Postal workers and their allies in Congress pledge to defend themselves after the new chief of the U.S. Postal Service, a major donor to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, moved this week to impose radical changes on the Popular government agency when faced with a financial crisis fabricated …
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Japan “extremely concerned” as 136 COVID cases reported at US bases
Okinawa, Japan – the biggest coronavirus The outbreak within the U.S. military anywhere in the world continues to grow. US forces in Japan confirmed another 36 on Wednesday Infections between troops on the Japanese island of Okinawa, bringing the total to at least 136 since the U.S. Army reported its …
Read More »Michael Goodwin: Why is Bari Weiss’s resignation letter “devastating to The New York Times”?
Fox News contributor Michael Goodwin said ex-opinion columnist Bari Weiss’s scathing letter of resignation to the New York Times is “devastating” to the news organization. “I have to say that the picture he paints of what is happening there is worse than I suspected,” the New York Post columnist and …
Read More »Coronavirus: smokers quit in greater numbers in a decade
Image copyright fake pictures More than a million people have quit smoking since the Covid-19 pandemic, suggests a survey by the charity Action on Smoking and Health (Ash). Of those who had quit smoking in the previous four months, 41% said it was a direct response to the coronavirus. Separately, …
Read More »Comet NEOWISE seen by more NASA spacecraft (video, photos)
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) is not the only spacecraft that is observing comets these days. PSP broke a beautiful image of the bright comet NEOWISE on July 5, two days after the icy bum hit perihelion, its closest approach to the sun. The PSP photo clearly shows twin tails …
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