Joe Rogan announced on Wednesday that he has tested positive for coronavirus, adding that he took a series of medications, including ivermectin, a drug primarily used to treat parasites in animals that the Food and Drug Administration says people should avoid. Why it matters: Rogan is one of the most influential podcast personalities in the […]
Piper Rockelle at a Toys for Tots event in November. Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images Piper Rockelle is a 14-year-old YouTuber with over 8 million subscribers. She started posting on YouTube in 2016, and she has major followings on Instagram and TikTok. This week, Pink accused Rockelle’s parents of exploiting her by photographing her in a […]
School board meetings have been erupting into chaos over mask mandates and other measures intended to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. As CNN’s Don Lemon pointed out on Tuesday, the American Academy of Pediatrics said cases among children have risen fivefold over the past month amid the surge of the delta variant. More than […]
The Taliban have seized both political power and significant U.S.-supplied firepower in their whirlwind takeover of Afghanistan, recovering guns, ammunition, helicopters and other modern military equipment from Afghan forces who surrendered it. But the gear the Taliban have obtained isn’t worth the $80 billion or more being claimed this week by social media users and […]
HONOLULU (AP) — An elderly couple with gunshot wounds died Tuesday at a Hawaii assisted living center and a note was left behind indicating they took their lives, police said. Honolulu Police Lt. Deena Thoemmes declined to detail the note’s contents. She said police are investigating whether it was a murder-suicide or two suicides. The […]
Taliban officials “expect” President Joe Biden to reopen the U.S. Embassy in Kabul despite U.S. insistence that future diplomatic relations will depend on Taliban behavior. “America should have only a diplomatic presence in Kabul,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday, per an Afghan media outlet. “We have communication channels with them, and we expect them […]
Firefighters say the Caldor Fire in Northern California will take another two weeks to contain. The blaze has already consumed over 191,000 acres and destroyed over 600 buildings. Five people – three first responders and two civilians – have been injured in the fire. See more stories on Insider’s business page. Firefighters say the massive […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After more than a year of attending church virtually, Monique Allen has struggled to explain to her asthmatic daughter why people from their congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints don’t wear masks. Allen said she’s taught her daughter that wearing a mask is Christlike, but now […]
Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, center, poses for photos with OAN correspondent Chanel Rion, left, and his assistant Christianné Allen, outside the White House, Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in Washington. AP Photo/Evan Vucci Christianné Allen has worked for Giuliani since September 2019, and quit in August 2021. Allen’s replacement, Todd Shapiro, has […]
Former President Donald Trump called in to a conservative radio show Monday to gripe about the media spending “all night long” on Sunday covering the deadly and massively destructive Hurricane Ida instead of his “great agreement” with the Taliban. Trump’s ill-fated agreement, signed by his administration in February 2020, promised that the U.S. would get out of Afghanistan […]