TOKYO — Hundreds of thousands of households in Japan were advised to evacuate due to fears of flooding as a powerful typhoon was set to make landfall late Saturday, bringing with it the heaviest rain and winds in 60 years. A number of municipal governments issued evacuation advisories to areas […]
Daily Archives: October 11, 2019
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(Bloomberg) — Queen Elizabeth II’s speech in Britain’s Parliament on Monday will unveil Home Secretary Priti Patel’s Extradition Bill, the Sun reported, without saying where it got the information. The law would give new powers to police to make arrests and extradite more quickly people who are the subject of […]
So much for the sunlit uplands. Friday night in Prague: this was supposed to be a romp past the post for Gareth Southgate’s England 2.0, a breasting of the tape en route to the clear blue skies of next summer’s European championship. In the build-up the key questions had been […]
Instagram / Kylie Jenner Kylie Jenneris essentially giving a go-to guide on how to be a millionaire mommy on her latest Instagram Stories. Thanks to her daughter, Stormi Webster‘s, latest appearance on her YouTube video, the mom is fielding a ton of questions about motherhood, which is frankly no wonder considering […]
Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s wedding day was a stunning autumnal affair. Sarah Ferguson’s surgery revelations for the big day shocked this week. The Duchess of York, Eugenie’s mother, revealed she had facelifts and Botox for the event. But, Sarah wasn’t the only one who underwent a transformation for the […]
Chris Cuomo is apologizing for a remark at the top of a CNN town hall on LGBTQ issues that angered some members of the community and their supporters. When Sen. Kamala Harris took the stage Thursday and told Cuomo that her personal pronouns were “she, her and hers,” Cuomo answered […]
According to a report from The Hollywood Reporter, Jane Fonda was arrested earlier this week while protesting with the group, Oil Change International. On Friday, the iconic actress was detained by the police among the other group members who were protesting in Washington D.C. On social media, videos were shared […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on Friday told a House of Representatives impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump that Trump ousted her based on “unfounded and false claims” after she had come under attack by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Marie Yovanovitch, the ambassador who was […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionIn 2018, the BBC visited Brazil’s highly biodiverse Cerrado, which is being cleared for soy production Dark clouds of smoke smothered cities in Brazil as parts of the Amazon burned at a rate not seen in years, and the world responded with […]
A federal appeals court on Friday sharply questioned the Trump administration’s work requirements for Medicaid recipients, casting doubt on a key part of a governmentwide effort to place conditions on low-income people seeking taxpayer-financed assistance. All three judges on a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District […]
Amazon American consumers waste nearly 40% of the food they buy, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. Does this ring true in your household? If you find that plenty of produce, meat and even dry goods end up in your trash, it might be the right time to make a change. Consider […]
Blizzard revises its penalty after days of protest. Getty Images After days of silence, Blizzard issued a statement Friday saying its decision to ban Hearthstone pro player Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai wasn’t influenced by its relationship with China. It also reduced his ban to six months and will award him his winnings […]
Gilbert Levin made the stunning suggestion in Scientific American. Mr Levin claimed the Viking missions uncovered signs of alien life. He wrote: “What is the evidence against the possibility of life on Mars? “The astonishing fact is that there is none. “Furthermore, laboratory studies have shown that some terrestrial microorganisms could survive […]
Dr Henry Marsh branded the idea a “fairytale” as he said it’s just because he fears death. He went on to explain it the transhumanist idea would be difficult due to 85 billion nerve cells. It comes as Elon Musk and his team of boffins are exploring ways in which […]
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie resolves any lingering questions about Jesse Pinkman’s fate at the end of Breaking Bad. But the film also presents an unanswered question of its own. What did Jesse write in his letter to Brock Cantillo, the young son of Jesse’s late girlfriend Andrea?Brock was […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump traveled to Louisiana on Friday night in a last-minute push to rally his base and prevent Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards from winning re-election. “While every other state is making massive job gains and you don’t even notice, Edwards terrible policies are killing jobs across […]
HBO On Friday night, Bill Maher granted a very large platform to Ben Domenech, the co-founder of far-right publication The Federalist. For the blissfully uninitiated, The Federalist is a strange, hyper-conservative website that’s privately funded (and refuses to disclose who financially backs it), and has published a number of conspiracy […]
CBS series NCIS first aired back in 2003 with audiences plunged into the high octane world of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service’s Major Case Response Team. Each week the team crack a case as the clock ticks. The show has proved to be such a success that it spawned the […]
Princess Eugenie is the granddaughter of the Queen and daughter of Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew, both 59. She tied the knot with her long-term partner, Jack Brooksbank, in a ceremony which took place one year ago today. Eugenie showed she is close with her family and chose to get […]