Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court
Greetings from Tyler, Who’ll shed a tear for Jimmy Kimmel? I didn’t watch him anyway. He’s apparently mad as all get out about being fired. But his show was losing money. Maybe he didn’t know they were looking for an excuse to fire him anyway, but he’s acting like the network gave up its cause. But his ratings…
BANGKOK, July 31 (Reuters) – First came a push from the Malaysian premier, then China reached out, but it was only after U.S. President Donald Trump called Thailand’s leader last week that Bangkok agreed to talks with Cambodia to end an escalating military conflict. A flurry of diplomatic efforts over a 20-hour window sealed Thailand’s…
U.S. scientists at the federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced Sunday that they achieved net energy gain in a nuclear fusion reaction for a second time — this time with a higher energy yield. Why it matters: Scientists have worked for decades to develop nuclear fusion as a source of effectively limitless clean energy, but Axios’ Alison Snyder…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Chinese state-backed cyber spies gained access to a Dutch military network last year, Dutch intelligence agencies said on Tuesday, calling it part of a trend of Chinese political espionage against the Netherlands and its allies. It is the first time the Netherlands has publicly attributed cyber espionage to…
BUENOS AIRES, April 26 (Reuters) – Argentina will start to pay for Chinese imports in yuan rather than dollars, the government announced Wednesday, a measure that aims to relieve the country’s dwindling dollar reserves. In April, it aims to pay around $1 billion of Chinese imports in yuan instead of dollars and thereafter around $790…
Feb. 13 (UPI) — Less than a year after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agreed that cultivated chicken is safe to eat, lab-grown meat faces legislation that could keep it off students’ plates nationwide. U.S. Sens. Jon Tester, R-Mont., and Mike Rounds R-S.D., have introduced the School Lunch Integrity Act, which would prohibit cultivated…