(Bloomberg) — The European Union backed sanctions on four media outlets accused of spreading Russian propaganda, commission vice president Vera Jourova said in a post on X. Most Read from Bloomberg Once adopted by all member states, the restrictive measures would apply to Voice of Europe, the RIA Novosti news agency, Izvestija and Rossiiskaja Gazeta, […]
Two anti-LGBTQ+ bills advanced Wednesday from the Louisiana Senate Committee on Education, putting them one step away from final legislative approval. (Ludovic Bertron, Flickr) Two anti-LGBTQ+ bills advanced Wednesday from the Louisiana Senate Committee on Education, putting them one step away from final legislative approval. The committee advanced House Bill 121 by Rep. Raymond Crews, R-Bossier […]
Blue Origin’s human-spaceflight drought will end this weekend, if all goes according to plan. Jeff Bezos‘ spaceflight company announced today (May 14) that it’s targeting Sunday (May 19) for its latest suborbital space tourism effort. The mission, known as NS-25, will lift off from Blue Origin’s West Texas site during a window that opens at […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A political action committee that helps Republicans get elected to Congress is doing the unusual — spending more than $450,000 to defeat a GOP incumbent. That incumbent, conservative two-term Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., voted to remove former Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker last fall. It’s just the latest example of how […]
(Bloomberg) — Donald Trump vowed to issue an executive order targeting offshore wind development if he wins a second term as president, making his most explicit threat yet toward the growing industry. Most Read from Bloomberg The presumptive Republican nominee derided offshore wind projects as lethal for birds and whales during his oceanfront rally Saturday […]
China has warned that foreign spy agencies are targeting its citizens working overseas in a string of “quite deceptive” campaigns to steal hi-tech industrial secrets. Overseas workers may be vulnerable to foreign espionage, especially when separated from friends and family and sent to a different country, the country’s government has warned. The Chinese Ministry of […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least nine students have been abducted by gunmen during a late-night raid on their school in northern Nigeria’s Kogi state, authorities said Friday, the third such abduction amid rampant kidnappings targeting schools in the conflict-hit region this year. The assailants invaded the Confluence University of Science and Technology in Kogi […]
Faith leaders and politicians Thursday called former President Donald Trump “sacrilegious” for selling Bibles while on the campaign trial as the Biden campaign continues to try and rally support to turn North Carolina blue. Speaking at Rockwell A.M.E. Zion Church in Charlotte’s Derita neighborhood, ministers slammed Trump for his promotion of the “God Bless the […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of Tennesseans who say they were intimidated into not voting in a primary election or were threatened with prosecution after they did vote has filed a legal challenge to two state laws meant to prevent crossover voting. A law passed last year requires polling places to post warning signs […]
Twenty-seven people were arrested during the pro-Palestinian protest targeting the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, police said Tuesday. Leila Nouri, 21, was charged with assault and resisting arrest when she allegedly pushed back against police officers arresting her as they tried to disperse the crowd near Madison […]
United Launch Alliance technicians will work this week assessing — and potentially replacing — a mechanical gas-venting valve that triggered Monday’s scrub of NASA’s historic Boeing Starliner crewed flight test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. “It’s not dissimilar to many other valves like that. You have one in your home on your hot water […]
On March 25, 2022, Jennifer Buta learned that her son, Jordan DeMay, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. It happened just hours after the 17-year-old was a victim of “financial sextortion,” targeted by two brothers from Nigeria who posed as a young woman online. The brothers, who were extradited to the U.S. and pleaded guilty […]