The incident occurred on March 16, when smugglers threw the baby girl into the Rio Grande River from their raft, according to a Facebook post on Tuesday by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), whose Rangers helped Border Patrol in the rescue. Agents were able to save the child …
Read More »Microsoft lands $21 billion contract to arm US soldiers with futuristic augmented-reality headsets
The contract was announced on Wednesday and could earn Microsoft up to $21.88 billion over 10 years. Back in 2018, the US Army gave Microsoft $480 million to develop a prototype headset built around the company’s HoloLens technology. Based on its performance, Microsoft will now provide up to 120,000 of …
Read More »Obama CANCELED? Activists object to naming Illinois city school after ex-POTUS saying he was ‘deporter in chief’
Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence and the third US president, but he also owned slaves – so Waukegan decided to take his name off a middle school last year, amid the George Floyd protests across the US. The proposal to rename the school against the country’s …
Read More »No, it’s NOT ‘tantamount to murder.’ It’s about protecting children. Celebrity whining over a new trans surgery ban is plain wrong
The state of Arkansas recently passed a law that forbids trans surgery for minors. Like any other new law that flies in the face of progressives, celebrities have decided to put their two cents in as if it were asked for in the first place. Actors Sophia Bush and Rahul Kohli, …
Read More »Finland’s govt backs down on plan to lock city dwellers in their homes as proposed anti-Covid measures deemed unconstitutional
Due to objections by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, “the government is of the opinion that… the proposal for temporary restriction of freedom of movement and close contacts must be withdrawn from the Parliament,” Marin announced in a Twitter post on Wednesday. The PM added that the Covid-19 situation remained …
Read More »15 MILLION doses of J&J vaccine ruined in ‘ingredient mixup accident’ at Baltimore plant, delaying US shipments & triggering probe
A manufacturing plant in Baltimore mistakenly used the wrong ingredients in millions of Johnson & Johnson shots several weeks ago, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, noting that US officials are investigating but have so far ruled the incident a result of human error. Run by Emergent BioSolutions, a …
Read More »Black suspect arrested for attack on 65yo Asian American woman in New York was on parole for stabbing his mother to death
Brandon Elliot, 38, faces felony charges of assault and attempted assault as a hate crime, having been arrested on Wednesday, the New York Police Department said. He was released from prison in November 2019 and placed on lifetime parole, after being convicted of matricide. Surveillance video of the attack, which …
Read More »US military’s new transgender policy will pay troops’ transition bills – reports
Biden overturned Trump’s ban in January, with a White House statement at the time saying that “gender identity should not be a bar to military service.” Trump announced a ban on new transgender recruits in 2017, citing “tremendous medical costs” and “disruption.” After two years of legal wrangling, the Supreme …
Read More »A leak from a Wuhan lab or a US military one? As the US and China trade barbs over Covid’s origin, the world waits for answers
How did Covid-19 originate? Where did it come from? We’ll probably never know, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, in a much-anticipated report following a field trip to Wuhan, China, where the virus first presented itself to the world just over a year ago. The study, carried out by …
Read More »Jailed Russian opposition figure Navalny announces he will go on hunger strike, demands medication & doctor of his own choosing
The activist is serving time in jail after being found guilty earlier this year of breaking the conditions of a suspended sentence handed to him in 2014, when he was found guilty of embezzling 30 million rubles ($400,000) from two companies, including the French cosmetics brand Yves Rocher. Last week, …
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