In a statement, Patriots owner Robert Kraft said he was “heartbroken” after Patten’s body was identified by coroner Nadia Rutherford. According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol’s Nick Pye, Patten crossed the median and caused a crash that involved two other cars. The incident remains under investigation by both the highway patrol and the …
Read More »‘He should resign’: Biden leads Democrats’ sprint away from Cuomo after sex harassment probe returns guilt
Biden cleared up intense speculation among the party faithful when he suggested the three-term New York governor call it quits during a press conference on Tuesday. “I think he should resign,” the president ventured, even while admitting he hadn’t actually read the report from New York Attorney General Letitia James …
Read More »Covid-19 leads to brain changes & Alzheimer’s-like dementia, new AI-powered study finds
Cognitive disorders, including dementia, are increasingly being reported as a complication of the highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19, researchers behind the recent study at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio have revealed. “Reports of neurological complications in Covid-19 patients and ‘long-hauler’ patients whose symptoms persist after the infection clears …
Read More »Link to porn site found in Ukrainian textbook for schools leads to criminal investigation
A link to a porn site was recently found in a textbook which had been used to teach tenth graders the Ukrainian language since 2018, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, Irina Venediktova, announced on Tuesday. Children in Ukraine start school at the age of six, with the country’s tenth graders on average …
Read More »AOC leads group of Democrats in likely futile effort to block sale of bombs to Israel over Gaza conflict
The two-page joint resolution of disapproval seeks to cancel the sale of Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) and Small Diameter Bombs, which was green-lit by the State Department earlier this month, prior to the outbreak of hostilities with Hamas and Islamic Jihad. “The United States should not be rubber-stamping weapons …
Read More »Gas stations run dry and motorists queue for fuel in US, as ransomware attack on pipeline leads to shortages (VIDEOS)
A ransomware attack on Friday shut down a 5,500-mile gasoline and diesel pipeline that supplies nearly half of the fuel supply of the entire US East Coast. Operated by the Colonial Pipeline Company, the vital fuel artery normally transits 100 million gallons per day from Texas all the way to …
Read More »Bitcoin leads massive cryptocurrency market sell-off
The most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, fell below its key psychological threshold of $50,000 on Friday morning. As of 07:05 GMT bitcoin was down nearly 10% percent to trade at around $48,800, according to CoinDesk data. The drop has stalled bitcoin’s enormous rally, and it’s currently heading for the biggest weekly …
Read More »Slavoj Zizek: We’re at a grim crossroads in this pandemic: one path leads to utter despair, the other to total extinction
We read again and again in our media that we are at the “beginning of the end” of the pandemic: although numbers of infections and deaths are still rising, millions are already vaccinated, so there is now at least the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. In spite …
Read More »Facebook’s latest troll-hunt in Africa leads them to point to FRANCE – first NATO country to get the honor
On Tuesday, Facebook announced the ban on 84 Facebook accounts, 6 pages, 9 groups and 14 Instagram accounts, citing policy against “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” Their activity originated in France and targeted mainly the Central African Republic and Mali, but also Niger, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Cote d’Ivoire and Chad – all …
Read More »‘Protection of white supremacy’: AOC leads liberal outrage after Kenosha shooter Rittenhouse released on bail
“Does anyone believe Rittenhouse would be released if he were Muslim & did the same thing in a diff context?” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Saturday. Rittenhouse’s expensive release is proof of “systematic racism,” according to the congresswoman. “For people who say ‘systemic racism doesn’t exist,’ this is what it looks like: …
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