The veteran journalist launched her Nazi-themed attack against the incumbent US president last week. She said his administration was “four years of a modern-day assault” on “fact, knowledge, history, and truth” similarly to how Nazi Germany enforced its ideology. The comparison came as Amanpour reflected on how the organized pogroms …
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The problem with this, apart from the obvious fact that it was an embarrassingly close victory only made possible by the Covid outbreak, is that returning to the pre-Trump “normal” is returning to the exact positions which created Trump. It’s like using a time machine to prevent a train wreck, but only going …
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Robert Jenrick, the British minister for housing and local government, condemned the SNP on Tuesday for their talk of another referendum in the midst of a pandemic. Speaking to Sky News, Jenrick claimed that the devolution of powers to Scotland has been “misused” by the SNP and that they sought …
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In an interview with the Washington Post on Monday, Raffensperger said that “it sure looked like” Graham wanted him to think of a way to discard mail-in ballots in counties where a high rate of non-matching signatures was reported. “It sure looked like he was wanting to go down that …
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Observing that its consumer business has been under “tremendous pressure as of late,” Huawei said in a statement on Tuesday that it would sell all business assets linked to Honor to a newly created parent company, Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology Co., which was established by more than 30 “agents …
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It is difficult to find the correct adjectives to describe the latest policy that the mayor of London is adopting and imposing on the city’s besieged Police Commissioner, as she struggles with terrorism, cyber crime, Covid-19, burglary, skyrocketing murders of young black males by other black males, to say nothing …
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The US military is “buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps,” Joseph Cox of VICE’s Motherboard wrote on Monday. Specifically, one of the buyers is the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), which deals with counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism and various covert activity around the globe. …
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“Student debt cancellation is a racial-justice issue,” the Massachusetts Democrat declared Monday on Twitter. Pressley’s tweet came amid increasing discussion of student loan debt after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said earlier this month that once Joe Biden becomes president, he would be able to extinguish $50,000 of student borrowings …
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“We’re considering the notion of a curfew,” Newsom told reporters in a Covid-19 briefing on Monday. “We are assessing that.” He added that he will examine studies from France, Germany and Saudi Arabia on the efficacy of curfews before making a decision. California is tapping the “emergency brakes” under its …
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Zatko joined the social media behemoth as head of security on Monday and is expected to take over “key security functions” after a 45 to 60 day trial period, according to Reuters, which interviewed him about his new role. He will report directly to CEO Jack Dorsey and will reportedly …
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