FBI Searches Biden Home, Finds More Documents Marked Classified

Ford Battery Plant Using Chinese Tech Raises Alarms in Congress ...

29/03/2023

The FBI searched President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday and found six additional documents containing classified markings and also took possession of some of his notes, the president's lawyer said Saturday. The documents taken by the FBI spanned Biden's time in the Senate and the vice presidency, while the notes [Read more]

US Renewable Electricity Surpassed Coal in 2022 ...

29/03/2023

Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Monday. Renewables also surpassed nuclear generation in 2022, after first doing so last year. Growth in wind and solar significantly drove the increase in renewable energy and contr [Read more]

Former US Vice President Pence Must Testify Before Grand Jury, Judge Rules...

29/03/2023

A federal judge in Washington has ordered former Vice President Mike Pence to comply with a grand jury subpoena and testify about his conversations with former President Donald Trump as Trump tried to overturn his 2020 defeat for reelection. Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge for the U.S. District Court in Washington, issued the ruli [Read more]

Ford Battery Plant Using Chinese Tech Raises Alarms in Congress ...

29/03/2023

Ford Motor Company's plan to create batteries for the rapidly expanding electric vehicle (EV) market could encounter congressional speed bumps because of the carmaker's plan to use technology created by a Chinese company with ties to the communist government. Ford executive chairman William Clay Ford Jr. announced in February that the c [Read more]

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Microplastic Pollution Impairs Seabird Gut Health ...

29/03/2023

Scientists have long known that wild seabirds ingest bits of plastic pollution as they feed, but a new study Monday shows the tiny particles don't just clog or transit the stomach but can subvert its complex mix of good and bad bacteria, too. Plastic-infested digestive tracts from two species of Atlantic seabirds, northern fulmars and C [Read more]

No Atmosphere Found at Faraway Earth-Sized World, Study Says ...

29/03/2023

The Webb Space Telescope has found no evidence of an atmosphere at one of the seven rocky, Earth-sized planets orbiting another star. Scientists said Monday that doesn't bode well for the rest of the planets in this solar system, some of which are in the sweet spot for harboring water and potentially life. "This is not necessarily a b [Read more]

UNICEF Talking to Sudanese Men's Clubs About Female Genital Mutilation ...

29/03/2023

The World Health Organization says about 87% of Sudanese females between ages 15 and 49 have undergone female genital mutilation, one of the highest rates in the world. A project by the U.N. children's agency, UNICEF, is targeting sports clubs to engage men and boys in the fight against the practice. Henry Wilkins reports from Khartoum, S [Read more]

US Renewable Electricity Surpassed Coal in 2022 ...

29/03/2023

Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Monday. Renewables also surpassed nuclear generation in 2022, after first doing so last year. Growth in wind and solar significantly drove the increase in renewable energy and contr [Read more]

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Court Orders Trump Lawyer to Provide Documents in Mar-a-Lago Case ...

29/03/2023

A federal appeals court in a sealed order Wednesday directed a lawyer for Donald Trump to turn over to prosecutors documents in the investigation into the former president's retention of classified records at his Florida estate. The ruling is a significant win for the U.S. Justice Department, which has focused for months not only on the [Read more]

Prosecutor Rejects Republicans' Demand He Hand Over Documents in Trump Investigation...

29/03/2023

The New York City prosecutor on Thursday rejected a demand by congressional Republican lawmakers that he hand over documents linked to his investigation of former President Donald Trump's $130,000 hush money payment to a porn star ahead of the 2016 election to buy her silence about an affair she claims to have had with Trump. The office [Read more]

DeSantis Clarifies Position on Ukraine War, Calls Putin 'War Criminal'...

29/03/2023

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis this week called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal' and condemned his invasion of Ukraine, a week after coming under criticism for remarks that seemed to advocate a reduction in U.S. support for Ukrainian forces. DeSantis, widely expected to announce his candidacy for the 2024 Republican p [Read more]

House Republicans Demand Documents About US Exit From Afghanistan ...

29/03/2023

Republican House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul is demanding that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken provide documents on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. McCaul said the 'catastrophic' exit from Afghanistan emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. Cindy Saine reports. [Read more]

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Twitter: Parts of its Source Code Leaked Online...

29/03/2023

Some parts of Twitter's source code — the fundamental computer code on which the social network runs — were leaked online, the social media company said in a legal filing on Sunday that was first reported by The New York Times. According to the legal document, filed with the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Californ [Read more]

Twitter Celebs Balk at Paying Elon Musk for Blue Check Mark ...

29/03/2023

William Shatner, Monica Lewinsky and other prolific Twitter commentators — some household names, others little-known journalists — could soon be losing the blue check marks that helped verify their identity on the social media platform. They could get the marks back by paying up to $11 a month. But some longtime users, including 9 [Read more]

Ford Battery Plant Using Chinese Tech Raises Alarms in Congress ...

29/03/2023

Ford Motor Company's plan to create batteries for the rapidly expanding electric vehicle (EV) market could encounter congressional speed bumps because of the carmaker's plan to use technology created by a Chinese company with ties to the communist government. Ford executive chairman William Clay Ford Jr. announced in February that the c [Read more]

Curbed by US Sanctions, Huawei Unveils New 4G Smartphones...

29/03/2023

At a March 23 product launch in Shanghai, Chinese tech giant Huawei unveiled its signature P60 series of smartphones with high-end cameras and its Mate X3 series mobile phones equipped with folding screens. There were demonstrations. There were speeches. But something was missing from the Huawei offerings: 5G, which gives phones the spe [Read more]

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Massive Protests, Strikes Continue as Opposition Digs In Against French Pension Reform...

29/03/2023

Adeline Lefebvre was scrunched up next to a newsstand as a swelling crowd of demonstrators pushed past her at the Place de la Bastille — the iconic Paris square that earned its fame from French Revolution days. Rock music blared and the gigantic balloons of the leftist CGT trade union bobbed in the air on this ninth day of nationwide [Read more]

US Regulators: Banking System 'Sound and Resilient' ...

29/03/2023

The multi-regulator U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) agreed Friday that the U.S. banking system remains "sound and resilient" despite stress on some institutions, the U.S. Treasury said in its latest statement to calm jittery markets and bank depositors. In a readout of a closed meeting chaired by Treasury Secretary Jan [Read more]

'What Can We Do?': Millions in African Countries Need Power...

29/03/2023

From Zimbabwe, where many must work at night because it's the only time there is power, to Nigeria where collapses of the grid are frequent, the reliable supply of electricity remains elusive across Africa. The electricity shortages that plague many of Africa's 54 countries are a serious drain on the continent's economic growth, energy [Read more]

Intel Co-Founder, Philanthropist Gordon Moore Dies at 94 ...

29/03/2023

Gordon Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died. He was 94. Moore died Friday at his home in Hawaii, according to Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Moore, who hel [Read more]

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