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On Wednesday, the countries of Egypt and Israel penned a deal with the European Union to increase liquid natural gas sales to EU member states that are hoping to reduce their dependency on petroleum-based fuel products from Russia.The deal, which was finalized in a ritzy Egyptian hotel, will require... → Read More
On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to increase security for the homes of Supreme Court justices and their immediate families. The bill was fast-tracked through Congress after a lone wolf actor was arrested outside Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s personal residence with t... → Read More
Despite attempting to publicly distance himself and his administration from the “defund the police” movement, President Joe Biden has kept his relationships with some of the most prominent individuals behind the far-left social justice movement.Fox News reported that White House visitor logs reveale... → Read More
David Axelrod, a former adviser to Barack Obama during his presidency, raised a “major” red flag about the possibility of President Joe Biden’s plans to run for re-election in 2024.The former Obama adviser’s statements appeared in a Saturday New York Times report that examined the growing presence o... → Read More
President Biden is expected to extend an olive branch to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after promising to make him a "pariah" and working to isolate the Saudi regime for months.On Monday, the White House confirmed that Biden is planning to visit the oil-rich nation this summer, marking the ... → Read More
Venezuela’s socialist leader Nicolas Maduro and Iran’s hardline theocratic president Ebrahim Raisi recently signed a 20-year cooperation agreement. The Associated Press reported that this new agreement came just one day after Maduro praised the Iranian Islamic Republic for sending badly needed fuel ... → Read More
A senior artificial intelligence (AI) software engineer at Google has claimed that the company’s AI robotics system has become sentient and has thoughts and feelings.Google’s AI system, known as the Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), allegedly took part in a series of complex conversa... → Read More
Hot sauce lovers may soon find themselves in hot water as a looming shortage of Sriracha may soon leave grocery store shelves barren of the popular condiment. Huy Fong Inc., the Southern California-based manufacturer of Sriracha, confirmed that due to a global shortage of chili peppers, it will be s... → Read More
A top Democrat negotiator in the U.S. Senate says that raising the federal age to buy an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle to 21 is now off the table.In the wake of multiple recent mass shootings, the junior Democratic senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, said that the proposed change to increase ... → Read More
Wickr Me, an encrypted messaging app owned and operated by Amazon Web Services, is a popular digital gathering space for people seeking access to images of child pornography.NBC News reported that court documents, online communities, law enforcement, and anti-exploitation activists sounded the alarm... → Read More
The number of American youth who identify as transgender has almost doubled in recent years.A new report conducted by the UCLA Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy relied on government health surveys conducted from 2017 to 2020, and estimated that 1.4% p... → Read More
Pop music icon Justin Bieber recently revealed that he has been diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, a rare disorder that has left the right side of his face paralyzed.The singer took to social media to explain what was going on and why he decided to postpone some of the recent dates on his latest t... → Read More
Microplastics have been found in freshly fallen snow in Antarctica for the first time in recorded history. The Guardian reported that this unnatural development poses a distinct threat to the health of Antarctica’s unique ecosystems and could accelerate the melting of the continents ice and snow. Mi... → Read More
The Iranian government was exposed for turning off two surveillance cameras of a United Nations nuclear watchdog program that was monitoring one of the country’s atomic development sites.The Independent reported that the development initially broke on Iranian state television. The report did not ide... → Read More
The European Union (EU) is currently working on a plan to impose an EU-wide minimum tax rate on fuels necessary for aviation in the pursuit of combating climate change. However, the proposed tax policy has special carve-outs for luxury private jets.The Irish Times reported that executive jets would ... → Read More
Cryptocurrency regulations may soon become codified in law as a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators is preparing to introduce legislation that would treat most digital assets as commodities under CFTC oversight. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) introduced the first major bipar... → Read More
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is scheduled to face a vote of confidence Monday.CNN reported that this vote to determine whether or not Johnson gets the boot from office was triggered by lawmakers within the prime minister’s own party who have grown dissatisfied with his performance in the rol... → Read More
On Monday, the U.S. and South Korean militaries launched eight ballistic missiles into the sea in a retaliatory show of force that matched a similar display conducted by North Korea just the day before.The Associated Press reported that U.S. and South Korean forces were conducting a live-fire exerci... → Read More
On Sunday, the North Korean government launched eight ballistic missiles as the country’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, tries to establish the country as a global military force with nuclear capabilities.The New York Post reported that South Korean military sources confirmed that the North Korean military ... → Read More
Pope Francis recently fueled speculation of his potential retirement by announcing that he would visit the central Italian city of L’Aquila in August to participate in a feast initiated by Pope Celestine V, one of the few pontiffs to resign his post prior to Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation in 2013.I... → Read More