Rights groups are increasingly worried that El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison is becoming a “black hole” for the United States to rid itself of expelled migrants or other unwanted people with no legal consequences. A US senator who traveled to the Central American country Wednesday to try and retrieve a man wrongly deported and locked … Read more
SpaceX is calling on the FCC to “swiftly” approve its plan to upgrade the Starlink network with gigabit speeds, touting the benefits while firing back at its critics. “SpaceX urges its competitors to direct their energy away from anticompetitive attacks on responsible US systems and toward improving the sustainability of their own unreliable or unproven … Read more
A far-right, pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported from the United States. Betar U.S. is known to have had several meetings with senior government officials and has claimed credit for the arrest and … Read more
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entered this year facing a knot of political problems with little precedent in his two decades at the summit of power in Turkey. Voters were angry about persistently high inflation. His political party’s popularity had sunk. And his opponents had coalesced around the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, who made it … Read more
Summary Swen Vincke defends single-player games, emphasizing quality is key to success in the gaming industry. Numerous layoffs in the industry highlight unpredictability of success, regardless of a game’s performance. High-quality single-player games still have a place in the market despite claims that the genre is dying due to revenue concerns. The director of Baldur’s … Read more
US prosecutors charged ten Chinese citizens and two government agents for computer hacks that targeted dissidents, religious groups, news outlets and American government agencies. The Chinese government paid Anxun Information Technology Co., a cybersecurity firm also known as i-Soon, to hack and steal information in a manner that obscured its involvement, the US alleges. Eight … Read more
Credit: Center for Strategic & International Studies via Wikimedia Commons Although Hunter Biden got away with multiple crimes thanks to his father’s unprecedented pardon, he still faces punishment for his conduct before the District of Columbia Bar. Even presidential clemency cannot shield him from possible suspension of his law license. But former President Biden’s pardon … Read more
With all the new Netflix movies to watch every month, sometimes all you need is a nostalgic flick to bring back some fond memories. So when I learned that the James Gunn-written live-action adaptation Scooby-Doo was leaving Netflix on February 28, I had to revisit this outrageously fun cult classic. Prior to his success of … Read more
Demi Moore, Zoe Saldana, Kieran Culkin and Adrien Brody are among the big winners of this year’s Critics Choice Awards. Moore took home the best actress award for her performance in The Substance, in which she plays a fading Oscar winner who discovers a black-market drug to create a younger model of herself. The prize … Read more
Greece on Friday toughened penalties for domestic violence in an effort to address a surge in reported cases, though critics said the new legislation did not go far enough and left out crucial measures aimed at prevention. During fiery debates in Parliament, opposition legislators said that the conservative government, led by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, … Read more