Greetings, dear friends, and welcome to this week's installment of While You Were Offline. What did you miss on the interent last week? First, you might have missed Jared Kushner giving a pretty good demonstration of why he doesn't do many interviews. Joe Biden reversing course on bad ideas and apparently plagiarizing policy on climate Read more about While You Were Offline: Trump Had a Very Long Week in the UK[…]
Kim Jong Un’s half-brother was working as a CIA informant before his broad-daylight assassination in 2017, a report says. The “nexus” — as one source called it — between the US spy agency and the dictator’s brother, Kim Jong Nam, was revealed Monday by the Wall Street Journal, which cited “a person knowledgeable about the Read more about Kim Jong Un’s brother was an informant for the CIA: report[…]
A sweeping overhaul of America’s electoral infrastructure is needed in order to prevent foreign interference as the 2020 elections loom, a group of security researchers has concluded. Former Facebook chief security officer Nick Stamos – who witnessed the sinister social media campaign orchestrated by Russian agents against America – and his colleagues at Stanford University’s Read more about US elections need massive security overhaul for 2020: report[…]
NASA’s mission to Mars in 2020 is a very, very big deal. After the death of Opportunity a number of months back, NASA has just one rover left on the Red Planet and Curiosity isn’t exactly a spring chicken. Curiosity’s two-year mission has long since lapsed and the rover has spent nearly 2,500 days on Read more about Watch NASA build the Mars 2020 rover[…]
Longtime detective-turned-news reporter Mike Sheehan — known for his hand in investigating the “Preppy Killer” and “Central Park Five” cases — died Friday following a battle with cancer, the Post has learned. Sheehan succumbed to his illness around 8 p.m. Friday at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, according to Detective Investigators’ Association president Jack Freck, his Read more about Former NYPD detective and TV newsman Mike Sheehan loses battle to cancer at 71[…]
RJ Barrett has enough family in New York to call it home, and wants to be a Knick. We’ll find out if they want him. After finishing an individual workout for the Knicks at MSG Training Center on Monday, Barrett, who turns 19 on Friday, said he hasn’t met with any other teams and doesn’t Read more about RJ Barrett confesses Knicks NBA draft dream that may never happen[…]
A vandal managed to cover the entire side of an MTA subway train in graffiti that was discovered Sunday night, according to a new report. Photos first posted to Twitter by The City reporter Jose Martinez show the train covered stem to stern with what appears to be a pink, yellow and brown geometric design Read more about Q train found totally covered in graffiti on Upper East Side[…]
The debate about the Specialized High School Admissions Test is completely misplaced. As usual, Mayor Bill de Blasio and his allies are looking to put a Band-Aid on a gaping wound requiring major surgery. The contentious debate about the test risks obscuring a much bigger problem, one all policy makers need to address — namely, Read more about De Blasio refuses to see what’s needed for racial justice at NYC’s schools[…]
When quantum mechanics was first developed a century ago as a theory for understanding the atomic-scale world, one of its key concepts was so radical, bold and counter-intuitive that it passed into popular language: the “quantum leap.” Purists might object that the common habit of applying this term to a big change misses the point Read more about Physicists See a Quantum Leap, Halt It, and Reverse It[…]
Greetings, dear friends, and welcome to this week's installment of While You Were Offline. What did you miss on the interent last week? First, you might have missed Jared Kushner giving a pretty good demonstration of why he doesn't do many interviews. Joe Biden reversing course on bad ideas and apparently plagiarizing policy on climate Read more about While You Were Offline: Trump Had a Very Long Week in the UK[…]