Month: November 2020

Sport in England took a major step towards resuming today, as the government announced the latest easing in lockdown measures would allow pools (outdoor and indoor) and gyms to reopen. Advertisement Outdoor pools will be the first to welcome swimmers back in the water, with a date of 11th July set (although check your lido’sRead moreRead more

Following the news last week that grassroot sports can return to England, British Triathlon have produced a set of guidelines for clubs, coaches and event organisers to follow. These are designed to ensure each event is as Covid-secure as possible, and safe for participants. Advertisement From the 18th July English clubs and coaches can hostRead moreRead more

New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan on Monday publicly challenged her paper’s decision to ignore last week’s revelations that the National Security Agency shares unfiltered raw data intelligence files with the Israeli government. The story, which was based on classified documents revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and reported by Glenn Greenwald, Laura PoitrasRead moreRead more

For the first time in 17 years the U.S. government began a partial shutdown of government programs Tuesday morning following a failure across the House and Senate to agree on a stop-gap budget proposal before its midnight deadline. Click Here: cheap all stars rugby jersey As Wall Street looked shaky among uneasy implications for theRead moreRead more

The government shutdown is over, but the drive for austerity endures. President Obama, early Thursday morning, signed a bill passed by both chambers of Congress on Wednesday that reopened the federal government and raised the nation’s borrowing limit, ending a more than two-week showdown in Washington that received near-constant media attention. The Senate passed theRead moreRead more

Scientists have long known that climate change is warming the arctic at an alarming rate. But new research shows that in some areas—where human-caused climate change has driven temperatures higher than they’ve been for tens of thousands of years—melting polar ice caps are now beyond any hope of saving. A study announced this week confirmsRead moreRead more

The U.S. military, according to one former diplomat with a frontrow seat to its drone policy in Yemen, is creating new terrorists in that country at breakneck speed. In an article published at TomDispatch earlier this week, the site’s editor Tom Engelhardt gave the recent and ongoing counterterrorism strategy of the U.S. military an unkindRead moreRead more

In an letter written recently to Vladimir Putin, former ‘Fab Four’ rocker Paul McCartney urged the Russian president to “use whatever influence you have” to free the 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists currently held in a detention facility in St. Petersburg and reunite them with their families. In the letter the former Beatle saysRead moreRead more

Anthony Bowens and Max Caster have signed with AEW. AEW President Tony Khan confirmed today via an interview with PWInsider that Bowens and Caster have signed, and will be going forward as a team under the name The Acclaimed. PWInsider also reported that Bowens had WWE interest prior to signing with AEW. Bowens and CasterRead moreRead more

New research reveals that the amount of the potent greenhouse gas methane escaping from an area in the Arctic is over twice the amount previously estimated. For the study published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers looked at the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, a 2-million square kilometer area off the coast of Northern Siberia,Read moreRead more