WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, the disgraced former New York City mayor who tried to overturn former President Donald Trump‘s election loss, was disbarred in the state of New York on Tuesday, yet another repercussion for the team that spread lies about mass voter fraud after Joe Biden‘s 2020 presidential victory. Giuliani, who is facing charges […]
On Episode 116 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with the team behind the Space and Things podcast. In the world of space podcasts, the Space and Things podcast is a keeper (along with ours, of course). The brainchild of Emily Carney, founder of the Space Hipsters on Facebook, and […]
A critically ill Connecticut woman has been treated for the same life-threatening, flesh-eating infection that is plaguing Japan. The American patient was admitted to her local hospital after experiencing symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, shortness of breath, elevated heart rate and low blood pressure. Subsequent medical scans showed fluid buildup in the patient’s lungs as well […]
A bird flu outbreak that has infiltrated six continents and is wreaking havoc in U.S. farms is among a group of avian influenza flu viruses first described in Italy in 1878 as a “fowl plague.” This outbreak, from a strain that emerged among poultry flocks and wild birds in Europe in the fall of 2020, […]
Right-wing media that became purveyors of misinformation and amplified false claims as Donald Trump undermined the results of the 2020 election are finding themselves on the losing end of legal challenges — or facing new ones. In just a few months, a handful of high-profile fringe media operations have been hit with courtroom losses. The […]
Poison Hemlock is spreading in Ohio. The plant can kill people and animals if ingested, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. All parts of the plant are poisonous and even the dead canes remain toxic for up to three years. The plant was attributed to causing the death of the Greek philosopher Socrates. […]
To the editor: Your editorial on the Biden administration’s tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles confuses the sticker price of an EV with the real cost of driving one and misrepresents the real reason for slowing EV sales. The best-selling gas-powered sedan is the Toyota Corolla, which you can drive with a lease payment of typically […]
As Donald Trump heads toward a November rematch election against President Joe Biden, his online posts are reinvigorating a key element of his support from years past: the conspiracy theory known as QAnon. While QAnon largely faded from the spotlight after Trump left office, he has newly amplified the ideas on his social media platform, […]
KASAMA, Zambia (AP) — Every morning, Bridget Chanda places her prosthetic legs beside her bed, pulls on her stockings and pushes the remains of her limbs into the prosthetics as best she can. After six years they no longer fit, and it’s painful to stand or walk for too long, but it doesn’t faze her […]
Conspiracy theorists on social media have been busy at work peddling their latest conclusion: The magnificent auroras seen over swaths of four different continents over the weekend were caused by a University of Alaska program that studies the ionosphere. Which, of course, is pure nonsense. This claim has been making the rounds on social media, […]
Reality star Georgia Harrison has compared the leaking of a revenge porn video of herself with Stephen Bear to a “house fire” because of the speed at which it spread. Former Celebrity Big Brother winner Bear walked out of prison in January, having served 10-and-a-half months of his 21-month sentence for sharing a film of […]
Respiratory virus season may be ending in the United States, but a new group of COVID-19 variants are circulating, sparking concerns about a potential summer wave. The family of variants, nicknamed “FLiRT,” after their mutations, include KP.2, which is now the dominant variant in the United States. In recent weeks, KP.2 quickly overtook JN.1, the […]