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The world's richest man took to Twitter last night to jokingly tease a new potential takeover of Coca Cola - and it didn't long for Scots to jump on it.Elon Musk never seems to be out the news at the minute after he clinched a deal to buy Twitter for a cool $44 billion cash on Monday. The world's richest man then took to the platform to jokingly tease a new potential takeover target, saying that he is "buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in" in reference to the soft drink’s original recipe and its use as a tonic...

A long-dormant underwater volcano near Antarctica has woken up, triggering a swarm of 85,000 earthquakes. The swarm, which began in August 2020 and subsided by November of that year, is the strongest earthquake activity ever recorded in the region. And the quakes were likely caused by a "finger" of hot magma poking into the crust, new research finds. "There have been similar intrusions in other places on Earth, but this is the first time we have observed it there," study co-author Simone Cesca, a seismologist at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, told Live Science. "Normally, these...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday is introducing a bill to abolish Section 230 — the law the protects online platforms from liability — on the heels of Twitter accepting Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company and take it private. Greene’s bill would eliminate the law making online platforms not liable for content posted by third parties and replace it with a provision to require “reasonable, non-discriminatory access to online communications platforms” through a “common carrier” framework that Greene compared to airlines or package delivery services.

Tributes have been paid to a "much-loved" police officer who died after becoming unwell suddenly. Northamptonshire PC Alex Prentice had been praised for his policing, which included trying to save the life of teenager Rayon Pennycook. SNIP During that time, PC Prentice was attacked by a knifeman in Corby in 2015 and he was also credited for his actions to try to save the life of Rayon Pennycook, 16, in May 2021, who was fatally stabbed in Corby. Chief Constable Nick Adderley said: "The force is mourning the loss of PC Alex Prentice, who was taken ill and died suddenly...

Joe Biden struggled to speak earlier today as he discussed specific actions the United States is taking to punish those close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden promised to “accommodate” the “oligarchs” before laughing twice. Biden promised to “Enhance our underlying effort to accommodate the Russian oligarchs and make sure we take their, take their ill begotten gains.” At this point, Biden apparently realized he got a word wrong, and began laughing. “We’re going to accommodate them,” said Biden, fighting laughter. “We’re going to seize their yachts, their luxury homes, and other ill begotten gains of Putin’s kleptocric– yeah, kleptocracy,...

President Trump’s attorneys reached out to The Gateway Pundit. They are asking our readers and supporters for assistance. The Trump legal team wants The Gateway Pundit community to help them in their crowdsourcing of video footage from the January 6th protests in Washington DC. Trump attorney Peter Ticktin released a letter asking for the public’s help in locating January 6th footage to assist his team in defending President Trump. See the official letter here:

Bradford City fan Adam Waugh 'was kindest person' who 'always had a smile on his face'The brother of a Bradford City fan who died suddenly aged 39 has paid tribute to him as "probably the kindest person to walk the Earth." Stuart Waugh was speaking about his brother Adam Waugh, who tragically died of a suspected heart attack shortly before his 40th birthday. Stuart said younger brother Adam "always had a smile on his face" and was a big fan of his beloved City, having followed his team home and away for many years. Stuart said: "Adam will be very...

People who don’t get vaccinated against COVID-19 are putting themselves in danger and also are creating a “disproportionate” threat to the health of vaccinated people, even in places with high vaccination rates, says a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The study by University of Toronto researchers used computer modeling based on the province of Ontario to predict infection rates when unvaccinated and vaccinated people mixed to varying degrees. The researchers worked in factors such as vaccine effectiveness, baseline immunity among the unvaccinated, and infection recovery rates. Unvaccinated people were always at a higher risk of infection, the...

A whistleblower who got her own parents arrested and charged with more than 100 counts of abuse at a girls' school has now set out on a 'mission' to close down an associated facility. The Agapé Boarding School for Boys in Stockton, Missouri, has been hit with 14 lawsuits and Amanda Householder believes the time has come to shutter it for good. ‘The fact that the Agapé Boarding School is still open is beyond infuriating,’ Householder, 31, who was key to getting her parents' Circle of Hope school in nearby Humansville shut in 2020, told DailyMail.com. ‘When Circle of Hope...

Although many Marvel fans were ecstatic when the trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder finally arrived, others were less than thrilled. In fact, it seems that quite a few Twitter users have been calling out actor Chris Pratt for being homophobic after the trailer launched. It seems that one joke in the trailer has been the reason for the name-calling. As those who’ve seen the footage know, there’s a moment where Chris Pratt’s character Star-Lord is speaking with Chris Hemsworth’s Thor. He gives the following word of advice: “You ever feel lost? Just look into the eyes of the people...

When Mexican police found a pile of about 150 skulls in a cave near the Guatemalan border, they thought they were looking at a crime scene, and took the bones to the state capital. It turns out it was a very cold case. It took a decade of tests and analysis to determine the skulls were from sacrificial victims killed between A.D. 900 and 1200, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday. Frontera Comalapa in southern Chiapas state has long been plagued by violence and immigrant trafficking. And pre-Hispanic skull piles in Mexico usually show a hole bashed...

Moderna is set to ask the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday to approve its COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 6 years old, a new report said. The drugmaker will make its formal request after a clinical trial showed its vaccine worked effectively in babies, toddlers and preschoolers, Politico reported, citing three sources with knowledge. Moderna still needs to file final datasets to the FDA that won’t be ready until May 4 for a completed application, Politico added.

Ukraine appears to have attempted to strike deeper into Russian territory overnight, although officials on both sides were being reticent about drone flights and explosions early Wednesday that were described by three local governors in Russia. A close adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the assaults inside Russia near Ukraine’s eastern border were payback against launching pads for the invasion, but he stopped short of saying the Ukrainian military was responsible, attributing the attacks to “karma” instead. In Russia, three governors described incidents involving drones or blasts on their territories. An ammunition depot was set on fire...

The town of Clarksville, Indiana, is accused of unlawfully revoking a job offer to a qualified law officer after learning that he was HIV positive, according to a press release from the Department of Justice, which filed the lawsuit April 25. The lawsuit maintains that such HIV discrimination violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which considers HIV a disability. Title I of the ADA prohibits employers from discriminating against qualified individuals on the basis of disability. When the officer was offered the job in 2015, he had already been volunteering with the town’s police department for over a year...

A Chinese defense spokesperson on Thursday urged some Australian politicians to correct their "China threat" ideology and avoid further damage to China-Australia military relations. Regarding the development of another country as a security threat, some people in Australia have created and spread groundless fear, said Tan Kefei, spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense, at a regular press conference in response to recent statements from some Australian politicians. "Their actions will not only undermine regional security and stability, but also compromise their own images as well," Tan said. The military cooperation among the United States, Britain and Australia in highly...

A 15-year-old boy who was initially targeted by a false rumor that he was unvaccinated was bullied relentlessly until he took his own life in January, a lawsuit claims. The suit filed Monday against the Latin School of Chicago alleges administrators at the private college prep school — which charges more than $40,000 annually in tuition — committed “willful failure” to stop the incessant bullying, the Chicago Tribune reported. The Cook County filing named the school, several employees and parents of the alleged bullies as defendants. The late teen, identified as N.B. in the suit, transferred to the school due...

The US authorities are considering the possibility of transferring assets of the Bank of Russia frozen in the United States to Ukraine. This was stated by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at a hearing in the Senate Appropriations Committee. The question now, Blinken said, is whether there are legal provisions in the US that allow forfeiture. This issue is being considered by the staff of the Ministry of Justice. "We're working very closely with the US Treasury and Justice Departments to explore how we can effectively freeze and seize assets," Blinken said. During the discussion of this issue, Senator...

- After decades of searching, one of Dorothy's dresses from the classic American film "The Wizard of Oz" has been located and is set to be auctioned off next month. The auction house said film studio MGM didn't keep records about the movie's costumes but five dresses have surfaced since the film was released in 1939. One was lost in a fire, leaving only four of the iconic blue and white gingham outfits.

Amid the meltdown of leftists canceling themselves following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the most extreme reactions came from the likes of MSNBC’s Joy Reid and ABC’s The View, where it was declared that Musk is a white supremacist who wants to see the return of segregation, as well as abuse of Jewish people and rampant misogyny against women. Perpetual race grifter Reid proclaimed that Musk “misses the old South Africa in the 80s. He wants that back,” adding “Elon Musk’s companies have a history of open racism.” She also charged that Musk’s “idea of freedom means freedom to be a...

The American deep state is letting everyone know that more attacks on the domestic food supply are soon to come. Following a wave of arson that saw numerous food processing plants in the United States burn to the ground or get crashed into by planes all at roughly the same time, the FBI’s Cyber Division published a notice explaining that the next phase of this engineered takedown involves cyberattacks. “Ransomware actors may be more likely to attack agricultural cooperatives during critical planting and harvest seasons, disrupting operations, causing financial loss, and negatively impacting the food supply chain,” the FBI announced,...