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Folks who’ve been relying on the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN or NPR, may need catching up at this point, so here’s the short version: Joe Biden’s surviving son left a laptop in a Delaware repair shop with all sorts of emails about his business deals in Ukraine, China …

Mohammad Javad Zarif took to Twitter on Friday to correct Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had claimed that Iranian provinces in Azerbaijan were part of the Republic of Azerbaijan while reciting a poem.  While the Republic of Azerbaijan is a former Soviet republic, Azerbaijan is also the name given …

Stockholm has commissioned a special inquiry to review its 1950 Parental Code. Despite multiple amendments, the legislation still remains based on “the traditional nuclear family with a mother, father, and children.” For Asa Lindhagen, the Swedish minister for gender equality, that is a problem. The law needs to be “adapted …

The FDA’s vaccine advisory panel voted 17-4 on Thursday to authorize pharma firm Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for use on people aged 16 and over. The FDA usually follows the advice of its panels, and will likely issue the emergency authorization on Saturday, according to a number of media reports.  “FDA …

The Protect Women’s Sports Act, which Gabbard introduced with Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) on Thursday, seeks to level the playing field in women’s sports by recognizing that different sexes are born with different physical abilities. Gabbard’s bill alleges that the anti-discrimination education amendment from 1972, Title IX, has become misinterpreted …

Since the first reports of the novel coronavirus on American shores, Fauci has been front and center, scaring the life out of Americans with apocalyptic predictions of millions of deaths that – while they haven’t come to pass – have triggered devastating economic shutdowns. A recent survey found nearly two out …

Emergency services rushed to the scene in north London and established a security cordon while treatment on the victims was under way. Four of the victims were taken to a major trauma centre, while another person was taken to hospital by a volunteer ambulance crew. The incident took place shortly …

Those weapons were most likely used in the war in Yemen, as Saudi Arabia and the UAE are heavily involved in the conflict there, said the report. It has accused the pension funds of “profiteering.” One of the 21 companies that received Danish pension fund money is US missile manufacturer …

Hua Chunying, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, made a number of movie references when responding to a question arising from a German article about “Wolf Warrior diplomacy” on Thursday. Speaking during the daily conference, she wondered what people who were unhappy with China’s new approach would think of …

The agreement, revealed on Friday morning, came after the Russian scientists took to Twitter to propose that AstraZeneca try the combination. They said it was worth experimenting with the model preferred by Moscow researchers and using two different types of injection, rather than relying on the same one twice, as …