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Japanese sisters certified as world’s oldest twins at 107

Guinness World Records has certified two Japanese sisters as the world’s oldest living identical twins at 107, in an announcement Monday coinciding with Respect for the Aged Day, a national holiday in Japan. Umeno Sumiyama and Koume Kodama were born the third and fourth of 11 siblings on Shodoshima island… Read More

Liberal Trudeau disappointed by election results

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party secured victory in parliamentary elections but failed to get the majority he wanted in a vote that focused on the coronavirus pandemic but that many Canadians saw as unnecessary. Trudeau entered Monday’s election leading a stable minority government that wasn’t under threat of being… Read More

UN agency: Innovation continued even as coronavirus emerged

The U.N.’s intellectual property agency said Monday that innovation marched forward last year despite the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. Technology, pharmaceuticals and biotech industries boosted their investments, even as hard-hit sectors like transport and travel eased back on spending. The World Intellectual Property Organization, which helps coordinate and approve… Read More

Elon Musk’s tourist rocket lands in Atlantic Ocean

Four space tourists safely ended their trailblazing trip to orbit Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where their chartered flight began three days earlier. Sponsored: Deadliest Drug Ever (are you taking it?)… Read More

University shooting leaves 8 dead, 24 injured

A gunman opened fire at a university in Russia on Monday morning, leaving eight people dead and 24 hurt, officials said. The gunman was detained after the shooting at Perm State University, according to the Interior Ministry. There was no immediate information on his identity or possible motive. What eggs… Read More

Big Tech caves to Putin admin ahead of election

Facing Kremlin pressure, Apple and Google on Friday removed an opposition-created smartphone app that tells voters which candidates are likely to defeat those backed by Russian authorities, as polls opened for three days of balloting in Russia’s parliamentary election. Russian authorities are seeking to suppress the use of Smart Voting,… Read More

Sean Hannity drops nuke on Biden admin

Fox News star Sean Hannity is a firebrand conservative that’s known as a fierce critic of Democratic Party leadership. On Thursday, the top-rated news star dropped a nuclear bomb on President Joe Biden’s administration for the alleged cover-up of over ten thousand illegal immigrants being held under the Acuna International… Read More

Idled Thai taxis go green with mini-gardens on car roofs

Taxi fleets in Thailand are giving new meaning to the term “rooftop garden,” as they utilize the roofs of cabs idled by the coronavirus crisis to serve as small vegetable plots. Workers from two taxi cooperatives assembled the miniature gardens this week using black plastic garbage bags stretched across bamboo… Read More

France “furious” with Biden

President Joe Biden’s approval rating isn’t just plummeting in the United States. According to reports, the French government is reportedly “furious” with Biden after he allegedly boxed them out of a new alliance in the Pacific. Sponsored: The Truth About CBD The U.S., Britain, and Australia announced a new security… Read More

Forget woolly mammoths! Scientists ID fossil of land-roaming whale species

Egyptian scientists say the fossil of a four-legged prehistoric whale, unearthed over a decade ago in the country’s Western Desert, is that of a previously unknown species. The creature, an ancestor of the modern-day whale, is believed to have lived 43 million years ago. The prehistoric whale, known as semi-aquatic… Read More