As Twitch has become more and more popular over the years, that has inevitably meant a rise in trolls and bad actors, too. In order to deal with the issue, Twitch is getting creative with its latest tool: Shared Ban Info. Announced on Thursday, the feature sounds exactly like it’s titled. Twitch streamers will now be…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
President Joe Biden stopped short of officially declaring a climate emergency on Wednesday. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images President Joe Biden expanded federal programs for climate resiliency and developing offshore wind. The actions fell short of a climate emergency declaration that Senate Democrats are demanding. Policy uncertainty could slow growth in renewable energy,…
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., dons a message reading My State is Banning Exceptions Protect Contraception, before the House passed the Right To Contraception Act in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, July 21, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) The House on Thursday voted 228-195 to pass a bill that would protect access to…
Abortion-rights demonstrators rally before marching through downtown on May 07, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images YouTube will remove posts and ads promoting unsafe abortion methods and false claims. The social media platform said it would ban such content under its medical misinformation policies. After the fall of Roe last month, people turned to…
PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images A Tesla executive is facing scrutiny after requesting the purchase of a special kind of glass, Bloomberg reported. The materials were flagged to an internal audit team that’s investigating whether they could be for Elon Musk’s personal use, according to the report. The executive, Omead Afshar, has led Tesla’s Texas…
University of Utah Strickke The University of Utah says it will ask alumni to rent rooms in their homes to current students for $5,000 per semester. The university hopes the “Home Away from Home” program will help with its “unprecedented” housing shortage. This is one of many fixes schools across the US are trying out…
A video of former President Donald Trump was played in a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. Sean Thew/Pool via AP Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Trump’s mind is a “scary place to be” on the Bulwark podcast. Kinzinger likened Trump to “a child who is angry” at Vice President Mike Pence…
President Joe Biden receives his first COVID-19 booster shot at the White House last September. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) President Joe Biden, 79, has the coronavirus. But his prospects are good because he’s up to date on his COVID-19 shots. He also has top-notch medical care. President Joe Biden is the latest high-profile figure in the…
The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen at sunset in Washington on December 2, 2021. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Of the 38 Supreme Court clerks for the October 2022 term, 25 are men and 13 are women. It appears that two clerks are Black, two are Hispanic, and two are Asian. Sorry,…
Former first lady Melania Trump and her former chief of staff Stephanie Grisham. Drew Angerer/Getty Images ; Carlos Barria/Reuters Melania Trump said she was “unaware” of the violence unfolding at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump pushed back on Stephanie Grisham’s claims that she refused to condemn the violence when asked. “I always condemn…