The Patriots shuffled their roster on Thursday by adding one player and saying farewell to another. Jim McBride of the Boston Globe reports that the team has signed tight end…
Month: June 2021
Cheaper meat must not cost us the earth
I, too, want to hear from expert scientists and environmentalists on the future of farming and, importantly, I also want to hear from those with experience of sustainable farming (Letters,…
Gamestop, AMC short sellers sit on nearly $1 billion loss – Ortex
Investors are estimated to have lost $930 million on their short positions in meme stocks GameStop (GME.N) and AMC Entertainment (AMC.N) over the last five trading days, data from financial…
Electric vehicle startups hit speed bumps after raising tons of cash
Electric vehicle startups have raised an absurd amount of money in the last year by merging with special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs. That money — billions of dollars, collectively…
Police shoot knife-wielding man in Amsterdam
Police shot a 40-year-old man wielding a knife in the leg on Saturday night on the Hoofdweg in Amsterdam-West. The incident took place around 11 p.m. close to the police…
Washington cancels week of OTAs, moves mandatory minicamp up
The Washington Football Team will be hitting their summer break a week earlier than expected. According to multiple reports, Washington head coach Ron Rivera has decided to cancel the third…
Stock answers: when to home-make, and when a cube will do
Innocuous to some, inspiring ire in others, stock can be a culinary dividing line. Marco Pierre White was branded a “shill” for flogging cubes, and another British chef, Tom Kerridge,…
Shell shareholders increase pressure for further climate action
Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) shareholders overwhelmingly backed the company’s energy transition strategy on Tuesday, but increased support for a second climate resolution filed by an activist group pointed to growing…
Knockout City’s virtual dodgeball is even more chaotic than the real thing
Knockout City took me back to childhood games of dodgeball with a single sound: “whumphf!” That one noise, which you’ll hear a lot as dodgeballs bounce every which way, represents…
Man barricades himself into home on his birthday after landlord rips door out
A delivery driver had to barricade himself and his girlfriend into their home after their landlord had the front door removed. Niki Zaupa had turned 25 on the day that…