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After Environment Secretary George Eustice claimed a Scotch egg counted as a substantial meal, Piers Morgan was keen to find out if Mr Gove agreed. The Good Morning Britain interview descended into chaos as Morgan and Susanna Reid grilled Gove over his definition of a substantial meal with the government minister failing to give an […]
A lawyer for a former high-ranking gymnastics coach says a former trainee levelled allegations of sexual assault against the man because she was psychologically scarred after failing to make it to the Olympics. Dave Brubaker, who was the director of the women’s national gymnastics team, has pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual assault […]
Enlarge / Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco speaks on stage at the National Geographic Awards on Thursday, June 14, 2018, at Lisner Auditorium in Washington, D.C. (credit: Taylor Mickal/National Geographic) In its quest to find extant life in the Solar System, NASA has focused its gaze on the Jovian moon Europa, home to what is likely […]
In what may be the biggest rollout of conversational AI from IBM since Watson, IBM Research today debuted Project Debater, an experimental conversational AI with a sense of humor, little tact, and occasionally powerful arguments. Training of Project Debater began six years ago and only gained an ability to participate in debates with people two […]
We’re a couple weeks out from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom hitting theaters in the United States. In order to hold us over without giving away much more footage (since we’ve seen plenty in the most recent trailer for the movie), another viral video from the Dinosaur Protection Group has emerged. Led by Bryce Dallas Howard […]
AP Photo/Evan Vucci President Donald Trump denied using campaign cash to pay off a porn star during the 2016 presidential election after his personal lawyer seemed to incriminate him. On Wednesday Trump’s personal defense lawyer Rudi Giuliani said Trump knew about and ultimately paid for his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen to give $ 130,000 to Stephanie Clifford, […]
A human rights case that starts this week argues forcing people with disabilities to live in institutions — and denying them homes within the community — is a violation of charter rights.
CENTRAL bankers may control short-term interest rates, but long-term ones are mostly free to wander. They do not always behave. When Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the Federal Reserve, was raising short rates in 2005, he described a simultaneous decline in long rates as a “conundrum”. His successor-to-be, Ben Bernanke, blamed foreign investments in American […]
The incessant attempts by the US establishment to portray Russia as America’s greatest peril jeopardize national security by ignoring real threats and preventing a much-needed US-Russia alliance, argues Professor Emeritus of Russia Studies Stephen Cohen. As the US political-media complex continues to saturate the American psyche with the bad seed of Russophobia, harassing anyone who […]
Enlarge / A recent drought in Texas, which led to agricultural losses, has been tied to our warming planet. (credit: Bob Nichols, USDA) The US Government Accountability Office is a nonpartisan organization that performs analysis and investigations for the Senate and House. Recently, two senators—Maine Republican Susan Collins and Washington Democrat Maria Cantwell—asked it to […]
