Top Iranian clerics who are close to the supreme leader have increasingly been testing positive for Covid-19, and one senior cleric has just died from it. Multiple regional news outlets have reported the death Ayatollah Hashem Bathaei-Golpaygani Monay after he tested positive for coronavirus over the weekend, in the very first instance of a member of the powerful Council of Experts diagnosed with the virus. The Council of Experts is the top […]
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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have used the world’s most powerful supercomputer to identify 77 drug compounds that could lead to scientific breakthroughs to combat Covid-19. The supercomputer, dubbed Summit, has been tasked to run complex computation across existing databases of drug compounds to see which combinations could thwart Covid-19 from infecting cells. Summit has been able to “simulate 8,000 compounds […]
Authored by Ye Xie, macro commentator at Bloomberg Even the Most-Powerful Central Banks Cannot Save Us First, the European Central Bank tried and failed to calm the market. Then, the Fed brought out the bazooka and it turned out to be a dud. What the world’s two most-powerful central banks showed Thursday was that they are powerless in dealing with a bug. That’s bad news for […]
Yesterday we predicted a return to MbS’ infamous Ritz-Carlton Riyadh shakedown of 2017 after a dramatic Friday morning raid on the homes of King Salman’s brother, Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al Saud, and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz al Saud. All eyes are on the spread of the deadly coronavirus, so what better time to initiate a broader crackdown (or at least dramatically restart the 2017-2018 purge), than when world […]
Former UAW President Gary Jones, a labor leader who until recently held the same job that made Jimmy Hoffa a national icon (before his untimely murder/disappearance) has been charged by federal prosecutors with conspiring to embezzle union funds, WSJ reports. Prosecutors claimed Jones used union funds to finance “trips, liquor and other luxuries” despite presenting himself as a labor leader and man of the people who […]
The opinion pieces, the social media fracas, the intra-LGBTQ disagreements over Pete Buttigieg and what he meant as a gay presidential candidate have spanned the months of his history-making run for office, which ended on Sunday night. It has been, simply put, exhausting and not-a-little depressing, with Buttigieg’s candidacy seen in starkly polarized terms: a celebration of progress or an indictment of heteronormativity; a gay man […]
Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden scored the coveted endorsement of House Majority Whip and South Carolina Democratic kingmaker James Clyburn, who delivered a powerful speech in which he said for the first time, “I fear for this country.” There was little suspense over which candidate would earn Clyburn’s endorsement, but on Wednesday morning, Rep. Clyburn delivered that endorsement in dramatic fashion. Clyburn […]
The Navy’s newest fast-attack submarine was recently spotted with structural damage to its stealth coating after returning from its first deployment, which brings into question the manufacturing process of the shipbuilder, reported Forbes. The USS Colorado (SSN 788), a nuclear-powered US Navy Virginia-class attack submarine, was recently photographed with large sections of its stealth coating, known as anechoic coating, missing on its starboard side. The layer […]
A powerful storm system is cutting across the country early this week, bringing a mix of winter precipitation to parts of the Plains, Midwest, and interior Northeast through Thursday, reported The Weather Channel. The winter storm is expected to impact the Northern and Central Plains on Tuesday. A wintery mix to rain is also moving through the mid-Mississippi Valley. Winter storm watches and warnings have been […]
As crypto traders ask why bitcoin prices shot downward, the power and influence of exchanges are at the center of the conversation. After settling in at the $10,000 price level, bitcoin (BTC) suddenly and rapidly fell more than 5 percent in an hour on Wednesday. As the market discusses possible explanations, some floated the unexpected simultaneous downtime of Binance and Coinbase as a causal factor. In […]
The Culinary Workers Union in Nevada announced on Thursday that it was not endorsing a presidential candidate, staying arms-length from an increasingly fraught primary process just ahead of the critical state caucus. “We are going to endorse our goals,” said Geoconda Argüello-Kline, the Secretary-Treasurer for the Culinary Workers Union. “We are not going to endorse a candidate, a political candidate. We respect every single political candidate […]