Los Angeles mayor celebrates $250 million homeless program as homelessness shrinks for first time in six years
As the Supreme Court makes it easier to restrict homeless encampments, Los Angeles celebrated the first decline in its homeless population in years. Data released Friday show homelessness dropped on two levels in the past six years. Overall, homelessness decreased by 2.2%. That number accounts for people who have found emergency lodging or are sheltering […]
Gay Porn Star Austin Wolf Charged For Allegedly Trading Hundreds Of Child Porn Videos
Authorities charged a gay porn star for allegedly trading hundreds of child porn videos, the Department of Justice announced Friday. Justin Heath Smith, an adult film actor known by his stage name “Austin Wolf,” has been arrested on charges involving child pornography. Smith is accused of sending and receiving hundreds of videos through the Telegram […]
‘Must Be Reading From A Different Case’: Conservative Justices Drag Liberal Colleagues For Botching Dissent
The Supreme Court’s conservative justices suggested Thursday that their liberal colleagues completely misrepresented precedent that forms the foundation of their dissenting opinion defending an executive agency’s ability to act as “prosecutor, judge, and jury.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting with Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson from the majority’s ruling in SEC v. Jarkesy, claims the […]
Majority of Americans Support Restrictions on Abortion As Nation Awaits Supreme Court Ruling
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes As the nation awaits a landmark abortion ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, newly released polling data show that the majority of Americans support limits on abortion. Convention of States Action, along with the Trafalgar group, released a new poll showing that 57.6% of Americans say “abortion should only be […]
US, India extend digital tax truce to Sunday as deadline approaches – Yahoo Finance
David Loader (Reuters) – The United States and India have extended until Sunday a tentative agreement on U.S. retaliation over India’s digital services tax, coinciding with a looming deadline for an international agreement that reallocates taxing powers to the world’s largest and most profitable companies, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Friday. In a brief […]
Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon in ‘good position’ heading into F1 Sprint at Austrian GP
Friday was another positive session for Alpine, with further evidence of progress being shown. Against a beautiful backdrop of the Styrian mountains, 20 Formula 1 cars roared to the start at the Red Bull Ring on Friday for qualifying for tomorrow’s F1 sprint race. Alpine’s Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon again qualified for the third […]
Woman Alleges United Airlines Removed Them From Flight After Misgendering Attendant, Airline Responds
A Texas woman claimed on social media Thursday that United Airlines blocked her family from boarding a flight due to a misunderstanding about a flight attendant’s gender. in video Jenna Longoria posted on social media about an incident in which she and her family were prevented from boarding a United Airlines flight from San Francisco […]
A popular AI chatbot has been caught lying, saying it’s human
Is this real? As artificial intelligence begins to replace humans in call service and other administrative jobs, a newly popular and highly credible robocall service has been found to be lying and pretending to be human. Wired reported. The cutting-edge technology, unveiled by San Francisco-based Brand AI, is intended to be used for customer service […]
Trump-Biden debate a fundraising boon for both candidates
Both President Biden and former President Donald Trump bolstered their campaign coffers Thursday with millions of dollars in donations in the lead-up to their first debate. The Biden campaign bragged Friday that it raised $14 million on the day of the debate and the morning after, noting that it marked the highest fundraising ever in […]
The Speaker’s Lobby: A Universal Interest
The presidential debates changed television. “You’re a radical leftist who wants to appoint a bunch of new justices to the Supreme Court!” former President Trump yelled at President Biden during a 2020 debate. “Will you just shut up?” Biden pleaded. Former President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson: Who needs who? And television changed politics. […]