Does Brexit mean uncertainty? That’s the question many are asking in the wake of Thursday’s British snap elections, with neither of the two main party leaders clarifying how they’d navigate the churning waters of EU separation. Despite resignation calls, Prime Minister Theresa May, having lost her Conservative Party’s majority, managed to eke out a governing coalition with Northern Ireland’s unionists on Friday.
The Man Who Silenced Trump
The name’s Comey. James Comey. During Thursday’s Senate Intelligence Committee sworn testimony, the ex-FBI director riveted the nation, while Donald Trump didn’t once respond during testimony that he’d lied about Comey’s firing and asked him to stop investigating ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn’s Kremlin ties.
HOW FAILURE MOLDED BERLIN'S BEST CHOCOLATIER
Holger in’t Veld is smiling. About 6 feet tall, unshaven and with a black leather jacket, he’s every inch the Berliner. But then he departs from the regional script, just a bit, and reaches into his inner jacket pocket and says, “I want you to have this.”
‘TV Patrol’ reports 100K school bags to students
More than 100,000 students from Luzon to Mindanao received school bags and school supplies through the “Gusto Kong Mag-Aral” project of ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya – Operation Sagip, with the help of donors who want to help the country’s youth have a better learning experience this school year.
Uber Chief in Asia Fired Over Rape Investigation
He’s out. Eric Alexander, Uber’s president of business in Asia, has reportedly been fired after it emerged that he’d not only obtained the medical records of a woman raped by her Uber driver in India, but had discussed them with other executives, including CEO Travis Kalanick.
WHY YOU STILL DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA
It was welcome news to Scott Treatman when the New York State Department of Health announced in December that it was expanding access to medical marijuana for those with chronic pain. Treatman’s practice in the village of Cazenovia, southeast of Syracuse, already treated a bevy of patients with conditions that ranged from lymphoma to multiple sclerosis. Most of them were referrals from other doctors who couldn’t (or often wouldn’t) prescribe the Schedule 1 drug. There were many more people, though, who weren’t covered. Now, thanks to expanded access, folks who might otherwise turn to pills or opioids such as heroin could look to weed to relieve their suffering.
10 WEIRD FOODS WE DARE YOU TO TRY
There are some really strange foods out there — peculiar to a palate unfamiliar with the ingredients (worms, anyone?), or odd because the novelty nosh is all about the strange factor (smoking cereal balls, for example). The following curious bites from around the world have been taste-tested by OZY, and all received a thumbs-up for deliciousness, as well as a capital Q in the quirky department.