The Pledge of Allegiance is an oral statement in which US citizens vow to be loyal to their country. It was first penned in 1892 by socialist minister Francis Bellamy, but is still recited schools across the US every day. Often, people stand to recite the pledge and place their […]
Daily Archives: September 13, 2020
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TikTok has reached an agreement to partner with software giant Oracle, a landmark deal that could redefine how the U.S. and China square off over the reach of their homegrown technology companies. The deal, which was confirmed Sunday by a source with direct knowledge, comes after the Trump administration pressured […]
The United States and Iran will face off at the UN’s top court on Monday in the latest round of a battle over sanctions on Tehran reimposed by President Donald Trump. Tehran dragged Washington to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague in 2018 after Trump pulled the […]
New Australia coach Dave Rennie deserves admiration for standing up for the Wallabies over the Bledisloe Cup scheduling imbroglio with New Zealand. Rennie’s hairy-chested declaration that his team will boycott the first Test if they are forced to undertake an “unacceptable” preparation will win the support of the Australian players. […]
After becoming the first female winner of Top Chef, the Illinois-native returned to Chicago and set about building a restaurant empire, beginning with the opening of Girl and the Goat in 2010. As of 2015, she’d opened three restaurants in total. In 2011, she published Girl in the Kitchen, her […]
Image: Kotaku I can’t believe I’ve never seen or wondered about this before, but it turns out you can scrape data from Steam and find out how much the entire service’s catalogue would cost to purchase. And it’s…a lot less than you’d probably think? Chenggang Wang has a lil’ site […]
One of the highlights of Real Housewives of New York this season was Sonja Morgan finally launching her clothing line at Century 21. Unfortunately, the store has been a casualty of COVID-19. Century 21 revealed that they would be filing for bankruptcy and closing all of their stores. After working […]
The campaign rally in Henderson, Nevada — which is being held inside a facility of Xtreme Manufacturing — is expected to violate the state of Nevada’s restriction on gatherings of 50 people or more. It follows a stretch of outdoor events after Trump’s controversial indoor Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally in June […]