FULL UPDATE: Tuesday [14 April] Coronavirus Briefing in the Rose Garden at the White House
Greetings from Tyler, It’s been another week of pitiful embarrassments, as world leaders exchange glances at televised events. The video of him pulling his chair on the beach says it all. They’ve edited that scene out of some videos, for good reason. The only question now is, will he get to see how all this turns out? U. S. Army…
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) – West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey announced the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling, upholding the state’s Medicaid policy that excludes coverage for gender-affirming surgeries. The court held that the policy does not violate the Equal Protection Clause, the Affordable Care Act, or the Medicaid Act. West…
US President Donald Trump on Thursday said the US was pledging $10 billion for his inaugural Board of Peace, a new body aimed at consolidating progress in Gaza while signalling broader ambitions to reshape international conflict management, but didn’t specify what the money would be used for. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates. SUMMARY Trump announces $10…
A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates. Google’s search algorithm is perhaps the most consequential system on the internet, dictating what sites live and die and what content on the web looks like. But how exactly Google ranks…
Official says facility was not evacuated because it was considered to be in a safe zone The official death toll from storms in Beijing has risen to 44, with Chinese officials saying on Thursday that 31 people died in a flooded nursing home. Beijing vice-mayor Xia Linmao said the nursing home was in the mountainous…
US chip giant can no longer commit to starting construction by mid-2023, Volksstimme reports. U.S. tech giant Intel is backing away from plans to start construction in the first half of 2023 on a “mega-fab” semiconductor plant in Germany, according to media outlet Volksstimme. Intel earlier this year committed an initial investment of €17 billion…