One of football’s most well-known power brokers, Mino Raiola, is in ‘critical condition’ but contrary to reports has not succumbed to a serious illness. It was claimed on Thursday that Raiola had passed away at the age of 54 after a battle with an unspecified illness, although those reports have …
Read More »City uses Russian jet ahead of Super Bowl flyover
Advertising the flyover of the US Air Force’s demonstration team during Sunday’s Super Bowl game, the California city of Santa Monica used a stock photo of a Russian MiG-29 jet, prompting widespread mockery on Twitter. Military pageantry is part and parcel of National Football League (NFL) events, with the final …
Read More »Super-mutant HIV strain discovered
A new highly transmissible and dangerous HIV variant has been discovered in the Netherlands, confirming scientists’ worst expectations. An international collaborative study, led by researchers from the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute, identified 109 cases of the new ‘virulent subtype B’ (VB) variant after analyzing more than 6,700 positive …
Read More »Bill targets super-successful stock traders of Congress
A bill that would ban sitting members of the US Congress and their family members from stock trading has been introduced in the Senate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently defended market access as essential in a free economy. Jon Ossoff, a Democratic senator from Georgia, joined forces with his fellow …
Read More »Catching both Delta and Omicron may result in super-mutant virus
Talking to the House of Commons Technologies and Science Committee members on Tuesday, Burton said that simultaneously contracting the two variants “certainly gives an opportunity for the two viruses to, what we call, recombinate,” which means that they could begin to “share genes and to swap genes over.” The danger …
Read More »Rust covers US Navy’s new stealthy super destroyer (PHOTO, VIDEO)
State-of-the-art stealth tech provides ‘Zumwalt’ with a radar cross-section similar to a fishing boat despite the ship’s length of 190 meters. But even this couldn’t conceal a rust problem with the vessel, which was commissioned in 2016 and has yet to be put in service. Photos uploaded on social media …
Read More »WATCH: Passengers stuck on plane from SA as ‘super-mutant’ Covid panic spreads
The two flights touched down in Schiphol Airport on Friday morning, but passengers face a long wait to disembark, NOS reported. All 600 passengers will be given PCR tests and will have to remain on the plane or elsewhere in the airport until their results come back, with the final …
Read More »New ‘super mutant’ COVID strain prompts EU to seek air travel ban
In a tweet on Friday, EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc would be taking emergency action. “The Commission will propose, in close coordination with Member States, to activate the emergency brake to stop air travel from the southern African region due to the variant of concern …
Read More »‘Super mutant’ Covid strain triggers emergency response
The global health body’s technical head on Covid-19, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, announced the upcoming meeting on Thursday during a live-streamed Q&A session, saying experts would gather Friday to talk about the new strain, dubbed B.1.1.529, which has now been detected in South Africa, Botswana and Hong Kong. “Our technical …
Read More »Kaepernick’s new Netflix bio ‘Colin in Black and White’ is the Super Bowl of self-pitying narcissism
‘Colin in Black and White’ is the new mini-series on Netflix that dramatizes Colin Kaepernick’s teenage years, where he struggles against racism and to be taken seriously as a quarterback. Kaepernick once led the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl and made a name for himself by kneeling during the …
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