In a slew of executive orders signed during his first few days in office, Joe Biden cancelled the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline. A bit of background: in 2017, Trump granted a permit for the pipeline, an $8 billion cross-border project with Canada. Though it was delayed for several years by the Obama administration…...
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The Saturday afternoon following Election Day 2020 felt like a holiday Democratic voters feared would never happen. In cities across the country, interracial crowds, united in masked joy, rushed out of doors as soon as the major networks finally called the presidential race for Joe Biden. Where I live in deep-blue D.C., honking cars clogged…...
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No piece of Covid-era filmmaking has been praised quite as much as the 13-minute montage that opened the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. CNN’s Chris Cillizza argued that it was “unfathomable that any senator—Republican or Democrat—could watch that 13-minute video and not be changed by it.” The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan noted that “every…...
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(Image credit: TechNode) Veronica Zhang uses re-commerce, or secondhand selling, platforms regularly, but she’s always careful about the people she’s dealing with. The one time she let her guard down, she was nearly defrauded. The mom of a five-year-old uses the platforms both to buy and sell. Although she uses them less frequently than mainstream…...
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Nicole Johnston was watching COVID-19 cases climb toward a new high at home and wanted her son back in Thailand, where he had previously lived and attended university. Last month they began the process of booking what’s known as “Alternative State Quarantine” for his first two weeks of isolation upon arrival from South Africa. Her…...
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Scammers have flooded Facebook and other social media platforms with Covid-19 scams for almost as long as the disease has had a name. Now, as desperation builds for access to a limited vaccine supply, internet charlatans have escalated in kind, offering shipments of doses in Facebook groups and Telegram chats. According to a new report from…...
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Four suspects arrested by the Hawks in Groblersdal in connection with fuel cards fraud. The suspects were allegedly working with Groblersdal cops who used state vehicle fuel cards for their own benefit. Five police officers were arrested on Monday for the alleged fraud. It is alleged the suspects would even swipe for motorists who were paying cash…...
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The latest cybersecurity alert is one that is preying upon people's fears around the coronavirus pandemic. This is in the form of a phishing campaign connected to the various COVID-19 vaccines. The phishing scam that is underway is one pretending to be from the UK's National Health Service (NHS). the message 'alerts' recipients that they…...
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“It’s something that would not have happened to a man in America,” a blond fan says in the opening moments of Framing Britney Spears, a New York Times documentary about Britney Spears. The woman is talking about Spears’ conservatorship, an elaborate legal arrangement, in place since 2009, in which the singer has been declared unfit…...
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Tong Ying-kit will be tried by a panel of three judges at the city’s High Court in unprecedented move Other countries have occasionally done the same but there are some shortcomings to the process Published: 9:00pm, 11 Feb, 2021 Updated: 12:12am, 12 Feb, 2021...
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