Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Rob Portman were among the bipartisan group of senators who amended the bill. Alex Wong/Getty Images A bipartisan group of senators released the text of their amendment to a bill that codifies same-sex marriage. The bill easily passed the House in July, but GOP senators wanted further religious protections. They…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office on March 20, 2018 in Washington, DC. Mandel Ngan/Getty Images Officials from six countries spent over $750k at Trump’s DC hotel in 2017 and 2018, documents show. The officials stayed at Trump’s hotel amid rocky periods in relations between their…
Elon Musk. Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images Twitter has recently faced product flip-flopping, mass layoffs, high-profile exec departures, rampant account impersonations, a loss of advertisers, and more. While speaking virtually at the G20 summit recently, Elon Musk addressed the criticism he’s consequently received. “There’s no way to make everyone happy, that’s for sure,” he said. Twitter has…
Spirit Airlines A319 aircraft. Marcus Mainka/Shutterstock Spirit Airlines has temporarily cut 37 routes from its network starting in January. Florida is being particularly impacted, with 26 of the lost routes touching the Sunshine State. The airline is calling the cuts temporary, with plans to restore many of them in 2023. Spirit Airlines is temporarily losing…
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani on June 7, 2022, in New York. Mary Altaffer/Associated Press Federal prosecutors in New York have declined to bring criminal charges against Rudy Giuliani following an investigation centered on whether the former New York City mayor illegally lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of Ukrainian officials. In a…
The north entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Mark Tenally/AP Documents released Monday detail foreign government spending at the Trump Hotel in Washington, DC. The documents show Saudi Arabia and the UAE rented rooms while lobbying the Trump administration. Rep. Carolyn Maloney said the records show Trump may have been “guided by his…
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg in July 2018. Gulshan Khan/Pool via REUTERS Russia is facing increasing international isolation because of its war against Ukraine. Moscow is not totally alone, as countries continue to buy its oil and, in some cases, send it arms. Some of those countries are also isolated,…
Former President Donald Trump and Sen.-elect J.D. Vance. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Senator-elect J.D. Vance has come to the defense of former President Donald Trump. The GOP has blamed Trump for the party’s setbacks in the 2022 midterm elections. Vance wrote in an op-ed that “blaming Trump isn’t just wrong on the facts, it is counterproductive.”…
At just $349, this is the lowest price we’ve seen on the Apple Watch Series 8. It’s gone this low before, but it never stays on sale for long. If you’ve been thinking about upgrading or getting your first Apple Watch, now might be a good time to move on it. Both the 45mm and…
Google Support announced the first update for the official Pixel Watch app this week, with mostly a few bug fixes and improvements for the Fitbit integration getting touched up. Nothing too major. Listed in the change, Fitbit integration is now available on the app’s home screen, sync information is accessible from the home screen, and…