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Scientists who accidentally came across bizarre life forms on a boulder way beneath Antarctica’s ice shelves are surprised (and puzzled) by their incidental discovery. The find, which was published in Frontiers in Marine Science on Monday, came about as researchers drilled through nearly 3,000 feet of ice in the southeastern Weddell Sea (the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf) when they saw […]
Dominion Voting Systems is planning to file a lawsuit against Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO whose MAGA-supporting behavior includes the spreading of baseless election fraud claims. Speaking with the Daily Beast on Tuesday, Tom Clare—an attorney repping Dominion—said the company expects to file the suit in question “imminently” and noted Lindell’s repeated instances of false […]
A federal lawsuit accusing Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Proud Boys, and Oath Keepers of conspiring to incite a violent riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 has been filed by the NAACP and the civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll. The suit, backed by Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson and other members of […]
On Monday, Parler, the social media site preferred by conservatives, came back online. The site, which is now redesigned, had effectively been taken off the internet a month ago when Amazon Web Services suspended it. It was also suspended from the app stores of Apple and Google. “Speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of […]
Health maintenance organization (HMO) Clalit, the largest healthcare provider in Israel, has reported a drop of 94 percent of symptomatic COVID-19 infections from a group of 600,000 people who have gotten both of the necessary doses of the Pfizer vaccine, according to Reuters. HMO Clalit covers more than half of Israel’s population, and also reported that […]
Congratulations are in order for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, who are “overjoyed” to confirm that they are expecting their second child, per Variety. The couple’s friend and photographer Misan Harriman helped with their announcement by sharing a black-and-white photo she snapped of the two with Meghan’s hand over her bump on Instagram. The news comes months before their first […]
A Joe Biden aide has resigned from his post amid backlash over threats he made to a female reporter, Deadline reports. White House deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo announced his departure via Twitter on Saturday, just a day after he was placed on a one-week suspension without pay. “No words can express my regret, my embarrassment, and my […]
A chemistry professor working at the University of New Hampshire resigned on Friday after being investigated for impersonating an immigrant woman of color on Twitter to post racist and sexist tweets. We don’t know the name of the offending party, but as the Associated Press reports, his resignation followed the conclusion of a four-month investigation […]
As Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial draws nearer to a Senate vote, determining Trump’s state of mind during the Capitol riots becomes more and more crucial. To ascertain whether Trump is responsible for the mob he lit a fire under on Jan. 6, senators need to establish whether Trump thought of the mob attack as the […]
Florida’s loose approach to the coronavirus pandemic is playing out in ways that are entirely predictable. The state is currently has more confirmed cases of the new UK coronavirus variant than any other and is on-pace to break its own monthly record for deaths nearly one year into the epidemic. The Orlando Sentinel reports that […]
