Video Shows Whale Make Surprise Guest Appearance At Olympics

A whale made a surprise guest appearance during the Olympic surfing semi-final competition in Tahiti on Monday. Brazilian athlete Tatiana Weston-Webb and Costa Rican athlete Brisa Hennessy were competing in the surfing semi-finals on Monday afternoon when the whale surfaced. according to CBS News. A video shared on Twitter shows two surfers floating in the […]

China-Tied Battery Manufacturer Admits It Is Subsidized By Chinese Gov’t After All

The subsidized U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese electric vehicle battery maker quietly acknowledged on July 20 that it had received subsidies from the Chinese government after executives suggested the U.S. subsidiary had no government involvement. Gochon is completelyOwned and controlledThe China-based parent company, Goshon Hi-Tech, made the disclosure under the revised Foreign Agents Registration Act […]

‘Scandalous’ Gymnastics Medal Dispute Leads Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu To Boycott Olympics Ceremony

Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Colac announced on Tuesday that his country would boycott the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics in protest against controversial judging in the women's gymnastics competition, Fox News reported. The decision affected Romanian gymnast Ana Barbos, who initially celebrated winning a bronze medal on floor exercise, only to see American gymnast […]

‘Completely Insane!’: Cenk Uygur Stuns Piers Morgan With Support for Daughter Competing Against Men In Sports

“The Young Turks” host Cenk Jugar surprised British journalist Piers Morgan and fellow reporters on the panel on Tuesday by saying he supported his daughter competing in sports against a biological man who identifies as transgender. Uygur appeared on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” to discuss the recent controversy surrounding Olympic boxer Imane Kherif's failure to pass […]

American Jury Convicts Man Of Spying For Chinese Communist Party

According to a Department of Justice press release, a federal jury found Shujiang Wang, a 75-year-old naturalized American citizen, guilty of acting as an agent of the Chinese government without notifying U.S. authorities. The defendants posed as pro-democracy activists and collected classified information about members of a New York-based advocacy group and reported it to […]

‘It Signifies Pestilence’: Scholars Decipher 4,000-Year-Old Tablets

Scholars have made a major breakthrough in understanding ancient Mesopotamian culture through the translation of 4,000-year-old cuneiform clay tablets that interpreted lunar eclipses as bad omens, Live Science reported Tuesday. The tablets, discovered over a century ago and now part of the British Museum's collection, detail predictions of death, destruction and disease linked to specific […]