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The easiest question to answer about Quibi is the one I’m most frequently asked: Just what is Quibi, anyway? Quibi is short for “quick bites” — though you don’t pronounce it “quih-bye” (to rhyme with “rib-eye”) but, instead, “quih-bee,” to…
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has forcefully defended the Navy’s controversial decision to relieve a captain of his command after he wrote a pointed letter to his superiors about a Covid-19 outbreak aboard his aircraft carrier, which leaked to the press.…
On Friday evening, President Donald Trump announced that he had picked White House lawyer Brian Miller to oversee how billions of dollars in coronavirus-related relief money is spent. Though Miller has a long history of serving as an agency watchdog…
The total number of COVID-19 infections surpassed one million on Friday, with nearly 54,000 people succumbing to virus-related complications and billions more at risk of losing their jobs and livelihoods as the world economy grinds to a halt. This week,…
An explosion of a titanic star spotted by NASA’s satellite in January 2019, has produced some odd effects that scientists have not been able to properly address. Mysteriously low levels of polarisation that have occurred from the gamma-ray burst (GRB) of…
Since 2I/Borisov comet, an interstellar object discovered last August by an amateur astronomer in Crimea, approached the Sun on 8 December 2019, scientists had been watching it closely to ascertain whether it will continue its way through the universe or…
