Tesla finally cut the ribbon on its Germany-based gigafactory Tuesday, presenting 30 customers with the first European-made Teslas in the world. With Giga Berlin officially a go, Tesla hopes to better flood the European market, which has so far been supplied by factories in the U.S. and China (where COVID-19 continues to disrupt its Shanghai…

A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashed Monday in China with 132 people on board. The number of deaths or injuries were not immediately known as firefighters and rescuers rushed to the crash site on the fiery mountainside in the southern province of Guangxi. The China Eastern flight lost contact around 2:15 p.m. while flying around…

The days of bigger candy bars and mega toilet paper rolls are gone. With record inflation comes “shrinkflation,” the term used when companies give you less product for the same price. Instead of more obviously passing on higher prices to customers in the sticker price, companies sneakily trim product quantities, hoping consumers won’t notice. But…

The Mariupol City Council announced on its Telegram page that Russia bombed a theater “where hundreds of peaceful Mariupol residents were hiding” amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. According to the Telegram post, both the central part of the theater and the entrance to the theater’s bomb shelter were destroyed. “It is still impossible to estimate…

Just over a month after announcing his retirement from professional football, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady announced on social media he will be returning to the team to play in his 23rd season. The announcement, posted on Twitter and Instagram, came shortly after the NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket was announced Sunday, forcing sports…

Talks between Iran and the United States over reviving the 2015 nuclear deal appear to have stalled after Tehran suggested there were new obstacles and Washington said hard issues remained. The Biden administration would likely lift some of the punishing sanctions on Iran if the deal was brought back. That task has been made more…

Ahead of a third round of talks between Russia and Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleaded to the West for assistance. The request came after video surfaced appearing to show families of Ukrainians killed in the street around Kyiv while attempting to evacuate. Breaking! pic.twitter.com/VCL5mpOVMi — Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 6, 2022 “We are people and it…

Russia’s state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor announced it has cut access to Facebook and Twitter. Roskomnadzor has previously accused Twitter of failing to delete content banned by Russian authorities. Friday’s move, executed in line with a decision by the Russian Prosecutor General’s office, is one of several moves made by Russia to limit the information Russians…

A fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine has been extinguished. Ukrainian officials said the fire started after Russian forces fired on it. Radiation was not released during the incident.  Терміново! pic.twitter.com/MuXfniddVT — Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 4, 2022 “Europeans, please wake up. Tell your politicians – Russian troops are shooting at a nuclear power…

You may think this sounds nutty, but the National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security suggests podcaster Joe Rogan could end up on a terror watch list. DHS claims America is in a “heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and…