The blockage of Egypt’s Suez canal by a giant container ship is causing a “traffic jam” in the Red Sea, according to a merchant seaman on a nearby ship.
Joe Reynolds, chief engineer of the Maersk Ohio, told the BBC the number of vessels waiting at the canal’s southern entrance was “growing exponentially”.
“It’s going to affect shipping schedules around the world,” he warned.
Tugboats and dredgers are trying to dislodge the Ever Given, which is wedged diagonally across the waterway.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed Friday that President Joe Biden intends to sign executive orders instituting increased gun control.
“Yes,” Psaki flatly stated in response to a question on the subject during Friday’s press briefing. “I can’t give you an exact time frame in part, because they have to go through a review process, which is something that we do from here.”
The following, near-2500 word text message, is between Hunter Biden and Hallie (his brother Beau’s widow) Biden’s sister Liz. We have highlighted the key parts as they related to alleged criminality and the latest stories in the news. We have not edited the text. We have confirmed the phone numbers belong to Hunter Biden and Liz Secundy.
h/t Mauser
I’m filling in for Sarcasticat so breakfast at your own risk!
Facebook platforms used for most online child sex abuse, UK charity says, warns pedophiles thrive if encryption isn’t limited
The UK’s leading child-protection charity says pedophiles, abusers and groomers are thriving on Facebook’s social media platforms, with end-to-end encryption giving them a perfect opportunity to abuse children and victims.
Europe Rejects Multiculturalism for Anti-Islamism
Denmark became the first European country to revoke the residency permits of Syrian refugees on March 1. This is part of a series of news events from across Europe that shows the Continent is becoming less welcoming of Muslim migrants.
A lesson for us all… I guess
UK’s youngest Lotto winner ‘living on benefits after blowing £1.9m jackpot’
Spermageddon: are humans going extinct?
Is the human race in danger of extinction? That’s the jaw-dropping claim made in Professor Shanna Swan’s new book ‘Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race’.
Over a hundred riot officers form ring of steel against Bristol demonstrators – some armed with knuckledusters – as they surround the same police station besieged in Sunday attack
More than a hundred riot officers tonight formed a ring of steel against Kill the Bill protesters, some armed with knuckledusters, as they besieged the Bristol police station which was the scene of an earlier riot.
Mounted officers, those with dogs and others holding shields formed a barrier around Bridewell Police Station where police vans were torched and dozens of officers left injured on Sunday night.
Mon Dieu! French monks locked down with 2.8 tonnes of cheese pray for buyers
A French monastery in the heart of Burgundy has launched an emergency online sale to get rid of thousands of its artisanal cheeses, which are languishing in its cellars as Covid-19 keeps buyers away.
NP View: Conservatives must unite behind Erin O’Toole if they are to defeat Trudeau
Conservatives should move past the bickering that tainted their recent policy convention and get behind leader Erin O’Toole. Whatever divisions lay within the party they are not worth electoral oblivion. Unseating Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, not fighting each other, is the best use of all that passion and energy.
Ontario tweaks rules for lockdown zones, allowing hair salons to reopen on April 12
Personal care services in Toronto and Peel Region, including hair and nail salons, will be allowed to open up shop next month, the Ontario government says.
The Ford government announced amendments to the grey-lockdown level of their tiered, colour-coded COVID-19 response framework on Friday.
A leading Chinese professor—who is also an adviser to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—laid out a comprehensive plan for the communist regime to overthrow the United States as the world’s superpower.
The professor’s multi-pronged strategy involves a range of malign actions to subvert the United States while strengthening the Chinese regime. They include: interfering in U.S. elections, controlling the American market, cultivating global enemies to challenge the United States, stealing American technology, expanding Chinese territory, and influencing international organizations.
The government’s lockdown regime has transformed the very idea of civil liberties.
As Britain was heading into lockdown on 23 March 2020, UK health secretary Matt Hancock was busy introducing the accompanying legislation in parliament. ‘To defeat [Covid-19]’, he said, ‘we are proposing extraordinary measures of a kind never seen before in peacetime’.
At approximately 3:05pm on Halloween afternoon, Oct. 31, 2017, 29-year old Sayfullo Saipov drove a rented truck onto a Manhattan bike path and slammed into nearly two dozen cyclists and pedestrians. He then crashed into a school bus and emerged from the vehicle wielding a paintball gun and a pellet gun. He screamed “Allahu Akbar” throughout the whole ordeal and succeeded in murdering eight people and wounding fifteen — until an NYPD officer shot and wounded him, dropping him to the ground.
Half a millennium ago a social revolution caused a culture war setting two world views at each other’s throats. The Reformation unleashed by Lutherans was then followed, a generation later, by a more radical, second burst of Protestantism led by the French theologian Jean Calvin.
The Batley Grammar scandal reveals the depths of liberal cowardice.
A group of religious conservatives has managed to shut down a school for two days running, exact a grovelling apology from its headteacher, and have a teacher suspended. The teacher’s name has been circulated online, both by protesters and a local religious charity, forcing him into police protection.
A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously ruled in favor of a professor who refused to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit found that Shawnee State University in southern Ohio violated the First Amendment’s free speech and free exercise clauses by punishing Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor, for using a transgender student’s biological pronouns. The ruling reversed a previous district court decision dismissing Meriwether’s claims.
Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney has been officially announced as the 2021 recipient of the JFK Profile In Courage Award.
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation made the announcement Friday, and cited Romney’s vote to convict former President Donald Trump in his first Senate impeachment trial as the reason for his selection.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government didn’t prepare a fallback plan on implementing a consumer carbon tax because they were hoping to win in the country’s top court.
Kenney said the province was buoyed by a lower court win in Alberta, and noted that three of the nine Supreme Court justices had concerns with Thursday’s majority decision that the tax is onside with the Constitution.
“The “Information Age” has become a nightmare from which we are unable to awaken. As it turns out, there is, indeed, such a thing as too much information. We are all forced to selectively filter what information we process, resulting in our natural biases playing a large role in what information we actually absorb.
Take the border crisis. Whom do you believe? Whose opinion do you trust? Whose facts can you rely on?”
RICKY Gervais today mocked protests held outside a school after a religious studies teacher allegedly showed pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer says her agency wasn’t wrong when it rated the risk of COVID-19 to the country as low in early 2020, a ranking that the federal Auditor-General says was concerning and based on a faulty assessment tool.
At a news conference on Friday, Theresa Tam said the low-risk assessment was to show a moment in time rather than the potential risk the coronavirus posed to Canadians. However, she said her agency is now more focused on its forward-looking risk assessments, rather than only capturing the immediate risk posed by a disease.
“It was not wrong, it’s just that it is important to also provide what that future state might be like,” Dr. Tam said. Public-health agencies, she said, “need to be prediction organizations and not just being able to assess the risk of that present moment.”
