Daily Mail

Texas Congressman Joe Barton has apologized for a leaked nude photo of him that is currently circulating online but says he no plans to resign over it.

The Republican from Ennis acknowledged the sexually explicit photo in a statement on Wednesday saying it was taken in recent years when he was separated from his second wife.

‘While separated from my second wife, prior to the divorce, I had sexual relationships with other mature adult women. Each was consensual. Those relationships have ended,’ the 68-year-old said in a statement.   Continue reading “Texas Congressman Joe Barton apologizes for leaked nude photo”

CNN

The average person takes 20,000 breaths a day. Since November 3, my husband, Rand Paul, has not taken a single one without pain. He has not had a single night’s sleep uninterrupted by long periods of difficult breathing or excruciating coughing.

As his wife, I have been distraught over seeing him suffer like this. There have been several nights where I had my hand on my phone ready to call 911 when his breathing became so labored it was terrifying.   Continue reading “Since the attack, my husband Rand Paul hasn’t taken a single breath without pain”

Daily Mail

Monaco is planning to reclaim 15 acres of land from the sea so that thousands more millionaires can move to the tax haven.

The £1.5billion project will provide luxury apartments at a time where the housing demand in the principality has peaked meaning the supply has run dry.

In order to accommodate those wanting to move to Monaco, the 10-year plan aims to recover land in the Mediterranean to build more homes in a move which has been given the green light by the reigning monarch Prince Albert II.   Continue reading “Monaco’s £1.5billion plan to reclaim land from the sea”

The Guardian

Scientists have warned there could be a big increase in numbers of devastating earthquakes around the world next year. They believe variations in the speed of Earth’s rotation could trigger intense seismic activity, particularly in heavily populated tropical regions.

Although such fluctuations in rotation are small – changing the length of the day by a millisecond – they could still be implicated in the release of vast amounts of underground energy, it is argued.   Continue reading “Upsurge in big earthquakes predicted for 2018 as Earth rotation slows”

Daily Mail

President Donald Trump hit out early Saturday at ‘crooked’ Hillary Clinton, his defeated election opponent.

Trump called Clinton ‘the worst (and biggest’ loser of all time’ for saying that his election victory has ‘lots of questions about its legitimacy.’

‘She just can’t stop, which is so good for the Republican Party,’ Trump tweeted on Saturday.   Continue reading “Trump calls ‘crooked’ Hillary Clinton ‘the worst (and biggest) loser’”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is hitting back at the growing bipartisan criticism of Rex Tillerson’s leadership and accusations he is presiding over a debilitating brain drain of the nation’s diplomatic corps. At the same time, it allowed that a lack of communication with employees about Tillerson’s intent to reorganize the department had contributed to low morale.   Continue reading “State Department defends reorganization, admits low morale”

Daily Mail

The deadly plague will never be eradicated, scientists have warned amid fears the situation in Madagascar is spiralling out of control.

At least 171 people have died in the country off the coast of Africa’s ‘worst outbreak in 50 years’ and 2,119 have been infected, World Health Organization figures show.

International aid workers are desperately battling to contain the ‘crisis’, which has prompted 10 nearby African countries to be placed on high alert by the WHO.   Continue reading “‘It’s not possible to eradicate plague’: Scientists warn”

Telegraph – by Sarah Knapton

The world’s first human head transplant has allegedly been performed on a corpse in an 18 hour operation which successfully connected the spine, nerves and blood vessels of two people.

The operation was carried out by a team led by Dr Xiaoping Ren of Harbin Medical University, China, who last year successfully grafted a head onto the body of a monkey.  Continue reading “World’s first human head transplant a success, controversial scientist claims”

USA Today

HAWTHORNE, Calif. — Elon Musk wears many masks. Internet entrepreneur. Electric car salesman. Rocket man.

Add trucker to the list.

Musk rolled silently into a long-anticipated and oft-delayed event here Thursday at the controls of Tesla Semi. The first electric big rig truck from a company known for its luxury electric long-range cars is a shot across yet another industry bow for the brash Tesla and SpaceX CEO who has vowed to remake automobiles, solar energy and space exploration.   Continue reading “Tesla Semi, an electric big rig truck with 500-mile range, rolls into reality”

Daily Mail

Sylvester Stallone was accused of sexual assault by a 16-year-old girl while he was filming a movie in Las Vegas in the late 1980s, according to a bombshell police report obtained by DailyMail.com.

The Rocky actor was 40 years old when an unnamed teenager disclosed to Las Vegas police that she had been ‘intimidated’ into having sex with him and his bodyguard Michael ‘Mike’ De Luca at the former Las Vegas Hilton hotel in July 1986.   Continue reading “Sylvester Stallone accused of forcing teen into threesome”

Chron – by Kelsey Bradshaw

Mexican cartels smuggle more drugs into the U.S. than any other criminal group, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration said in a new report.

The 2017 National Drug Threat Assessment released in October lists six cartels as having major influences across the country and Texas.

Cartels’ influence in Texas is far-reaching, affecting cities hundreds of miles from the state’s border with Mexico.   Continue reading “New report shows how Mexican cartels are infiltrating Texas”

Daily Mail

Fox News anchor Shepard Smith infuriated a large number of the network’s viewers on Tuesday after a six-minute segment in which he debunked far-right conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s alleged wrongdoing in a sale of American uranium.

The segment was surprising given that a number of broadcasters on Smith’s own network have promoted the idea that Clinton broke the law in approving the sale to foreign buyers who also donated to her husband’s foundation.

Smith said many claims about Clinton’s supposed role in the uranium sale were ‘inaccurate’ – even as President Donald Trump and his supporters are calling for a federal investigation.   Continue reading “Shepard Smith leaves viewers irate after six-minute segment debunking theory of Hillary Clinton’s ‘crimes’ in Uranium One deal”

Daily Mail

A sixth woman is claiming she was groped by President George H. W. Bush when she was 16 years old in 2003.

Roslyn Corrigan alleges that Bush, then 79 years old, groped her buttocks during a November 2003 event in The Woodlands, Texas, office of the Central Intelligence Agency,TIME reported.

The woman was attending an event with her father who had gathered with fellow intelligence officers and family members to meet the former president.    Continue reading “Sixth woman claims former President George H.W. Bush groped her while taking a photo when she was just 16 in 2003”

CNN

One autumn day in 2009, the price of gold topped $1,000 an ounce.

That nice, round number brought cheers on London trading floors and toasts in Manhattan bars, but it made a different noise in “Mother of God,” Peru.

Madre de Dios is a pristine chunk of the Amazon about the size of South Carolina, where macaws and monkeys, jaguars and butterflies thrive. It is some of the healthiest rainforest left on Earth and here, that $1000 number brought the sound of chain saws, diesel pumps and dirt bikes.   Continue reading “The modern gold rush that’s destroying the Amazon”

Telegraph

A cloud of radioactive pollution over Europe in recent weeks indicates that an accident has happened in a nuclear facility in Russia or Kazakhstan in the last week of September, French nuclear safety institute IRSN said on Thursday.

The IRSN ruled out an accident in a nuclear reactor, saying it was likely to be in a nuclear fuel treatment site or centre for radioactive medicine. There has been no impact on human health or the environment in Europe, the IRSN said.
Continue reading “Radioactive cloud over Europe may have come from nuclear accident in Russia or Kazakhstan”

Daily Mail

President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club has received permission to hire 70 foreign workers to fill out its staff during its upcoming busy season, after managers attested there aren’t enough Americans qualified and willing to do the work.

The president’s hiring of foreign workers at the Florida resort over several years was criticized by his opponents during the 2016 campaign after he slammed companies for moving jobs out of the U.S. and others for hiring immigrants in the country illegally.   Continue reading “Trump’s Mar-a-Lago gets approval to hire 70 foreign workers”

ZD Net – by Jonathan Chadwick

A driverless shuttle bus crashed less than two hours after it was launched in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

The city’s officials had been hosting an unveiling ceremony for the bus, described as the US’ first self-driving shuttle pilot project geared towards the public, before it crashed with a semi-truck.

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the human driver of the other vehicle was at fault, there were no injuries, and the incident caused minor damage.   Continue reading “Self-driving bus crashes two hours after launch in Las Vegas”

The Sun – by Jacob Dirnhuber

A MUSIC fan has been left with a huge bill after his voice-operated Amazon Echo device threw a house party while he was away.

Cops were forced to break into Oliver Haberstroh’s flat in Hamburg, Germany, after neighbours complained about deafening music blasting from inside – but found the apartment empty.   Continue reading “Cops raid music fan’s flat after his Alexa Amazon Echo device ‘holds a party on its own’ while he was out”

Daily Mail

Skyrocketing rents in California’s Silicon Valley have led to thousands of so-called ‘working homeless’ taking to the streets, casualties of a tech boom that has left many behind.

In the same affluent, suburban city of Mountain View, California – where Google built its headquarters – Tes Saldana lives in a crowded but tidy camper she parks on the street.

She concedes it’s ‘not a very nice living situation,’ but it also is not unusual.    Continue reading “Homelessness surges in Silicon Valley”

Daily Mail

In recent years, scientists have made great strides toward harnessing nuclear fusion, in hopes to one day create reactors that produce near-limitless clean energy.

But now, a pair of researchers has discovered a new subatomic event that releases energy in amounts beyond all expectations.

Scientists found that certain types of elementary particles known as quarks can achieve fusion in a powerful ‘quarksplosion,’ resulting in eight times more energy than that released in the individual processes at the heart of hydrogen bombs.   Continue reading “Groundbreaking ‘quarksplosion’ discovery can make ten times as much energy as nuclear fusion”