Israeli authorities will open King Herod’s palace-fortress in Herodium this Sunday, affording tourists the opportunity to peer back some 2,000 years and discover the lavish lifestyle of the tyrannical Roman-era leader. The already-popular tourist destination near Bethlehem has been undergoing excavation for the past 13 years, following the discovery of Herod’s grave. Archaeologists believe Herod... 

Danish investment bank Saxo Bank has released its annual list of “outrageous predictions,” trying to assess some unlikely – but not impossible – events that could shake up the global financial markets after the trauma of 2020. While the bank says the list is merely “a warning against the potential misallocation of risk among investors,” Chief Investment Officer Steen Jakobsen noted that... 

Facebook’s “fact-checking” partner Lead Stories is funded in part by a Chinese company called ByteDance LLC, which owns TikTok and has been accused of censorship on behalf of the country’s communist government. Lead Stories was brought in to work with Facebook in February of 2019, “using its own technology, called ‘Trendolizer,’ to detect trending hoaxes from hundreds of known fake news... 

Astronomers have discovered a “celestial highway” to travel through the Solar System much faster than was previously possible. The development raises the prospect of rapidly sending crafts across vast swathes of space. The extraordinary superhighway network was discovered by an international team of researchers from Serbia and the United States. The routes can transport comets and asteroids nearly... 

France’s CNIL data privacy regulator said on Thursday it had fined two Google units a total of €100 million ($121 million) and an Amazon subsidiary €35 million for breaching rules on online trackers. According to the statement issued by the CNIL, Google committed two breaches of the French Data Protection Act, including using cookies without obtaining prior consent, and not providing enough... 

Adding to its ongoing effort to commit national suicide, a new rule will allow any Third World invader to stay in Italy if they tell border control agents that they are an oppressed “gay” or some variation thereof: A new option has been opened up to illegal migrants. Simply claim that you are gay, and we’ll let you in, give you benefits and a roof over your heads. It is a seemingly small but... 

Denmark’s climate minister is fairly certain that the deal to close down the nation’s oil industry by 2050, announced on Friday morning, marks the biggest moment in his career. “I think this is probably going to be the biggest decision that I’m a part of in my life,” Dan Jørgensen told the Guardian hours after the announcement. “This obviously wasn’t an easy decision. We are the biggest... 

The Russian president is the world’s sickest leader, if you believe reports in Western media, that is. Popular US and UK outlets are now claiming Vladimir Putin has Parkinson’s, underwent secret surgery and is battling cancer. While many have found 2020 to be a challenging year, for notorious Moscow conspiracy theorist Valery Solovey, it has been his best yet. He has managed to send Western news... 

ZARA Scruggs should have celebrated her first birthday today surrounded by loving family and friends. There might have been cake, giggles, happy snaps, games, toys, and other children to play with. Instead, her father Austin Stevens, 29, appeared by video link in a Pennsylvania court for his preliminary hearing, charged with the 10-month-old baby’s rape and murder. Stevens, an assistant youth football... 

Disturbing video out of Hong Kong shows family members of “political prisoners” saying hysterical goodbyes after China rounded them up onto buses headed for reeducation camps in the mainland. The heartbreaking footage shows a group of desperate Hong Kongers banging on the barred windows of the bus as it drives away to the Chinese mainland. Joshua Wong, Ivan Lam and Agnes Chow, who spearheaded... 

The 22-year-old posed for Glossier’s new holiday ad campaign, while her previous pictures on social media mostly featured her personal daily life, including hangouts with friends and horseriding. The youngest daughter of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Eve Jobs, has posted her first modelling pictures on Instagram, gaining almost 8,500 likes so far. One of the pictures features Eve lying in a... 

A Lancaster, California, man has been arrested for allegedly killing and decapitating his son and daughter, police said. Firefighters initially responded to a possible gas leak at the house in the 45000 block of Century Circle after 7:30 a.m. Friday. Upon entering, they discovered the bodies of a 12-year-boy and 13-year-old girl, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. L.A.... 

Beijing has successfully powered up its “artificial sun” nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, China’s People’s Daily reported on Friday. It’s designed to be a clean energy source, similar to the real Sun. Made to replicate the natural reactions that occur in the sun using hydrogen and deuterium gases as fuels, the HL-2M Tokamak reactor is China’s largest and most advanced nuclear... 

Nike, Coca-Cola and Apple, three corporations that vehemently supported the Black Lives Matter movement after the death of George Floyd, are lobbying against a US ban on imports of products produced by Chinese slave labor. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which is awaiting a green light from the Senate, bans the import of goods produced in Xinjiang where companies cannot prove they were not... 

A Florida man who shot and wounded a St. Petersburg cop during a shootout Wednesday was killed when he was hit by 38 rounds. Dominique Harris, 20, who was “a person of interest” in a 2019 murder, got into a dramatic, caught-on-video gunfight with police outside a convenience store, with cops firing 50 shots in the exchange, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualitieri said...