US Says Kyiv Embassy Remains Open as Russia Warns Major Attack Could Start at Any Time

When Uncle Sam Turns Venture Capitalist, What Could Go Wrong? Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, The battery recycler Ascend Elements was riding high in 2023, flush with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding. The seed money provided to the Massachusetts company, which launched in 2017, was one of several large bets the Biden administration placed on the green future as it essentially created a venture capital arm at the Department of Energy and other agencies. In the movies, VCs almost always score big through their early investments in future...

Tennessee Botches Execution: Inmate Still Snoring After Two Doses Of Pentobarbital, Hauled To Hospital The State of Tennessee spent Wednesday trying to carry out a death sentence it has had on the books for thirty years, and ended the night with the condemned woman in an ambulance. Christa Gail Pike, 50 - the only woman on Tennessee's death row - was still breathing, audibly snoring, and maintaining a heartbeat after prison staff administered two doses of pentobarbital at Nashville's Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. Media witnesses were escorted out around 8:53 p.m....

A mass funeral was held in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on Tuesday for dozens of Palestinians killed by previous Israeli attacks, whose remains have been recovered from the rubble. Reports vary on the number of people who were buried during the funeral, with Reuters reporting 41 and the Yaffa News Network reporting […]