Written by The Australian state of Queensland has banned the testing of drugs for recreational use, sparking warnings from health providers on Friday that the move could put lives at risk. Queensland ranks third-highest in Australia for drug use, the latest government data show, with around one in five people in the state reporting they had … Continue reading “Australian State Bans Testing Of Illicit Drugs”
The leaders of Canada and Mexico on Thursday defended their three-way free-trade deal with the United States, while agreeing to try and make it “fairer” in the face of tariff pressure from President Donald Trump. After talks in Mexico with President Claudia Sheinbaum, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the pair were “committed” to … Continue reading “Canada, Mexico Leaders Agree To Seek ‘Fairer’ Trade Deal With US”
A shallow earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Indonesia’s Central Papua province on Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported, with no initial reports of casualties. The USGS said the earthquake’s epicentre was located 28 kilometres (17 miles) south of the town of Nabire in the Central Papua province, which is on the Indonesian half of … Continue reading “6.1 Magnitude Quake Hits Indonesia’s Central Papua”
President Donald Trump, who recently accused Xi Jinping of working to “conspire” against the United States, hopes to finalize the fate of video-sharing app TikTok and make progress on trade talks in a phone call with the Chinese leader on Friday. “I’m speaking with President Xi, as you know, on Friday, having to do … Continue reading “Trump Hopes To Settle TikTok’s Fate On Xi Call”
A crowd of supporters has converged at the VIP wing of the Port Harcourt International Airport, Rivers State, awaiting the arrival of Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Sources confirmed to Channels Television on Friday that the governor, who is said to have been away from the state, would arrive soon. Following a political crisis involving Fubara, … Continue reading “Supporters Gather At Port Harcourt Airport To Welcome Gov Fubara”
US President Donald Trump declined to approve $400 million in military aid to Taiwan in recent months while negotiating on trade and a potential summit with Beijing, the Washington Post reported Thursday. The decision would mark a sharp departure from US policy toward the democratic island, which faces a constant threat of invasion by … Continue reading “Trump Declines Approval Of Taiwan Military Aid Package — Report”
The second week of the NFL season delivered all sorts of beautiful chaos. Can you believe that we have several more months left of this? Sample sizes are growing and while we are still a little too early to draw hard conclusions about anything, we are getting closer to that point. Some teams look unstoppable … Continue reading “The NFL’s beautiful chaos is on full display so far”
Two weeks of picks against the spread are in the books. And we have two wins to show for it. After going 1-2 on picks in Week 1, that was the result again in Week 2. But I had to wait until Monday night to get that win, and sweat out a Baker Mayfield-led comeback … Continue reading “NFL Week 3 spread picks, including a pair of underdogs”
The case against the Los Angeles Clippers becomes more convincing by the week. Journalist Pablo Torre continues to dig deeper into allegations of salary cap circumvention against the Clippers to pay star forward Kawhi Leonard off the books, and his biggest critic just led him to even more damning evidence. The latest episode of “Pablo … Continue reading “Mark Cuban accidentally led Pablo Torre to more smoking gun evidence against Clippers”
For a generation, Williams Racing was the standard in Formula 1. After his previous team, Frank Williams Racing Cars, failed to meet the level of success he had hoped for, Williams rebuilt his team as Williams Grand Prix Engineering, debuting on the F1 grid in the 1977 season. That year, the team did not score … Continue reading “Williams’ F1 comeback is on, and it’s only getting better”