When Marjorie Taylor Greene first entered politics, she was hardly a natural at fund-raising. She was the owner of a CrossFit gym—and a construction company that was founded by her father—before she successfully ran for a congressional seat in suburban Georgia in 2020. To help fund her campaign, Greene put up about $1.4 million of her own money. Then, almost as soon as she had won, a national scandal broke out about her long record of bizarre, violent, and antisemitic
More than half a century ago, Chinese researchers uncovered thousands of pieces of an ancient cultural puzzle.
Their summertime excavation about halfway up a hill overlooking northern China’s Shiyu River unearthed sharp-edged flakes that had been rapidly pounded off small rocks, a common Stone Age practice in the region. Yet the same sediment also contained more complicated types of stone implements.
Another unexpected discovery, part of a round piece of graphite with a hole in its center, resembled a large
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“France shouldn’t boast and wave the word ‘sovereignty’ left and right. The government completely lacks coherence.”
– centrist Senator Catherine Morin-Desailly told Euractiv, commenting on the Mistral AI – Microsoft deal
Story of the week: The announcement of Paris-based company Mistral AI’s first commercial distribution partnership with US Big Tech Microsoft drew reactions from politicians in Brussels
France has been put on its highest state of terror alert after an alleged ISIS supporter reportedly stabbed a teacher to death and seriously wounded two others in an act labelled ‘barbaric Islamist terrorism’ by President Emmanuel Macron.
Mohamed Mogouchkov, a Chechen refugee aged 20, is said to have murdered Dominique Bernard, a French literature teacher in his 40s at the Gambetta high school in Arras at 11am local time after being heard to shout ‘Allahu Akbar’, according by witnesses.
Walt Disney is raising the prices of its streaming services Disney+ and Hulu by as much as 27 percent after a series of woke film remakes disappointed at the box office, and visits to Walt Disney World in Florida declined amid the company’s war with Governor Ron DeSantis.
Customers with Disney+ will see their monthly costs for the ad-free service rise by 27 percent, from $11 to $14. Hulu prices for ad-free will rise by 20 percent, to $18. The
Attorney and law professor Jonathan Turley raised serious legal questions about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s path to convicting former President Donald Trump.
In an op-ed published Saturday by The Hill, Turley warned that the latest indictment of Trump relating to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot threatens the First Amendment by giving the government an unprecedented power to criminalize false statements. Trump was indicted earlier this week on four charges, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct
Yorkshire Building Society has confirmed it will be raising the interest rates for all of its variable savings products.
The financial institution announced it will automatically add up to 0.25 percent to the impacted accounts.
This news follows the hike to the country’s base rate from the Bank of England yesterday.
Banks and building societies have been passing on consecutive base rate increases to their customers over the past year.
This move by Yorkshire Building Society will represent the 11th
Chase has announced it will be raising the interest rate on its easy access account by 0.3 percent, bringing the Annual Equivalent Rate up to 4.1 percent from August 14, 2023.
As the Bank of England proceeds to increase its Base Rate to stem inflation, high street banks and building societies have been raising interest across their own products, offering savers some of the highest returns seen in decades.
Easy access savings accounts have recently been growing in demand, as
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The Bank of England raised its key interest rate by a quarter point on Thursday to the highest since 2008, saying that while inflation has begun to fall and the economy is growing with unemployment low “inflation is still too high”. Six out of nine members of the monetary policy committee voted in favor of the move.
The hike takes the Bank Rate to 5.25 percent and is the
It is already a disgusting habit. But now scientists say picking your nose could raise your risk of catching Covid too.
A study of healthcare workers in the Netherlands found nose pickers were nearly three times more likely to catch the virus than those who avoided the habit.
Of all participants, those who
