Giorno: 24 Ottobre 2022

15-year-old boy collapses, dies at Liverpool restaurant: report

A 15-year-old boy collapsed and died while out with family and friends at a restaurant in Liverpool’s city center, according to a report. Police and paramedics rushed to the scene at Browns Liverpool restaurant in the Liverpool ONE shopping complex Saturday afternoon. “A number of members of the public and staff at the restaurant had […]

Brazil election: What to know about the high-stakes race

Brazil is days from a presidential election featuring two political titans and bitter rivals that could usher in another four years of far-right politics or return a leftist to the nation’s top job. On one side is incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain who built a base of hardcore support as a culture warrior […]

Creecy at Cop27: Developed countries must honour climate funding promises

Read More Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has called on developed countries to take action and honour the climate funding they promised to developing countries to help them with transitioning from coal to cleaner energy. Speaking at the national stakeholder consultation on South Africa’s position for the climate change negotiations at COP27 on […]

Gagging for Rish! It’s a second coming for Sunak, the silent messiah | John Crace

Read More It all panned out about as well as the Conservative party could have hoped. A new leader – the right leader, as far as MPs were concerned – elected in a matter of days. No general election. Heaven forbid. A failed state couldn’t be doing with that level of democracy. Never trust the […]

Biden claims Republicans will crash the economy on purpose ahead of midterms: ‘Mega-MAGA trickle down’

Post Content President Biden attacked Republicans in a speech to the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Monday, stoking claims that Republicans would “crash the economy” in an attempt to force him to gut Medicare. Biden also used the opportunity to coin the term “Mega-MAGA trickle down,” which is how he has chosen to refer to […]

Study Finds Inflation Will Cause Serious US Health Issues

Inflation is affecting people’s health, leading to increased stress, smoking, and alcohol intake, according to a study of more than 1,000 people by Toluna’s Global Consumer Barometer. Half of the respondents said the cost-of-living crisis is impacting their health.

Biden admin spending $1M to research how ‘misinformation’ affects confidence in vaccines

Post Content The Biden administration is handing out $1 million in grant funding for research into how “vaccine misinformation” found on social media can affect people’s confidence in vaccines. The Department of Health and Human Services announced the grant opportunity, “Developing a Public Health Tool to Predict the Virality of Vaccine Misinformation Narratives,” on Thursday […]

Hispanic voters prefer DeSantis, including some Dems: poll

Post Content A new poll shows that Hispanic voters in Florida prefer Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis over Democrat challenger Charlie Crist – and this includes registered Democrats. The poll, from Telemundo/LX News, surveyed registered Hispanic voters who said they are likely to vote in November’s election. When asked who they would vote for if the […]

Is John Fetterman’s wife, Gisele, the ‘de facto candidate’ for Pennsylvania Senate?

Post Content Gisele Barreto Fetterman, the wife of Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, has worked to make a name for herself in the Pennsylvania political arena over the last few weeks as she speaks on her husband’s behalf in certain situations and defends his candidacy in the race. During a visit to Pittsburgh last […]

German court rejects woman’s appeal over neo-Nazi murder spree

Germany’s top court on Monday rejected an appeal by the only known survivor of a far-right group against her conviction and life sentence for her part in the killing of 10 people, most with migrant roots. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that Beate Zschaepe had failed to demonstrate that her fundamental judicial rights had been […]