WASHINGTON — For years, Republicans have dined out on Supreme Court battles. But Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation fight threatens not only to starve them of a tried-and-true political weapon, but to hand that weapon to Democrats. That’s because the consequences of the high court’s composition have shifted with the […]
Daily Archives: October 12, 2020
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Five years after Israel signed a landmark agreement to develop large offshore gas fields over the objections of antitrust authorities, environmentalists and consumer advocates, ordinary Israelis have yet to see the windfall promised by the government. The deal has chiseled away at the monopoly held by Houston-based […]
Shane Sutton, the former technical director of British Cycling, threatened to “finish” Team Sky and the British Cycling doctor Richard Freeman after a series of whistleblowing allegations, Freeman has claimed. Freeman says Sutton suspected him as the source of separate whistleblowing claims to UK Sport and British Cycling that Sutton […]
COMPANY PROFILE: ENPULSION Today we present ENPULSION, an Austrian company developing cutting edge thruster solutions for small and medium satellites. Founded in 2016, it has delivered more than 130 thrusters and 50 of them are already propelling satellites of various size in space. How did the company achieve that? Milestones: […]
The coronavirus pandemic put an end to NCIS’ 17th season earlier this year despite fans being promised a full season of 24 episodes. Now the cast and crew are back in production for CBS, but some observant fans have been busy pointing out the show’s most egregious blunders. Season 17 […]
The adorably off-putting Bugsnax game (that we’re still convinced is secretly a horror game) has officially gone gold and what better way to celebrate than with a release date! Bugsnax is releasing on November 12 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC through the Epic Games Store. That means that […]
Tens of thousands of people have signed up to a campaign by a group called 1 Day Sooner to take an experimental vaccine candidate and then face coronavirus in a controlled setting. Among them is Estefania Hidalgo, 32, a photography student in Bristol, England, who works at a gas station […]
The 18-year-old Morehouse College freshman saw that rapper Travis Scott on Wednesday tweeted that he was willing to cover the first semester of tuition for five students attending any Historically Black College or University (HBCU). Scott also tweeted that each of his parents had attended an HBCU. His mother went […]