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[ January 18, 2022 ] Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya Responds to Uyghur Comment Backlash Administration
[ January 18, 2022 ] Black Space Diamond Heading to Auction Uncategorized
[ January 18, 2022 ] Oil Hits Seven-Year High With Rise in Regional Tensions Energy
[ January 18, 2022 ] Global Heating Linked to Early Birth and Damage to Babies’ Health Environment
[ January 18, 2022 ] Trump Rally Attendees Lash Out On Social Media Politics

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Black Space Diamond Heading to Auction

This black diamond is literally from out of this world. The auction house Sotheby’s unveiled today in Dubai a 555.55-carat black diamond called “The Enigma.” It’s believed to have come from space. Sotheby’s believes that the [...]
Environment

Global Heating Linked to Early Birth and Damage to Babies’ Health

How is the climate crisis affecting the health of babies, infants, and fetuses? Six new studies have found that the increase in heat from global warming has been linked to fast weight gain in babies, [...]
Business

Alibaba’s Cloud Unit Screened for National Security Risks by the US

As the US government ramps up scrutiny of Chinese tech companies’ dealings with firms in the United States, the e-commerce giant Alibaba’s cloud business has found itself under review by the Biden administration trying to [...]
Culture

US to Return to Iraq Two Valuable Stolen Artifacts

Iraq foreign ministry announced on Tuesday it will receive back from the US authorities two stolen artifacts dating back more than 4,000 years this week, without providing more details about the pieces or how they [...]
Administration

Appeals Court Ruling Leaves Texas Abortion Ban in Effect

A deeply divided federal appeals court has left in place the strictest abortion ban in the country by rejecting the Texas abortion clinics’ plea to send their challenge against the state’s controversial law back to [...]

Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya Responds to Uyghur Comment Backlash

January 18, 2022

“Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs,” billionaire investor and minority owner of the NBA team Golden State Warriors, Chamath Palihapitiya, said on his podcast. “Of all the things that I care about, I’d [...]
Appeals Court Ruling Leaves Texas Abortion Ban in Effect

January 18, 2022
Recruitment of Veterans by Right-Wing Extremists May Increase

January 17, 2022

Texas Scientists’ Developing New Patent-Free Covid-19 Vaccine

January 17, 2022

Scientists in Texas are developing a new Covid vaccine using an old conventional method that will make the vaccination cheaper and more accessible. The vaccine, called Corbevax, is unique because the team behind it will [...]
Prolonged ‘Twindemic’ Threatens Europe as Flu Returns

January 17, 2022
Alzheimer Drug Aduhelm to Be Covered by Medicare

January 12, 2022

Ukraine President to Host Senators Visiting to Reaffirm US Support

January 17, 2022

Amid the continuously escalating tensions between Ukraine – which continues to face an increasingly belligerent Moscow – and Russia, a bipartisan group of senators will meet with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials [...]
Ukraine Identified as Kremlin’s ‘Red Line’ in NATO-Russia Relations

January 17, 2022
Nuland: US Prepared for Multiple Scenarios in the Case of Russian Invasion of Ukraine

January 15, 2022

Global Heating Linked to Early Birth and Damage to Babies’ Health

January 18, 2022

How is the climate crisis affecting the health of babies, infants, and fetuses? Six new studies have found that the increase in heat from global warming has been linked to fast weight gain in babies, [...]
The Last 7 Years Have Been the Warmest on Record

January 11, 2022
Baked Alaska: Heat Record Will Cause “Icemageddon”

December 30, 2021

Smart Guns Arriving in U.S. After Decades of Questions

January 12, 2022

Move along smartphones and smartwatches, the newest item coming this year is a smart gun. Smart guns may soon become available to consumers in the U.S. after two decades of questions about their reliability as [...]
VR-Strapped Cows Produce More Milk, Turkish Farmer Finds

January 12, 2022
JPost Hacked by Pro-Iranian Hackers on Soleimani’s Death Anniversary

January 3, 2022

WHO’s Grim Prediction Sees Omicron Infecting Half of Europe in 2 Months

January 11, 2022

Current modeling suggests that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 will infect more than half of the population of Europe in the next six to eight weeks, the WHO’s regional director for Europe has said on [...]
Record $4.4 Bln in Aid Demanded by UN for Saving Afghanistan

January 11, 2022
UN Hopes Situation Will De-Escalate after the US, NATO Talks with Russia

January 5, 2022

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