By Janet Phelan In what is being called the largest single day of clemency, President Biden commuted 1500 sentences, including the lengthy sentence of a Pennsylvania judge. Michael Conahan was convicted of funneling juveniles to for-profit detention facilities in exchange for $2.1 million in kickbacks, in what came to be nationally known as the “Kids […]
A New Jersey police department has sparked concern after it revealed that a drone it sent up to track a mystery aircraft ‘easily’ evaded their device before disappearing into thin air. Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardy said his force launched its drone after one of his officers saw 50 unmanned aerial vehicles, ‘coming off the ocean’. The […]
The corrupt former Pennsylvania judge convicted of funneling juveniles to for-profit detention facilities in exchange for $2.1 million in kickbacks had his lengthy prison sentence commuted Thursday by President Biden. Former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called “Kids-for-Cash” scandal, was among 1,499 commutations the 82-year-old lame-duck president granted […]
Syria’s new leader Abu Mohammed al Jolani has told the country’s millions of refugees living in other countries that they must return home to help rebuild the country. In his first remarks to a Western news organisation since the toppling of Bashar al Assad, al Jolani called on the estimated 6 million refugees who have […]
Ed Miliband has pledged to bring in “the most ambitious reforms to the country’s energy system in generations” as he presses ahead with plans to accelerate the development of onshore windfarms in England. The energy secretary is to set out the government’s “clean power 2030” plan on Friday, including measures to boost the UK’s renewable […]
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The winter solstice holds deep symbolism, representing the inner light breaking free from the darkness of winter. The tree is a symbol of the human, bridging the gap between the sky (stars) and the earth (heart). The online event is designed to ‘create a space’ for us collectively and Individually to plant ‘seeds of light’ […]
The researchers who made this bizarre discovery say they have no idea what this galactic speedbump might be or why it seems to act so strangely. The hidden object lurks within the galaxy Centaurus A, an irregular swirl of gas and dust approximately 12 million light-years from Earth. What makes Centaurus A so special is […]
If you think the U.K. Met Office is adept at producing junk temperature measurements and statistics, just wait till you see what the Department of Net Zero and Energy Security (DNZES) is up to. Its compilation of 30-year temperature averages for its Energy Trends publication is so flawed, it might be easier and more cost-effective […]
Free speech is invariably discussed in moral, political or philosophical terms, but today an intriguing new scientific angle on the issue has emerged. It can be summarised this way: that it is not so much an issue of free speech as one of free thought. Indeed, insights into how we think suggest that the […]
Free speech is invariably discussed in moral, political or philosophical terms, but today an intriguing new scientific angle on the issue has emerged. It can be summarised this way: that it is not so much an issue of free speech as one of free thought. Indeed, insights into how we think suggest that the […]
Angela Rayner was accused of waging ‘war on rural England’ yesterday as she unveiled the biggest shake-up of planning rules for a generation. The Housing Secretary’s blueprint included new demands for hundreds more developments in the Home Counties and fewer in the North. MPs and campaigners warned that it paved the way for swathes of […]
A couple bought their dream home without realising a public bridleway ran through it because of a council blunder when official maps were drawn up, they told a planning inquiry. Cancer specialist Dr Dawn Carnell, 57, and husband David Moore, 61, bought Breach House for more than £1million almost 10 years ago, before ploughing more […]
Beware the “Dream Team” from Jan 2024. I get into Bret Weinstein’s wolf in sheep’s clothing act and also demolish that useful idiot Nurse Dr. Campbell, toohttps://t.co/MIJcQ00jmZ — Polly St George: Documenting Bread & Circuses (@FringeViews) December 12, 2024
Elon Musk has become the first person in history worth $400bn (£314bn) after a surge in his wealth since Donald Trump’s US election victory. A rally in Tesla stock and a SpaceX share deal this week have helped push Mr Musk’s net worth to $439.2bn, according to Bloomberg. His fortune is now almost double that […]
Today, chatbots can answer questions, write poems and generate images. In the future, they could also autonomously perform tasks like online shopping and work with tools like spreadsheets. Google on Wednesday unveiled a prototype of this technology, which artificial intelligence researchers call an A.I. agent. Google is among the many tech companies building A.I. agents. Various A.I. start-ups, including […]
BREAKING: President Trump Says, he will be looking to prosecute Anthony Fauci and others who committed crimes against humanity with Covid. Do you support this? Yes or No pic.twitter.com/jKRf1jOU1K — JD Vance News (@JDVanceNewsX) December 11, 2024
Refugee camp and aid convoy security personnel reportedly targeted amid food shortages and fears of famine in the region Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 28 people in Gaza, including seven children, Palestinian health officials reported, as the region is gripped by food shortages and fears of famine. The attacks were launched hours after the […]
Billions of Russian state funds frozen in the European Union should be used to aid Ukraine, the EU’s top diplomat has said. Kaja Kallas, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security, told the Guardian and four other European newspapers that Ukraine had a legitimate claim for compensation and that Russian assets held in […]
