BABCOCK RANCH, FLORIDA – October 23, 2018 French-based transport firm Transdev has been ordered to stop an “unlawful” test of a driverless school bus in Florida by US regulators. According to the officials, the test was “irresponsible” and “inappropriate” and said Transdev had not been authorized to transport school children in Florida. In August, the firm said the fully electric shuttle for 12 people, which would operate with a safety attendant, had a top speed of 8 mph, with a potential of reaching 30 mph. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sa...

I probably won't be too original if I say I love old America. The purity of nature and morals, the spirit of entrepreneurship, freedom, and adventure. A brave new world where a man is a man and a woman is a woman. Of course, I understand that there were disadvantages, but I love it not for them. Do you remember that time, when being a patriot wasn't shameful? When loving your country and president wasn't equated with being a racist misogynist? The good old days. How much time has passed? Years, decades, centuries? No, the era has passed. We live in a new time, of the war...

NEW YORK – October 22, 2018 The Trump administration plans to create a legal definition of gender as a fixed status determined biologically by the genitalia a person is born with, according to a Sunday report from The New York Times.  The paper said the Department of Health and Human Services is leading the effort to establish a legal definition of sex. The HHS believes that gender should be defined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.” A person’s gender would be strictly male or female and it would be unchanging.  “Sex...

NEW YORK — October 19, 2018 A team of researchers from NRDC who analyzed the quality of meat used in hamburgers has come to a disappointing conclusion. It turns out the most popular burger joints, including McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and many other fast food chains are in no hurry to give up problematic products. The researchers' team included members of various organizations that have studied the situation with the use of beef with antibiotics in detail; laboratory tests were conducted, and the current policies of the companies involved were considered. The res...

NEW YORK — October 18, 2018 Another salmonella outbreak due to raw chicken meat has been recorded in the U.S. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at least 100 people fell ill in 29 States across the country; 21 of them had to be hospitalized. Indicators continue to grow, experts say. Fortunately, so far there have been no deaths. But most importantly, CDC experts say this time the virus has become more resistant and immune to many antibiotics which are usually used for the treatment of salmonella. It is known that every year many viruses sh...

NEW YORK — October 18, 2018 A male Uber driver alleged abused a client who was asleep in his cab recently. According to the New York City Police Department (NYPD), working with the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI, the woman ordered an Uber from Manhattan to White Plains where she lived. The driver, 24-year-old Harbir Parmar, changed the destination to Boston and left New York. The woman woke up after Parmar stopped the car and had climbed into the back seat, trying to unbutton her shirt. The woman resisted and demanded he take her to the po...

HELENA – October 18, 2018 The closest electoral race for a seat in Congress this mid-term campaign is in Montana, where incumbent Democratic senator Jon Tester is running against Republican State Auditor Matt Rosendale. Political experts predict a very fierce battle for the seat, as the gap between them has grown smaller over the past few weeks, and if in July Tester could count on 52% of the vote (which would still be a very marginal victory), since that time his rating has fallen to 49%. Meanwhile, Rosendale’s support has stayed at about the same, having gained only 1...

USA — October 18, 2018 With the 2018 midterm elections just weeks away, many think this is the most important election of recent times. Much is riding on the Republicans maintaining control of Congress. If the Democrats win the House, all current investigations into the Deep State will cease, replaced by every single Congressional committee opening an investigation into Trump and his administration. Americans will vote for members of both chambers of Congress, as well as for governors in 36 out of 50 states. This round-up offers some updates and analysis. One of the mo...

MEXICO BEACH, FLORIDA – October 18, 2018 Hurricane Michael “wiped out” Mexico Beach, Florida last week after touching down as a Category 4 storm. Packing 155 mph winds, the storm showed no mercy to the beachfront city, destroying homes and businesses. However, there were those few houses that not only withstood the fury of the deadly storm, but even suffered only minimal damage. The same can’t be said for most, though. The storm surge washed houses on the beach off their foundations to the other side of the coastal road. Even more damaging were the high winds that took r...