Tag: ad

Rosselló found himself in hot water after text messages containing homophobic and sexist language exchanged in a group chat with 11 cabinet members and aides leaked earlier this month, adding to existing public anger over alleged corruption. In several messages, Rosselló referred to people as ‘cocksuckers’. In one message, he said senator Eduardo Bhatia had “historic cocksucker levels” and in another message he said journalist Benjamín Torres Gotay was an “unprecedented cocksucker.” The nearly 900 pages of messages, obtained by Puerto...

Former White House deputy Sebastian Gorka on Monday blamed a popular British pre-school children’s television series on starting the “whole trans thing,” reports Media Matters. Gorka, who last week warned his radio audience that the U.S. Women’s soccer team wants “to destroy everything that is wholesome in our country and in our Judeo-Christian civilization,” issued the new bizarre claim on the July 22 edition of Salem Radio Network’s America First with Sebastian Gorka. “Ignorance is no defense,” Gorka said. “I’m sorry....

Another heatwave is set to engulf parts of central and northern Europe this week, bringing expected record-breaking temperatures after a similar weather event in June. The UK's Met Office said on Monday that the country's all-time temperature record could be broken by Thursday, surpassing the high of 38.5°C recorded in Kent in August 2003. Paul Gundersen, the Met Office's chief meteorologist, said the setup was "broadly similar" to the June heatwave, when an area of hot air moving north from the...

Rumour has it that comedian Melissa McCarthy will be playing the purple sea witch in Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, but one RuPaul’s Drag Race fan favourite wants in on this gig. When asked by AV Club who her favourite fictional villain of all time is, Latrice replied, “Ursula! Oh, I should be her right now, man,” before adding, “The Poor Unfortunate Souls moment is just everything for me.” So what would Latrice bring to the role? “Boooody language,...

A police officer in Louisiana posted a comment on his Facebook page this past week calling for U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be shot, reports NOLA.com. According to the newspaper, Charlie Rispoli, a 14-year veteran of the police force in Gretna, Louisiana wrote on Facebook: “this vile idiot needs a round… and I don’t mean the kind she used to serve.” The threat was posted along with a fake news story with the headline “Ocasio-Cortez on the budget: ‘We pay soldiers...

Iran has seized a foreign tanker with 12 crew accused of smuggling fuel in the Gulf, state television quoted Iran's Revolutionary Guards as saying on Thursday. "A foreign vessel smuggling one million litres of fuel in the Lark Island of the Persian Gulf has been seized," the station said. The vessel was towed on Sunday after a distress call and was later seized for fuel smuggling, it added. Our journalists are working on this story and will update it as soon as...

Brussels unveiled new measures on Wednesday intended to toughen its response to backsliding concerning rule of law in some EU countries. The European Union (EU) has clashed with Romania, Poland and Hungary in recent years over alleged breaches. The core measure will be annual reports on the state of the rule of law in each state, which the European Commission says will help identify problems earlier. In a similar vein, it will further develop the EU Justice Scoreboard — a tool measuring...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government will start returning migrants to Mexico to wait out their U.S. court hearings in Mexico through Brownsville, Texas on Friday, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. The program, known as the “Migrant Protection Protocols,” began in January this year and is already operational in several cities along the U.S.-Mexico border. This week the expansion will continue into the Rio Grande Valley, the spokeswoman said in an email,...

FaceApp is one of the most popular apps in the world right now, but privacy advocates are raising concerns about the information that it’s collecting. The app, which was developed by the Russian company Wireless Lab, lets users modify pictures of their faces to make them seem older, younger, as another gender, or hotter. But the data stored in the app isn’t as private as some people could think. The app uses a Facebook login, giving it access to users’ pictures,...

Greece will become "the most business-friendly country of the European Union", new Minister for Growth and Investments Adonis Georgiadis told Euronews on Monday. Georgiadis has been given one of the most challenging jobs in Greece by newly-elected Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis: revive the country's economic growth. But in an exclusive interview with Euronews, he appeared undaunted by the task ahead. "We are going to reduce taxation and we are going to vanish bureaucracy. We will have a new legislation in August that...

We finally have an update on when we’ll be introduced to the queens of Drag Race UK. The official Twitter account of DragCon left fans cooped, gooped and gagged when they tweeted earlier this week: “The British are coming, bbs! Ready to meet the cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK?” They then revealed that the highly-anticipated cast will head across the pond this September to attend the event and “sip scalding tea with the Queen’s queens”, adding: “Snatch your tickets today!”...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump presented a bill to his Cabinet on Tuesday aimed at boosting border security and overhauling the current immigration system to make it more merit-based, a senior administration official said. With U.S. lawmakers’ August recess looming, the official did not give a timetable for introducing the bill to Congress, but described it as laying out the president’s vision to rally Republicans around a detailed proposal. The president will meet with Republican congressional...

Music legends Cheryl and Twiggy have been confirmed to be guest judges on the UK version of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Both will judge for one episode alongside RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Graham Norton and Alan Carr on the highly-anticipated British spin-off. Writing on Instagram, Cheryl posted: “I am SO excited to tell you that I will be a guest judge on the first ever series of UK Drag Race !!!!! “I am such a huge fan of the show and can not wait...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Civil rights groups who successfully blocked the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. census are seeking sanctions against government officials, saying they brazenly hid the truth about the inquiry’s origins during trial. In court papers filed on Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union asked New York federal Judge Jesse Furman to grant new discovery into the alleged misconduct, as well as monetary sanctions for the government’s “concerted campaign of delay...