Radio, TV schedules in US feeling the heat as Hollywood actors and scripters stay off screen
Thousands of Hollywood film and television actors voted to strike on Thursday, joining writers who walked off the job 11 weeks ago. How will a walkout by the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) affect viewers’ favourite shows and movies? A walkout by...
Arab leaders blames US for not giving Israeli-Palestinian talks priority to avert war in Gaza
Since Richard Nixon, successive US administrations have tried their hands at Camp David summits, shuttle diplomacy and other big-picture tries at coaxing Israeli and Palestinian leaders into talks to settle the disputes that underlie 75 years of Middle East tensions. More than other recent presidents, Joe Biden notably has not.
Scientists rubbish 2023 Nobel Prize as reward for Covid vaccine that was a ‘horrendous product injected into people’s bodies’
The findings raise questions about the serious failures of the peer review process in top journals, the Nobel award process and the media’s verification processes, according to the authors, who are both part of the Canada-based Correlation Research in the Public Interest.
Lab tests find deadly presence of livestock contraceptives, antibiotics in popular fast foods
Under Baum’s leadership, the law firm has won billions of dollars in consumer fraud and product liability cases against major pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, including Bayer Corp (formerly Monsanto), Eli Lilly, Forest Labs, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and more.
US President Biden flies to Tel Aviv for talks with Israel’s Netanyahu as show of solidarity
Iran refers to regional countries and forces opposed to Israel and the United States as a “resistance front.” Amirabdollahian said it was not limited to Hezbollah in Lebanon and added: “This front was formed throughout the region to preserve the independence of nations and counter repeated aggressions by the Zionist regime over the past years.”
Terrorist groups ISIS and Al Qaeda are not defeated in Africa, they are just lying low
The principal challenge right now is one of stabilisation and addressing the humanitarian concerns that remain there. We are focused on implementing stabilisation projects, rebuilding community infrastructure, assisting families that were displaced during ISIS’s occupation, with building new lives, restoring services in the communities that they were forced out of, and also helping as many people as possible who have been living in these displaced persons camps, to leave the camps, return to their original locations, and rebuild their lives.
Robert F Kennedy Jr dumps Democratic Party, enters race for White House as ‘unpolluted’ independent
Kennedy accused both parties of being beholden to corporate donors, telling the crowd: “How can we guard life when for-profit corporations have captured the public agencies that are supposed to protect us? How can we enjoy liberty when a surveillance state seeks to hide the truth and quash dissent?”
Big Tech threatened: What Google’s antitrust trial in the US means for search engine dependents
Google’s search engine earned its huge market share by almost instantaneously presenting people with helpful information culled from the billions of websites that have been indexed since former Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed the technology during the late 1990s.
US boosts Middle East firepower as Americans and Israelis discuss President Biden Tel Aviv visit
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken – speaking in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday after days of Middle East shuttle diplomacy – delivered a blunt message and a veiled warning to US foe Iran: “When it comes to Israel security, we have Israel’s back.”
Israel-Hamas war in Gaza testing Republican’s isolationist shift as voters doubt Trump’s credentials
The Republican Party’s White House hopefuls are offering conflicting messages on the mounting foreign policy challenges as a presidential election long centered on domestic kitchen-table issues suddenly shifts its focus abroad. The rapidly evolving dynamics are testing the limits of the GOP’s embrace of an isolationist foreign policy and threaten to undermine the party’s broader argument that Democratic President Joe Biden has mismanaged US relationships with the rest of the world.
