Jury: Parkland School Shooter Should Be Sentenced to Death
Jurors determined Thursday that Nikolas Cruz should be sentenced to life in prison for a 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people.
Writing romance online, one predictable ending at a time
Read More I used to apologise for reading romantic novels. I’d try to justify this penchant by mentioning a brilliant surgeon friend who inhales as much of this fluff as I do. “I read other genres too,” I’d mumble. These days, I am a proud romance consumer. Give me drama, the intrigue, the bad boy […]
Volkswagen’s latest R performance models race into SA
Read More Volkswagen’s R division has been good at awakening assertive emotions since its launch in Mzansi in 2007 with the first Golf 5 R, known as the R32. Unlike its GTI sibling, the R32 had an all-wheel-drive system. The introduction of the Golf Mk6 saw VW ditching the “32” in 2011 in favour of […]
While the Taliban cry Zuma, the IFP eats their lunch
Read More Thursday. It’s early, but the results of Wednesday’s by-elections are out. The Inkatha Freedom Party has taken ward 11 in the uMuziwabantu local municipality — that’s Harding — with 53 % of the vote, beating the Sun Party (23%) and the ANC (16%). That makes it three out of three for the Elephants […]
Google Cloud coming to South Africa, an African first
Read More Google will be establishing its first cloud region on the African continent, right here in South Africa. Google Cloud will follow other major cloud storage companies that have opened shop here, including Microsoft Azure and Amazon’s AWS. South Africa will join Google Cloud’s global network of 35 cloud regions and 106 zones. Its […]
Democrat Senate candidate calls Obama for help after slipping in polls: Report
Post Content Democratic Senate Candidate Mandela Barnes called on President Barack Obama for help after he began slipping in the polls for his Wisconsin Senate race against incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, Politico reported Thursday. Members of Barnes’ political campaign reached out to Obama’s team in recent days in hopes of getting the popular former […]
Chicago Alderman to Newsmax: ‘Too Much Coddling of Criminals’
Chicago Alderman Anthony Napolitano told Newsmax on Thursday that the recent city crime wave targeting postal workers is because there’s “too much coddling of criminals” in Chicago and that “it’s not just the postal workers” who are feeling the effects of crime in the Windy City.
Fetterman defends pulling shotgun on Black jogger in 2013, but explains why he would would not do it now
Post Content Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, in an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial board, addressed and defended the now-infamous 2013 incident in which he chased a Black jogger with a shotgun while he was mayor of the city of Braddock. Fetterman, who is Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, went after the man believing he […]
Republicans hammer Fauci for funding new EcoHealth study on bat coronaviruses despite ties to Wuhan lab
Post Content EXCLUSIVE: Top Republicans are hammering Dr. Anthony Fauci over a new grant issued by the National Institutes of Health to EcoHealth Alliance to study bat coronaviruses, after a previous grant to the company drew scrutiny over its links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The $653,392 grant to EcoHealth was made through the […]
AARP Applauds Increase in Social Security Benefits
AARP welcomes the news that Americans will see a major increase in their monthly Social Security benefits.