Year: 2023

What did Turkey get for greenlighting Sweden’s NATO bid?

After more than a year of obstinance and obstruction, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan abruptly dropped his longstanding objections to Sweden’s effort to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, just hours before a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, was set to begin on Tuesday. Speaking with reporters to announce the move, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called Turkey’s decision “a historic step that…

Texas traps pregnant migrants in razor wire, pushes kids back into Rio Grande, state trooper complains

Rolls of razor wire Texas installed along the U.S. side of the Rio Grande have ensnared several migrants, including a pregnant woman “in obvious pain” while having a miscarriage and a father trying to free his child “stuck on a trap” of razor wire–covered barrels in the water, a Texas state trooper wrote in July…

Alabama defies Supreme Court order for additional majority-Black district

Alabama lawmakers on Friday approved a redrawn map that carved out just one majority-Black congressional district in the state, defying a Supreme Court ruling that said Alabama had to create at least two majority-Black districts.  The new map, helmed by the Alabama Legislature’s Republican supermajority, increased the percentage of Black voters to around 50% in…

10 last-minute Father’s Day gifts for procrastinators

We independently evaluate all recommended products and services. If you click on Amazon links we provide, we may receive compensation. We’ve all been there — it’s days before what you just realized was Father’s Day and you’re without a gift for your old man. Rather than allow you to suffer the telling embarrassment of a Home…

Apple fixes its ‘ducking’ autocorrect problem

Our prayers have been answered.  Apple’s upcoming iOS 17 iPhone software will include a new tweak that stops the phone’s autocorrect function from changing a certain curse word (you know the one) to “ducking,” the company announced this week at its Worldwide Developers Conference. The change is made possible by “a state-of-the-art on-device machine learning language model…