August 2019

Minnie Driver Has A Hilarious Airport Story About Chrissy Teigen And John Legend

Minnie Driver had a run-in at an airport with Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, chatting with a fellow traveler about the moment and failing to be recognized herself in the process. Over the weekend, Driver tweeted that she spotted the couple at an airport and was asked by the woman next to her if she […]

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Georgia voters challenge legality of new election system

Georgia voters who want hand-marked paper ballots are challenging the new election system state officials are rushing to implement in time for next year’s presidential primaries, saying the new touchscreen machines remain vulnerable and their results unverifiable, even though they produce paper records. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced the state’s purchase of a $106

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Wisconsin reinstates Cephus after sexual assault acquittal

Former Wisconsin receiver Quintez Cephus has been cleared to return to school after a jury acquitted him of sexual assault charges. University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced the decision Monday. The school says it obtained information that wasn’t provided during a student conduct review. The statement said sanctions against Cephus have been “reduced” and

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74% of economists in survey see US recession by end of 2021

A strong majority, 74%, of U.S. business economists appear sufficiently concerned about the risks of some of President Donald Trump’s economic policies that they expect a recession in the U.S. by the end of 2021. The economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics, in a report released Monday, mostly didn’t share Trump’s optimistic

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John Oliver Rips Trump’s ‘Tacit Endorsement’ Of China Crackdown On Hong Kong Protests

The HBO comedian chided the U.S. leader for barely knowing what’s going on in Hong Kong and for Trump’s recent comment that “they don’t need advice.” Oliver showed a clip in which Trump alluded to someone’s remark that China is “gonna wanna stop” the “rioting” ― “but that’s between Hong Kong and that’s between China

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Costa Coffee: Employees call £200 deductions for training ‘unfair’

Image copyright Costa Coffee Image caption “If the till or safe was ever incorrect, the staff that were in had to make it correct again using their own money,” said a former employee Costa Coffee employees at multiple stores claim they have had costs of £200 deducted from their final payslip for training, the BBC

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Maddy Freking Becomes 1st Girl To Pitch In Little League World Series Since Mo’ne Davis

Minnesota’s Maddy Freking on Sunday became just the sixth girl to pitch in the Little League World Series ― and perhaps the first to be compared with New York Mets star Noah Syndergaard by a Major League manager, USA Today reported. In a losing cause that eliminated her Midwest team, Maddy struck out a Southeast

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U.S. Companies Working With Huawei Get More Time to Stop

WASHINGTON — The United States will allow American companies to continue doing business with Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, for an additional 90 days, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Monday. The government’s reprieve is intended to give rural telecommunications companies in the United States more time to wean themselves off Huawei, which supplies many of

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