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By the time the coronavirus had begun to spread throughout the United States, officials were still unsure of how contagious the virus was. Much of the country was still focused on the upcoming 2020 election. “Joe [Biden] is not going to be running the government. He’s just going to be sitting in a home someplace,”…
Members of a Washington state city council will hold a special meeting just days after appointing a new councilor who identifies as a “bisexual transwoman” while operating an OnlyFans account, according to reports. MyNorthwest.com reported that Jessica Roberts was the Lynnwood City Council’s original choice to fill a vacant seat, though, on Thursday, the council…
SpaceX and NASA scrubbed the planned rocket launch of Crew-10 to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday due to a hydraulic issue with one of the ground systems, according to officials giving a live broadcast of the event. NASA and SpaceX will get their next opportunity to send the rocket into space when the…
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins accused a reporter of spreading “rumors” and “innuendo” about the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) actions at the agency in an interview that went viral on social media. In a clip posted to his X account on Tuesday, Collins confronted Military.com reporter Patricia Kime about her…
An arbitrator has decided in favor of Meta in a case the company brought against Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Meta employee who wrote a memoir published this week detailing alleged claims of misconduct at the company. Macmillan Publishers and its imprint that published the memoir, Flatiron Books, were also named as respondents. The memoir, titled…
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., urged members of his party to talk like regular people on Tuesday while pushing back on MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle’s questioning about the rise of oligarchs in America. “I would just ask Democrats, like, start talking like a regular person. Most people are not sure what an oligarch is, you know?” Fetterman…
A McDonald’s in Franklin, Tennessee, is attracting viral attention after a customer called out the children’s play area. X user @NancyAFrench posted an image of the PlayPlace,” writing, “This is so heartbreaking. I’m at a new McDonalds in Franklin, TN and look at their ‘play place’ for children. Two screens/two chairs.” The photo showed a…
The United Kingdom’s mobile browser market is “not working well for consumers and businesses” according to a final report from Britain’s competition watchdog, which says that Apple and Google are largely to blame. An independent inquiry group has concluded its mobile browsers investigation for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), identifying Apple’s policies around iOS,…
Meta has spent more than a year advocating for new laws requiring app stores to give parents control over kids’ app downloads, and just saw an early victory in the states. But Google charges that it’s really just a misguided effort to “offload” Meta’s own responsibility to keep kids safe. The missive follows the passage…
Vice President JD Vance mocked CBS News on Wednesday, suggesting his mother-in-law was being “harassed” by its reporters in an attempt to attack President Donald Trump over diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. CBS News published a story headlined, “She advanced DEI at her university. Her son-in-law, Vice President JD Vance, wants to end it…