Former President Donald Trump speaks during the America First Agenda Summit in Washington D.C, on July 26, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Ex-prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, a frequent Trump critic, said “ruling class criminals” use their resources to escape accountability. He told MSNBC that people like Trump escape any serious repercussions while low-level crimes are prosecuted aggressively….
Monthly Archives: September 2022
A screenshot of a video shows woman waving their headscarves in the air in Saqqez in Iran’s Kurdistan region. @AlinejadMasih/ Twitter Mahsa Amini died on Friday, four days after her arrest for allegedly breaking hijab-wearing rules. At her funeral, videos show women protesting by taking off their headscarves and waving them in the air. Police…
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks during an interview at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York September 25, 2013. The CGI was created by Bill Clinton in 2005 to gather global leaders to discuss solutions to the world’s problems. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Former President Bill Clinton says Democrats have a shot of holding Congress…
A massive trove of footage from the next installment in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto series has leaked online. On early Sunday morning, a hacker who goes by teapotuberhacker uploaded 90 videos from a test build of Grand Theft Auto VI to GTAForums. Since PCGamer spotted the post, the clips have proliferated across YouTube and social…
Investors think a great deal about a great number of things when considering an investment: How big is the market? How good is the founder-market fit? Is it venture-scale? It’s natural for founders to live and breathe for their customers and product, but the dirty little secret of fundraising is that your investors are extraordinarily…
Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota. Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty Images GOP Sen. Mike Rounds doesn’t support Lindsey Graham’s 15-week abortion ban. “I think right now we should allow the states to explore the different possibilities,” Rounds said. Rounds told CNN that Congress telling the states what to do “is not the right direction to go.” GOP…
A composite image of US President Donald Trump and Iranian military commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Leah Millis/Reuters; Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP Trump worried that he’d be assassinated by the Iranian government for authorizing a strike that killed the Iranian military commander. Trump told several of his Florida friends about his…
Sen. Ted Cruz. Win McNamee/Getty Images Ted Cruz praised GOP governors for transporting migrants to Democratic areas. However, he admitted that the law was “clear” and a citizen could “easily be arrested” for moving migrants. The legality of governors transporting migrants is murky, legal experts have said. Senator Ted Cruz admitted that transporting migrants across…
US Marine Corps M777 155mm howitzers at a base in California prior to delivery to Ukraine in April. US Marine Corps/Cpl. Austin Fraley Since Russia attacked Ukraine in February, the US has given Kyiv over 100 M777 howitzers. The M777 is lighter than other artillery pieces and fires more powerful shells with more accuracy. US…
We all have those thoughts, the ones that come to us in the small hours of the night. Who am I? Why are we here? What if my cellphone ran on vacuum tubes instead? Randall Munroe has the answer to, well, only one of those questions, but also the answers to a whole bunch of…