Month: July 2022

Police Shoot Man After Officer Wounded With Weapon in Rough Vancouver Neighbourhood

Police in Vancouver shot and injured a man Saturday after an officer was allegedly attacked with a weapon while on patrol in the city’s Downtown Eastside. Const. Tania Visintin says in a statement two officers were sitting in their patrol vehicle Saturday morning when a man carrying a weapon struck one of the officers through…


AstraZeneca Lifts Revenue Guidance on COVID-19 Treatment

AstraZeneca said it expected prescriptions of its COVID-19 therapy to drive sales growth of more than 20 percent this year, as company reported second-quarter profit that topped analyst estimates. The injection, called Evusheld, which is designed to protect against COVID-19 infection for at least six months, has been deployed in many countries for people with…


LA County Moves Forward Plan to Turn Historic General Hospital Into Affordable Housing

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion July 26 to advance a plan to repurpose the county’s historic General Hospital to include hundreds of affordable housing units. Under the proposal introduced by Supervisor Hilda Solis, county departments must develop a financial plan and construction timeline for the project within 120 days. In…


Saudi-Born Canadian Gets Life Sentence in US for ISIS Propaganda Support, Terrorism

The U.S. Department of Justice says a Saudi-born Canadian citizen was sentenced to life in prison Friday for conspiring to provide support resulting in death to the terrorist organization ISIS. The Department of Justice statement says Mohammed Khalifa, 39, pleaded guilty last December in District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to a charge…


‘We Would Find Ourselves Actually Defending America, From Hawaii’: Newsham on China’s Pacific Threat

In this special episode, we sat down with Alex Gray, senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council and former director for Oceania and Indo-Pacific security at the U.S. National Security Council during the Trump administration; and Grant Newsham, retired Marine colonel and director of the One Korea Network. They discuss the importance of the…


‘This Is the Government Colluding With Big Tech’—AG Jeff Landry on the First Amendment Lawsuits He’s Leading

“What we found in what the whistleblowers put out was that the government was actually engaged—and the White House—in directly communicating with Big Tech on stories and information that they either wanted suppressed or put out,” says Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry. One of the most assertive attorney generals in the country, Landry has filed…


Zelenskyy Announces Mandatory Evacuation of Donetsk Region

KYIV—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday his government was ordering the mandatory evacuation of people in the eastern Donetsk region, scene of fierce fighting with Russia. In a late-night television address, Zelenskyy also said the hundreds of thousands of people still in combat zones in the larger Donbas region, which contains Donetsk as well…


Gluttonous Cosmic ‘Black Widow’ Is Heaviest-Known Neutron Star

WASHINGTON—Astronomers have observed the most massive known example of an object called a neutron star, one classified as a “black widow” that got particularly hefty by gobbling up most of the mass of a stellar companion trapped in an unhappy cosmic marriage. The researchers said the neutron star, wildly spinning at 707 times per second,…


Moms for Liberty Still Locked out of Twitter for Alleged ‘Hateful Conduct’ in Transgender Debate

A national parental rights group has been locked out of its Twitter account for nearly a week over a tweet condemning controversial proposed legislation that would make California a transgender sanctuary state. As of Saturday afternoon, Twitter had not responded to Moms for Liberty’s appeal. “I’m still locked out,” the group’s co-founder Tiffany Justice told…


2 Fatally Shot at West Virginia Nail Salon; Gunman Killed by Police

SUMMERSVILLE, W.Va.—A gunman fatally shot two people at a nail salon in West Virginia before officers fired at the shooter, killing him, police said. Summersville officers responded to an active shooter Thursday evening at Jo’s Nails & Spa, police said in a Facebook post Friday. Two officers shot the gunman, who was pronounced dead at…