NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating the discovery of vials that are labelled “smallpox” at a laboratory in Pennsylvania, the health agency said Thursday (Nov 18). The frozen vials “were incidentally discovered by a laboratory worker while cleaning out a freezer in a facility that conducts vaccine […]
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – US prosecutors on Thursday (Nov 18) announced sex-trafficking charges alleging that girls and young women were coerced to have sex with the founder of a Philippines-based church who is a friend and adviser to Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte. A 74-page indictment charges Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, founder of a church called Kingdom […]
A female podcaster and esthetician claims she accidentally swallowed one of her Apple AirPods thinking it was ibuprofen and pooped it out. What’s more, Carli Bellmer shared a voice memo she says was recorded from inside her stomach during the strange and scary incident. Bellmer, 27, who is @iamcarliiib on TikTok and has more than […]
A nearly 170-pound Great Dane’s antics has cost his family a pretty penny. Three-year-old Larry has destroyed three recliners while attempting to cuddle with his owners, costing the Kempen family well over $2,000 to replace their broken furniture. Hilarious video footage shows the black-and-white speckled dog, who ‘thinks he’s a lap dog’, trying to squeeze […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States will join talks on a new global treaty to curb plastic pollution, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday (Nov 18), marking its first support for the initiative. Plastic pollution is set to triple by 2040, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has predicted, adding 23-37 million metric […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Vehicles from Tesla and electric sport utilities from rival brands are among the least reliable models sold in the United States, a reflection of the risks of new technology, Consumer Reports said on Thursday (Nov 18). Consumer Reports, a nonprofit organisation that evaluates products and services, said Tesla, the world’s most […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – United States House and Senate leaders said on Wednesday (Nov 17) that lawmakers would negotiate to try to reach final agreement on a Bill to boost US technology competitiveness with China and semiconductor manufacturing. Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had sought to attach the Bill to a US$750 billion (S$1 trillion) […]
DETROIT (REUTERS) – US President Joe Biden climbed behind the wheel of an electric Hummer sport utility vehicle on Wednesday (Nov 17) and sped off with a screeching of tires, in a test drive to tout billions of dollars in electric vehicle (EV) investment. “Anyone wants to jump in the back, or on the roof?” […]
A professor has been placed on administrative leave after saying that it is not always immoral for adults to be sexually attracted to children. Allyn Walker, an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at Old Dominion University in Virginia who identifies as they/them, voiced their opinion while talking about ‘minor-attracted persons’ and pedophiles earlier […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – More Americans than ever before died from drug overdoses over a 12-month period, according to federal data released on Wednesday (Nov 17), as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted medical care and increased mental health woes, and as more lethal drugs flooded the streets. The record of more than 100,000 overdose deaths between April […]