Patriotic Millionaires” Call for Higher Taxes on the Wealthy
In an open letter to their wealthy “colleagues”, more than 120 personalities, including a Disney heiress and the former CEO of Unilever, advocate higher taxes ...
Unionization at its lowest level in the United States
Just over 10% of American workers are now unionized. That’s half as many as in the early 1980s. Unions attribute this drop to increasingly restrictive ...
Impeachment: Democrats Dramatize Donald Trump Trial Issue
The 100 senators listened in silence on Wednesday as Democratic Chief Prosecutor Adam Schiff reviewed the history of the case that led to the impeachment ...
Fires in Australia: Water bomber plane crashes, killing three people
Firefighters face an increase in fires fuelled by gusts and rising mercury levels A water-bombing plane crashed in a mountainous area southwest of Sydney, killing ...
China quarantines Wuhan, the city at the heart of the mysterious virus.
The latest death toll, released by the Chinese authorities on the evening of Wednesday 22 January, was 17 dead and 500 people infected. China is ...
Australia: giant hailstones and sandstorms
Rain was eagerly awaited in Australia, especially in New South Wales and Victoria. And it must be said that they were consistent and even stormy, ...
IPhone: FBI succeeds in unlocking the latest model without Apple’s help
With the help of a case called GrayKey which costs 30,000 dollars, it is possible to unlock a latest model iPhone. As part of an ...
A teenager discovers a planet after a three-day internship at NASA
Seventeen-year-old Wolf Cukier pointed out the existence of a new planet the size of Earth called YOU 1338b. While an internship in a company can ...
Amazon dreams of turning your hand into a credit card
The American giant has filed a patent application for a “contactless biometric identification system,” reveals the Wall Street Journal. Amazon aspires to reduce the bank ...
IMF predicts “sluggish recovery” in global growth
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its global growth forecast for this year on Monday due to a sharper than expected slowdown in India and ...