Indian start-up Mensa Brands has catapulted to billion-dollar unicorn status in just six months and, in a more rarified feat, is already profitable, its founder told CNBC. The direct-to-consumer brand aggregator this week became the fastest company in India’s history to hit the coveted threshold after closing its $135 million Series B funding round at
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Frozen vials apparently containing the deadly virus smallpox have been discovered in a freezer at a US facility that conducts vaccine research. Federal health authorities confirmed the vials “were incidentally discovered by a laboratory worker” who was cleaning out the freezer in Pennsylvania. “CDC, its administration partners, and law enforcement are investigating the matter and
Thanksgiving, a truly all-American holiday, will be celebrated next week, so it must be time for network television to trash the pilgrims as evil colonizers who stole land from Native Americans. This week on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, viewers were told that the colonizers didn’t even offer to share their Thanksgiving feast with the natives. In
We’re back on the VIP side of the paywall this week and — I kid you not — we’re both sober. It had to happen, America. Strangely, we found plenty to talk about even in the absence of booze. via GIPHY Lotta red meat news in this one, as well as a very special discussion
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy delayed the passage of President Joe Biden’s social spending package after embarking on an hours-long floor speech that lambasted the bill and Democrats for a wide range of issues. The speech began as the House concluded debate on the sweeping budget Thursday night and proceeded to so-called “magic minutes,” which
Batya Ungar-Sargon in the Washington Examiner: How the pursuit of an economically and educationally elite readership for big newspapers (led by the New York Times) drove mainstream journalism to abandon the middle and working class, change who becomes journalists, and how stories are covered: By the 1970s, the New York Times had shifted from boasting of the affluence of
French lawmakers are revolting against the inclusion of a “non-binary pronoun” into the French language by the newest edition of the Le Robert online dictionary. “Inclusive writing is not the future of the French language,” tweeted Jean-Michel Blanquer, the Minister of Education. “Hence, even though our students are consolidating their fundamental knowledge, they cannot have
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth has issued memo stating that National Guard troops who fail to comply with mandatory COVID-19 vaccination may not get renewed in the guard, according to the New York Times. “I have determined that all soldiers who refuse the mandatory vaccination order will be flagged,” she wrote, according to the outlet, which
Continuing to double down on her lifestyle of spewing vile bile to the approval of her bosses at Comcast, MSNBC’s The ReidOut host Joy Reid came up with new ways Thursday to engage in incitement, calling Republicans “the YOLO parent” who doesn’t want people to have health care and “whose answer to anything and everything
The party should probably be worried about President Biden’s approval ratings. U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks with Vice President Kamala Harris in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on July 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Not so long ago, President Joe Biden was being talked
According to his former live-in chef, Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown acquired a forged COVID-19 vaccination card in order to circumvent NFL rules and regulations. A text message from Brown’s girlfriend, model Cydney Moreau, to Los Angeles chef Steven Ruiz on July 2 said Brown was prepared to pay $500 if the chef could obtain a Johnson
KENOSHA, Wis.—The Daily Signal was on the scene at the courthouse here Thursday where a jury deliberated for a third day about the verdict for Kyle Rittenhouse, who is facing five felony charges. People stood around the courthouse—chanting, holding signs, and more. What it was like at the courthouse: A trial attendee shares what it
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) holds a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., August 24, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) told reporters that the House would postpone a vote on Democrats’ social spending package after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) delayed proceedings by giving
When the U.S. announced plans to lift an 18-month-long travel ban in September, Europeans wasted no time making plans — particularly the Brits. In the 24 hours that followed the Sept. 20 announcement, flights from London to New York City were searched 1.4 million times, according to the global travel technology company Travelport, making it
Julius Jones’ death sentence has been commuted by Oklahoma’s governor just hours before his execution. Jones, who was convicted of killing Paul Howell, a businessman in the affluent Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond, in 1999, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 4pm on Thursday at the State Penitentiary in McAlester. The 41-year-old has
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Thursday was positively shocked, suggesting Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana is either “racist” or “stupid” for labeling Joe Biden’s nominee extreme. During Senate hearings for Saule Omarova, the Comptroller of the Currency nominee, Kennedy jokingly stated he didn’t know whether to call Omarova “professor or comrade.” Wallace raged, “This is a
I honestly can’t say whether these people who are enforcing these ideas think they’re doing good or if they’re just power-hungry. COVID may be a serious disease, but there’s enough data available to show even the most diehard COVID zealot that kids don’t even need to be masked, let alone vaccinated. Yet, sadly, that data
half a ton of methamphetamine concealed inside the walls of a trailer at the Calexico East Commercial Facility. CALEXICO, Calif. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers intercepted close to half a ton of methamphetamine concealed inside the walls of a trailer at the Calexico East Commercial Facility. The incident occurred Tuesday, November 16,
Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg (Rebecca Cook/Reuters; Stefani Reynolds/Pool via Reuters) I wrote today for Politico on the chatter about a Harris-Buttigieg race for the 2024 Democratic nomination: The GOP has had plenty of reason for good cheer in recent months, whether it’s the victory in Virginia’s gubernatorial election,
The Congressional Budgeting Office released its estimate of the cost of President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan and it is far from being “fully paid for,” as he promised. The CBO report said Biden’s plan would add $367 billion to the deficit over 10 years from 2021 until 2031. Biden had promised many times
President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the U.S. is considering a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. “Sir do you support a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics?” a reporter inquired. “Something we’re considering,” Biden responded. The United States is considering a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, President
Starkly absent from their Thursday evening update on the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, NBC Nightly News failed to disclose to viewers that the network and MSNBC were barred from stepping foot in the Kenosha, Wisconsin courthouse after police caught a producer blowing a stoplight as he stalked the bus carrying the jury. According to
Biden is taking another action that goes against America. This one is costing Americans lots. Biden shuts down oil production in the US and then sells America’s reserves of oil to Asia. How does this make sense? Education Views reports: Practically overnight, America went from oil independence and being a net oil importer, to suffering
Thousands of illegal immigrants are attempting to enter Poland from Belarus, with violent clashes with border guards breaking out on Tuesday. To help understand what is happening at the Poland-Belarus border, The Daily Signal spoke with Alexis Mrachek, a research associate focusing on Russia and Eurasia at The Heritage Foundation. The Daily Signal: We are
United States Capitol Building (rarrarorro/Getty Images) The Congressional Budget Office finally released its full cost estimate of the Democrats’ Build Back Better legislation on Thursday. The American people were promised repeatedly that this social-spending bill was not only paid for, but that it would cost $0. As Phil wrote already, it doesn’t. Democrats will try
In this article NFLX Netflix logo Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images John Malone, regarded as one of the shrewdest media investors ever, told CNBC he saw the importance of video streaming to the evolving television ecosystem, even in the early days. In an interview that aired Thursday, the Liberty Media billionaire
Tiger King star Carole Baskin has reacted to claims that her former husband is alive and well, having apparently been found in Costa Rica. Don Lewis went missing in 1997, after marrying Baskin six years earlier, and was later legally declared dead in 2002. In the first season of Netflix’s smash-hit Tiger King, producers explored
A leftist “dark money” group funded by liberal billionaire George Soros spent hundreds of millions of dollars in an obsessive effort to place Democrats in political power. The notorious Sixteen Thirty Fund “doled out a whopping $410 million in 2020” for the purpose of “aiding Democratic efforts to unseat then-President Donald Trump and win back
The mob beats its drums and screams on amplified bullhorns outside the courthouse that Kyle Rittenhouse should be strung up or else. Counter-protesters scream through amplified bullhorns that “it’s legal to defend yourself” and “Kyle Rittenhouse is innocent.” Fists are flying. It’s getting nasty outside the Kenosha County Courthouse as police arrests attest, but there’s
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida will hold a press conference in Brandon, Florida, at Brandon Honda on Thursday in what could be another jab at President Joe Biden. DeSantis spokesperson Christina Pushaw did not confirm to the Daily Caller News Foundation that the location was related to the popular “Let’s Go Brandon” chant, a