National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) has become the latest organisation to defy calls from activists to dump Baillie Gifford as a sponsor, insisting that taking cash from the firm was ethical. A series of high-profile arts bodies and events have cut ties with the Edinburgh-based investment firm following boycott demands from campaigners angered by its […]
South Korean politician Han Dong-hoon came under fire online over a photo that posts falsely said showed he “refused to bow” at a memorial service for soldiers killed in a 2002 naval skirmish with North Korea. The photo was in fact taken a split second before Han bowed alongside fellow politicians, as seen in video […]
I’m a mom of four kids and my family hadn’t been on a real vacation for years until last year. For a five day vacation, we spent $6,000, and so this year we are staying local. I’m finding ways to keep the kids entertained, from picking themes to getting season passes. Last summer, my family […]
‘I’m counting on this income’: Single mom in NC faces squatter nightmare after Airbnb guests refuse to leave A single mom in Durham, N.C. is fighting for repossession of her Airbnb rental property after two guests decided to overstay their welcome and claim they are “legal residents” of the home. Farzana Rahman is the unlucky […]
Andrea Mac and her husband considered seven key factors before deciding whether they’d pay for their daughter’s college tuition.Courtesy of Andrea Mac Andrea Mac, a business owner who made $550,000 last year, refuses to pay her daughter’s tuition. Mac questions the value of investing such a significant amount of money into a college education. She […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In declining to step aside from two high-profile Supreme Court cases, Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday provided a rare window on the opaque process by which justices decide to step aside from cases. Alito faced calls from Democrats to recuse from two cases involving former President Donald Trump and Jan. 6 defendants […]
Irish police detected 50 people attempting to enter Ireland from the UK illegally last week. The Gardaí said they were refused leave to land and were returned to the UK across four days. The force said 107 people had been detected, without the correct visas or identity papers, across 21 days of action since the […]
Cheyenne, a US supercomputer once ranked 20th in the world and with 8,000 Intel Xeon CPUs and 300TB of RAM (plus a few maintenance issues, including water leaks), was recently auctioned off by US General Services Administration (GSA). After a tussle between 27 bidders, Cheyenne went for a respectable $480,085, plus the costs of dismantling […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — When Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign, she refused to endorse Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination — and apparently so did some of her supporters in Pennsylvania. Haley won almost 17% of Pennsylvania’s primary vote Tuesday, or 1 in 6 votes, to Trump’s […]
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A 79-year-old woman makes the sign of the cross and, gripping her cane, leaves her home in a quaint village in northeast Ukraine. Torn screens, shattered glass and scorched trees litter the yard of Olha Faichuk’s apartment building in Lukiantsi, north of the city of Kharkiv. Abandoned on a nearby bench […]
Meghan Markle has the perfect excuse to decline a rumored invitation to the UK from none other than Kate Middleton and Prince William, according to a royal expert. The Prince and Princess of Wales have reportedly asked the Sussexes to bring their children with them the next time they visit the UK, but apparently, Markle […]
I am an Oklahoman and I do not support the antitrust case against Apple. I oppose Oklahoma’s involvement in that case. Antitrust laws are an assault on the very thing that makes it possible for human beings to live: our capacity to value. It is our capacity to create values that makes an economy possible. […]