Monthly Archives: January 2017

Next of kin have been informed of the deaths. The three people who died have not been formally identified, Surrey Police said. Insp Richard Hamlin said: “Fire officers been working hard to ensure the scene and structure of the building is safe to enter, and we will continue working with them today to maintain the […]

Alisher Usmanov, who has a stake in Arsenal, is said not to be involved at Everton but the heavy investment by USM, of which the Uzbek-Russian billionaire owns 48%, in Finch Farm has raised questions When Evertons major shareholders concluded years of searching for a mega-rich owner by selling just under 50% of the Who […]

Presidents senior adviser is registered in both New York and Florida, as president falsely claims in tweet that such an arrangement amounts to fraud A senior White House adviser to Donald Trump is registered to vote in two different states, a practice that the US president wrongly claimed amounted to electoral fraud on Wednesday as […]

of $16 million per mile multimillion-dollar effort signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Rep. Will Hurd, a Republican who represents borderlands that stretch from San Antonio to El Paso, also decried the executive order as wasteful and misguided. Border fencing might be effective in highly populated areas, he said, but rough terrain or protected natural […]

Executive order claims cities that provide refuge to undocumented migrants, including New York and Los Angeles, are in violation of immigration laws An executive order on sanctuary cities signed by Donald Trump on Wednesday has placed in the crosshairs campaign pledges to force compliance with federal immigration agencies in a bid to ramp up deportations. […]

Henry McMaster, newly sworn-in as governor, is a longtime member of the Forest Lake Club, which Bakari Sellers says is all-white A former South Carolina state legislator is reviving his calls for the states newly sworn-in governor, Henry McMaster, to withdraw his membership from Bakari Sellers, a one-time political opponent of the new governor. McMaster, […]

Pictured: Not Elon Musk.Image: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Being stuck in traffic is bad. You start to fantasize about all sorts of things that could stop the agony, like teleportation or, in Elon Musk’s case, building a tunnel that leads from the Los Angeles airport right to his SpaceX office. Only in Musk’s case, it […]

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, delivers a speech during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention.Image: Getty Images It looks like Peter Thiel wants a back-up plan. Whether his back-up wants him is another question. While investigating who owned a substantial property in Wanaka on New Zealand’s South Island, the […]

Evan Puschak, the man behind The Nerdwriter video series, has crafted a fantastically detailed breakdown of a single Louis C.K. joke about playing Monopoly with his two daughters.Any person who likes making people laugh should watch it. The joke, which is precisely 207 words long, is based around Louis daughter grappling with the fact that […]

Contrary to all evidence, the new US president will ignore climate change science and proceed with aggressive pro-oil and gas policies If there were any lingering doubts over Donald Trumps enthusiasm for shoving the US back into the smoggy embrace of fossil fuels, his decision to would not go ahead, stating that the refusal showed […]