The not-so-glamorous Instagram life of a US senator | View caption Hide caption Wait, what – no private jet? Far from it. View caption Hide caption “One of the funniest ones was when my plane got grounded in Washington,” he says, coming across a June 2019 post when he banded together with two software engineers,…
Month: August 2023
Cruise ship crashes as captain makes five-word announcement to passengers
A P&O cruise packed full of British people has crashed into an oil tanker, leaving passengers “in tears” as they fear for their own lives. The cruise ship snapped its moorings off the coast of Palma in Mallorca after ferocious gale-force winds “suddenly hit” the Britannia, sending it hurtling into the tanker in the Belarics,…
FBI arrests Jan. 6 rioter they say assaulted officers with a speaker, a shoe and a lamp
WASHINGTON — The FBI has arrested a Jan. 6 rioter who attacked police officers using a variety of items including a metal baton, a floor lamp and a shoe, according to court records. Curtis Logan Tate, known to online “Sedition Hunters” as #ShinyCircleTattoo because of a distinct tattoo on his hand, was arrested in North…
Temporary housing extended for Maui wildfire victims, the Hawaii governor says
WAILEA, Hawaii — Gov. Josh Green said Friday that displaced residents whose homes had burned to the ground in the Maui wildfires would be able to extend their temporary hotel stays for the foreseeable future. After three wildfires destroyed scores of homes and the historic town of Lahaina on Aug. 8, many residents were allowed…
Prigozhin plane crash a Putin signal to Russia’s elite
It was both shocking and predictable. Two months to the day after Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a brief armed rebellion that threatened the Kremlin’s authority, the mercenary chief and some of his top lieutenants were listed aboard a plane that crashed with no survivors. The truth of Wednesday’s incident may never be widely known. But the…
Is tech sinking office space or saving it?
Tech companies led multiple revolutions in what office work looks like in this century. Google was the most well-known company to turn its offices into a “campus” with the amenities of a large resort, from free lunch to recreation, all designed to keep employees happily toiling away at the office as long as possible. They were…
Bangladesh dealing with worst dengue fever outbreak on record
In Bangladesh, dengue fever has killed more than 300 people this year and infected almost 63,700 others, with hospitals having a difficult time keeping up with all of the cases. This is the deadliest outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease since the government began tracking in 2000. Across Bangladesh, people are being urged to use mosquito…
Will China’s slowdown pull the US into recession?
China can’t seem to shake off its post-COVID economic slump. Will that weakness backfire on the American economy? CNBC reported that the People’s Bank of China cut interest rates this week in an effort to spur economic growth, amidst a “confidence crisis” that has seen exports fall dramatically, factory production slow down, and housing sales…
The Week contest: Literary warnings
This week’s question: A Scottish university is warning students that Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” contains “graphic fishing scenes.” Name another potentially upsetting work of literature and, in five or fewer words, a fitting trigger warning. Click here to see the results of last week’s contest: Meeting creep Skip advert RESULTS: THE WINNER: “Goldilocks: Graphic…