According to Variety, Gregory’s death was confirmed by his family in an Instagram post. “The family appreciates the outpouring of support and love and respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very difficult time,” read the post ...
Read More »First US Company To Microchip Employees
Three Square Market, located in Wisconsin, is going to be the first US company to implant microchips to its employees. The company announced a project, according to which the microchips will be implanted to volunteers from among employees. Subcutaneous chips ...
Read More »CNN Exclusive: US suspects Russian hackers planted fake news behind Qatar crisis
The FBI recently sent a team of investigators to Doha to help the Qatari government investigate the alleged hacking incident, Qatari and US government officials say, according to CNN. Intelligence gathered by the US security agencies indicates that Russian hackers ...
Read More »North Korea test-fires ballistic missile in defiance of world pressure
North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile on Saturday shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned that failure to curb Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs could lead to “catastrophic consequences”, according to Reuters. U.S. and South Korean officials ...
Read More »US ‘armada’ was nowhere near North Korea
A senior administration official blamed a miscommunication between the Pentagon and the White House over reports that the aircraft carrier has not made its way to the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, as an expected show ...
Read More »Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush hospitalized in Houston
Family spokesman Jim McGrath said the 92-year-old former president was hospitalized on Friday “for observation due to a persistent cough that prevented him from getting proper rest,” according to Reuters. “It was subsequently determined he had a mild case of ...
Read More »New York Becomes Only State to Offer Free Four-Year College
The state’s Excelsior Scholarship program will be rolled out in tiers over the next three years, starting with full coverage of four-year college tuition this fall for students whose families make less than $100,000, according to NBC News. The income ...
Read More »Russia’s cruise missile-armed frigate heading for Syria’s Tartus — TASS agency
The Russian Black Sea Fleet’s frigate The Admiral Grigorovich, currently on a routine voyage, is to enter the Mediterranean later on Friday, a military-diplomatic source in Moscow told TASS, adding that the ship would make a stop at the logistics ...
Read More »Don Rickles, Comedy’s Equal Opportunity Offender, Dies at 90
The cause was kidney failure, said a spokesman, Paul Shefrin, according to The New York Times. For more than half a century, on nightclub stages, in concert halls and on television, Mr. Rickles made outrageously derisive comments about people’s looks, ...
Read More »Toronto schools will no longer allow student trips to US
Toronto District School Board expressed concern over how the US immigration policy could affect students on school trips, Joinfo.com reports with reference to CNN. “We strongly believe that our students should not be placed into these situations of potentially being ...
Read More »New Zealand expels U.S. diplomat with black eye after ‘incident’: media
New Zealand has expelled an attache at the U.S. Embassy after Washington declined to waive his right to diplomatic immunity after an “incident” which gave him a broken nose and a black eye, media and authorities said, Joinfo.com reports with ...
Read More »US Northeast prepares for snowstorm
As much as two feet of snow was forecast for some areas Tuesday, whipped by damaging winds. States of emergency were declared in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Connecticut, according to NBC News. “We’re not kidding with this. ...
Read More »The 10 Best Places To Live In The U.S.
U.S. News & World Report released its annual lineup of the Best Places to Live in the U.S., Joinfo.com reports with reference to Huffington Post. Their experts combined statistical analysis with a survey of 2,000 people to rate the country’s ...
Read More »Euro ‘could collapse in 18 months’ – man tipped as US ambassador to EU
Professor Ted Malloch said he would “short the euro” – taking a market position which bets on the value of the currency falling, the BBC reports. He also said Britain could agree a “mutually beneficial” free trade deal with America ...
Read More »One dead, 5 injured in Texas mall shooting
Police Chief William McManus said two suspects robbed a jewelry store at the Rolling Oaks Mall on Sunday, CTV reports. “What we have here is a robbery gone really, really bad,” McManus said. After the suspects fled the store, a ...
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