Giorno: 7 Ottobre 2022

‘Move before I pull my gun out’: DC drivers irate after climate protesters block rush hour traffic

Post Content Several climate activists blocked rush hour traffic on a busy highway in Washington, D.C., on Friday, sparking outrage among drivers headed to work. The activists, with the environmental group Declare Emergency, sat on I-395, a major highway that feeds into Washington, D.C., until they were eventually arrested by police officers, according to video […]

What Liz Truss needs to do to get the Bank of England out of trouble

Read More After a week of financial-market turbulence, UK Prime Minister Liz Truss was forced to scrap her plan to abolish the 45% top income-tax rate for high earners.  This U-turn, an attempt to counter a stunning market sell-off that caused the pound to crash and saw the Bank of England (BOE) launch a massive […]

Democratic operatives disguise partisan websites as local news to influence midterms

Post Content Democratic operatives are reportedly behind dozens of outlets presenting themselves as local news websites while pushing pro-Democratic Party content. A network of approximately 51 separate U.S. news sites have disguised themselves with local names in order to push politically advantageous reports under the guise of regional journalism, according to Axios. 2022 MIDTERM ELECTION […]

Boris Johnson took accommodation worth ?10,000 from Tory donor’s wife

Read More Boris Johnson accepted free accommodation worth ?10,000 from the wife of the leading Tory donor who hosted his wedding party this summer, it has emerged. The updated register of MPs’ interests shows that the former prime minister accepted a ?10,000 gift from Lady Carole Bamford, for “concessionary use of accommodation for me and […]

Liverpool to host Eurovision song contest on behalf of Ukraine

Read More The Eurovision song contest will be hosted by Liverpool next year after it beat 19 other cites to stage the event on behalf of war-torn Ukraine. The annual extravaganza will be held in the UK for the first time in 25 years on 13 May as Ukraine is unable to host the event […]

Russia targets Zaporizhzhia with ‘kamikaze drones’ for the first time

Read More Russia has targeted Zaporizhzhia with explosive-packed “kamikaze drones” for the first time, as the death toll from a missile strike on an apartment building in the city rose to 11. The regional governor, Oleksandr Starukh, said Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones damaged two infrastructure facilities, in the city. He said other missiles also struck the […]

Uvalde Schools Suspend Police Force After Hiring Outrage

The Uvalde, Texas, school district on Friday pulled its embattled campus police force off the job following a wave of new outrage over the hiring of a former Texas state trooper who was part of the hesitant law enforcement response during the May shooting at Robb Elementary…

Barnard College Will Offer Medication Abortions for Students

Barnard College, a private women’s school affiliated with Columbia University, is making medication abortions available to its students, saying that providing the service is part of its plans to expand healthcare options.

Rare ‘fancy vivid pink’ diamond sells for ?52m in Hong Kong auction

Read More An extremely rare “fancy vivid pink” diamond has sold for 453m Hong Kong dollars (?52m) – more than double its estimated price – and set a world record for the highest price per carat for a diamond sold at auction. The 11.15-carat Williamson Pink Star diamond, which is named after another pink diamond […]

OBR forecasts likely to show ?60bn-?70bn hole after Kwarteng’s mini-budget

Read More Kwasi Kwarteng has been handed independent forecasts on the state of the UK finances that are expected to show a hole of more than ?60bn left by his sweeping tax cuts and a sharply slowing growth outlook. At the end of a turbulent week for Liz Truss’ government, the chancellor was on Friday […]