The blast was reported on Tuesday afternoon, with one resident capturing it on video. A cloud of smoke spewed into the air above a residential area of the city, with a series of subsequent cracks and booms leading the resident to suggest that “someone’s firework stack went off.” Another local …
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The population should “not to go [to the beaches] to swim, or do sports or leisure activity until further notice,” a warning, jointly issued by the Health, Interior and Environmental Protection ministries on Sunday, read. “Exposure to tar could harm public health.” The announcement comes after several volunteers, out of …
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern imposed the lockdown after an Auckland family of three tested positive for Covid-19. The mother of the family reportedly works at a company that deals with airline laundry, prompting concerns that the virus may have been transmitted by a passenger on a flight. In …
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“Wow, this actually worked,” read a guerrilla commercial only the most eagle-eyed viewers managed to notice during a historic Super Bowl clash between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. “If you’re reading this, it meant our bet paid off,” the ad said, urging viewers to pause their TVs …
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Cult expert Steven Hassan was on Tuesday brought on CNN to advise on how to deprogram members of what he described in his 2019 book as the “Cult of Trump.” Perhaps with an eye toward boosting his deprogramming business, however, he suggested the entire country was in need of his …
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Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk recently overtook Amazon’s Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person, a feat that happened largely in the span of less than a year. However, Musk, the eccentric billionaire with a wannabe Tony Stark image, is highly misunderstood – just like the circumstances of …
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The Covid-19 pandemic could have brought humanity together in cooperation to combat the deadly disease. Instead, 2020 has seen an expansion of the use of unilateral sanctions, which target entire nations and hurt their ability to respond to outbreaks on their territory while undermining global efforts to provide humanitarian assistance …
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PM Mette Frederiksen last week ordered the culling of the country’s 15-17 million-strong mink population, after the World Health Organization (WHO) said it was looking into reports that the virus was jumping from animals to people. “Even if we were in a rush, it should have been completely clear to …
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The deposition was ordered to be released by senior US District Judge Loretta Preska on Monday, and went public on Thursday morning. The interviews with the 58-year-old socialite were conducted in 2016 as part of a since-settled libel case against Maxwell by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has also …
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While most studies assess the costs of the deadly virus by its impact on the national gross domestic product (GDP), a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association earlier this week offered a different approach. The authors of the study – former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and …
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