CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Six American oil executives held for three years in Venezuela were found guilty of corruption charges by a judge Thursday and immediately sentenced to prison, defense lawyers said, dashing hopes of a quick release that would send them home to their families in the United States. Some relatives had been bracing…
As the butler to Pope Benedict XVI, Paolo Gabriele lived in a Vatican City apartment just inside the walls of the world’s smallest country. He rose before 7 most mornings, walked four minutes to the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace, and laid out the red papal shoes and white dress clothes for the Holy…
Less than 24 hours since the polls closed in the 2020 general election, Tichina Arnold couldn’t stop watching news coverage. “I am an avid news watcher, so I was up till 2:30 a.m.,” says the star of CBS comedy The Neighborhood (in which she stars opposite Cedric the Entertainer, Max Greenfield, and Beth Behrs). And…
In the global race to eliminate the world’s greenhouse gas footprint, some sources of emissions are easier to fix than others. One of the lowest-hanging fruits should be methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, which occur at every stage of production and distribution either through leaks or intentional flaring. Yet US oil and…
MONTREAL — Perennial anxieties around the state of the French language in Quebec have boiled over in the past week, with politicians seizing on a Liberal legislator’s initial brush-off of the issue as evidence of indifference to a crisis. Outside of Quebec, the angry debate may have seemed a tempete in a teapot, if it…
CBD has quickly become a global health and wellness phenomenon that has taken the UK market by storm. The latest study on the CBD market by leading cannabis researchers BDS Analytics and ArcView Market Research projects that the global market for CBD will rise above £15 billion by 2024. With the popularity of this hyped…
Mary Heglar has a “maniacal plan” to save the planet. It doesn’t involve shutting down pipelines or protesting in the streets. Heglar has simply been “trolling the shit out of fossil fuel companies” on social media. Heglar is known for her essays about climate change and for being one half of the duo behind Hot…
Rape, abuses in palm oil fields linked to top beauty brandsBy MARGIE MASON and ROBIN McDOWELLNovember 18, 2020 GMTSUMATRA, Indonesia (AP) — With his hand clamped tightly over her mouth, she could not scream, the 16-year-old girl recalls – and no one was around to hear her anyway. She describes how her boss raped her…
Author of the article:Bruce McCurdy • Edmonton JournalPublishing date:Nov 18, 2020 • • 9 minute readPhil Kemp takes place in the Edmonton Oilers development camp at the Community Rink in Rogers Place on June 24, 2019. Photo by Shaughn Butts /Postmedia, fileArticle contentPhil Kemp should be on top of the world right now. The 21-year-old…
Low-dose omega-3 fatty acids offered no cardiovascular benefit over corn oil placebo in two randomized trials of high-risk patients, resurfacing old questions about why REDUCE-IT managed a positive result with icosapent ethyl (Vascepa). In the STRENGTH trial, prescription omega-3 carboxylic acids (Epanova), a mix of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), didn’t lower cardiovascular…
