(TebNad/Getty Images) Electricity is essential to modernity. Prosperity depends on it. So does longevity and health. If you doubt that, ask those in impoverished nations who still don’t have access to reliable electrical power! Indeed, if we could create a continental power grid in Africa — regardless of the means — it would ameliorate so
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Boris Johnson has told Joe Biden that global vaccine access will be vital for beating COVID-19, as the leaders agreed combatting climate change will be a key part of “building back better from the pandemic”. The prime minister and US president spoke on the phone on Friday afternoon, where they discussed the rollout of jabs,
In this article BG .SPIPSA RDSA-GB LNG A dredger attempts to free stranded container ship Ever Given, one of the world’s largest container ships, after it ran aground, in Suez Canal, Egypt March 26, 2021. Suez Canal Authority | Reuters Companies are scrambling to reroute shipping vessels to avoid the logjam at the Suez Canal,
Smug isn’t a good look for most comedians. Funny people may point out our foibles, but they’re best at capturing an Everyman sensibility while doing so. Confessional comedy kills, like most of the jokes Jim Gaffigan tells. Even when comics target their audiences there’s a wink-wink acknowledgement in play. They’re just like us! Somehow Jimmy Kimmel forget that
This week on The Fringe I examine the problem of “secret” closed courts in the family court system. Who is watching what these judiciaries are doing if the press is kicked out of the courtroom? Why are judges allowed to treat their courtrooms like personal kingdoms? Just this week, other members of the media and
I missed this when it first aired a few weeks ago but I owe it to you now, as I’ve complained before about TV news not covering these reunions. Good work here by ABC to showcase the chief social benefit of the vaccine, especially knowing how reluctant the expert class is to encourage socializing under
Pieter Bruegel’s painting The Triumph of Death is a frightening work, a “Where’s Waldo” of the 14th-century apocalypse. Not easily mistaken for the triumph of humanity over death, this is Death’s triumph over humanity. An army of skeletons that mercilessly and indiscriminately scorch the earth, pollute and deforest the land, and corral, and slaughter the
Earth seen from the International Space Station, March 25, 2018. (Johnson Space Center/NASA) Last year, as we endured the vicissitudes of what I labeled “the Mountain Dew–fueled teenager running the reckless late-night Sim City play-through that 2020 occasionally seems to resemble,” I noted a fate-tempting study about the currently dormant Yellowstone supervolcano. The study reminded us that
The White House confirmed on Friday that President Joe Biden will sign executive orders on gun control. During Friday’s White House press conference, CNN Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins asked, “Should we still be expecting executive orders from the President on gun measures?” White House press secretary Jen Psaki replied, “Yes,” and said there
The brother and sister-in-law of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn are suing CNN for $75 million over a report that the couple were believers of the QAnon conspiracy theory. John “Jack” Flynn, brother of retired Gen. Michael Flynn, and his wife Leslie filed a defamation lawsuit against CNN on Thursday in the U.S. District
So President Joe Biden has his first press conference as president this last week, over 60 days after becoming president. And the very first thing the White House press corps did was, but of course, display its lack of curiosity over why this was so. Not to mention pretend there was nothing out of the ordinary
President Joe Biden’s first formal press conference is in the books, and it was deeply embarrassing to anyone who thinks the media’s job is to hold presidents accountable. Taxpayer-enabled PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor was the worst. She complimented the president, saying: “You’ve said over and over again that immigrants shouldn’t come to this
Immigrants at the southern US border, some wearing t-shirts that read “Biden Please Let Us In” at San Ysidro crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on March 2, 2021, photo by Guillermo Arias AFP/Getty UPDATE: This report originally said the memo was leaked, but AP published it themselves. The Associated Press told reporters
Judge Stephen Reinhardt 1931—Stephen Reinhardt is born in New York City. Appointed to the Ninth Circuit by Jimmy Carter in 1980 and serving in active status on that court until his death in March 2018, Judge Reinhardt will earn notoriety as the “liberal badboy of the federal judiciary.” In his overtly political view of judging,
Scotland’s full-back Stuart Hogg passes the ball during the Six Nations rugby union tournament match between France and Scotland on March 26 2021, at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, outside Paris. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP) (Photo by ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP via Getty Images) ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT | AFP | Getty Images Wales were crowned
A police video in the US has sparked outrage after two officers were seen berating a five-year-old boy at his school, with one officer screaming in his face and another putting him in handcuffs. The two officers, who work for the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) in Maryland, are facing calls to be fired over
Lil Nas X’s latest music video is an abomination that may have just prompted the coming of the next extinction age of humanity. Prepare accordingly. Rapper Lil Nas X — real name is Montero Hill — released the highly-anticipated music video for his most recent self-titled single “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)”, on Friday
Yes, I know. “Idiots on Twitter are idiots” is not really grounds for good journalism. But stupid Twitter trends provide writers with an excellent excuse to write about things that really do matter, so I’m just going to take this opportunity to talk about Mega Virginia and the push for Washington, D.C., statehood. Yes, Mega
This happened even sooner than most people expected. We were warned at the beginning of the month that New York State was working to implement a system of immunity passports for people who wish to reenter most “normal” aspects of society. The state had clearly made up its mind already and had people working on
Summary: President Joe Biden has nothing on his schedule for Saturday as he is resting at his family home in Delaware. This marks the 11th day the president has spent resting away from the White House since he took office. President Biden’s Itinerary for 3/25/21: All Times EST No public events White House Briefing Schedule
[embedded content] A brilliant British actor, Laurence Fox happened to say something mildly controversial on the BBC last year—and suddenly found himself a victim of cancel culture. Instead of retreating or apologizing, Fox made the unusual choice to not just rebel but to do it in the most public way possible: by running for mayor
Police said that they unraveled a coverup by a pastor’s wife after she told them that her husband had been shot and killed by an intruder at their home in Ada, Oklahoma. Kristie Dawnell Evans, 47, initially told police that an intruder had shot her husband, Pastor David Charles Evans, 50, on Monday morning. She
March 25, 2021 marked the one-year anniversary of the day Gov. Cuomo (NY-D) imported COVID-19 infected patients into nursing homes. In this clip, Stu Burguiere hammered Gov. Cuomo for his deadly nursing home scandal as well as on recent allegations involving COVID-19 testing. The Washington Post reported that according three people with knowledge of the
On Thursday evening, CNN Tonight host Don Lemon suffered yet another anti-conservative meltdown on live television. He begged viewers to to get “in front of the television, right now,” so they wouldn’t miss a second of his seventeen-minute rant about the newly passed voting legislation in the state of Georgia. The race-baiting anchor began by
After the electoral victory of 2020, the network of far-left immigration radicals in and out of government is gaining strength, and turning their attention to ambitious projects like the creation of what they call migrant “welcoming centers,” discussed in a Friday, March 19, press conference cohosted by a number of immigration groups and pitched as “the new
Political activists who call for defunding police and ending what they call systemic racism used the banner of Black Lives Matter to raise tens of millions of dollars and launch a political action committee, according to the main organization’s “2020 Impact Report.” The report declares victories in the election of two Democrats to the U.S.
Democrats are desperate to end the filibuster. They see this as the key to passing their far left agenda, and they’re right. Without the filibuster, Democrats would be able to pass pretty much whatever they want. So, in an effort to get rid of the filibuster, they are calling it racist, which is ridiculous because
(Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters) The vice president of the San Francisco school board was stripped of her title and committee assignments Thursday in response to a 2016 tweet thread that many community leaders deemed racist and anti-Asian. In the tweets, board member Allison Collins referred to Asians as “house n****r[s],” and accused Asians of using “white supremacist
In this article FORD BWA GM F The CEO of auto supplier BorgWarner told CNBC on Friday the company hopes to have nearly 50% of its revenues be tied to electric vehicles within the next decade. Currently, less than 3% of the Michigan-based firm’s sales are related to EVs. “Our assumption is that 30% of
Once again, the eyes of the world are on Minneapolis – the city is braced for the trial of the former police officer accused of murdering George Floyd. For many this will be a defining moment for America. The trial is being hailed as one of the most important in US history. The intersection where