sexually assaulted her. The Californian politician unequivocally supported Christine Blasey Ford when she accused then Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault in 2018. However, now that it’s a Democrat facing the charges, Feinstein’s singing an entirely different tune. […]