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With nearly two-thirds of the United States abnormally dry or worse, the government’s spring forecast offers little hope for relief, especially in the West where a devastating megadrought has taken root and worsened. Weather service and agriculture officials warned of possible water use cutbacks in California and the Southwest, increased wildfires, low levels in key reservoirs such as Lake Mead and Lake Powell and damage to wheat crops. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s official spring outlook Thursday sees an expanding drought with a drier than normal April, May and June for a large swath of the country from Louisiana...

The French capital Paris is set to go into a month-long Covid lockdown as the country fears a third wave. Another 15 departments in the country will also be placed under the same measures from midnight on Friday. These measures will not be as strict as the previous lockdown, Prime Minister Jean Castex said, with people allowed to exercise outdoors. France has recorded more than 35,000 new infections within the past 24 hours. Mr Castex said a "third wave" of infections in the country was looking increasingly likely. The situation in Paris is particularly worrying with 1,200 people in intensive...

LONDON (Reuters) - Securities settlement for Irish assets worth more than 100 billion euros ($119 billion) has left London for the European Union in the latest adjustment in markets to Brexit. Pan-European exchange Euronext, which runs the Irish stock exchange, said on Thursday it had completed the migration of securities settlement for 50 Irish companies from Crest in London to Euroclear Bank in Brussels from March 15.

"I've created controversy before so I'm used to it, you know, the degree of outrage was a little more than I'm used to but I have experience," Ho added, "white supremacy is not on the rise" but nationalism is, which he called a "reasonable response to globalism."

The first woman to publicly accuse Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment claimed he once boorishly joked that he would “mount” her if he were a dog, a new report said. Lindsey Boylan, a former aide to the governor, revealed Cuomo’s creepy remark in a lengthy interview with The New Yorker‘s Ronan Farrow, telling him that Cuomo made the gross joke in 2018 after a meeting at the Governor’s mansion.

My latest protest song. Say her name.

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) touted on Thursday the need for Congress to pass voting rights legislation as a number of Republican-run states, including Georgia, eye restrictions to the ballot box. “It is almost impossible to overstate how important this really is. We are at an inflection point. This is a moral moment in America, a defining moment in our history. Voting rights is not just one issue alongside other issues. It is about who we say we are, it is about our covenant with one another as an American people,” he said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “And so we’ve got...

House Democrats voted unanimously Wednesday, along with four Republicans, to "resuscitate" the ERA, even though the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who long advocated the plan, admitted it was dead and gone. "This was ERA’s poorest showing in the House in 50 years," said Douglas D. Johnson, senior policy advisor to the National Right to Life Committee and director of its ERA Project. "Only 52% of voting House members supported ERA today, compared to 94% in 1971, and 56% in 2020. Today’s tally was 62 votes below the two-thirds margin that the Constitution requires to perform grown-up constitutional amending, as...

The wrist device is capable of reading neurological signals sent from a users’ brain down to their hands. It could theoretically read these signals to get a sense of what a user wants to do and replicate the action in a virtual or augmented reality environment. The Facebook researchers demonstrated “force” actions where a user could pinch with their fingers in real life to hold and control virtual, far-away objects in augmented reality. The name of the action is a reference to the Star Wars franchise where certain characters can use the Force to control and move people or objects...

It comes weeks after the country’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling that its drivers were workers, not independent contractors. While the decision applied to a small group of drivers, thousands more have taken action against the company. And experts have warned it could have major implications for the broader gig economy. For Dan Ives, managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities, the move represents a “gut punch” for Uber’s prospects in the U.K. “We believe the company will reduce its footprint of drivers and ridesharing by roughly 30% over the next 12 to 18 months,” Ives told CNBC via...

Emails reveal the strategy behind the new regulation to come. President Biden wants Congress to pass climate legislation, but that faces political obstacles. No worries - state Democratic Attorneys General are conspiring with green groups on a regulatory Plan B.

* Google plans to open new offices in Houston and Portland, CEO Sundar Pichai said Thursday. * Google unveiled plans to spend $7 billion on offices and data centers across 19 states. * Pichai said the expansions would create at least 10,000 new full-time jobs in the US this year. Google plans to ramp up its real estate by investing more than $7 billion in offices and data centers across 19 states, despite the growing momentum for companies to let employees work from home permanently The tech giant's investment plans, announced Thursday, include spending more than $1 billion in the...

Now, in a new study published in the journal Science Robotics, researchers led by ICREA Research Professor Samuel Sánchez and his team "Smart Nano-Bio-Devices" at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), together with the group Radiochemistry & Nuclear Imaging Lab from CIC biomaGUNE lead by Jordi Llop and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), have managed to observe in vivo the collective behavior of a large number of autonomous nanorobots inside the bladder of living mice using radioactive isotope labeling. "The fact of having been able to see how nanorobots move together, like a swarm, and of following them...

Trump voters are more likely to trust doctors than politicians when it comes to the efficacy of the coronavirus vaccine, but don't want to hear from White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, pollster Frank Luntz told "Special Report." Luntz told host Bret Baier he conducted a focus group last weekend with 19 Trump voters from across the nation, most of whom expressed "real concern, doubt, if not distrust of Anthony Fauci and what he has to say." "I have tuned him out, frankly, I have no opinion anymore," respondent Doug from California told Luntz. Other members of the...

Powerful panel discussion regarding Constitutional rights, will of the people, church responsibility, etc. Link to Panel

In a new 11-year deal with broadcast partners that starts in 2023, the NFL is getting more than $100 billion, The Post’s Andrew Marchand has learned. Amazon Prime Video is getting exclusive rights to “Thursday Night Football” as part of the new package, and ESPN/ABC is getting two Super Bowls, the first in 2026. ESPN is keeping “Monday Night Football,” NBC is retaining “Sunday Night Football” and Fox and CBS are holding onto their respective Sunday afternoon packages. NBC will simulcast games on its Peacock streaming service. CBS will do the same with Paramount+. ESPN+ is getting one exclusive international...

Another rough day for Jack Ma as Beijing continues big tech crackdownBeijing has pulled Alibaba’s UC Browser from Chinese app stores amid accusations of unfair play and a government crackdown on tech. UC Browser is made by Chinese mobile Internet company UCWeb, a subsidiary of Alibaba, that on a state-owned TV channel was accused of luring users away from their intended online search target by allowing private hospitals to bid for the names of well-known hospitals in keyword searches. The browser has since vanished from app stores including those run by Huawei, Xiaomi and Tencent. The browser remains available on...

Since January 20th, we’ve known the Biden “presidency” has been completely faked, but we haven’t had smoking gun proof of the fakery… until now. A video, posted by Bloomberg’s Quicktake video channel and covered by InfoWars, appears to show Joe Biden walking toward a group of reporters and telling them he has no plans to visit the border. But the video reveals an obvious video layer compositing error when the hands of the virtual Joe Biden appear in front of microphones which are supposed to be in the foreground of the frame.

Justice Clarence Thomas is the most popular Supreme Court justice among Republicans, according to a new poll released this week. A YouGov survey found that more respondents who identify as Republicans had a favorable opinion of Thomas than felt that way about Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh. Thomas was rated favorably by 59 percent of Republicans, compared to 55 percent for Barrett and 53 percent for Kavanaugh. Thomas is the longest-serving conservative, having been confirmed in 1991, and the only African American on the high court. Kavanaugh and Barrett were both nominated by former President Trump and were...

Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware was seen joining a Senate hearing from a train while not wearing a mask despite President Biden’s executive order mandating masks be worn on public transportation. “Senator Carper is zooming on a train during a hearing,” CSPAN’s Jeremy Art tweeted Wednesday of a Senate hearing on drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. If I'm jumping around, it's because the train is jumping around. I'm not jittery,” Carper, a Democrat, said, adding that it was the first time joining a hearing in such a setting. Some social media users pointed out that Biden signed an executive order...