Month: October 2021
Biden DOJ shields ex-Trump officials from testifying about election fraud cases – POLITICO
Biden DOJ shields ex-Trump officials from testifying about election fraud cases POLITICO Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election CNN Report Cites New Details of Trump Pressure on Justice Dept.
Read MorePeople who want organ transplants must get the COVID-19 vaccine, a hospital says
The UCHealth hospital system in Colorado says unvaccinated patients won’t be eligible for an organ transplant, citing the “significant risk the virus poses to transplant recipients.” (Image credit: Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
Read MoreFirefighters battle forest fire near Beit Shemesh; woman arrested for arson
Multiple teams fight blazes in several locations; suspect found in the area was initially reported as a missing person
Read MoreFiverr is acquiring online learning company CreativeLive
Freelance marketplace Fiverr announced this morning that it’s acquiring Seattle-based online learning company CreativeLive for an undisclosed amount. CreativeLive is an entrepreneurial learning platform where users can attend courses on video, photography, design, business, marketing and more. Fiverr, which is
Read MoreNASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Found Some Boulders. That’s a Much Bigger Deal Than it Seems
The rule for most Mars missions, or at least those looking for signs of life? Follow the water. Choose a place that was once wet—and Mars’s now-dry riverbeds, sea basins and ocean floors offer plenty of those—and do your spelunking
Read MoreA more moderate Taliban? An Afghan journalist says nothing has changed
Reporting from Kabul, Najibullah Quraishi says the Taliban’s vice and virtue squads have reinstituted harsh punishments, including whipping, chopping off hands and even hanging people from cranes. (Image credit: Courtesy of PBS Frontline)
Read MoreIreland Signs On to Global Deal Seeking to Curb Tax Avoidance
The country, a low-tax base for many U.S. multinationals, had been one of a small number of holdouts on an agreement that aims to overhaul global taxation.
Read MoreUS troops secretly training Taiwanese since last year: report
US special operations forces and marines have been secretly training Taiwanese troops for more than one year, risking the ire of China, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Journal said about two-dozen US service members have trained Taiwanese ground
Read MoreApple Website Experiencing Errors, Briefly Reinstates Phil Schiller As Senior VP of Marketing [Update: Fixed]
Apple’s newsroom and leadership pages are both currently experiencing some errors, leading to the appearance of some changes to Apple’s leadership. From our knowledge, Apple’s leadership and newsroom pages have been throwing up errors for the past two hours or
Read MoreSinkhole opens in middle of Lod-Ramle highway
Police close Route 200 to traffic in both directions; no word on what caused sinkhole
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