For much of the last year, MHA meetings have been where residents have sought accountability during the privatization of their public housing. But quorums -- and even meeting venues--have become hard to find lately.
Despite asset sales, Barcelona's finances remain a major problem. After their Champions League exit and El Clasico defeat, how bad is the situation?
Brazilian president Lula’s proposals have the backing of the World Bank. Now we need action All things considered, the world’s richest countries have emerged from the global pandemic in better shape than they could have imagined when Covid-19 first appeared just over four years ago.To be sure, the impact of lockdown and its aftermath has been painful, but the effects on poor countries have been far more severe. Continue reading
This week millions of Americans were held hostage by pro-terrorist protesters blocking critical infrastructure in major cities across the country. Americans were prevented from getting to and from airports, crossing bridges, and picking up kids—their very freedom of movement was stolen by anti-Semites participating in the planned protest calling for destroying Israel and "Death to America." And one political party helped fund the effort.
When former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley ended her presidential bid in early March, Donald Trump and his allies emphatically told her supporters and "those" Romney-esque Republicans to take a hike. Those supporters listened, as Pennsylvania proved yet again this week, when more than 16% of Republican voters in the state's closed primary cast a ballot for Haley and against Trump. The Washington Post's Aaron Blake assembled a list of states with Republican-only primaries so far and highlighted the...
xAI, the OpenAI competitor founded by Elon Musk, has introduced the first version of Grok that can process visual information. Grok-1.5V is the company's first-generation multimodal AI model, which cannot only process text, but also "documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots and photographs." In xAI's announcement, it gave a few samples of how its capabilities can be used in the real world. You can, for instance, show it a photo of a flow chart and ask Grok to translate it into Python code, get...
This 1972 Volkswagen Beetle Commercial proudly demonstrates how a Beetle can float in water. The commercial shows a guy driving his Beetle right into a lake, and then peacefully floating along in the Beetle as if it's a boat. I wonder if anyone followed suit and then found themselves in a pickle. — Read the rest
The latest model of Amazon's Echo Show 8 smart display is back down to its lowest price. Around a month ago we brought you the news that Amazon was selling its Echo Show 8 smart display cheaper than it had ever been. That deal was part of the retailer's Spring Deals promotion, so it didn't last for long. Now, however, the Echo Show 8 is back down to just £99.99. That represents a £50 saving on the £149.99 RRP. Put another way, it's a meaty 33% discount. Save £50 on the...
Everton have lodged a formal appeal against the two-point deduction handed down by an independent commission earlier in April for breaching the Premier League's Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR).
JERUSALEM >> Hamas released a hostage video on Wednesday showing a well-known Israeli-American man who was among scores of people abducted by the militants in the attack that ignited the war in Gaza.
The video was the first sign of life of Hersh Goldberg-Polin since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, and its release ignited new protests in Jerusalem calling on the government to do more to secure the captives' release.
Joe Biden has told a lot of lies over his time in office.