Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow is ready for talks with the U.S. and NATO on limits for missile deployments and military transparency, in a new sign of easing East-West tensions. The statement came after Russia announced it is pulling back some troops from exercises that have raised… Read More
Spiked Champagne in bar leaves 1 dead, 8 sick
One man died and eight other people were hospitalized in serious condition after unknowingly drinking Champagne spiked with Ecstasy at a bar in Bavaria, German prosecutors said Monday. The man who died was 52, and the others were between 33 and 52, police told the German news agency dpa. Sponsored:… Read More
Olympic athletes take up hobbies in COVID bubble
Football, video games and dress-up are some of the ways athletes at the Beijing Olympics are keeping busy when they’re not competing. As part of the strict COVID-19 protocols, athletes and others at the Games can only move between select sites, Keeping them in that “bubble” is supposed to prevent… Read More
Federal judge nixes Biden’s climate agenda
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to put greater emphasis on potential damage from greenhouse gas emissions when creating rules for polluting industries. U.S. District Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana sided with Republican attorneys general from energy producing states who said the… Read More
Bridge reopens after trucker protest
The busiest U.S.-Canada border crossing reopened late Sunday after protests against COVID-19 restrictions closed it for almost a week, while Canadian officials held back from a crackdown on a larger protest in the capital, Ottawa. Detroit International Bridge Co. said in a statement that “the Ambassador Bridge is now fully… Read More
Army official testifies about Jill Biden’s role in Afghanistan
One high-ranking servicemember, Rear Adm. Peter Vasely, was part of the military leadership overseeing President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan… and he dropped a truth bomb about why the operation went awry. The disaster was, in part, blamed on First Lady Jill Biden getting in the way, according to… Read More
Virologist who identified HIV dies at 89
French researcher Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the HIV virus and more recently spread provably false claims about the coronavirus, has died at age 89, local government officials in France said. Montagnier died Tuesday at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a western… Read More
Robot reveals shocking photos from Fukushima reactor
A remote-controlled robot has captured images of what appears to be mounds of nuclear fuel that melted and fell to the bottom of the most damaged reactor at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, officials said Thursday. A massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 damaged cooling systems at the power plant,… Read More
Olympic Games see their first doping scandal of 2022 (It’s unusual)
The first big doping case at the Beijing Olympics involves one of its biggest stars. And it seems far from straightforward, not least because she is just 15 years old and has protections as a minor in the anti-doping rule book. The country at the center of it? Russia. Again…. Read More
Security guard allegedly draws googly eyes on painting
A Russian gallery says one of its security guards has vandalized an avant-garde painting on loan from the country’s top art repository by drawing eyes on the picture’s deliberately featureless faces. It said the damage can be repaired. The Yeltsin Center in Ekaterinburg said the vandalism of the painting “Three… Read More
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