Senators want to prohibit lab-grown meat from National School Lunch Program

Feb. 13 (UPI) — Less than a year after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agreed that cultivated chicken is safe to eat, lab-grown meat faces legislation that could keep it off students’ plates nationwide. U.S. Sens. Jon Tester, R-Mont., … Read More

Global defence spending rises 9% to record $2.2tn

Budgets expected to increase further amid ‘deteriorating security landscape’ triggered by invasion of Ukraine Global defence spending increased by 9% to a record $2.2tn during 2023 driven by heightened geopolitical tensions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to an annual … Read More

Biden campaign joins TikTok despite national security concerns

Feb. 12 (UPI) — President Joe Biden‘s campaign has joined TikTok, in an effort to gain young voters in his re-election bid, despite a Biden-signed law banning the popular video app on federal devices to protect national security. On Sunday, Biden’s campaign posted … Read More

European leaders call for stronger defence ties after Trump’s Nato remarks

Polish PM Donald Tusk says ‘all for one, and one for all’ in thinly veiled riposte to Republican frontrunner European leaders have called for greater unity and military cooperation across the continent in response to comments from Donald Trump that threatened to … Read More

Shooter at Joel Osteen’s Texas mega-church may have transitioned, ‘Free Palestine’ written on rifle

The person who opened fire at Joel Osteen’s Houston-area mega-church on Sunday has been named as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, according to the Houston Chronicle, as authorities revealed “Free Palestine” was written on the weapon used in the attack. Moreno entered Osteen’s Lakewood … Read More

Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – February 9, 2024

Greetings from Tyler, Someone demanded the pretender come front and center, and what he said is being discussed around the clock.  It wasn’t the best move, considering that it reinforced what everybody knows.  Maybe hiding wasn’t such a bad idea.  … Read More

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