Cattle wait to be guided down from their summer mountain pasture during the annual end-of-summer Almabtrieb cattle drive near Bad Hindelang, Germany, September 26, 2020. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters) The war against meat has become, so to speak, something of a staple for climate warriors, and one of the ways that it will be fought is by
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Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images New Year’s Day luck could end up making a Powerball player a few hundred million dollars richer. No ticket matched all six numbers drawn Wednesday, which means the jackpot has climbed higher: It’s an advertised $483 million for Saturday night’s drawing, up from $441 million. The top prize
A past settlement between sex offender Jeffey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre, which could be key to a legal case involving Prince Andrew, is set to be made public next week. The 2009 agreement between Epstein and Ms Giuffre, formerly Virginia Roberts, will be released on or around 3 January following an order by US judges.
CNN is ending 2021 the same way they spent most of it: in the gutter. Late Wednesday, news broke that yet another CNN producer was under “criminal investigation” for sexually preying on minors. This time it was the producer for Jake Tapper’s weekday show The Lead, Rick Saleeby. According to Fox News media reporter Joseph
Some scientists are warning of a “Doomsday Glacier” that could break in a few years and destroy us. The glacier is real enough. It’s the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, and experts are saying that warming seawater underneath the glacier is melting it from below. This makes the glacier vulnerable to sliding off and raising sea
Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., said she expects schools to switch to virtual learning in the coming weeks and throughout the spring 2022 semester, according to a Wednesday announcement which sparked outrage from those accusing teacher’s unions of putting their members’ needs above those of students. “We expect that schools and classrooms will
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No one in America is surprised to learn that Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky is sending mixed messages about the COVID pandemic. That’s been the government’s M.O. from day one. What might surprise people, though, is to hear NBC News call out her and her agency’s ongoing failure to deliver consistent
Florida police say they were forced to shoot and kill a critically endangered tiger at the Naples Zoo after it bit and seriously injured a man who had entered a restricted area and reached into the animal’s enclosure. According to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, the injured man was a member of a third-party cleaning
Following four years of combative White House press briefings and showboaters like Jim Acosta and April Ryan becoming Resistance household names, the White House Briefing Room saw a different show in 2021 with Press Secretary Jen Psaki. All told, there were softballs, tough questions, and plenty of boring and inoffensive questions on The Psaki Show.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan recently criticized Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby for her egregious mishandling of cases and her allowing of criminals to return to the streets, unsupervised and unpunished, with the potential to add more victims to Baltimore’s growing list of victims of preventable criminal activity. What is occurring in Baltimore is unilateral justice,
Michigan won’t follow the updated CDC Covid guidance on shorter quarantine and isolation times. The CDC on Monday recommended shorter Covid isolation and quarantine time for all Americans. The CDC made the decision to cut isolation time from 10 to 5 days in an effort to help Joe Biden and make sure there isn’t a
We are constantly told by advocates of critical race theory that blacks can’t advance in America because of “institutional racism” and that only massive government intervention can change that. Oddly enough, in the era when there were a lot of prominent, avowed racists — the ’40s and ’50s — blacks made big economic gains. That
In this article WMT HD TGT BBY LOW One in every four dollars that Americans spent on online purchases retrieved through either curbside pickup or inside of stores this year went to Walmart, according to Insider Intelligence. The big box giant drove 25.4% of all click-and-collect orders in 2021— the largest market share of any
Accusers, family members and lawyers are among those who have reacted to Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction, The 60-year-old former British socialite and ex-girlfriend of late billionaire financier Epstein is now facing the prospect of years in prison, after being found guilty on five out of six charges against her. She was accused of recruiting
Telemundo anchor Nacho Lozano was fine covering the recent Axios/Ipsos/Telemundo poll of Hispanics in the United States, until he realized it also polled abortion. Watch as Lozano gets into the nuances of the community and showcases the finding of opposition to a southern border wall, only to get testy when the abortion question didn’t yield a
Global oil and gas discoveries have hit their lowest level since World War II, as the oil and gas industry discovered fewer than 5 billion barrels of oil equivalent in 2021. With no major finds announced in December, this represents a considerable drop from the 12.5 billion unearthed overall last year. And despite what the
These past few years have been challenging, hard and, with the influx of the omicron variant this Christmas season, seemingly never-ending. It’s been nearly two years since we began what was to have been a two-week pause to stop COVID-19. Since then, we’ve endured lockdowns, masking, sickness, death, fear, overwork, underwork, government stimulus, vaccine creation,
President Joe Biden announces the nomination of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for a second four-year term at the White House in Washington, D.C., November 22, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) With the Biden administration expected to release a major, statutorily mandated document setting out the president’s broad-brush thinking on U.S. national security in early 2022, conservative
Comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan said that his sold out show in Vancouver, Canada, was canceled because he didn’t know if he could even travel to the country without being vaccinated. The show was scheduled for April 20, but Rogan said on the Dec. 24 show of his podcast that it was going to be
A bartender was slashed in the face by an irate customer with a sharpened broomstick after she asked the customer to provide proof of vaccination, police said. The alarming incident unfolded at Joe’s Bar and Grill in Seattle, Washington, on Monday. Police said that witnesses called at about 5:15 p.m. after the attack. They told
Chris Hayes has a long history of making absurd and hateful claims on his nightly MSNBC show, but it appears there is no comment or bizarre conspiracy theory that’s too low for him. On Wednesday night’s edition of All In, Hayes spent an entire segment dismissing America’s rising crime rates, and questioned the motives of
Pandemic aside, no issue of the past year has become more reviled on the American right than critical race theory, the progressive educational paradigm at the center of a vehement vocal and electoral uproar nationwide. Conservative politicians have been quick to serve up critical race theory as proof of an ever-radicalizing left, most notable among
As of July 1, 2020, there were 331,501,080 people living in the United States of America, according to the Census Bureau’s estimate. A year later, there were 331,893,745. That was an increase of only 392,665—or 0.1%. In a press release published last week, the Census Bureau announced that this was the lowest annual rate of
If there is one conservative Republican Democrats hate more than Trump, it might be Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Democrats and the media have repeatedly tried to cancel Greene or even oust her from Congress. They have tried to paint her as a toxic figure, but it hasn’t worked. She is on track to
A person holds up a flag during rally to protest the Trump administration’s reported proposal to narrow the definition of gender to male or female at birth at City Hall in New York City, October 24, 2018. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Forgive the un-Christmas week post. (Though some of our much-beloved Christmas stories — A Christmas Carol
A Covid-19 rapid PCR test site sign at Cape Town International Airport in Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. Dwayne Senior | Bloomberg | Getty Images The World Health Organization on Wednesday cautioned that omicron has not spread widely among the populations most at risk, making it difficult to determine whether or
Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty of recruiting underage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein. The 60-year-old former socialite and ex-girlfriend of billionaire financier Epstein is now facing the prospect of years in prison. As the verdicts were read out in court in New York, Maxwell appeared to show little reaction behind a
As we wrap up 2021, it’s time for a little cultural talk on the NewsBusters Podcast. NPR music critic Ann Powers recently suggested the Beatles signified how the rock band was a white-male institution. NPR also recently brought on Nikole Hannah-Jones to explain that “yacht rock” like Steely Dan, Toto, and the Doobie Brothers is culturally appropriated black
The United Arab Emirates has officially canceled its purchase of world-leading F-35 Lightning II stealth strike fighters due to U.S. objections to the country acquiring sanctioned Chinese electronics. This story is much, much bigger than the loss of a few billion dollars worth of arms exports. Typically, when it comes to arms purchases, the UAE