NZ Green Party MP Chlöe Swarbrick was giving a speech in favour of stricter carbon emissions standards when the 50-year-old National Party Climate Critic Todd Muller heckled her; without missing a beat, she fired back "OK Boomer" and moved on to making a rather good and eloquent point about need for intense action on climate. Read the rest
MEPs in European Parliament want Facebook to submit to a full audit by European Union bodies to determine whether the U.S. based social media company adequately protects users’ personal data. The demand made in the form of an EU resolution adopted Thursday, October 25, 2018, follows the company's recent breach scandal, in which data belonging to 87 million Facebook users around the world were improperly obtained and misused. Read the rest
George Clinton, explaining why Medicaid Fraud Dogg was being released under the Parliament banner, rather than Funkadelic: "Because the last album was (2014's) Funkadelic First Ya Gotta Shake The Gate. It's Parliament's turn." Read the rest
Four people, including an assailant and a police officer, were killed today in an attack at the Houses of Parliament that authorities say was an act of terrorism.
Ministers of Parliament were locked in after police shot and killed a man who reportedly ran at the gates by Parliament square and stabbed an officer. Moments earlier, a car had run five people over on nearby Westminster Bridge, leaving at least two dead and twenty injured.
Prime Minister Theresa May is to chair an emergency meeting of ministers today, writes the BBC.
First pictures emerge of scene after eyewitnesses reports of car striking and injuring pedestrians at Westminsterhttps://t.co/WG8yXWpPVV pic.twitter.com/y3DdbCpQrU
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) March 22, 2017
We were called at approx 2:40pm to reports of an incident at #Westminster Bridge. Being treated as a firearms incident - police on scene
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) March 22, 2017
BBC Radio 5 reports that "around three shots" were heard.
A "police officer has been stabbed" and the "alleged assailant was shot by armed police", Commons Leader tells MPs https://t.co/WG8yXW8f4n
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) March 22, 2017
Shaky video of commotion after Parliament shooting. pic.twitter.com/ofGZwcMgaA
— Patrick Daly (@thepatrickdaly) March 22, 2017
Just seen police shoot a man outside parliament, appeared to be wielding a knife
— Charlie Cooper (@CharlieCooper8) March 22, 2017
House of Commons has been suspended following gunshots in Parliament, MPs are leaving the chamber
— Jon Stone (@joncstone) March 22, 2017
Read the restDeputy speaker announces UK Houses of Parliament suspended after incident on Westminster Bridge https://t.co/WG8yXWpPVV
