Month: April 2022

Rapper A$AP Rocky Taken Into Custody in LA in Connection to Shooting

U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky was taken into custody in connection to a November 2021 shooting as he arrived from Barbados at the Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, NBC News reported. Los Angeles Police Department officers and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained the 33-year-old artist who arrived on a private plane from the Caribbean…


Fire Forces Evacuation of Dorm at Texas University, 3 Hurt

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas—Three people were injured when a fire broke out early Wednesday at a residence hall at a Texas university, officials said. The fire happened shortly before 6 a.m. at a student housing building at Prairie View A&M University, about 45 miles northwest of Houston. The school said the dorm was evacuated and all…


US Gas Prices Rising Again: AAA

U.S. gas prices, which had been falling in recent days from their record highs in March, have begun to rise once more, based on data from the American Automobile Association (AAA). Regular gas prices averaged $4.114 per gallon nationwide on April 20, according to AAA, up by 0.75 percent when compared with $4.083 per gallon…


Florida Group Relaunches Campaign to Further Restrict Abortions in the State

NEWBERRY, Fla.—A pro-life group has announced it will try again to get a proposed state constitutional amendment—protecting all “human beings” with “a detectable heartbeat”—on ballots in Florida, this time aiming for the November 2024 election. The group’s first attempt, which began officially in November 2019, failed meet the state’s requirements to put the amendment on…


China’s ‘Asian Davos’ and the Moral Bankruptcy of World Elites

News Analysis China’s Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) kicked off on April 20. The three-day annual forum gathers world leaders from government, academia, and business in Boao, in China’s Hainan Province, to promote economic globalization and international cooperation. Conferences, seminars, and workshops will be convened to provide a “high-level venue” for dialogue and idea exchange…


Suspects Arrested in Connection With Arkansas Teen’s Kidnapping Being Held Without Bond

Two people suspected of kidnapping 17-year-old Trynytee Case of Arkansas near her workplace in downtown Hot Springs earlier this week were taken into custody on Tuesday, authorities say. The Hot Springs Police Department announced in an April 20 press release that Tennessee natives Samuel Wayne Bolling, 38, of Nashville and Dayla Diane Ferrer, 19, of Memphis…


How Genetics Is Giving Way to a New Science of Life

Test your understanding of the living world with this simple question. What kind of biomolecule is found in all living organisms? If your answer is “DNA”, you are incorrect. The mistake is very forgiveable though. The standard English-language biology education casts DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid) as the master molecule of life, coordinating and controlling most, if not all,…


Liberal Media: Hunter Biden Laptop Is Irrelevant and Uninteresting | Larry Elder

The editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine recently said she thought the Hunter Biden laptop story was irrelevant and not interesting to her. Maybe she never heard of Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner with the Biden family, who confirmed that Joe Biden had indeed discussed business decisions with Hunter, contrary to his claim that he…


Oil Range-Bound Following IMF Prediction of Lower Global Growth

Oil prices were trading range-bound on Wednesday after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) scaled down its global growth projections for 2022. Prices fluctuated as it received support from concerns about tighter supplies. Brent oil futures were trading at around $108.20 per barrel as of 13:42 UTC on April 20, very near to its opening price….


Mississippi Woman Wins Lawsuit Over ‘Vague Language’ Regulating Health Coaches

A Mississippi woman has won a lawsuit against the state after health officials tried to shut down a weight-loss course she offered through her personal training business in 2020. Even though weight loss has been a topic of conversation since the dawn of the convenient, sedentary lifestyle brought with it the side effect of obesity,…