Why Brazil is taking on Elon Musk – podcast | News
“One Saturday morning at the end of August, I woke up here in Rio and looked at my phone. For the first time since I was living in China as a correspondent before coming here, I looked at my phone and Twitter wasn't working.” The Guardian's Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips,tell Michael Safi How Elon […]
Lloyd Kaufman, Who Saw Answers Behind the ‘Moon Illusion,’ Dies at 97
Lloyd Kaufman, a leading figure in the study of a phenomenon called the moon illusion, an optical trick puzzled over for millenniums by the likes of Aristotle and Kepler, died on Aug. 20 at his home in the Floral Park neighborhood of Queens. He was 97. His death was confirmed by his daughter Robin Sellier. […]
TD Bank must pay nearly $30 million after sharing ‘inaccurate, negative information' about customers – NBC Philadelphia
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered TD Bank to pay $7.76 million to tens of thousands of victims of the bank's illegal conduct. In a statement released Wednesday, the CFPB alleges that the bank repeatedly provided inaccurate and negative information about its customers to consumer reporting agencies over the years. The information included “systematic inaccuracies […]
Red Sox’s James Paxton Planning On Retirement After Suffering Season-Ending Calf Injury: REPORT
A sad end to a great career! Boston Red Sox starting pitcher James Paxton I had to leave August 11 In a game against the Houston Astros, he left the game early, in the first inning, because of a calf injury. It was later revealed that he suffered a partial tear in his right calf, […]
Collin Griffith, 17, stabs mom Catherine to death in Fla. one year after killing father: police
A 17-year-old boy stabbed his mother to death in Florida, just one year after shooting and killing his father in Oklahoma, police said. Collin Griffiths called 911 Sunday night, claiming he was stabbed in the neck during a fight after his mother, Katherine Griffiths, 39, lunged at him with a knife and he fell on […]
Secret Service to heighten security measures on Jan. 6 to prevent another riot
The United States Secret Service (USSS) will be stepping up security to “ensure the safety and security” of the electoral votes to be cast at the Capitol on January 6, 2025. The USSS confirmed the security measures in an email to Fox News Digital. The service released a statement Wednesday saying Jan. 6, 2025, has […]
Former CIA officer accepted gifts from China for Top Secret info; sentenced to prison
A former CIA officer who accepted numerous gifts and payments in exchange for spying for China was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday. Alexander Yuk Chin Ma, 71, of Honolulu, was convicted of conspiring to collect and provide national defense information to the People's Republic of China (PRC), the U.S. Department of Justice […]
Justin Timberlake Expected To Plead Guilty, Agree To Deal In DWI Arrest
(Photo courtesy of Sag Harbor Police Department via Getty Images) OAN Staff Avril ElfiWednesday, September 11, 2024 4:43 PM Justin Timberlake is expected to plead guilty in his DWI case. advertisement Officials with the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said they “expect” Timberlake to plead guilty at a court hearing in Sag Harbor on Friday. […]
Claim Illegal Immigration, Migrant Crime Among Greatest Threats Is ‘False’
Asked on CNN News Central on Wednesday how he would respond to claims that “illegal immigration and immigrant crime are one of the greatest threats to the nation today,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said such claims were “false.” Co-host Kate Bolduin asked, “The threat, the threat landscape, of course, has evolved over 23 years. […]
A nanny’s unthinkable crime and the end of America
A recent New Yorker cover by artist R. Kikuo Johnson doesn't lie: wealthy white American women often pay other non-white women to look after their children. And these women, often mothers, send the money they earn back home to the Caribbean, the Philippines and Latin America to support the children they rarely see. What “lessons” […]