news2shortsResults from Shell and Exxon this week will be weaker – and Trump’s desire to drill may result in oversupply Almost three years ago, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine wiped out Europe’s largest source of gas and shocked global energy markets, setting the stage for quarter after quarter of better-than-expected earnings for the fossil fuel producers … Read more
Republican lawmakers celebrated after the Senate narrowly confirmed Pete Hegseth as defense secretary on Friday. The Senate was split 50-50, with three Republicans — Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. — joining the Democrats in opposing Hegseth’s confirmation, forcing Vice President JD Vance to cast the tie-breaking vote. After Hegseth was … Read more
President Donald Trump is back in the White House and moving at warp speed to push through his long-awaited agenda with dozens of executive orders, surveying damaged areas in North Carolina and California, and rallying behind his Cabinet nominees to get confirmed. In his inauguration address on Monday, the new president vowed that things across … Read more
Figure skating’s ‘quad god’ takes aim at a third straight US national title starting on Saturday, but for the first time as the incumbent world champion No matter how you look at it, Ilia Malinin is already one of the most technically accomplished men’s figure skaters of all time. From his history-making quad axel, to … Read more
More than 200,000 children have been abducted by Russia since the start of its invasion of Ukraine, Chairman Emeritus of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said, citing U.S. estimates. “If a foreign adversary took 260,000 of our kids, and they were in indoctrination camps, I mean, how would we feel about that?” … Read more
Religious extremists from the US are bolstering local opposition by pouring money and messaging into the country under the guise of supporting ‘family values’ Sierra Leone is on the precipice of making history in its parliament this week. A new bill being debated would see a deadly centuries-old British colonial law abolished and monumental strides … Read more
President Donald Trump’s first week in office isn’t yet over, but he fulfilled his plan to “flood the zone” with a deluge of executive actions.
The president has wasted little time in pushing a radical rightwing agenda at the start of his second term This time last week Stewart Rhodes was serving an 18-year prison sentence for seditious conspiracy over his role in a deadly attack on the US Capitol. On Wednesday, two days after Donald Trump’s inauguration as president, … Read more
More than fifteen hundred of the January 6th rioters were pardoned by the President. What will they do next?
The global climate movement is already feeling the sting of the “Trump effect” after green energy policies were a target of President Donald Trump’s first executive orders, according to energy experts who reacted to the president’s first week in office. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States Monday, signing numerous … Read more
