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William Barr served as US attorney general under former President Donald Trump. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Bill Bar said it's unlikely a special master will compromise the outcome of the Mar-a-Lago probe. The former attorney general said the DOJ still has "very strong evidence" at its disposal. At the same time, he blasted a judge's decision […]
IN 1546 Girolamo Fracastoro, a doctor and poet, published an elegant theory of contagion. Infections spread in three ways, he argued: by direct contact, via an intermediary, or at a distance, through the air. In medicine, his theory is now considered quaint. In economics, however, it still works pretty well. On August 10th President Donald […]
Once a big player in smartphones, HTC is now better known for its Vive VR headsets than anything else. The firm offloaded the team responsible for the Pixel phones to Google earlier this year, shortly before the chief of its smartphone division resigned. Another round of layoffs later, as HTC merged its VR and phone […]
Twitter/White House International diplomacy between nuclear nations doesn’t rate as an easy task for even the most seasoned statesmen, but for some reason they still talk about it like training a horse with carrots and sticks. In diplomacy, carrots are benefits you can offer a country and sticks are punishments. A Harvard researcher blows apart […]
REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmid The Bank of England hinted that it is set to hike interest rates in May, but there are signs it could change its mind. A rate hike in May is, in the words of bond market guru Mohamed El-Erian “far from a done deal.” The wording of the committee’s statement is far less […]
Netflix On “The Late Show,” comedian John Oliver told host Stephen Colbert that he wouldn’t be surprised if Meghan Markle backed out of her wedding to Prince Harry at the last minute. Oliver suggested that she watch Netflix’s “The Crown” to get an idea of what her life will be like in the British royal […]
The National Organic Standards Board, an advisory committee to the US Department of Agriculture, voted to allow some crops grown hydroponically and aquaponically to have organic labels. Organic food sales totaled $ 47 billion in the US in 2016. Some traditional organic farmers are threatening to leave the NOSB, the program they helped create, over […]
Saudi Arabia recently announced it wants to go back to “moderate Islam,” and even became the first country to grant citizenship to a humanoid robot. RT looks at how ultra-conservatism is seemingly taking a backseat under a new Crown Prince. Mohammed bin Salman, often referred to as MbS, was officially appointed the heir of the […]
Gabriel Sherman reported on Fox News’ former head Roger Ailes and his sexual misconduct. Sherman believes Fox News has changed after Ailes and that current head Rupert Murdoch hates Donald Trump. Gabriel Sherman says Fox News has an aging demographic and is clinging to Trump because its keeping their viewership strong. On this week’s episode of my […]
Published time: 1 Jun, 2017 17:03 The massive crack in the Antarctic’s Larsen C Ice Shelf – one of the continent’s biggest floating ice platforms – is growing at such a dramatic rate that it will soon break free and create one of the largest icebergs ever recorded. Project MIDAS researchers, a group of scientists […]
