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Twitter employees have reportedly struggled with the news that the company is on the verge of being acquired by Tesla CEO Elon Musk with some of them too "shocked" to speak over the billionaire’s plans to promote freedom of speech. Several Twitter employees expressed serious concerns and fear over Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the company including a prominent worry that Musk would undo censorship mechanisms they had worked to implement over the years, The Washington Post reported Monday.

RALEIGH, N.C. — U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina was cited on Tuesday morning for bringing a gun to the Charlotte Douglas International Airport, according to a source familiar with the matter.It’s not the first time the congressman has brought a firearm to an airport. In February 2021, he attempted to bring a gun through security at the Asheville Regional Airport. The news was first reported by WSOC. Cawthorn’s spokesman, Luke Ball, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Charlotte airport officials deferred to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, which did not immediately respond. Mark Howell, a spokesperson...

As Russia launched its invasion, the U.S. gave Ukrainian forces detailed intelligence about exactly when and where Russian missiles and bombs were intended to strike, prompting Ukraine to move air defenses and aircraft out of harm’s way, current and former U.S. officials told NBC News. That near real-time intelligence-sharing also paved the way for Ukraine to shoot down a Russian transport plane carrying hundreds of troops in the early days of the war, the officials say, helping repel a Russian assault on a key airport near Kyiv. It was part of what American officials call a massive and unprecedented intelligence-sharing...

Sara Gonzales 49.5K Tweets Host of The News and Why It Matters on @BlazeTV CEO of American Beauty | Freedom fighter | Whiskey drinker | Proud member of the LGBFJB community | Pureblood 2h The only systemic racism that exists in this country is against white people. Sara Gonzales @SaraGonzalesTX · 2h Black on black crime is a greater problem than white supremacy. Sara Gonzales @SaraGonzalesTX · 2h The majority of Asian hate crimes are committed by black people. Sara Gonzales @SaraGonzalesTX · 2h There are rapists and murderers at the southern border. Sara Gonzales @SaraGonzalesTX · 3h The FBI...

A new film is highlighting the story of a controversial Japanese soldier who refused to surrender after the Second World War ended and spent 29 years hiding in the jungle. Hiroo Onoda, who died in 2014 at the age of 91, was stationed on the island in the Philippines in 1944 but remained until 1974 because he did not believe the war was over. He survived by eating dried banana skins, coconuts and stolen rice, believing he was in a guerilla war for 30 years. Onoda became the last Japanese soldier to surrender – but only after his former commander,...

The Webb Space Telescope is in its final (seventh) stage of alignment, bringing the superlative spacecraft tantalizingly close to commencing its scientific operations. Webb, in an artist’s rendering.Illustration: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez This alignment stage involves final tweaks to the telescope’s primary mirrors and is happening right on schedule, four months after the spacecraft’s launch from French Guiana. Unlike the earlier alignment stages, each of which had a specifically outlined goal—stacking images of a specific star, for example—the seventh (and final) stage merely repeats certain checks made previously, to ensure everything is as precise as possible. Meanwhile, the crucial Mid-Infrared...

Over the past 15 years, public health authorities have downgraded recommendations for the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test as a screening tool to reduce the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of men with low-grade prostate cancer. Now, researchers have found that while these efforts have been effective, the incidence of higher-grade disease and metastasis at diagnosis have risen. "To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate nationally that low-grade prostate cancer is no longer the most commonly diagnosed type of prostate cancer," said Dr. Jim Hu. In 2012, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended against screening all men with...

We get to know the global juggernaut behind America's next carmaker and take its first product, an all-electric SUV, for a spin. VinFast says it already has 60,000 reservations globally for its VF 8 and VF 9 electric SUVs. VinFast In the wake of Tesla's industry-shaking success and the future promise of electric, autonomous mobility, would-be electric car companies are sprouting up everywhere. The floodgates have opened, with the last decade seeing more startups get off the ground than at any time since the dawn of the automobile. Most are already finding out the hard way that car building is...

Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry Most Downloaded Articles The most downloaded articles from Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry in the last 9 months. Preliminary survey on cold fusion: It’s not pathological science and may require revision of nuclear theory Luciano Ondir Freire, Delvonei Alves de Andrade Open Access December 2021 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1572665721008973 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelechem.2021.115871 rights and content Under a Creative Commons license ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Highlights • After three decades, “cold fusion” field is alive with thousands of publications technologies. • Nuclear reactions in solids are more complex than simple fusion. • They also seem to need energy triggers like background radiation. • The field does...

Exclusive: French President Emmanuel Macron—the one who wanted to make unvaccinated Frenchmen second class citizens—just won reelection against more conservative Marine Le Pen, largely due to a big turnout among senior voters (Macron didn’t do so well in the under 35 graphic). One congratulation on his reelection raises some big red flags—literally. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) state media outlet Global Times, which has openly called for war and violence against China’s enemies, was seemingly full of glee at Macron’s reelection. "China and France share many similar views in terms of safeguarding multilateralism and improving global governance," Global Times wrote. "We...

In China, companies, banks, and individuals cannot freely move money into or out of the country unless they comply with strict foreign exchange (forex) rules. The Chinese communist party (CCP) has been imposing “zero tolerance” controls to limit foreign exchange trading done in a private or surreptitious manner. But despite the CCP’s best efforts, the massive outflow of Chinese capital to other countries is continuing and the speed has recently accelerated. One example of the CCP’s crackdown efforts involves the Tianjin-based Quanjian Group. Quanjian was fined $14.6 million for its foreign trading by the Anhui Branch of China’s State Administration...

Rephrase: In one sense, the Shanghai Lockdown is President Xi's way of saying to the internal, Chinese Communist Party, Shanghai opposition to Xi's quest for lifetime dictatorship, "see, I can paralyze your city with just one word". Steven Mosher was the first American social scientist to visit mainland China, in 1979. He was invited there by the Chinese government, where he had access to government documents and actually witnessed women being forced to have abortions under the new “one-child policy.” Mr. Mosher was a pro-choice atheist at the time, but witnessing these traumatic abortions led him to reconsider his convictions...

According to Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations, in the event of a nuclear attack on Moscow, there is space in underground facilities for all of the population. While this is a very bold claim, Moscow is famous for the massive amount of bunkers it has available for Civil Defense (гражданской обороны) and the military.

A mother and her boyfriend were sentenced in the death of 9-year-old Trinity Love Jones, whose body was found in a duffel bag in Hacienda Heights three years ago, authorities said Tuesday. The child was found dead by maintenance workers on March 5, 2019, her body partially stuffed inside a duffel bag down an embankment in the area of Hacienda Boulevard and Colima Road. The discovery shocked the community, with the child’s body going unidentified for days as authorities circled sketches of the girl and tips poured in.

In an evidence-based clinical practice guideline published by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, recommendations are presented for the prevention of surgical site infection (SSI) after major extremity trauma. Researchers evaluated the current best evidence associated with treatment to develop recommendations for prevention of SSI among adults after major extremity trauma. Fourteen strong and moderate-strength recommendations were developed. In the setting of open fracture in major extremity trauma, the authors suggest early delivery of antibiotics to reduce the risk for deep infection. In operative treatment of open fractures, preoperative antibiotics are suggested to prevent SSI. Patients with open fracture are...

Three out of every five people in the U.S. now have antibodies from a previous Covid-19 infection with the proportion even higher among children, demonstrating how widespread the virus was during the winter omicron surge, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The proportion of people with natural Covid antibodies increased substantially from about 34% of the population in December to about 58% in February during the unprecedent wave of infection driven by the highly contagious omicron variant

Joe Biden agreed to pay son Hunter's legal fees for his deal with a Chinese government-controlled company, emails reveal. The revelation ties the president even closer to Hunter's overseas business dealings – and makes his previous claims that he never discussed them with his son, even less plausible. Joe was able to pay the bills after earning millions of dollars through his and his wife's companies after he left office as vice president. Some of the wave of cash came from their book deals and speaking engagements. But the president's financial filings reveal that he declared almost $7million more income...

Key Points Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, her office said Harris is not showing symptoms and has not been in close contact with President Joe Biden or first lady Jill Biden, the vice president’s press secretary said. Harris, 57, “will isolate and continue to work from the Vice President’s residence,” her press secretary, Kirsten Allen, said in a statement.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday pardoned Abraham Bolden, the Chicago man who was the first Black Secret Service agent to serve on a White House detail, who maintained charges against him that led to prison time were trumped up. Bolden “has steadfastly maintained his innocence, arguing that he was targeted for prosecution in retaliation for exposing unprofessional and racist behavior within the U.S. Secret Service,” the White House said in announcing Biden’s clemency actions. Biden pardoned three people, including Bolden and commuted the sentences of 75 other people serving long sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, who under current guidelines would...

If you have the paper, flaunt it like Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk. That could be what other billionaires are about to do as they seek to drive headline-grabbing change at well-known public companies as Musk did with Twitter. "It's the beginning of a wave," Lawrence Elbaum, co-head of Vinson & Elkins' Shareholder Activism practice, said. "It's not the first time this has happened. There's lots of billionaires who have bid for companies in the past. There's lots of billionaire activists that have bid for companies." "I think we are going to see a lot more unsolicited bids on a...