https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0f/1080784253_0:0:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_7327b7ed7efdcaba19989f2ea53c9f1b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/cartoons/202010151080784304-rock-n-rolling-case-total/ US President Donald Trump’s campaign played the ominous hit “In the Air Tonight” during a rally this week in Iowa, which has seen more than 103,000 COVID-19 cases. During his Wednesday Des Moines, Iowa, rally, Trump’s campaign pumped Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” through speakers for attendees. It seemed to be in breathtakingly poor taste, considering the grim fact that Iowa has the fourth-highest COVID-19 infection rate in the US, with 61 senior-care facilities reporting outbreaks and the state seeing 1,180 new cases on Wednesday alone. More than 1,500 people have died in […]
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This tracing of a rock painting shows three bilby-like animals no longer found in Arnhem Land. (Fiona Brady via Australian Archaeology) Aboriginal Rock Art Dating Between 6,000 and 9,400 years Ago Found Dated to between 6,000 and 9,400 years ago, many depict relationships between humans and animals—particularly kangaroos and wallabies. https://t.co/hnRGNlI1z6 — Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) October 5, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: It is illuminating and exciting when new paintings are found and can add to the evidence of how ancient men and women viewed their world. These paintings may be a ‘missing link’ between the dynamic figures and x-ray paintings, two […]
Iconic guitarist Eddie Van Halen, co-founder of the legendary American rock band Van Halen, has died after a “long and arduous battle with cancer,” his family announced on Tuesday. “I can’t believe I’m having to write this, but my father, Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, has lost his long and arduous battle with cancer this morning,” his son, musician Wolfgang Van Halen, posted on Twitter. “He was the best father I could ever ask for. Every moment I’ve shared with him on and off stage was a gift.” Van Halen was born in the Netherlands, and his musical family moved to the Los […]
President Donald Trump may be in the hospital with COVID-19. But that didn’t mean Saturday Night Live pulled any punches against him in the show’s big Season 46 premiere. After Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden paused the cold open debate sketch to celebrate the “science and karma” that led to this moment, host Chris Rock opened his monologue by addressing the “elephant in the room.” “President Trump’s in the hospital from COVID and you know, I just want to say my heart goes out to COVID,” the comedian joked. Rock went on to acknowledge the strangeness of SNL returning to live shows […]
NASA has announced that at least five asteroids are due for close flybys of Earth on October 1 alone. Meanwhile, researchers believe one giant impact in the past once removed up to 60 percent of Earth’s atmosphere. October appears to be kicking off with a bang as a barrage of space-borne boulders heads our way over the course of Thursday. Asteroid 2020 SM4, measuring 9.9m (half a bowling lane) in diameter, passed at a distance of 3.1 million kilometers away, while the 15-meter long 2020 SU5, (as tall as the Hollywood sign), already passed at two million kilometers. The largest of […]
The retired professional wrestler-turned Hollywood superstar has repeatedly flirted with the idea entering politics himself, and has weighed in on political issues from time to time, but has never publicly endorsed a candidate before. Self-described “political independent and centrist” Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, dubbing the 2020 race “arguably the most critical election our country has seen in decades.” “Look, I’ve got friends in all parties, but the one thing we can always agree on is the conversation and the dialogue, and where that conversation lands, is always the […]
Chris Rock’s greatest performances are as Chris Rock. There’s his stand-up comedy, and the many times he’s played himself, or versions of himself, Woody Allen-style, on TV and in movies: Louie, Top Five, I Think I Love My Wife… Don’t be fooled. Those are great performances, deftly allowing the indelible, too-large-to-stifle “Chris Rock-ness” to breathe through the characters. But they’re also a testament to how hard it is to forget that you’re watching Chris Rock, no matter how great an acting turn he’s giving. That adds another layer to the intrigue in the fact that he’s starring in the new season […]
Launched in 2016, The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently mapping the surface of Bennu, the so-called ‘doomsday asteroid’, formed from fragments of an ancient planetoid destroyed during the formation of the solar system. NASA has announced the striking discovery of fragments of the solar system’s second-largest asteroid on the surface of another asteroid. On Monday, the US space agency published images captured in 2019 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, showing distinctive light-coloured objects ranging from five to 14 feet wide on the surface of Bennu, a smaller asteroid thought to have been formed billions of of years ago from the remains of a […]
American actor Dwayne Johnson, better known as ‘The Rock,’ said that he and his entire family had tested positive for the coronavirus, calling it “one of the most challenging and difficult things we have ever had to endure.” The 48-year-old entertainer took to Instagram on Wednesday to announce the diagnoses, saying that he, his wife and two daughters – aged 4 and 2 – had come down with the illness about three weeks ago. “My wife Lauren, as well as my two baby girls and myself, we have all tested positive for Covid-19,” Johnson said, adding in a caption to the […]
American superstar The Rock says he has returned to his roots as a budding NFL pro by leading a bid to buy troubled American football league the XFL, which suspended operations with more than $50 million of debt earlier this year. Wrestling overlord Vince McMahon’s Xtreme Football League had planned to divide eight teams between two divisions in a winter and spring season before being halted during its debut campaign as the coronavirus pandemic gripped the US in April. Shortly afterwards, the league laid off the vast majority of its employees and declared bankruptcy in a financial disaster that listed more […]
Even before it aired, the news surrounding Thursday night’s 30 Rock reunion read like a 30 Rock parody or plot line, in ways that, like the actual episode, were both thrilling and depressing. 30 Rock: A One Time Special wasn’t a Zoom reunion or retrospective interview, but an actual scripted and filmed episode of 30 Rock with the actors all reprising their characters, seven years after the Emmy-winning comedy went off-air. Yay! Delightful! Those scenes, however, would be in the service of NBCUniversal’s Upfronts, the annual event in which the company unveils its slate of programming to potential advertisers, everything from […]
Mounted police used teargas and truncheons to disperse a crowd of several thousand protesters gathered outside the Serbian parliament in Belgrade, opposed to the government’s announcement of a new coronavirus lockdown. President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Tuesday that a new curfew would go into effect on Friday and last over the weekend, after 300 new Covid-19 cases and 13 deaths – the most since the pandemic began, local media reported. This prompted an estimated ten thousand people to gather outside the parliament building and demand Vucic’s resignation, starting around 10 pm local time. After some demonstrators reportedly broke into the building, […]
When one of Bloomington, Indiana’s most prominent Black activists filmed a harrowing encounter by men who allegedly threatened to hang him, locals held a protest in his defense. But that same Monday night, the protest was met with a car plowing through demonstrators. Bloomington, like many American cities, is undergoing a public reckoning over racism. One Bloomington incident made national news this week, after activist Vauhxx Booker shared videos of a group of white men attacking him in the woods on July 4 and pinning him to a tree. Booker claimed the men had accused him and his friends of trespassing, […]
NASA’s asteroid watchers have given a heads-up about five asteroids headed toward Earth in the coming days, while the agency’s automated Sentry system has identified the space rock which has the highest chance of impact. Over this weekend, two asteroids – 2020 MU1 (120ft diameter or half the wingspan of a 747 jet) and 2020 ML (73ft diameter, roughly half the height of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris) – are expected to shoot past us at a distance of 4.4 million and 2.7 million miles respectively. Lest anyone get too comfortable and breathe a sigh of relief, however, NASA warns […]
I was on my path very young, 5-and-a-half going on 6, watching The Ed Sullivan Show, essential Sunday viewing for all American families. He would always have “something for the youngsters” at the end, and on this episode, out came Elvis Presley doing “Don’t Be Cruel.” My eldest sister by 9 years started screaming. I stared at her and wondered, why? Then I turned and watched the performance. I was drawn in, totally. Then, the light-bulb moment: I am going to do that. That pivotal moment has stayed with me my entire life. Funny thing is, it never occurred to me that I was […]
Not everyone in the entertainment field is a liberal. John Dolmayan is the drummer for the hard rock group ‘System of a Down’ and he is a Trump supporter. He has been under attack from the left recently for voicing his political opinions, but he slammed the left right back. Loudwire reports: System of a Down’s John Dolmayan Claps Back at Liberals: ‘You Are Cowards’ Following his recent political diatribes and the response they’ve drawn, System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan has offered a pointed response to Democrats and those with liberal views who disapprove of President Trump. In it, […]
The challenge gained attention when a photo of a high school wrestling coach with a man kneeling on his neck began circulating on social media sites The Logical Indian Crew India | 5 Jun 2020 Writer : Richa Mukherjee | Editor : Prateek Gautam | Creatives : Abhishek M Humanity reached rock-bottom when some white teenagers were seen exhibiting an insensitive challenge over social media that has them imitating a police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck. The brutal killing of an unarmed African-African man, George Floyd, by a Minneapolis police officer by virtue of his kneeling on the victim’s neck […]
Trump has a fan who might surprise you. Krist Novoselic, the bassist for Nirvana, famous for songs like “Smells Like Teen Spirit” recently praised Trump’s law and order speech. The left is going to lose their minds over this. Consequences of Sound reports: Krist Novoselic Praises Trump for “Strong and Direct” Law and Order Speech On Monday afternoon, Donald Trump emerged from his underground bunker and made his first public comments on the death of George Floyd and the subsequent protests filling city streets. Well, sort of. Trump only made a passing reference to Floyd’s death, and he failed to mention […]
A team of researchers are peering into what the solar system may have looked like in its earliest stages, unlocking answers about the formation of amino acids – and ultimately life as we know it – by analyzing ancient space rocks. The new findings – reported by an international group of scientists led by the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) – were published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. Performing an atom-by-atom analysis of the Tagish Lake meteorite that spectacularly arrived on Earth back in 2000 the team was able to get an idea of what […]
Singer Little Richard making peace sign and wearing an outlandish outfit as he prepares to perform at Wembley Stadium, 1972. (Photo by Rosemary Matthews/Keystone Features/Getty Images) Rosemary Matthews/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rosemary Matthews/Getty Images Singer Little Richard making peace sign and wearing an outlandish outfit as he prepares to perform at Wembley Stadium, 1972. (Photo by Rosemary Matthews/Keystone Features/Getty Images) Rosemary Matthews/Getty Images Little Richard, the self-described “king and queen” of rock and roll and an outsize influence on everyone from David Bowie to Prince, died Saturday. He was 87 years old. His death was announced on his official […]