Billionaire investor Jeff Yass is playing his Trump card. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Friday that the right-wing megadonor and major TikTok investor is a part owner of the company that merged with Donald Trump’s media company, which owns Truth Social, the former president’s struggling social media platform. The head-scratching deal stands to add billions of dollars to Trump’s net worth. Yass’ name recently started popping up in news reports after Trump denounced legislation in Congress...
The 100-day challenge, to be able to contain a virus while a vaccine is approved, manufactured and delivered, looks ever more remoteFour years on from the first Covid lockdown, life feels to be largely back to normal, although legacies of the pandemic remain. Collective amnesia seems to have set in. Politicians seem eager to move forward and not relive the decisions, delays and deaths that characterised public policy and press briefings. Yet we can’t forget such a brutal event, when Covid is...
A business in Boardman hosted an event to raise some money for a nonprofit Thursday evening.
For more than a decade, people have been told to eat bugs to combat climate change. The hot new food source to reportedly reduce one's carbon footprint is snakes, according to scientists. New research advocates for humans to increase consumption of snakes as a food alternative to reduce greenhouse gases. Research published in Scientific Reports last week noted that "python farming appears to offer tangible benefits for sustainability and food systems resilience."The authors of the study claim...
Dr Omar A Guerrero says technology could scrutinise policy proposals and formulate holistic solutions. Plus letters from a pensioner who was evicted after asking his landlord to fix damp problems, Daniel Carter and Martyn WilliamsNick Bano makes a compelling argument that discussions about increasing the housing supply are misguided if their aim is to fix the UK housing crisis (The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis, 19 March). His data and succinct...
James North The solutions offered by current and former American officials rarely, if ever, consider what Haitians actually want.
Production of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People halted when protesters warned the audience about environmental damageClimate change protesters disrupted a preview showing of Jeremy Strong’s new Broadway show on Thursday before being forcibly ejected.During a revival of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, led by the Succession actor, activists brought the production to a stop during a major scene. Continue reading
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo appears to be seeking a political comeback, yet to pull that off, he’ll need to show real contrition for his many sins while in office — and truly mean it.
Kate and Prince William are the parents of Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte.
City Controller Chris Hollins and City Council Member Sallie Alcorn, who chairs the Budget and Fiscal Affairs Committee, said trying to fix Houston’s budget with cuts alone would require steep layoffs and crippling cuts to city services. Any decision would have to come through Houston's City Council -- the controller doesn't have policy making authority.
Drone footage shows the devastation caused to a road that was left so badly damaged by a landslip it's still moving one year on. After the landslip on the B4069 in Wiltshire, skaters flocked to the site, using the 45-degree angle road surface as ramps to perform flips and jumps. The road has been closed off to vehicles due to the extent of the damage - but it could soon be repaired 12 months on. Wiltshire Council has now received a planning application, meaning if it's approved, work to...
Drone footage shows the devastation caused to a road that was left so badly damaged by a landslip it's still moving one year on. After the landslip on the B4069 in Wiltshire, skaters flocked to the site, using the 45-degree angle road surface as ramps to perform flips and jumps. The road has been closed off to vehicles due to the extent of the damage - but it could soon be repaired 12 months on. Wiltshire Council has now received a planning application, meaning if it's approved, work to...