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Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Wednesday that he plans to give his wealth to his foundation. In a Twitter thread that doesn’t allow replies, Gates announced he was transferring $20 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s endowment this month and will increase spending to $9 billion per year by 2026. “As I look to the future, I plan to give virtually all of my wealth to the foundation,” Gates wrote. “I will move down and eventually off of the list of the world’s richest people.” Gates is currently the fourth-richest person on earth and has a net...

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Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has told the military to do "whatever is necessary to restore order" after protesters stormed his office on Wednesday. Mr Wickremesinghe has been appointed acting president by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who has fled the country. But the decision to leave him in charge triggered further protests demanding that the prime minister must also go. Sri Lanka has been suffering from its worst economic crisis in decades. Many blame the Rajapaksa administration for the crisis and see Mr Wickremesinghe, who became prime minister in May, as part of the problem. On Wednesday, for the second...

Three men, including a curator for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, have been indicted for allegedly trying to sell stolen handwritten lyrics by Eagles co-founder Don Henley valued at over $1 million. According to court documents, nearly 100 pages of Henley’s notes, including lyrics to “Hotel California” and “Life in the Fast Lane,” were stolen in the late 1970s by an author hired to write a biography of the band. Craig Inciardi, Glenn Horowitz and Edward Kosinski are accused of conspiring to sell Henley’s pages through auction houses, even though they knew the items were stolen. Rolling Stone...

The Georgia Record was contacted earlier this month by Kevin Moncla, an independent analyst in Dallas, TX who has been submitting open records requests to Fulton County, GA regarding the 2020 election. Moncla recently filed a complaint with the Georgia State Election Board highlighting inconsistencies found in vote totals on the night of November 8th, 2020 and the following recount in December. You can read the entire complaint on the PDF below. Essentially, the vote totals from the general to the recount didn’t match. The recount tally was off by approximately 17,000 votes. After being ordered to ‘reconcile’ the data...

Mark Fleischman, the owner of legendary Midtown nightclub Studio 54, died by assisted suicide in Switzerland, a report said. He was 82. Fleischman was unable to walk and his speech was impaired after getting sick in 2016. Doctors couldn’t diagnose his condition. “I can’t walk, my speech is f–ked up, and I can’t do anything for myself,” he told The Post last month.

Ron DeSantis is the clear winner over Donald Trump among Florida Republicans when asked who they would like as the GOP presidential nomination 2024, according to a poll. The survey, conducted by Blueprint Polling, found 50.9 percent of those asked back or lean towards the Florida governor, with the former president behind on 38.6 percent.

The US travel ban on those unvaccinated against Covid-19 continues to stand, but is there something Novak Djokovic knows that we don't? The Wimbledon champion hinted as much during a to-and-fro chat with Nick Kyrgios on social media, promising that he would shout Kyrgios to a dinner in New York, accompanied by a number of suggestive emojis. Novak Djokovic may yet play at the US Open, if a cryptic social media chat with Nick Kyrgios is to be believed. Djokovic defeated Kyrgios in the final of Wimbledon last Sunday but as he confirmed during SW19, he had not been expecting...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was in a tough spot last August when he paid a visit to Turkey. For nearly a year, his government had been at war with rebels from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which was now pushing south from its stronghold near the Eritrean border and threatening to move on the country’s capital of Addis Ababa. Thousands had already been killed, and the United States and the United Nations had accused all the warring parties of blockading aid, committing sexual assault and deliberately targeting civilians. With only a small, aging fleet of Soviet-era military jets, Abiy...

Elon Musk fired back at MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on Twitter after the anchor grilled the Tesla founder for posting about Hunter Biden. Musk posted a meme of a man with numerous cameras strapped across his helmet, with the caption "Hunter Biden every time he buys crack and hookers." The richest man in the world then added his own comment. "A+ for the cinematography," he wrote. Ruhle responded to the meme, suggesting that Musk was not putting his massive influence to best use. "Imagine the positive impact you could have on the world if you used the extraordinary amount of influence...

For years, downtown Rifle’s restaurant scene was anchored by one of the only places in the U.S. you could order a cheeseburger from a server packing a 9mm pistol on her hip. The establishment — Shooters Grill — was the brainchild of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert. On Sunday, the Silt Republican officially closed the doors to her restaurant. “We were like a family,” she said. “I would say Shooters, for any employee, was their life. We lived and breathed it every single day. They were a part of this culture and brand that we created in Rifle, and there was...

In the latest Jan. 6 hearing, already standing out for its notable moments, Rep. Liz Cheney saved the most startling for last. In her closing remarks, the co-chair of the House investigating committee said the panel had learned that former President Donald Trump had recently tried to contact a witness whom “you have not yet seen in these hearings.” The witness apparently recognized the caller ID, and did not answer the phone, instead contacting a lawyer, who then told the committee. The committee in turn referred the matter to the Justice Department. Though much remains uncertain about the call, including...

Given how things are going, you may be relieved to know that, according to today’s Rasmussen Reports, most Americans still revere our Constitution:A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and the Heartland Institute finds that 82% of Likely U.S. voters have a favorable opinion of the Constitution, including 58% who have a Very Favorable view of the document, which was ratified in 1789. Just 14% view the Constitution unfavorably.Voters of all stripes have a pretty favorable view of the Constitution, but “more Republicans (76%) than Democrats (42%) or independents (56%) have a Very Favorable view of the...

A sex worker in Nova Scotia is pursuing a claim for non-payment of services in small claims court, in a case she and her advocates hope will help shift the conversation about sex work in Canada. The woman at the centre of the case said she spent an evening with a client in January 2022. Afterwards, she realized she wasn't going to be paid when the PIN for the bank card he'd given her to withdraw money didn't work. "It feels pretty humiliating to not get paid after providing so much for someone. And it's also frustrating that we don't...

Yes, this is the same Rep. Adam Schiff who claimed he had rock-solid evidence that President Donald Trump had colluded with the Russians. We never saw that evidence, but Schiff isn’t giving up, and he thinks the Justice Department has “more than enough evidence” to investigate Trump. Why does CNN even put this guy on TV?

The late Herbert Stein was the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon and the author of Stein’s Law: “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” I wonder if Stein’s Law applies to the madness that has overtaken the Democratic Party, the party’s media adjunct, the United States military, and just about every major American institution. Stein’s Law seems to be running up against (John) O’Sullivan’s First Law: “All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.”Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on abortion access and the law. According to...

A Bay Area lawmaker is warning that San Francisco is "veering toward a public health mess" over monkeypox, citing a Wednesday announcement from the San Francisco Department of Public Health that said the agency is running low on monkeypox vaccines and will shutter its clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital until more supply arrives.

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Welcome Home! U.S. Soldiers with the 228th Engineer Company, 337th Engineer Battalion, 55th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, arrive home after a nine-month deployment to the Middle East. They arrived at Harrisburg International Airport and were driven to Fort Indiantown Gap where they were reunited with their loved ones. They were also greeted by senior Pennsylvania National Guard leaders including Maj. Gen. Mark McCormack, commander of the 28th Infantry Division, and Brig. Gen. Laura McHugh, Deputy Adjutant General-Army. Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our...

The popular Bishop of Baoding would have turned 90 earlier this month—but nobody has seen him since 2003.An old image of Bishop Su Zhimin. From Twitter.On July 10, 2022, Catholic Bishop James Su Zhimin turned 90. At least, July 10 is when his birthday has been more often celebrated, although in some official documents his birth date is indicated as July 1, 1932. Catholics in his diocese of Baoding, in Hebei province, started preparing celebrations for his 90th birthday in 2021. There was one problem, though, they didn’t know whether their Bishop was alive or dead. He has been in...

Ray Epps has suffered enormously in the past 10 months as right-wing media figures and Republican politicians have baselessly described him as a covert government agent who helped to instigate the attack on the Capitol last year. have assailed him as a coward and a traitor and have menacingly cautioned him to sleep with one eye open. He was forced to sell his business and his home in Arizona. Fearing for his safety and uncertain of his future, he and his wife moved into a mobile home in the foothills of the Rockies, with all of their belongings crammed into...