Rep. Jim Banks is suspended on Twitter after misgendering Dr. Rachel Levine. Levine is the first openly trans person who holds a position that had to be confirmed by the Senate. In response, Banks tweeted from his personal account that Twitter is punishing him for saying, “a statement of FACT.” Loading Something is loading. Twitter…
Kyrsten Sinema takes thousands in campaign contributions from pharmaceutical giants while stalling prescription drug pricing reforms
Kyrsten Sinema’s campaign has received $500,000+ in campaign donations from the pharma industry. The $3.5 trillion spending bill would save the US “hundreds of billions” on health care spending. The biotechnology company Amgen gave Sinema $25,500 and is one of her largest financial backers. Loading Something is loading. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is said…
Google worked with Facebook to undermine Apple’s attempts to offer its users greater privacy protections, complaint alleges
Facebook and Google worked together to circumvent Apple’s privacy measures, 12 state attorneys general argued in an updated legal complaint from 2020. Apple’s privacy tools have made it harder for other tech companies to pinpoint users for their ad auction model. Regulators and other tech companies have targeted each other in a larger antitrust battle…
Colombian drug lord Otoniel to be extradited to US
Image source, Colombian Police/Handout via REUTERSImage caption, Dairo Antonio Úsuga, better known as Otoniel, led Colombia’s largest criminal gangColombia has announced that the country’s most wanted drug trafficker will be extradited to the US after he was captured in a raid.Dairo Antonio Úsuga, known as Otoniel, was seized after a joint army, air force and…
We are rock bottom, but we are too close to give up now
Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says he has “come too far to give up” despite overseeing Sunday’s 5-0 thrashing by Liverpool at Old Trafford. Mohamed Salah claimed a hat-trick while Naby Keita and Diogo Jota also scored in the Reds’ dominant win.Solskjaer said the loss is his “darkest day” as manager but will carry…
Radio 1 DJ Adele Roberts has bowel cancer
By Katie WrightBBC NewsImage source, ITVImage caption, Adele Roberts appeared on ITV’s I’m a Celebrity in 2019BBC Radio 1 presenter Adele Roberts has announced she is to undergo surgery for bowel cancer.Roberts, 42, who hosts Weekend Breakfast, said she was diagnosed at the start of the month and would have surgery to remove a tumour…