A minute-long bodycam video shows a girl in handcuffs sitting in the back of a police car. She is distressed and does not appear to be following the officers’ commands. The clip was edited to blur the girl’s face. “Come on. I’m gonna pepper spray you, and I don’t want …
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One positive development during the Covid pandemic has been the deployment of virus zapping robots and telemedicine to fight the virus. Disinfectant robots, armed with powerful ultraviolet emitters for decontaminating surfaces, have been mobilised and sent into battle from Wuhan and East Asia through Rome and Veneto to Houston, Texas. …
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We heard from women based in Moscow about their experiences in tech but what do those who are tackling Silicon Valley think about the future for Russian women in the industry? Is the epicenter of the internet revolution a kinder place to women now? With a background in media, Renata …
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After it was announced that the Biden camp had selected a Raytheon board member as his secretary of defense, I joked in my last article that it would be more honest if Raytheon itself was Biden’s Pentagon chief since the US Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people anyway. Raytheon for defense secretary, Boeing …
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When did we start calling the First World War, the First World War? It certainly cannot have been before we had the second one. ‘Well, that’s the First World War finished, now we can look forward to the Second One.’ In fact, between the world wars, the first conflict was …
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“In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong,” Trump said in a tweet on Sunday night, tripling down on his praise for pickup-driving supporters who surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus as it passed through central Texas on Friday. In a brief statement, FBI San Antonio confirmed it was “aware of …
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‘Stop Funding Hate’ is a social media campaign dedicated to driving advertisers from conservative newspapers and media outlets. When the group noticed ads for Co-op – Britain’s fifth-largest supermarket chain – in The Spectator last week, it manned battle stations and pressed the retailer to cut its ties with the …
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In 1992, Wu anai, incredibly curious a resident of the Chinese village of Lunjiao, collected the money together with neighbors to buy a water pump to pump water from the pond. Pond for residents of the village of Lunjiao was not only a place for fishing, washing, and other routine …
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“The funniest way to hide a transparent plan of Putin sitting in the Kremlin until the end of life is the one who chose Putin himself. Like, of course he will go – but if everyone will know that he is leaving, nobody will work and everyone will fight for …
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About the St. Petersburg hospital for war veterans, and “Lenexpo”: these medical facilities are not treating patients and seek their 59-year-old Petersburger Natalia Rubchevskaya infected with coronavirus in the hospital for war veterans, said, than turned to her month of treatment. Her mother’s story to the correspondent of “Rosbalt” has …
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