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Alternative World Cup rankings
Congratulations to Sweden on winning this year’s World Cup … and also to France, Qatar, Uruguay, Norway, New Zealand and Switzerland for the same thing. No, POLITICO hasn’t been engaging in match fixing, but we have been crunching the numbers to see how all 48 of this year’s World Cup participants rank in several other…
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Doctors Inject Human Subjects With First Vaccine Designed by AI
Behold: an actually useful application of AI. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have used a machine learning model to invent a new and wholly novel form of vaccine that could protect against an entire family of human coronaviruses, and even animal variants that are yet to jump over. An initial human trial has already…
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‘You gotta hear this’: MS NOW bursts into laughter watching Rubio’s ‘bizarre’ comparison
Marco Rubio’s comparison that President Donald Trump’s White House UFC bash is akin to the Apollo moon landing left an MS NOW panel stunned. The Secretary of State defended the controversial mixed martial arts event during a Thursday appearance, casting UFC Freedom 250 as a quintessentially American feat on par with one of the nation’s…
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‘Open season’: Trump admin’s two-pronged attack could devastate Disney’s ABC
Donald Trump’s top media regulator just declared “open season” on ABC and a former Federal Communications Commission counselor warned the consequences could be devastating. The FCC’s late-April decision forcing ABC to apply early to renew the licenses for its eight owned local TV stations has now opened a public pleading window where anyone in the…
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Three Argentines biked 11K miles through 17 countries to follow legend Lionel Messi at the World Cup
Three Argentines biked 11,000 miles through 17 countries — encountering terrorism in Colombia and altitude sickness in Bolivia — in an epic trip to watch their beloved national team defend its World Cup title. Vicente Conculini, 29, told The Post that his friend Miguel Silio, 56, suggested that they cycled to the US to follow…
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‘I’m not crying!’ Sparks fly as Sean Spicer told to ‘go serve in Iran’ after defending war
After defending President Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular war against Iran, Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was pressed Friday evening on why he wasn’t “on the front lines in Iran,” a question that sent the ex-Trump official into a rage. Spicer appeared on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” alongside several guests to discuss the ongoing U.S.…
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Tesla’s Robotaxis Are a Complete Disaster
Elon Musk, in trademark fashion, has made grand promises about Tesla’s Robotaxi efforts. Before he launched the service last summer, he proclaimed that over 1,000 of the self-driving cabs would be roaming the city streets “within a few months.” He also said that one million self-driving Teslas using the Robotaxi software would be roaming the…
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Supreme Court nixes Alabama request for nitrogen execution, which lower court ruled unconstitutional
ATMORE, Ala. — An Alabama man facing the death penalty by nitrogen gas was spared Thursday as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to set aside a lower-court ruling that found the method is unconstitutionally cruel, issuing a brief order that came well after the hour originally planned to initiate Jeffery Lee’s execution. The justices decided not to…
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Trump prosecutor in L.A. pushing unusual public search for voter fraud before count is in
First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli — President Trump’s loyalist federal prosecutor in Los Angeles — has not been shy in recent days about his intention to ferret out voter fraud in California’s primary election and criminally charge those responsible. He has announced that his office “has multiple election fraud investigations underway” in coordination with…
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Why Hasan Piker thinks Democrats are moving in his direction
Here’s what’s undeniable: The Democratic electorate has dramatically shifted when it comes to the United States’ relationship with Israel. Earlier this year, a national poll from Gallup found that 41 percent of Americans sympathize with Palestinians and 36 percent with Israelis — the first time since Gallup began tracking the metric in 2001 that Israelis…