• Rio Tinto launches board review of blasts that destroyed ancient caves

    Rio Tinto launches board review of blasts that destroyed ancient caves

    Rio Tinto on Friday launched a board-led review into how the miner destroyed two ancient and sacred Aboriginal caves in Western Australia, stepping up its response to the blasts after weeks of public criticism and shareholder dismay. With state government approval, the world’s biggest iron ore miner destroyed two caves at Juukan Gorge, one of …
  • Influential advertising firm urges clients to boycott Facebook

    Influential advertising firm urges clients to boycott Facebook

    An influential digital advertising agency reportedly urged its clients to boycott Facebook over the social media giant’s failure to combat hate speech. New York-based 360i encouraged clients Thursday to pull their Facebook spending for July in support of civil-rights’ groups call for an advertising boycott of the company, according to The Wall Street Journal. The …
  • John Bolton: Putin thinks he can play Trump 'like a fiddle'

    John Bolton: Putin thinks he can play Trump 'like a fiddle'

    ‘Putin is smart, tough, I think he sees that he’s not faced with a serious adversary here’ The US’s former national security adviser pulled the curtain further back on the relationship between the president and Vladimir Putin, saying the Russian president believed he could play Donald Trump “like a fiddle”. The new interview from John …
  • House Dems Float Possible $1.5 Trillion Infrastructure Legislation

    House Dems Float Possible $1.5 Trillion Infrastructure Legislation

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) told reporters on Thursday that Democrats were readying a possible $1.5 trillion infrastructure spending bill. There have already been various proposals to tie infrastructure spending to a coronavirus economic relief bill, although those efforts have so far not borne fruit. President Trump has stated that he would support an …
  • Facebook Removes Trump-Campaign Ad for Displaying Antifa Symbol Formerly Used by Nazis

    Facebook Removes Trump-Campaign Ad for Displaying Antifa Symbol Formerly Used by Nazis

    Facebook has announced it will take down Trump-campaign ads displaying an Antifa symbol, because that symbol was once used by Nazis to designate political prisoners. The symbol of a red, upside-down triangle is displayed on Antifa merchandise sold online, which the Trump-campaign used for an ad attacking the left-wing group. “The red triangle is an …
  • Sen. Dick Durbin Apologizes to Sen. Tim Scott for ‘Token’ Comment on Police Reform Bill

    Sen. Dick Durbin Apologizes to Sen. Tim Scott for ‘Token’ Comment on Police Reform Bill

    Democratic Senator Dick Durbin apologized to Senator Tim Scott, the Senate’s only black Republican, after he dismissed Scott’s police reform bill as “a token, half-hearted approach.” “The minute Sen. Durbin heard that he had offended Sen. Scott, he sought him out on the floor and apologized,” Durbin’s communications director, Emily Hampsten, said in a statement. …
  • Justice Department Asks Court for Emergency Halt of Bolton Book Release

    Justice Department Asks Court for Emergency Halt of Bolton Book Release

    The Justice Department asked a judge on Wednesday evening to issue an emergency order to block the release of former national security adviser John Bolton’s upcoming book, saying the book contains government secrets. The move marks an escalation by the Trump administration of its civil suit filed Tuesday against Bolton, in which the government asked a court to …
  • Mets’ Pete Alonso part of sports’ growing vulgarity problem

    Mets’ Pete Alonso part of sports’ growing vulgarity problem

    Some wrongs are not difficult to right. As my friend Mark Morley says, “It’s not rocket surgery.” Yet, and for no good reasons, we inexorably sink lower, every day, by pathetic design. Meanwhile, the modern marketing and TV content rational has become, “It’s no worse than this” or “It’s no worse than that.” But what …
  • Six NFL teams could be landing spot for Jets’ Jamal Adams

    Six NFL teams could be landing spot for Jets’ Jamal Adams

    Jamal Adams is trying to force a trade from the Jets and pick his destination. Bold move with two years remaining on his contract. The Jets did not intend to trade Adams when he started politicking for a new contract earlier this offseason, and his trade request has not changed anything, a source told The …
  • Plastic surgeon Stephen Greenberg explains Kellyanne Conway’s new look

    Plastic surgeon Stephen Greenberg explains Kellyanne Conway’s new look

    Read More: Kellyanne Conway and other celebs who look like they had plastic surgery Inside Adele’s weight loss: Experts sound off on her new look Hailey Baldwin slams plastic surgery rumors: ‘I’ve never touched my face’ Teresa Giudice’s daughter Gia reveals she had a nose job