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Brandon Straka, the former Democrat who founded the #WalkAway campaign was banned from Facebook ahead of a protest in Washington DC. “They’re trying to sabotage the march on Washington,” he told RT. Straka was banned from the social network on Wednesday, for attempting to promote an interview on Infowars.com, the conspiracy-heavy news and opinion site […]
Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, said his company will finally make supersonic air travel financially viable. Fares from London to New York, for example, would cost from £2000 one way, which is the same as a business class ticket at the moment. Boom Supersonic is just one of a handful of companies […]
Russian Railways has begun works on the electrification of a railway line in Iran, the company said. Read more The project – worth $ 1.2 billion – will electrify a railroad connecting the Iranian city of Garmsar near Tehran with Ince Burun near the border with Turkmenistan. The length of the Garmsar-Ince Burun railway line […]
China on Thursday criticized the United States for decision not to invite it to a major US-hosted naval drill in response to what it sees as Beijing’s militarization of islands in the disputed South China Sea, Reuters said. China has sovereign rights in the South China Sea and it is not realistic for the United […]
A leaked Home Office document links police cuts to a frightening spike in violence across London in the past few months, but Home Secretary Amber Rudd says she hasn’t even seen it. The document, published by The Guardian, found that a drop in the number of bobbies policing the streets of London “likely contributed” to […]
A US-based organization that monitors extremist activity has apologized for linking several award-winning journalists to white supremacists and far-right groups in an article and deleted the story from its website. A controversial article published by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), was retracted after it received angry reactions from those involved. Prominent journalist Max Blumenthal, […]
Scientists discovered that a chemical compound called asparagine can fuel tumor growth in mice that have a tough-to-treat form of breast cancer. The results, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, led to some people to consider cutting asparagus from their diets. But the truth is a bit more complicated, and no study on the […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images The pro-transparency group WikiLeaks tweeted out, and later deleted, a link to the full text of “Fire & Fury: Inside the Trump White House.” The book has drawn intense criticism from President Donald Trump and his allies in recent days. It’s unclear why WikiLeaks tweeted the link out. Trump often praised WikiLeaks […]
Flickr/Coralie Ferreira New evidence shows the sugar industry suppressed scientific research that linked sugar to heart disease and bladder cancer in rats. The Sugar Research Foundation, the group funding the studies, cut the project short and didn’t publish the results. Nutritionists caution that sugar, not fat, is largely to blame for many of the problems in our modern diets. For decades, sugar lobbyists […]
Thomson Reuters On Tuesday, Cisco announced that it will share “cybercrime” data with the international police network Interpol. The data includes information and analysis about security threats that Cisco already aggregates through an existing research arm, Cisco Talos. The company said it won’t share information about customer vulnerabilities. It’s a warm nod to law enforcement in an industry that […]
