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‘This can’t be real’: MLB fans in hysterics as animal rights watchdog PETA deems the term ‘bullpen’ insensitive to cows

PETA, or the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, have long positioned themselves as a voice for mistreated animals…

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UK competition watchdog slaps Facebook with £50 million fine for information breach

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) contended that Facebook consciously failed to provide the British regulator with all the information…

3 years ago

Germany enters FOURTH Covid-19 wave, health watchdog warns, amid uptick in younger patients

Overall, the proportion of positive Covid tests in Germany rose from 4 to 6% in mid-August, the Robert Koch Institute…

3 years ago

UK police watchdog investigating cops over return of Plymouth shooter’s gun & permit

Jake Davison, 22, gunned down five people in the port city of Plymouth on Thursday. He killed two men, two…

3 years ago

Intel watchdog to probe allegations NSA spied on Fox’s Tucker Carlson, despite agency’s denial – reports

National Security Agency IG Robert Storch announced the move on Tuesday, saying his office would look into whether the agency…

3 years ago

Watchdog shoots down Bezos’ spacecraft-bid protest, affirms NASA’s right to pick SpaceX for next lunar mission

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) rejected Blue Origin’s protest on Friday, stating that NASA was within its rights to select…

3 years ago

‘We will do this again’: Watchdog warns US learned no lesson from Afghan war as govt swept failures under the rug

John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), pointed to a pattern of disastrously managed American wars over…

3 years ago

Police watchdog investigating UK cops from ‘several forces’ over Sarah Everard’s murderer

Former Metropolitan Police Service firearms officer Wayne Couzens, 48, pleaded guilty to the murder of 33-year-old Everard at London’s Old…

3 years ago

Iran notifies UN nuclear watchdog of 20% enrichment of uranium metal for reactor fuel, IAEA says

The announcement comes as Iran and the other signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal are gearing up for another round…

3 years ago

Iran says it will ‘NEVER’ give nuclear site images to UN watchdog as monitoring deal expires

“The agreement has expired... any of the information recorded will never be given to the IAEA and the data and…

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