Category: US
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Elon Musk confronts Bill Gates about shorting Tesla stock
The Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to his Twitter page to personally confirm a rumor around that he had turned down to work with Bill Gates. It all started earlier that evening, when an account called Whole Mars Catalog posted several screenshots showing a text exchange between Musk and Gates. In the conversation, Musk asks…
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Kyle Rittenhouse plans to sue Whoopi Goldberg and other ‘celebrities, politicians’ for calling him a murderer
Kyle Rittenhouse, the Kenosha shooter, intends to take aim at those who labeled him a’murderer’ and a ‘white supremacist’ in the run-up to his trial and subsequent acquittal. Rittenhouse killed two men and injured a third during confrontations in August 2020 in Kenosha during anti-police protests. He stated in his testimony that he acted in…
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Texas synagogue hostage-taker is Malik Faisal Akram
The FBI has identified the gunman who held hostages at a Texas synagogue for more than ten hours as Malik Faisal Akram, a British national. According to Matthew DeSarno, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas Field Office, Akram, 44, appears to be the sole suspect in Saturday’s hostage-taking at Colleyville’s Congregation Beth Israel…
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COVID deaths and cases are rising again at US nursing homes
COVID- 19 Infections and deaths in nursing homes in the United States are increasing again as a result of the omicron wave, prompting new restrictions on family visits and a renewed push to get more residents and staff members vaccinated and boosted. Nursing homes were the pandemic’s lethal epicenter early on, before the vaccine allowed…
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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signs 11 executive actions on first day in office
Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s newly sworn-in Republican governor, signed 11 executive actions on his first day in office, including an end to the use of Critical Race Theory in schools, an investigation into alleged wrongdoing by officials in Loudoun County, and allowing parents to decide whether their children wear masks to school. Youngkin announced the executive…
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Who are 11 Oath Keepers, the people charged in Jan. 6 protest?
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers militia group, and 10 other members or associates have been charged with “seditious conspiracy” in the Jan 6 protest, authorities said Thursday. Who are 11 Oath Keepers indicted for “seditious conspiracy”? According to court documents: Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, 56, of Granbury, Texas, who is…
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Bronx apartment fire in New York City: At least 19 dead, including 9 children
On Sunday, a major fire in a residential apartment building in New York City’s Bronx killed 19 people, including nine children, in what Mayor Eric Adams described as one of the city’s worst fires in modern times. 32 people were taken to hospitals with life-threatening injuries as a result of the fire, FDNY Commissioner Daniel…
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Washington State to vote the bill to ‘involuntarily detain’ unvaccinated families
The Washington State Legislature will vote on a measure to authorize the involuntary detainment of residents as young as 5 years old in “Covid-19 concentration camps”, for failing to comply with the state’s experimental vaccine mandate. If passed, WAC 246-100 will allow local health officers at “his other sole discretion” to “issue an emergency detention order causing…
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CNN’s 4th quarter primetime viewership drops by an astonishing 73%
CNN’s 4th quarter primetime viewership dropped by an astonishing 73% to just 642,000 viewers on average. TV Newser reported: The network averaged 492,000 total viewers across the 24-hour day time period (total day) in Q4 ’21, which places it at No. 6 on basic cable. The 492,000 is -18% from what the network averaged in…
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Vaccines increase risk of heart disease for young men than COVID-19: new study
According to a new study, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines pose the higher risk of possibly heart inflammation in young men more than the virus itself. According to a pre-print study published last month by British researchers, each dose of the COVID vaccine increases the risk of myocarditis in men under the age of 40. Myocarditis is…