President Biden disputed the Saudi foreign minister’s account of whether he raised the issue of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder with Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman. Then the White House bizarrely edited the official transcript to soften Biden’s statement.Continue Reading
A growing body of evidence points to an archaeological dig just northeast of the Dead Sea as the site of ancient Sodom.Continue Reading
Suburban swing voters are leaving the Democratic Party in droves. Associated Press reports that voter registrations show more than 1 million voters have switched to the Republican Party over the last year.Continue Reading
Friday’s ruling by the Supreme Court ended federal protection for abortions and returns the matter of legality to the several states. Contrary to the claims of some commentators, this does not open the door to revisit same-sex marriage, interracial marriage, or contraception.Continue Reading
A devastating fire hit a poultry farm in Minnesota that supplies the nation’s largest supermarkets with three million eggs a day. This is the latest in a string of mystery fires and explosions to hit dozens of food processing plants in North America over the past year.Continue Reading
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told the World Economic Forum last week that his company has developed microchipped pills that can monitor compliance. So much for medical autonomy.Continue Reading
Everyone is pointing fingers after a school in a contested region of eastern Ukraine was hit by artillery. The US and UK governments still insist that an invasion of Ukraine by Russia is imminent.Continue Reading
Eight people were killed and hundreds injured at rapper Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston last Friday. His stage looked like a portal to the netherworld at the base of a mountain, an image that evokes Mount Hermon and the Grotto of Pan.Continue Reading
500 private jets flew into Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit this week. It appears world leaders aren’t as worried about climate change as they’d like us to think.Continue Reading
Media has been silent on a scandal highlighted by Elon Musk over the weekend: African children as young as nine were sexully abused by UN workers in exchange for food aid. Meanwhile, nearly two dozen WHO staff have been accused of sexual abuse in Congo.Continue Reading