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Wright Electric, an electric aircraft start-up founded in 2016, announced a new project - the Wright Spirit, which joins the previously announced Wright 1 flagship. The Wright Spirit is a 100-passenger electric airliner envisioned for one-hour flights, equipped with four, "megawatt-class" motors. The initial design is based on the BAe 146 platform: "The Wright Spirit aircraft design builds on the BAe 146 platform - a 100 passenger, 4-engine aircraft known for its operation out of noise-sensitive airports." According to the press release, the prototype will begin flight testing with one electric motor (and, as we understand, three conventional engines),...

At 5 p.m. in Denver, the suspect shot two women and injured a man. He then shot and killed a man nearby. Pazen said that the suspect then fired shots at a third location but no one was injured. Officers identified a car associated with the suspect and exchanged gunfire at a fourth location when he disabled the police vehicle and fled to Lakewood, Pazen said. The suspect shot at the Lakewood police, ditched his car and escaped on foot. He entered a Hyatt Hotel and shot at a clerk, who was taken to a hospital. After he left the...

For many Toyota owners, the words “unintended acceleration” bring back unpleasant memories. However, the phenomenon they describe hasn’t been exclusive to the Japanese automaker; the latest company to face this issue is Hyundai, which is recalling some 2,679 Ioniq Electric hatchbacks in the United States. First brought to the attention of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on December 7, 2021, the recall targets certain 2017–2019 Hyundai Ioniq Electric vehicles built on January 21, 2016 through June 24, 2019 by Hyundai Motor Company in Korea for sale in the United States. In these affected vehicles, “unexpected acceleration following gas pedal...

CDC Changes Rules, Shortens Quarantine for Vaxxed and Unvaxxed, Cancels Any Self Quarantine for Boosted Group Even When Positive Test for VirusDecember 27, 2021 | sundance | 435 Comments[Prequel: Hopefully y’all have done your preparatory diligence, and are well situated to assist your family, because everything in the U.S. economic system is now around 30 days from entering the SNAFU phase. This CDC shift is predictably part of it.]Last week the narrative was “the winter of death” is coming. That effort didn’t faze anyone; the White House shifted messaging within days.The latest public guidance from the Centers for Disease Control...

SNIP NPR music critic Ann Powers uncorked a long, unforgiving treatise on how it doesn’t matter that the Beatles were progressive and loved Black music because they were still somehow part of making rock music white and exclusionary: “Rock’s defining narrative still stands alongside others that reflect the historic segregation of Anglo-American social spheres.” The Beatles and the Rolling Stones wouldn’t play segregated venues and paid tribute to Black musicians who inspired them. But Powers wrote, “As they became rock’s norm, they allowed white fans to enjoy what the late great music writer Greg Tate identified as a pasteurized form...

President Biden returned to Delaware for the 31st time since taking office Monday as the surging Omicron variant of COVID-19 dashed his plans for a post-Christmas vacation in Puerto Rico. Biden will stay at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach with first lady Jill Biden and new first puppy Commander. The president spent Christmas at the White House with his extended family and had planned to visit Puerto Rico in a twist on a family tradition of celebrating New Year’s in the US Virgin Islands. Biden often spends the holiday on St. Croix or on Water Island off St. Thomas...

Morgan Wallen, 28, had the best selling album of 2021, beating out top runners Olivia Rodrigo, Drake and Adele His album Dangerous: The Double Album sold more than 3million copies since its release in January A month after its release, the country music star was caught calling someone a 'p***y a** n****,' causing him to be barred from two award shows Despite using the racial slur, his album sales spike afterward, prompting a conversation about racism in country music The star later met with the Black Music Action Coalition and donated money from his music sales He was also temporarily...

A British news anchor accidentally declared Pope Francis in an utterly brutal live news blunder, magnified by the fact that it took place on Christmas Day. Kylie Pentelow, an anchor for the British network ITV, made the flub during her newscast Saturday evening. It happened as Pentelow was informing her audience about the Pope’s Christmas remarks at the Vatican. “The Pope’s festive address focused on his prayers for the pandemic to come to an end,” Pentelow said. “He said vaccines should be made available to those most in need.” Then, Pentelow said, “His death was announced…” The anchor promptly caught...

Adding abiraterone to the standard treatment for locally advanced prostate cancer, where the cancer has a high chance of spreading, could halve the risk of death from the disease. The researchers suggest that hormone therapy using abiraterone with prednisolone, could significantly reduce prostate cancer deaths and improve outcomes for thousands of people every year. Using abiraterone for this group of people is now being considered for use in NHS England based on this research. If successful, it could be rolled out to patients immediately. The study, published today in The Lancet, is part of the STAMPEDE trial and was led...

The CDC's latest count of deaths attributed to COVID-19 vaccines is nearly 20,000, but a study by researchers at Columbia University estimates the actual number is 20 times higher. The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, or VAERS, reports 19,886 deaths, 102,857 hospitalizations and a total of 946,461 adverse events due to COVID-19 vaccines through Dec. 3. If the Columbia study's underreporting factor is correct, it would mean that there are nearly 400,000 deaths due to COVID-19 vaccines. COVID vaccination and age-stratified all-cause mortality risk ... suggests the risks of COVID vaccines and boosters outweigh the benefits in children, young adults...

he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday said it is actively investigating or observing 86 cruise ships following COVID-19 outbreaks on board. Why it matters: The Omicron variant has driven up infections across the U.S., upending vacation plans and disrupting travel. The new strain is the latest sign of the pandemic's hold on the cruise line industry.

A report coming out of Southern California notes that nurses are beginning to speak out about COVID vaccine concerns and observations. The Conejo Guardian reports: Ventura County nurses from differ­ent sectors and specialties are coming forward to blow the whistle on what they deem serious lapses in local health care practices, mostly related to COVID-re­lated protocols, “vaccine” mandates and politically and financially motivated bul­lying of medical staff, which these health care workers say is seriously compromis­ing the general quality of local care. The Guardian spoke with multiple nurses of various ages and at different stages in their careers, all of...

President Joe Biden is thinking of naming Sarah Bloom Raskin as vice chair of the Federal Reserve in charge of banking supervision. That news comes from The Wall Street Journal, which cited knowledgeable sources. Raskin, currently a professor at Duke University law school, was previously deputy Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration and before that was a Fed governor. For two other open Fed seats, Biden is looking at Lisa Cook, a professor of economics at Michigan State University; and Philip Jefferson, an economist at Davidson College, the WSJ reports. Cook and Jefferson would both bring diversity to the Fed,...

The Chinese military-linked Humpty Dumpty Institute Chairman Dr. Al Khalafalla attended the exclusive inauguration of Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. National File has learned that Dr. Al Khalafalla, Chairman of the Epstein and Chinese military-linked Humpty Dumpty Institute, attended the highly exclusive inauguration of Joe Biden, as revealed in a tweet posted by Khalafalla four days after the event with the caption “New era …” Traditionally, the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC) would distribute 200,000 tickets for the official ceremonies at the Capitol and provide ticket bundles to members of Congress to distribute out to others. For...

Millions of unvaccinated Americans were informed by President Joe Biden they deserve to be punished for failing to get a COVID-19 shot but a black conservative who did just that says it sure sounds like Jim Crow-like discrimination. “Joe Biden is on TV telling people you're the problem if you're not vaccinated,” Derrick Hollie, of Project 21, says of Biden's now-infamous address to the nation in the fall. “You're the issue. You're the reason why we can't get through this. That is so false.” An estimated 80 million Americans were told by their president in September they are the reason...

One of the ways Germans who refuse to take the mandated inoculations are being ostracized is that yellow painted signs reading, "DO NOT BUY FROM UNVAXXED" have appeared on store windows in the Central European country. In response, some protestors have started wearing yellow badges shaped like the Jewish Star of David with the inscription "unvaccinated," drawing a comparison to the Nazis' persecution of Jews during World War II. "I've said for almost a year that there are some haunting parallels between the 1930s and the 21st century here with this COVID crisis," comments Jan Markell, founder and director of...

Pictured is TCL’s tri-fold conceptPhoto: Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo ================================================================== Microsoft hasn’t quite stuck the landing with its Surface Duo folding smartphone attempts, but the company is already eyeing the next major advancement, and it could be as simple as adding another screen. A patent discovered by Patently Apple suggests Microsoft is toying with the idea of creating a smartphone with three displays and two hinges. It’d look something like a trifold wallet, or a triptych for you history buffs out there. The concept is essentially the current Surface Duo with a third panel connected to one of the screens by a...

In a rather bizarre move, NASA has recruited a British priest to prepare the religious for the discovery of alien life as space agencies claim to be getting closer to discovering evidence that life exists outside of planet earth reports The Times. Reverend Dr. Andrew Davison, a priest and theology professor at the University of Cambridge, is among 24 theologians who are participating in a program sponsored by NASA at the space agency's Center for Theological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton University. The theologians are attempting to assess how major religions would react to news of alien life being found. The...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wants President Joe Biden to scrap his 'useless' vaccine mandates after he told the leaders of 25 states that there is 'no federal solution' to the COVID-19 pandemic, his office said on Tuesday. The Republican governors of Florida, South Dakota, Arizona and Texas plus a host of other GOP figures are calling on Biden to drop his sweeping vaccine order affecting a third of the American workforce, as well as his other nationwide COVID rules, following his comment. DeSantis' spokesperson told DailyMail.com that the president is 'abdicating responsibility and shifting blame' to the states. 'More Americans...

First-term Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the GOP rebel Washington’s establishment loves to hate, has an enormous lead in her 2022 midterm election primary and is considered "badass" and “incredibly effective” despite being booted off all House committees by Democrats. In a new campaign survey provided to Secrets, likely Republican primary voters in her northwest Georgia district chose Greene overwhelmingly over her potential opponents, and 53% would back her regardless of who challenges. And a recent redistricting that added Democratic sections of Cobb County hasn’t watered down her support in the ruby-red 14th Congressional District. “Anyone who thinks Marjorie Taylor...