Giorno: 8 Aprile 2023

The Cost of Fast Fashion

Read More A stitch in time: Small Street, in down town Johannesburg, has many fast-fashion outlets. Photos: Moeletsi Mabe “What fascinates me is not that we dress the celebrities but that we dress the ordinary people across cultures in South Africa.  “Some of my clients are Basotho, amaZulu, vhaVenda … We’re trying to position ourselves […]

Nehawu calls for Ingonyama Trust Board forensic audit

Read More Urgent: The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union wants Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza to act to avoid a ‘money heist’ at the Ingonyama Trust Board. Photo: Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images Union questions dubious R41 million investment at a time when workers are being retrenched and others have not been paid This article is […]

Tesla workers shared ‘intimate’ car camera images, ex-employees allege: ‘Massive invasion of privacy’

Read More Tesla assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us”. The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy”. But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees […]

New Orleans teens’ Pythagorean proof gains compelling evidence

Read More Compelling evidence supports the claims of two New Orleans high school seniors who say they have found a new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry, a respected mathematics professor said, even if the students’ “really important and fantastic” achievement is not the first time trigonometry has been used to prove the […]

UK weather: Easter Sunday could be warmest day of year at 18C

Read More Widespread sunshine and temperatures as high as 18C could make Easter Sunday the UK’s warmest day of the year so far. Forecasters said high pressure moving across the UK had “timed itself nicely”, with sunny weather expected over the bank holiday weekend. At 18C, the country could be warmer than some Greek islands […]

Pentagon makes DOJ referral over Ukraine war classified document leak

The U.S. Department of Defense made a formal referral to the Department of Justice after planning documents relating to the war in Ukraine leaked online. Military documents containing sensitive information about U.S. and NATO material supporting the Ukraine military in their fight against Russian forces began appearing on social media. “We are aware of the […]

Father Pavone to Newsmax: Christ Was ‘Freer’ Dying on Cross Than Pilate

As Christians worldwide commemorated Good Friday, the day Jesus Christ died on the cross, Father Frank Pavone told Newsmax that Christ had more freedom going to his death on the cross than the Roman official, Pontius Pilate, who condemned him to death.

Arkansas Legislature approves $6.2B budget plan, sentencing overhaul

Arkansas lawmakers approved a proposed $6.2 billion budget and an overhaul of the state’s sentencing laws on Friday as they wrapped up an 89-day legislative session that’s been marked by approval of Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ school voucher program and a push for new restrictions on transgender people. The House and Senate approved identical […]

Dueling Ruling: Judge in Wash. Orders Feds to Keep Pill Access

A federal judge in Washington state on Friday ordered U.S. authorities not to make any changes that would restrict access to the abortion medication mifepristone in 17 Democratic-led states that sued over the issue, countering a ruling by a judge in Texas on the same day…

Federal judges issue dueling decisions on abortion drug mifepristone

A federal judge in Texas has ordered a halt to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone on Friday. Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk signed an injunction which directs the FDA to halt the approval of mifepristone while a lawsuit challenging its safety and approval works its way […]