Author: The Speaker Editors

The 39-year-old centrist independent will win, it looks like, by a decisive margin of 65% to 35%. Le Pen’s 35% is seen as still being an important indicator of political feeling in the country. Read more

2017 marks the first offshore windfarm in the U.S. The wind farm, located off Block Island, isn’t providing all of the island’s power, but whereas before the island’s grid was isolated from the mainland, the windfarm allowed Block to be connected to the New England power grid for the first time, and therefore the island’s … Read more

China, the world’s biggest solar power market, added 21.4b kilowatt-hours in the three months before March 31, compared with a year earlier, according to the NEA. It’s total installed capacity is now 85gw. Their increase is despite an unused capacity (congested transmission infrastructure) worth 2.3b kilowatt-hours in the first quarter. Read more

New Orleans has been removing monuments to its Confederate history, led by Mayor Mitch Landrieu. Sunday afternoon protesters met at Lee Square, as did people who support monument removal. The protesters included some considered to be white supremacists, but the peaceful protesters of all beliefs were aligned, as, in the words of one man who attended … Read more

Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest local TV station operator, is ready to buy Tribute Media, a rival, for $3.9b. If Sinclair gets regulatory approval for the buy, they will have over 200 stations. Read more

The French president-elect, the youngest leader of the country since Napoleon and a man who was unknown a year ago, could find himself without much power to act if he doesn’t quickly form a movement to win a majority in the French national assembly. In the run up to the election, two candidates were chosen … Read more

A debate is taking place in legal circles, matching the contentious findings of the various judges that have been dealing with figuring out how Trump’s executive orders are related to his earlier statements. During the campaign trail, Trump said he would institute a Muslim ban. Most legal experts would consider such a ban to be … Read more

The former Obama administration director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former Trump administration National Security Advisor is back in the news this week after Sally Yates, former acting-Attorney General, testified to the Senate about his history. She said that the Obama administration had warned Trump not to hire Flynn because Flynn was vulnerable to … Read more

The Liberals and Christy Clark did not receive a majority … yet. They might not get one. They won 43 of B.C.’s 87 electoral districts, one short of a majority. That means that the NDP with 41 and the Greens with 3 may form a coalition or other governing arrangement, and NDP leader John Horgan … Read more

During a rollover, side airbags and seatbelts may not work properly due to a defect in the truck’s software so far blamed for one death. The vehicles being recalled are the 2013-16 Ram 1500 and 2500 pickups, and the 2014-16 Ram 3500. Fiat Chrysler said the recall covered 1m vehicles in the United States and … Read more

At least one person has died and it is believed at least 10 others are affected by a new outbreak in the northernmost province of the Congo. It has been 3 years since the West African Epidemic peaked. The epidemic killed over 11,000. Read more

Around 24 hours after being hit by the big malware attack that affected 100 countries, 97% of UK hospitals were back to normal. There is talk that the computers were breached through a vulnerability in older Microsoft systems which was long ago identified by the NSA and which the NSA included it in its list … Read more