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Elon Musk's unassuming $50,000 Texas home can be revealed for the first time by DailyMail.com – complete with a rocket-shaped kids' playhouse, Tesla solar panels and CCTV cameras hidden in palm trees. The world's richest man and new Twitter owner has sold seven Californian mansions in the past two years after vowing to offload his property portfolio and most of his possessions. He's also denied claims he secretly lives at a friend's $12million mansion in Austin – insisting: 'My primary home is literally a $50k house in Boca Chica/Starbase that I rent from SpaceX … it's kinda awesome though.' Boca...

A Mexican couple has sparked fury after holding a Nazi-style wedding honoring Adolph Hitler. Fernando and Josefina tied the knot at a church in the state of Tlaxcala - east of Mexico's capital - on April 29, the anniversary of Hitler's marriage to Eva Braun. Fernando and his three groomsmen wore replica suits of the Schutzstaffel, a paramilitary unit that served the Nazis - while Josefina wore a white gown. The themed wedding was condemned by Simon Wiesenthal Center in a statement. 'Our institution strongly condemns the distortion and trivialization of the memory of six million Jews murdered in the...

Sila Nanotechnologies, a battery startup founded in 2011 by a former Tesla engineer, announced on May 3 plans for a new plant based in the United States that will mass-produce material for low-cost next-generation batteries with a longer range and is not dependent on manufacturing in China.“In a commitment to ensure America retains global leadership in the world’s transition to the new energy storage era, Sila, a next-generation battery materials company, today announced the purchase of a facility with more than 600,000 square feet of space located in Moses Lake, WA to be used to manufacture Sila’s breakthrough lithium-ion anode...

After the 2020 election, government officials and their allies in the media repeated the mantra that the election was the “most secure in American history,” Dinesh D’Souza pointed out before the premiere of his new documentary film 2000 Mules at Mar-a-Lago, Wednesday night.But how would they know that? D’Souza wondered. Even if they couldn’t prove the election was rigged, “it still doesn’t follow that it was the most secure election in history,” he said. “The only way you could prove that would be if you were to compare the amount of fraud in 2020 with 2016, with 2012, with 2008,...

Since Twitter’s Board of Directors accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy the social media platform, interest in employment opportunities at the tech firm has accelerated, new data shows.In the week of Apr. 24, interest in Twitter job openings on Glassdoor surged 263 percent, according to Daniel Zhao, a senior economist and data scientist at the job insights website.Zhao noted the 263 percent number is based on average daily clicks on Twitter job openings on the platform compared to all of March. Although this might not relate to job applications, the notable jump reflects curiosity about work opportunities at the business.The...

A four-member team of astronauts launched to the International Space Station by SpaceX touched back down on Earth in the Gulf of Mexico on May 6.The return via a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule came just one day after the group undocked from the space station following a six-month mission in which they conducted science experiments and did maintenance.Dragon and Crew-3 astronauts consisted of Raja Chari, a U.S. Air Force combat jet and test pilot who served as mission commander, Tom Marshburn, a medical doctor and former NASA flight surgeon, Kayla Barron, a U.S. Navy submarine officer and nuclear engineer, and...

Is there any corner of our government bureaucracy that isn’t overrun with woke, partisan operatives seeking to enact their political agendas? I think we all know the answer to that, and the latest example comes via the FTC moving to “investigate” Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter on…anti-trust grounds?This comes after Democrats and their media allies have spent the last few weeks absolutely losing their minds over the fact that conservatives might have a single platform that doesn’t bias their policies against them.Fox Business provides some of the details.The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reviewing Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion...

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas warning about "bullying" saying: "The events of earlier this week is one symptom of that"... There's good news to report from Idaho in the case of Baby Cyrus Anderson ripped from his mother's arms on the night of March 11th... President Trump speaking tonight at campaign rally in Greensburg, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. Dr. Mehmet Oz, endorsed by President Trump in the Republican Primary for US Senate, spoke at the rally before Mr. Trump and was brought to up to speak again during Trump's speech. Regarding Oz Trump said: "they're spending millions of dollars trying...

This man shared misinformation online, so the Ministry of Truth -- err, sorry, the Disinformation Governance Board -- detained him for questioning. Will he stand strong in the face of torture?

Harvard’s sorry for slavery, and it’s ready to prove it by paying prodigiously.The school recently released a report illustrating ways it benefited from the reprobate practice.From ABC News:[Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery], commissioned by [President Lawrence Bacow], found that Harvard’s faculty, staff and leaders enslaved more than 70 Black and Native American people from the school’s founding in 1636 to 1783. It cautions that the figure is “almost certainly an undercount.”Harvard’s kicking collegiate Caucasians and taking names:Using historical records, researchers were able to identify dozens of enslaved people by name, along with their connection to the university.Most were identified...

The De-NAZIfication Claim by Russia is Factually Wrong -- 300 Historians Claim is made at 4:42 in the video DW's head of fact checking Joscha Weber Also, in the last parliamentary elections in 2019 right wing parties won just 2% of the vote. ---------------------------------------------------------- Here is the statement he is referring to. https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/345515/statement-on-the-war-in-ukraine-by-scholars-of-genocide-nazism-and-world-war-ii/ Statement on the War in Ukraine by Scholars of Genocide, Nazism and World War II Izabella Tabarovsky Eugene Finkel February 27, 2022 Protestors with banners rally in front of Parliament in support of Ukraine, demanding that Putin ends this war and protesting that the Georgian Prime Minister,...

San Francisco (CNN Business)Americans are racking up debt at record rates. Consumer debt levels for March 2022 climbed by $52.4 billion, an annual increase of 14%, seasonally adjusted, according to Federal Reserve data released Friday. Revolving credit, which includes credit cards, surged by 21.4%.

President Biden raised eyebrows during his trip to Ohio when he reminisced about his time in the Senate when he broke bread with "real segregationists." Biden visited the United Performance Metals facility in Hamilton and was accompanied by both Ohio senators, Democrat Sherrod Brown and outgoing Republican Rob Portman. "You know, things have kind of changed since I first got there… I got elected there when I was 29 years old to the United States Senate from a very modest background. And I was there for 36 years before becoming vice president," Biden said Friday. "We always used to fight...

From the outside, the moms gathered in a Santa Monica living room could have been conferring about carpools, school boards or fundraisers.... The living room belongs to the author of that book, Wendy Brazill, and on a sunny April morning she invited fellow local moms Angie Stocker, Shonitria Anthony and Alyssa Wraylie over to talk not about homework or healthful snacks but about marijuana and motherhood. (Brazill has a blended family of six now-adult children with husband, comedy writer/director Chad Einbinder.) Brazill “absolutely” believes consuming cannabis made her better at being a mom. ***“I know it did,” Brazill, 57, said...

TRUMP: "We will save our kids, and we will also keep men the hell out of women's sports." #TrumpRally Clip ...

As Coloradans await the final decision from the U.S. Supreme Court on the fate of Roe v. Wade, abortion rights advocates are preparing for what they consider an inevitable influx of patients from out of state. According to data from the state health department, that uptick of abortion patients from outside of Colorado is already happening. From 2017 to 2019, 11% of abortions in Colorado were performed on patients from out of state. In 2020, it went to 13% and was nearly 14% last year, according to the state health department. That accounts for 1,560 procedures out of the state’s...

UPDATE 12.33 am (MAY 7) – The US Pentagon said they have no information regarding the fate of the Russian Navy warship ‘Admiral Makarov’ – first reported as being sunk but later alleged to be on fire – which was reportedly hit by Ukrainian missiles late on Thursday, May 5…..

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee will soon strictly regulate the dispensing of abortion pills, including imposing harsh penalties on doctors who violate them, under legislation recently signed into law by Republican Gov. Bill Lee. The measure, which Lee signed on Thursday, will go into effect Jan. 1, 2023. Once enacted, a medical clinician will be required to be physically present when abortion pills are administered to a patient even though federal regulations now allow mail delivery nationwide. The issue has become even more important as the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision...

Former Vice President Mike Pence blasted Vice President Harris in a speech Thursday over her support of abortion rights as the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. On Tuesday at an EMILY’s List conference, Harris chastised Republicans who aim to restrict abortions. “Those Republicans leaders who are trying to weaponize the use of the law against women — how dare they?” she asked. “How dare they tell a woman what she can do and cannot do with her own body? How dare they? How dare they try to stop her from determining her own future? How dare...

CTECH's grand opening ceremony drew hundreds to the brand-spanking new facility on Thursday. The crowd had a chance to tour the building and listen to Mike Rowe's take on why the rest of the country can learn from the example of community partnership demonstrated by Hobbs.Opening video