Category: Nations
‘Mrs. Davis’ Review: A Nun’s Anti-AI Crusade
Wall Street Journal Betty Gilpin stars as Sister Simone, who goes on a quest to destroy an omniscient manifestation of artificial intelligence, in this zany, delightful Peacock series from creators Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof. https://www.wsj.com/articles/mrs-davis-review-a-nuns-anti-ai-crusade-7dab2aee
Read MoreMiguel Cardona repeatedly refuses to define ‘woman’ in tense hearing exchange with GOP’s Clyde
Fox News Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., shared a tense exchange with Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on Tuesday after Cardona repeatedly refused to define “woman” or definitively explain the extent of “equal access” for transgender students under the Biden administration’s new Title IX rules. Cardona appeared before the House Appropriations Committee to defend his proposed change to…
Read MoreNancy Pelosi campaign coughs up $7,500 after man sues over ‘invasive’ fundraising texts
Fox News The campaign of former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., paid $7,500 to an Illinois man who sued her campaign for violating federal robocalling laws. The man, Jorge Rojas, sued Pelosi’s campaign for $31,500 in October 2022, alleging that the campaign’s frequent texts infringed on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. The…
Read MoreRussian stock market indices in the green on Tuesday
Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. The dollar had an upsurge by 0.06% to 81.45 rubles, while the euro edged up by 0.27% to 89.39 rubles https://tass.com/economy/1606211
Read MoreNew coronavirus variant rears its head in Russia — sanitary watchdog
Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. Apart from that, according to the watchdog, COVID-19 incidence dropped by 14% from the previous week and stood at 49,500 cases https://tass.com/world/1606209
Read MoreBig-Wave Surfer Garrett McNamara Found Stability on a Board
Wall Street Journal The ‘100-Foot Wave’ star on his many relocations as a child and channeling his inner daredevil. https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-wave-surfer-garrett-mcnamara-found-stability-on-a-board-fd3dc411
Read MoreWashington bill seeking to set minimum marriage age of 18 stalls
Fox News A bill in Washington state to establish a minimum marriage age of 18 has stalled again in the Legislature. According to nonprofit organization Unchained At Last, between 2000 and 2018 nearly 300,000 children were married in the U.S., and most of the marriages were between girls and adult men. In Washington state, 4,831…
Read MoreUS accuses several Russians of working to conduct influence campaign for government
Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. In a separate case out of the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice statement said, a criminal complaint was unsealed charging Russian national Natalia Burlinova “with conspiring with an FSB officer to act as an illegal agent of Russia in the United…
Read MoreFormer MP Barna killed in the war
Pravda Ukraine Former MP from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction, Oleh Barna, was killed in the war. Source: Colonel Oleksii Dmytrashkivskyi, head of the joint press centre for the Defence Forces of the Tavria front, on Facebook Quote from Dmytrashkivskyi: “Yesterday, Oleh Barna was killed in action. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/18/7398438/
Read MoreErnst accuses IRS of ‘witch hunt’ against small businesses with audit proposal
Fox News FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Joni Ernst is accusing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of launching a “witch hunt” against small businesses over the agency’s plan to spend the $80 billion granted by President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. “Now is simply not the time to place unnecessary burdens on our small businesses as…
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