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Vanguard group, an asset management company, becomes largest shareholder of Twitter, according to latest SEC data. Musk's bid gets rejected by Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding Company (KHC). They own a 5.2 per cent stake. Musk responds to Saudi Arabia's KHC by asking how much Saudi Arabia owns directly and indirectly, plus enquires about their views on freedom. SNIP

The wealthy political activist and Democratic donor Ed Buck was sentenced to 30 years in prison on charges that he supplied and personally injected gay men with methamphetamine in exchange for sex, leading to two deaths and multiple other overdoses. Buck, 67, was found guilty in July by a federal jury on all nine counts, including having a drug house, distributing methamphetamine and enticing men to travel for prostitution. Thursday’s sentencing closes a long saga, involving Buck, who prosecutors say used his wealth and influence to prey on and exploit mostly vulnerable Black men for “party and play” encounters at...

Around 400 clergymen of the Ukrainian Church under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Moscow collectively appeal to the Council of the Primates of the Ancient Eastern Churches (the highest “court” of Orthodoxy worldwide) against Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, In particular, the 400 clergymen of the Ukrainian entity of the Patriarchate of Moscow are pressing charges against Patriarch Kirill, claiming that Kirill preaches the doctrine of the “Russian world”, which deviates from Orthodox teaching and should be condemned as a heresy. They also stressed that Patriarch Kirill has committed moral crimes, blessing the war against Ukraine and fully supporting the...

YouTuber PrestigeIsKey posted a screenshot on his Twitter account of the audio ran through a spectrograph and found the words “Monsters Are Real.” And another Twitter user replied with a looping sound of Godzilla’s orca-like sound that matches the audio from the trailer. Both of these clues strongly hint at the famous kaiju making its grand appearance in Warzone The inclusion of Godzilla would represent a radical change from the semi-realistic atmosphere of Call of Duty games (excluding Zombies mode). This could be an attempt to match Fortnite’s successful partnerships with third-party properties such as Marvel, DC, and Naruto.

BET SHEMESH, ISRAEL—Investigators working with the Israel Antiquities Authority have claimed David used an illegal "ghost" sling in his famous battle with Goliath. Experts allege the ghost sling would have been untraceable, which would account for why Goliath was caught off guard so easily. "Goliath, a man who stood about 7'10" by modern reckoning, would not have been defeated so easily if David had a legal sling registered with the proper authorities," said Dr. Phil Gath, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "David probably used a 3D printer or something, maybe he just stole some leather and grabbed...

Crews are trying to keep a decommissioned World War II-era destroyer from sinking into Lake Erie as they pump 13,000 gallons of water out of the listing ship each minute. Officials believe the USS The Sullivans suffered a breach on the right side of the hull Wednesday night, causing the ship to slowly go under. Pumps were brought to the Erie County Naval & Military Park in downtown Buffalo, New York, where the ship is docked, in an effort to stabilize the 79-year-old vessel. Park president Paul Marzello said that while the cause of the breach remains unknown at this...

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Molly Shannon said on a recent episode of “The Howard Stern Show” (via People) that she was sexually harassed by comedian and “Diff’rent Strokes” star Gary Coleman. The “Saturday Night Live” veteran also detailed the alleged incident in her new memoir, “Hello, Molly!” Shannon said she had just signed with Coleman’s manager at the time and got the chance to meet him at his penthouse hotel room. “I think he was like, ‘Sit down [on the bed].’ It was very sweet,” Shannon said. “And then he’s, like, tickling me a little. This and that.” Shannon told Coleman that she was...

You know it’s a strange world we live in when a controversial college professor known as a “space archeologist” gets in a Twitter spat with an actor best known for his role as a futuristic spaceship captain. Welcome to 2022. The issue between UAB professor Sarah Parcak arose when Shatner tweeted about his History Channel show “The UnXplained” and the episode “Mysterious Ancient Ruins.” “Ancient ruins fascinate us. Some archaeological finds are so baffling that they challenge everything we know about the past. Will we ever learn the truth about these mysterious ruins? Or will they continue to present more...

WHAT WAS ITS HISTORY? The warship was launched as the Slava from a shipyard in Mykolaiv in what was then the Soviet republic of Ukraine in July 1979, according to open-source intelligence firm Janes. Commissioned in late December 1982, it was 611.5 feet (186 meters) long. It was designed to carry a crew of 476 with an additional 62 officers. The Slava served as the flagship of the Soviet fleet in the Black Sea. It carried both surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, deck guns, torpedoes and mortars. It also had a helicopter deck. During the Cold War, it also carried nuclear...

Thought New York City’s Pizza Rat was majestic? Enter cigarette cockroach, a bodacious bug that was observed scurrying about an undisclosed residence in the Big Apple with a cancer stick in tow, smoking out all vermin competition. A video of the tiny tobacco toker is currently blowing up on Instagram as urban wildlife enthusiasts marvel at what could be the animal kingdom’s newest celebrity sleazeball. “Roach just trying to have a smoke in peace,” reads the caption to the uproarious clip, which was uploaded a day ago by the popular Instagram account WhatIsNewYork.

‘Get off our campus because no one [expletive] wants you here,’ one LGBT activist at the Catholic university yelled at TFP Action.WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Students at Georgetown University cursed at and spat on volunteers with the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP Action) and claimed that transgender ideology is compatible with Catholic teaching. “I’m a devout Catholic for many years and I support none of this [expletive],” one young woman told the TFP volunteers on April 4. The volunteers were handing out information on how “transgenderism is the family’s worst enemy.” “Why are you...

A ‘sharp recession’ lies ahead for Germany should it be cut off from the Russian gas it is so badly addicted to. Germany’s energy situation does not appear to be getting any better, with a recently released report suggesting that the country would fall into a “sharp recession” should it suddenly lose access to Russian gas. While Europe as a whole appears keen to implement harsh embargos on Russian energy imports, Germany’s chronic addiction to Russian gas has put a wrench in such works, with authorities in the country having expressed disbelief as to how the addiction issue was ever...

Italian bishops label climate alarmist, LGBT activist 'missionary martyrs'ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Italian bishops are canonizing a climate alarmist, a bisexual activist, a lesbian journalist, an open-borders agitator and Muslim campaigners in a woke "Way of the Cross" for Lent and Holy Week. Via Crucis, published by the Italian Episcopal Conference for use in Italy's dioceses and parishes in 2022, glorifies Swedish climate alarmist Greta Thunberg among the ranks of "missionary women and men who were martyred." Thunberg is exalted at the 10th Station (Jesus is stripped of His clothes) by the publication as a 19-year-old "protagonist of change" who "became...

"First Ladies and their teams are often the vanguards of social progress in this country, despite no budget and no pay," writes Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer) to Michelle Obama (Viola Davis) in the tenth and final episode of Showtime's The First Lady. The sentiment serves as the thesis for this anthology series from creator Aaron Cooley and director Susanne Bier, a well-meaning but ponderous effort that wastes a trio of extraordinary actresses with its dull and cursory storytelling. Despite its singular title, The First Lady insists on cramming three presidential spouses — Mrs. Obama, Mrs. Ford, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt...

President Biden said Thursday he wants to put billions of dollars into a “Build Back Better World” program for foreign countries after members of his own party stymied his domestic Build Back Better Act. “We’re going to export billions of dollars worth of product for the rest of the world,” Biden said during remarks at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. “One of the proposals I have and won’t go into now is the Build Back Better World.

Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary at the Synod of Bishops’ general secretariat, delivered an online PowerPoint presentation to New Ways Ministry, which promotes homosexual and transgender rights in the Church, on April 3.VATICAN CITY — A recent lecture given by a high-level member of the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops to a dissenting American organization has been criticized as “simply wrong” and part of a concerted effort to influence the current worldwide Synod on Synodality to legitimize the homosexual agenda in the Church. Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary at the Synod of Bishops’ general secretariat responsible for coordinating all...

Amid the ongoing global inflation crisis, NATO heads of state and mainstream media repeat a mantra that high energy prices are a direct result of Putin’s actions in Ukraine since end of February. The reality is that it is the western sanctions that are responsible. Those sanctions including cutting SWIFT interbank access for key Russian banks and some of the most severe sanctions ever imposed, are hardly having an impact on the military actions in Ukraine. What many overlook is the fact that they are increasingly impacting the economies of the West, especially the EU and USA. A closer look...

VATICAN CITY, April 11 (Reuters) - The Vatican is studying the possibility of extending Pope Francis' trip to Lebanon in June so he can fly to Jerusalem to meet there Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, who has backed Russia's war in Ukraine, two sources told Reuters on Monday. It would be only their second meeting. Their first, in Cuba in 2016, was the first between a pope and a leader of the Russian Orthodox Church since the Great Schism that split Christianity into Eastern and Western branches in 1054. Kirill, 75, has given his full-throated blessing for Russia's invasion of Ukraine,...

The big takeaway from all of this is that despite the crisis in money market funds during the Wall Street crash of 2008, federal regulators appear to have done very little to reform what Wall Street is allowed to stuff into money market funds – which are peddled to investors as safe and liquid. This might explain why the Boston Fed has adopted a mantle of silence about what went on in its MMLF bailout fund and why it has made journalists run an obstacle course to get at the facts.….