Jason Hopkins New York is hoping to dramatically expand its renewables industry by handing out more incentives for community solar projects and reforming how solar owners are compensated. State regulators have put forward a proposal to boost solar energy use among New York residents. In two separate reports, the New York State Department of Public Service…
Joshua Gill Thieves stole the Swedish crown jewels from Strängnäs Cathedral in Sweden Tuesday and made off in a motorboat, prompting a massive manhunt. Two unidentified men took a royal orb and two crowns from their display cases in the cathedral around noon, then escaped on a motorboat that they had moored below the church. Police…
Gabrielle Okun A Swedish opera singer claimed that her husband committed suicide after being falsely accused of sexual misconduct in the wake of the #MeToo Movement. Anne Sofie von Otter, 63, a mezzo-soprano opera singer, called out the #MeToo Movement saying that it contributed to her husband Benny Fredriksson’s suicide in Sydney March 17, The Sydney Herald reported Tuesday….
Jessica Kramer The Transportation Security Administration is standing by its suspect monitoring program “Quiet Skies” for airline passengers deemed “unique.” The formerly undisclosed program monitors those who invoke threat or suspicion and does not hone in on “ordinary American” travelers, TSA spokesman Michael Bilello told The Hill. “We’re talking about a very unique passenger that warrants the…
Peter Hasson Bill Kristol, the former editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard, is considering challenging President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary. Kristol, consistently one of the most vocal anti-Trump Republicans during the 2016 campaign, has been considering a run for months, a source familiar with Kristol’s thinking told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Kristol,…
Since it was introduced in 1968, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to 79 individuals for their contributions to different branches of economics. Yet not all of them were economists by training. Here are three contributions that earned their authors the Nobel Prize in a field that wasn’t initially theirs. 1….
I recently overhead a friend of mine disgustedly muttering at his phone. Contrary to what one might think, his disgust was not over problems with his hand-held device; instead, it was over a notification he had just received from Reddit. The notification explained that he had been banned from the board entitled “Black Lives Matter.”…
Tim Pearce The Seattle city council voted 7-2 to repeal its less-than-a-month-old ‘head tax’ on the city’s businesses Tuesday in a win for employers, The Seattle Times reports. On May 15, the council unanimously approved an annual tax of $275 per employee to fund housing programs for the city’s homeless population. The tax was expected to net…
Grace Carr Ecuador and the U.K. have resumed discussions about the status of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has resided at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012. BBC News reported Friday that leaders of the two countries are discussing Assange’s fate. Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno, however, made it clear that he never condoned Assange’s activities and…
Chris White A wildfire that led to the evacuation of nearly 40,000 people in Northern California is creating massive fire tornadoes as emergency crews struggle to contain the flames. Skip Murphy of Redding, California, posted a video on social media of a heat vortex, or a fire whirl that occurs when intense rising heat and blustery wind…