Taiwan has accused a Chinese-owned ship of severing a critical data cable off its northern coast on Friday. Officials in Taipei discovered that four cores of an international submarine cable, which transmits data to America’s AT&T, were left ruptured early on Jan 3. Tracking data revealed the Shunxing39 cargo vessel had dropped its anchor around th…
Day: January 5, 2025
In The Brutalist, enjoying lots of appreciative chat as Awards Season prepares to kick off with the Golden Globes, Joe Alwyn plays Harry, a rich industrialist’s son, with a performance he says was inspired by president-elect Donald Trump and his offspring. Alwyn told The Guardian newspaper that he perceived Harry as “a wrong ‘un, but […]
A monster winter storm was sweeping across towards the eastern United States Sunday, brining sleet, freezing rain and the possibility of the heaviest snowfall in a decade in some areas. New York City and environs will be mostly spared the onslaught that is barreling east from the Midwest and set to hit the Mid-Atlantic states Sunday night, including Washington DC. As many as 63 million people …