Three Scottish sites have been included in a new list of internationally important geological locations. The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, the Rum Igneous Complex, and the Barrow Zones have been selected for the International Union of Geological Sciences’ second list of 100 geological heritage sites. As with the first 100, these sites are deemed to be of high scientific ...
A judge has ordered social media giant X, formerly known as Twitter, to be taken down in Brazil. Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes made the order after the site’s billionaire owner Elon Musk failed to name a legal representative in Brazil. The judge and Musk have been feuding in public for months after X didn’t comply with legal orders ...
The UK’s first “teacherless” GCSE class, using artificial intelligence instead of human teachers, is about to start lessons. David Game College, a private school in London, opens its new teacherless course for 20 GCSE students in September. The students will learn using a mixture of artificial intelligence platforms on their computers and virtual reality headsets. The platforms learn what the ...
Which are the two most important swing states? Do you see Pennsylvania and Michigan as being more crucial to win than Wisconsin? For example. The question of which states are most important in the 2024 presidential election came up in a recent live chat we hosted. In conversations with campaign officials for Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, it ...
Will Harris appoint an all-new Cabinet? What about less-senior political staff in federal agencies? Are they expected to keep working on the Biden-Harris agenda just to get the boot come January? This was a question that came up during a recent live chat we hosted. The short answer: Should Vice President Kamala Harris — the Democratic nominee — win, all ...
Donald Trump on Thursday told NBC News that, if reelected, his administration would ensure that in vitro fertilization (IVF) was free for all Americans. But before we dig into that claim, we should talk about breakfast meat. At an event in Wisconsin on Thursday, the former president offered a seemingly incongruous argument in support of his return to the White ...
At one point in CNN’s interview of Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, journalist Dana Bash asked Harris about her defenses of President Joe Biden’s acuity. Harris, obviously expecting the question, praised the president before pivoting to an argument for her candidacy. “I am so proud to be running with [Minnesota Gov.] Tim Walz for president of the United States ...
Fox News divides its daily coverage into two components. There’s the hard-news side, anchored by people like Bret Baier, that offers reporting on what’s unfolding in the world. Then there’s the opinion side, including hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, that offers assessments of those events. The reality, of course, is that the two sides overlap and bleed into each ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former environmental activist who ran in the Democratic presidential primary before launching his independent bid and ultimately dropped out to endorse the Republican nominee, has joined forces with former president Donald Trump as an honorary co-chair of his presidential transition team. The newly forged alliance raises questions about where they align on policy as well ...
Donald Trump announced this week that he would make in vitro fertilization treatments free if elected president. He slammed Florida’s six-week abortion ban as too restrictive, suggesting that as a resident of the state he may vote for an upcoming ballot measure that would make abortion legal until a fetus becomes viable. And his running mate, JD Vance, pledged that ...