Join us on RaceFans Live as Formula 1 heads to the Jeddah Corniche Circuit for the inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Here’s how to watch the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix live in the UK and USA: 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix: Friday 3 December – Sunday 5 December 2021 UK (GMT) Day Session Channel Session starts Session ends Friday Saudi Arabian Grand Prix first practice live Sky Sports F1 13:30 14:30 Friday Saudi Arabian Grand Prix second practice live Sky Sports F1 17:00 18:00 Saturday Saudi Arabian Grand Prix Formula 2 race one live Sky Sports F1 12:30 13:15 Saturday Saudi Arabian Grand Prix third practice live Sky Sports F1 14:00 15:00 Saturday Saudi Arabian Grand Prix qualifying live Sky Sports F1 17:00 – Saturday Saudi Arabian Grand Prix Formula 2 race two live Sky Sports F1 18:40 19:25 Saturday Saudi Arabian Grand Prix qualifying highlights Channel 4 20:40 – Sunday …
Piastri not interested in racing elsewhere in ‘year on sidelines’ · RaceFans
Oscar Piastri isn’t looking for a race drive elsewhere in 2022 as he intends to prioritise being available in case he gets the opportunity to make his Formula 1 debut. Advert | Become a Supporter & go ad-free The Formula 2 points leader will not graduate to F1 next year as Guanyu Zhou has already landed the final place on the grid with Alfa Romeo. Alpine announced earlier this month that Piastri will serve as their official reserve driver in 2022. Piastri admitted he “would have much preferred to go straight to a race seat” than spend “a year on the sidelines”. However, with Alpine retaining Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon for 2022, and the team having no engine customers to place a junior driver with, Piastri was left without a route onto the F1 grid. However he expects to have several opportunities to test for the team again in 2022 and could make his race debut if the opportunity arises. “Of course, as a racing driver, I want to be racing,” he said. “But …
FBI Document Says the Feds Can Get Your WhatsApp Data — in Real Time
WASHINGTON — As Apple and WhatsApp have built themselves into multibillion-dollar behemoths, they’ve done it while preaching the importance of privacy, especially when it comes to secure messaging. But in a previously unreported FBI document obtained by Rolling Stone , the bureau claims that it’s particularly easy to harvest data from Facebook ’s WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage services, as long as the FBI has a warrant or subpoena. Judging by this document, “the most popular encrypted messaging apps iMessage and WhatsApp are also the most permissive,” according to Mallory Knodel, the chief technology officer at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has articulated a “privacy-focused vision” built around WhatsApp, the most popular messaging service in the world. Apple CEO Tim Cook says privacy is a “basic human right” and that Apple believes in “giving the user transparency and control,” a philosophy that extends to the company’s wildly …
Embattled Kansas lawmaker arrested for second time in month
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A 21-year-old embattled Kansas lawmaker was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving — his second arrest in less than a month — and is facing fresh calls for his resignation or removal from office. A Kansas trooper arrested Aaron Coleman around 1 a.m. Saturday on Interstate 70 near Lawrence, the Kansas Highway Patrol said. Coleman was taken to the Douglas County Jail, where he bonded out hours later. Coleman did not immediately return phone and email messages left Monday morning by The Associated Press seeking comment. At the time of the arrest, Coleman was already out on bond from an Oct. 30 domestic battery arrest. In that case, he allegedly pushed, hit and spit on his 18-year-old brother in a fight that erupted because the brother was going to get baptized, according to court documents. The Kansas City, Kansas, Democrat has been embroiled in controversy since before he took office after being elected in 2020 and has acknowledged past abuses against …
Why the Nationals moved prospect Yasel Antuna from shortstop to outfield
This fall, the Washington Nationals decided to shift Yasel Antuna, one of their key prospects, from shortstop to outfield. On one hand, the timing was curious. The Nationals had recently traded franchise shortstop Trea Turner to the Los Angeles Dodgers. With Carter Kieboom playing third base and Luis García at second, their pool of remotely-to-somewhat-close-to-major-league-ready shortstops had thinned to Antuna and Jackson Cluff. But a quick glance at Antuna's 2021 stats tells a simple story. The 22-year-old made 36 errors in 96 games at shortstop for high Class A Wilmington. And those who saw him out there say it looked as bad as it sounds. "We think Antuna is going to come fast," Mike Rizzo, the Nationals' general manager, said in early November. "We moved him to the outfield so he could focus more on his bat, and he had a hell of a second half of the season after not playing for two years." That requires a bit of reading between the lines. The Nationals care about Antuna's …
‘Insecure’ and the defiant come-up of Issa Rae
There's a moment in the Season 5 premiere of "Insecure" when Issa (series creator Issa Rae) talks to her younger self in a mirror, updating a still-in-braces Issa on what she will accomplish in the future and where her most significant relationships stand as she attends her 10-year college reunion. The scene is a variation of one that has played out multiple times across five seasons of the groundbreaking HBO dramedy. These mirror confessionals typically involve goofy, introspective raps, and "throwback" Issa doesn't disappoint. "Let me see them teeth," younger Issa says as grown-up Issa acts as hype-woman, flashing a virtually perfect grin. "Show me how you eat!" The scene marks a full-circle moment for Issa, who was perpetually underemployed in the show's first few seasons and now owns a burgeoning event-planning business. It's also a full-circle moment for Rae, who first channeled her anxieties through freestyle rap breaks in "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl," the beloved …
Trump allies work to place supporters in key election posts across the country, spurring fears about future vote challenges
6 In Michigan, local GOP leaders have sought to reshape election canvassing boards by appointing members who expressed sympathy for former president Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 vote was rigged. In two Pennsylvania communities, candidates who embraced election fraud allegations won races this month to become local voting judges and inspectors. And in Colorado, 2020 doubters are urging their followers on conservative social media platforms to apply for jobs in election offices. A year after local and state election officials came under immense pressure from Trump to subvert the results of the 2020 White House race, he and his supporters are pushing an ambitious plan to place Trump loyalists in key positions across the administration of U.S. elections. The effort goes far beyond the former president's public broadsides against well-known Republican state officials who certified President Biden's victory, such as …
Democratic midterm fears mount as policies fail to resonate with voters
At a virtual fundraiser late last month, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., shared a blunt assessment about the Democratic Party. "Democrats are terrible at messaging," she said, according to notes taken by one attendee. "It's just a fact." The admission surprised some attendees for its frankness, but it's a sentiment that is widely shared among other lawmakers, donors and party leaders. The concerns are growing more urgent as Democrats gear up for grueling midterm elections, in which most in the party expect to lose control of the House and many are also increasingly pessimistic about retaining a majority in the Senate. Beyond a struggle to sell the nuts-and-bolts of legislation, there are deeper fears among Democrats that the party lacks a cohesive and convincing argument to win over voters in next year's elections. Democrats are eager to tout the bills they have passed in President Joe Biden's first year, but a strategy tying together the disparate pieces of legislation - from …
‘Vaccine’ is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2021
After a year marked by the nation's immunization effort - from early scrambles to get appointments for shots against the coronavirus, campaigns meant to incentivize holdouts, and now a push for boosters - Merriam-Webster determined "vaccine" is the word of the year for 2021. Searches for the word "vaccine" increased by 601 percent this year at Merriam-Webster.com, according to the dictionary company, which chooses its word of the year based on lookup data. The winning word seems fitting - a year ago, Merriam-Webster announced that "pandemic" was the word of the year for 2020. Interest in the word "vaccine" has been up since the coronavirus pandemic began - according to Merriam-Webster, lookups for the word surged 1,048 percent from 2019 to 2021. The growing interest in this year's word is layered, said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster's editor at large. "The biggest science event of the year quickly became the biggest political debate in our country, and the word at the …