The Conversation Does ignoring robocalls make them stop? Here’s what we learned from getting 1.5 million calls on 66,000 phone lines New research aims to give phone companies tools to help curb robocalls. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea More than […]
As the recall effort against California Gov. Gavin Newsom heats up, former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer is hoping to accomplish what no Republican has since 2003: become governor of one of the bluest states in the country. “I believe Californians want a change,” Faulconer said. “As we look at the reality, we all love […]
After Vice President Kamala Harris received her second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in a televised event at the National Institutes of Health in January, Rep. Joyce Beatty’s (D-Ohio) phone lit up with calls from constituents who were “newly curious” about getting vaccinated themselves, she told The New York Times. As Beatty explained, watching a […]
Donald Trump waves as he boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, DC, ((Associated Press)) Donald Trump has funnelled thousands of dollars from his donors into his private business after his loss in the 2020 presidential election. The former president’s reelection campaign moved roughly $2.8 million from donors into […]
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — On President Joe Biden’s weekend to-do list? Moving. Biden flew aboard Air Force One for the first time as president on Friday, but not on a trip to sell his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan or to confer with a U.S. ally. He just went home, to Delaware, to help his […]
A gas chamber seen through barbed wire – Bruce Adams A 95-year-old woman has been charged as an accessory to the murder of 10,000 people because she worked as a secretary at a Nazi concentration camp, German prosecutors announced on Friday. The woman has not been named under German privacy laws but has been partially […]
Según los informes, el general de cuatro estrellas Lloyd Austin está en la lista corta para ser el secretario de defensa de Joe Biden (AFP via Getty Images) Christian Whiton, a senior adviser in both the Trump and Bush administrations, told Newsmax that Joe Biden‘s Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was likely hired because he […]
Controversial lawmaker Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) acknowledged Thursday afternoon the 9/11 terrorist attacks really happened while insisting inflammatory remarks she’s made “do not represent me.” Greene, who has been under fire for past racist and anti-Semitic remarks and support of conspiracy theories including QAnon and the false assertion that school shootings are hoaxes, spoke […]
Activists from United Hindu Front burn an effigy depicting climate change activist Greta Thunberg – REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui TPX Outraged members of a Hindu nationalist group have burnt photographs of Greta Thunberg in New Delhi after the Swedish environmentalist tweeted in support of India’s protesting farmers. Amid rising tensions between protesting farmers and the authorities, members […]
File image: Lauren Boebert has drawn reimbursements worth of $22,000 for her 2020 campaign, US media reports state (AP) Republican representative Lauren Boebert has drawn reimbursements worth $22,000 for gas mileage used during her campaign for Congress in 2020, raising questions from ethics experts. The Colorado GOP lawmaker wrote two cheques for a total of […]