Death toll jumps to more than 300 in recent China flooding

Post Content Chinese authorities have announced a large jump in the death toll from recent floods. The Henan provincial government said Monday that 302 people died and 50 remain missing. The vast majority of the victims were in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, where 292 died and 47 are missing. UK WEATHER: WARNINGS REMAIN AFTER HOMES, […]

McFaul, former ambassador to Russia, apologizes for DM about ‘giant house,’ big salary

Post Content Michael McFaul, the former U.S. ambassador to Russia under President Obama, apologized Sunday after a private Twitter message surfaced online where he boasted about his “giant house in paradise” and annual income of nearly a million dollars. McFaul, now the director of Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, posted the message in […]

New California Law May Make Bacon Harder To Get

A new law set to start at the beginning of next year may make bacon much harder to get in California.The state is set to begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved by voters in 2018.

Germany protesters slam ‘unbearable level of arrogance’ as lockdown fears loom

Post Content Thousands turned out in Berlin on Sunday to protest the German government’s anti-coronavirus measures despite a ban on the gatherings, leading to clashes with police and the detention of some 600 protesters. Local authorities had banned several different protests this weekend, including one from the Stuttgart-based Querdenker movement, but protesters in Berlin defied […]