Videos posted online show how the road is covered in flames, with smoke causing very limited visibility. Earlier in the week, local authorities revealed that they would artificially induce rain to fight against the wildfires. Around 69,000 hectares of wild land were reported to be ablaze. Constructed during the Soviet …
Read More »BRAND-NEW Tesla catches fire with driver at wheel, then burns for 3 HOURS in Philly suburb (PHOTOS)
The electric car burst into flames on Wednesday in Haverford, Pennsylvania. It ignited around 9pm local time, according to the Gladwyne Volunteer Fire Company, who said in a now-deleted post that the crew battled the raging fire for about three hours. Fortunately for the neighborhood and the firefighters, the two …
Read More »‘I could buy a house!’: White House brags about 16-CENT price drop for July 4th cookouts in 2021, netizens not impressed
The Joe Biden administration ran a victory lap on Thursday as it announced – through an onslaught of puns – the 16-cent cost reduction for an average Independence Day get-together, noting that goods including beef, ice cream, pork and beans had all gone down in price from 2020. “Planning a …
Read More »#BillionaireSpaceRace: Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson to beat Amazon’s Jeff Bezos into space by NINE DAYS
Branson himself will be on board Virgin Galactic’s fourth test flight as ‘Astronaut 001,’ with the job of “evaluating customer spaceflight experience,” his company announced on Thursday evening. The 70-year-old Brit was originally supposed to be on the second Virgin Galactic flight, but was moved up in a public relations …
Read More »California recall election set for September 14, but effort to boot Newsom likely to fail as state reopens
Two months after California officials announced that the petition to remove Newsom surpassed 1.5 million signatures to trigger the recall election, Lieutenant-Governor Eleni Kounalakis set the date for the vote on two questions: whether to remove Newsom or not and if yes, who would replace him. The campaign spearheaded by …
Read More »‘Are your friends becoming extremists?’ Facebook asks users as it tests bizarre new feature to combat ‘harmful content’
The platform rolled out the new test feature for certain US-based users on Thursday, part of its broader effort to combat “extremism,” according to Facebook spokesman Andy Stone. Baffled netizens quickly shared screenshots of the alerts online, some hinting at the pitfalls of enlisting users to root out so-called extremists. …
Read More »Armed police raid French Ministry of Justice, minister targeted in ‘conflict of interest’ probe – lawyer
Dupond-Moretti, who was made justice minister in July 2020, is being investigated after conflict-of-interest complaints were filed against him by France’s largest magistrates’ unions. They argue that some of his work as a high-profile lawyer prior to his government role makes him biased against certain judges. The minister has claimed …
Read More »RT’s soon to be launched German-language broadcasts from Moscow ‘already subject to info warfare’ – Russian Foreign Ministry
The media outlet is attempting to secure a license in the small central European country for a station under the provisional name RT auf Deutsch. The signal would come from a studio in Moscow, with existing sister company RT DE Productions GmbH, which is based in the German capital, providing talk shows, exclusive interviews, …
Read More »Federal judge BLOCKS Florida’s anti-censorship law, says it violates Big Tech free speech rights
Florida SB 7072, signed into law by Republican Governor RonDeSantis in May, was scheduled to go into effect on July 1. On Wednesday evening, however, US District Court Judge Robert Hinkle issued an injunction blocking it. Hinkle was responding to a lawsuit by two Silicon Valley trade associations, NetChoice LLC …
Read More »Former top Trump aide launches GETTR social media app to ‘fight cancel culture’ & ‘defend common sense’
The app quietly went live in mid-June and there have been approximately a thousand downloads thus far across platform stores such as Google and Apple, according to Politico, without much advertisement. The platform will be officially launched on July 4, Miller tweeted on Thursday. GETTR’s description on the Apple Store …
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