US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has said the US has funded more than 120 biological laboratories in over 30 countries, while also announcing a policy shift under President Donald Trump to end federal support for gain-of-function research worldwide.The disclosures were made on Thursday and were based on newly declassified intelligence material. This disclosure…
Few political thinkers have left behind a quote as unsettling as this one. At first glance, it appears simple. On closer inspection, it challenges one of the most common assumptions about evil: That terrible acts are mainly committed by obviously wicked people.For Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century’s most influential political theorists, the greater…
Suspect dead after West Texas shooting kills 1 and injures at least 9 others At least a dozen people were shot in Midland Texas on Friday morning prompting an hourslong standoff though it is not yet known what led up to the mass shooting. The shooter wa dead, mayor Lori Blong confirmed. “We do have…
MrBeast (Image Via Getty) MrBeast is just one subscriber away from making YouTube history. On June 12, the world’s biggest YouTube creator began livestreaming as his channel reached 499,999,999 subscribers, putting him on the edge of an achievement no creator has ever reached before. According to Dexerto, the livestream was created so fans could watch…
TOI correspondent from Washington: “Taco Thursday” has turned to faltering Friday as a sketchy American peace deal with Iran remained tantalizingly out of reach despite US President Donald Trump’s optimistic projections just hours earlier. Trump himself appeared to reel back expectations on Friday morning calling Iranians “very dishonorable people to deal with” after alleging that…
Indian-origin Sarina Gupta opened up about the racial attack that she faced at a supermarket in Connecticut. The Indian-origin woman from the viral video of a supermarket in Stamford, Connecticut, broke her silence and identified herself as Sarina Gupta, the woman who was told to go back to her country and to eat bacon by…
10 essential life lessons from Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett’s philosophy stretches far beyond the balance sheets of Berkshire Hathaway. Over decades of writing his legendary annual shareholder letters and speaking to students, he has created a framework for living a rational, deliberate, and high-integrity life. Here are 10 life lessons extracted from his huge body…
A light-hearted exchange between Hunter Biden and California governor Gavin Newsom sparked attention around the 2028 US presidential race, with Biden joking that he would only enter politics under one condition: serving as Newsom’s running mate.The remark came during an upcoming episode of Newsom’s programme, This Is Gavin Newsom, where the governor playfully introduced his…
Yug B Chauhan (left) was the courier tasked with picking up $700k in gold from an old woman. An alert store owner (right) informed the police and filled the bag with golden chocolate coins. A 79-year-old widow in Michigan received a sudden phone call informing her that her Social Security funds were being misused to…
A human brain that may date back more than two millennia has been recovered from a skull unearthed near York, offering an unusual case of soft tissue survival in Iron Age archaeology. The remains were first excavated in 2008 from a waterlogged pit at Heslington, where conditions appear to have slowed the normal process of…
