Matt Rife performing in Washington, DC, for the Netflix special Natural Selection. | Mathieu Bitton/Netflix Matt Rife’s one comedy rule: Be funny. The problem: He isn’t. Comedian Matt Rife’s debut Netflix special Natural Selection may be a hit — the show premiered in the top 10...
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The world economy will slow next year because of inflation, high rates and war, OECD says
File – A crane lifts a shipping container at an automated container port in Tianjin, China, Jan. 16, 2023. The global economy, which has proved surprisingly resilient this year, is expected to falter next year under the strain of wars, still-elevated inflation and continued high interest...
Continue reading...US life expectancy no longer catastrophic, now merely bad
A crowd of people gathers in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, in February 2020. | Jeff Swensen/Getty Images 4 big takeaways from the CDC’s new report. US life expectancy increased this past year, from 76.4 to 77.5 years, according to a report published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease...
Continue reading...Threats against the free press part of Trump’s far-right vision
Donald Trump’s radical blueprint for a second term is multifaceted, but his interest in cracking down on the free press is a key piece of an ugly mosaic.
Continue reading...Indian Government ‘Employee’ Conspired To Kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, Claims US
New Delhi: In a major development, the United States has charged an Indian national with the conspiracy to assassinate Khalistani sympathiser Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. The US Justice Department said that an Indian government employee working with others directed a plot to assassinate a political activist. US...
Continue reading...Why cheating is allowed on game shows
A lot of today’s contests are edited and rigged. But it wasn’t always that way. Today’s game shows, whether they’re Mr. Beast on YouTube or Storage Wars on cable, often feature sensationalistic editing, recreations, and straight-up fixing. But it wasn’t always that way. As the above...
Continue reading...Couple becomes first in Nepal to officially register same-sex marriage
FILE- Same-sex couple Surendra Pandey, right, and Maya Gurung, who got married six years ago, pose for a photograph during an interview with the Associated Press in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, June 29, 2023. The gay couple on Wednesday, Nov. 29, became the first in the nation...
Continue reading...At NATO, untangling Ukraine and Israel is the Biden administration’s challenge
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives a press conference as part of the Nato Foreign Ministers meeting on Ukraine at Nato Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP) (Saul Loeb/AP) At NATO, untangling Ukraine and Israel is the Biden...
Continue reading...Schumer condemns antisemitism in Senate floor speech
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., delivered an address on the Senate floor to condemn the rise of antisemitism in the U.S. amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Continue reading...Canadian government reaches C-18 online news deal with Google
The Canadian government has reached a deal with Google over the Online News Act known as C-18, Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge announced Wednesday. The agreement will see the tech giant continue to share Canadian news content, and in return Google will make $100 million in...
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