The U.S. nuclear energy sector’s dependence on Russian uranium created during a failed Obama-era reset with Moscow is coming back to bite Americans as the Kremlin moves to block future exports of the vital fuel.  Vladimir Putin’s new restrictions on uranium exports to the U.S., announced last week, come as the country’s war in Ukraine continues to heighten tensions with the United States and the West. His announcement created an immediate impact, as uranium prices soared and...

Conservative media personality Megyn Kelly on Monday blasted “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, calling them “grifters” for a trip to see President-elect Trump. On her Sirius XM show, Kelly noted comments from liberal pundit Keith Olbermann that he posted to the social platform X about the trip. In the comments, he said the MSNBC hosts “are confidence tricksters — and grifters.” “That’s exactly right,” Kelly said on the show highlighted by...

When he appeared on a Fox News panel days after the presidential election, smirking and answering questions about his potential role in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, it was already a very good week for Senator Marco Rubio. “He’s going to make great choices,” said Rubio, avoiding any definitive answers. “He had really good people working with him the first time and he’s got really good people working on it now.”

A Hong Kong court has sentenced dozens of pro-democracy leaders to years in jail for subversion, following a controversial national security trial. Benny Tai and Joshua Wong were among the so-called Hong Kong 47 group of activists and lawmakers involved in a plan to pick opposition candidates for local elections. Tai received 10 years while Wong received more than four years. A total of 45 people have been jailed for conspiring to commit subversion, after two defendants were...

In November 2024, the day after President-elect Donald Trump nominated former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz to oversee the Department of Justice as U.S. attorney general, an account on X posted an apparent screen capture of a post attributed to Gaetz. Under one interpretation, that post seemed to say he'd "almost never" broken a rule according to which it was appropriate for a man to date a person no younger than half his age, minus seven years (in his case, teenagers)

Steve Bannon’s trial over his alleged involvement in a scheme to pocket donations from Trump supporters who thought they were funding the construction of a border wall will be postponed to February 25, a New York judge ruled on Monday. The trial was originally set to start December 9. Bannon faces charges in New York related to the “We Build the Wall” campaign, which allegedly scammed donors during president-elect Donald Trump’s first term. The former White House adviser has pleaded not...

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The following are some recent news stories about covid from various sources. From the origins of SARS-CoV-2 to the UK’s dubious surveillance of vaccine injuries to questions whether the US Centres for […]

As an unofficial member of “Weird Christian Twitter,” I had kept up fairly well with the onslaught of pastoral sex scandals this past summer. It was only a peek into an otherwise quite active stream of controversy over how abuse cases had been handled (or just ignored) by prominent evangelical leaders, from the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and from John MacArthur to Doug Wilson. Continue Reading...