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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg slammed Apple over its dominance over the app store market Wednesday, ramping up his criticism of the tech giant on the heels of similar comments made by new Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Zuckerberg called Apple’s control in the app store market “problematic” at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit. “It is the only one where one company can control what apps get on the device. I don’t think it’s sustainable or good,” Zuckerberg said. Apple only allows apps to be downloaded through the Apple App Store on devices that run on its iOS, such as iPhones...

“Manhattanites are actually the ones causing this damage to themselves,” New York City Councilman Joe Borelli said Monday, commenting on the skyrocketing crime in his city. In an appearance on Fox & Friends First, Borelli offered an explanation for why New York City crime is up 27.6% and subway felonies are up 40% from last year. Borelli called the city’s crime problem self-inflicted, because NYC overwhelming elected a soft-on-crime district attorney, Alvin Bragg, who campaigned on a promise to prosecute fewer law-breakers: “Unfortunately, New Yorkers are learning that you get what you deserve. “They overwhelming elected this guy, Alvin Bragg,...

Tens of millions of Americans who thought they’d gotten a huge and unexpected break suddenly can’t be sure. In August, President Biden told those laboring under obscene amounts of student loan debt that if they earn less than $125,000 per year, they would be eligible to have at least $10,000, and possibly up to $20,000, of that debt forgiven. Since then, 26 million people have applied for that relief, and 16 million have been approved so far. But now they’re in limbo, as a slew of Republican-led legal challenges claiming that Biden’s order exceeds his powers have frozen the loan...

In this world-exclusive interview, Alex Jones’ goal is to give Ye West (formerly Kanye) a LIVE & unfiltered forum to tell the world who he really is & NOT through the filter of gatekeepers - but directly to the people! Ali Alexander, Owen Shroyer, Nick Fuentes, and others will also join West & Jones for a lengthy roundtable discussion & will take questions from callers and social media! You DO NOT want to miss this! Share this link far & wide! Watch & share this world-exclusive encounter between Alex Jones & Ye West!

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Parents in Vermont can now use the state’s tuition assistance for towns without public education at faith-based schools, attorneys announced Thursday, ending a 20-year dispute. The Vermont settlement was filed in court papers Wednesday, said the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented two parents and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Burlington, Vermont, in suits against Education Secretary Daniel M. French. ADF legal counsel Paul Schmitt said in a statement, “For more than two decades, Vermont unlawfully excluded religious schools and their students from public benefits, essentially eliminating school choice for many parents in the state. As the U.S. Supreme Court recently...

Updates on new added asteroid, sonic boom & EQ the Canary Islands, Fireball display from Hawaii === Meteorite, meteor or fireball: what shocked Gran Canaria this Wednesday? #ciencia #canarias https://twitter.com/Cahora/status/1598339048107565059

CNN's Chris Cillizza has been laid off, according to Variety

The increasing ridiculousness of the stance of the supervisors in Cochise County, Ariz., appears to be another hard lesson of, “Don’t elect lunatics to positions of serious public responsibility”: Cochise County officials may go to court Thursday without an attorney to represent them against charges that they broke the law by failing to certify the results of the Nov. 8 election. County supervisors on Tuesday voted to hire attorney Bryan Blehm to defend them and the county government against two lawsuits, even though they had not discussed the matter with him. On Wednesday, they were caught flat-footed when Blehm declined...

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, says he donated equally to both Democratic and Republican politicians before his cryptocurrency platform filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, wiping out billions of dollars in customer deposits. And that fact is going to come as a real shock to right-wing political operatives on Fox News who’ve tried to claim Democrats were the only ones beholden to FTX cash. “I donated to both parties. I donated about the same amount to both parties,” Bankman-Fried said, according to a November 16 phone call published to YouTube by crypto commentator Tiffany Fong on Tuesday. Bankman-Fried’s claim...

A Florida woman was arrested on Thanksgiving after driving recklessly toward a closed course for a 5K turkey trot that was in progress, according to WESH. Some 3,000 runners were participating in the Coffee Pot Turkey Trot in St. Petersburg, Florida, when Ashlee Lauren Morgan, 38, was “driving recklessly south on Coffee Pot Boulevard Northeast, approaching the Snell Isle Bridge,” according to the St. Petersburg police department. She was pulled over and three officers requested her credentials. She refused, according to reports, and fled the scene “at a high rate of speed onto the race course.” Another officer attempted to...

The term “gun violence” has been deliberately inculcated into the public debate over the last 20 years. It is common in news articles. It has been used in numerous court briefs. It appears in court decisions at the appellate level and in amicus briefs to the Supreme Court. George Orwell, in the novel 1984, explained how language can be structured to eliminate and curtail thought.“Gun violence” is an Orwellian term designed to structure and limit debate to pre-determined solutions. It is designed to hamper the ability to think about reality in certain ways. The purpose of Orwellian structuring of language...

PARIS (Reuters) - Cold weather could lead to power cuts in France on Monday as delays to the restart of nuclear power following repair work leave supply lagging demand, analysts said. Nuclear power supply had been expected to reach around 40 gigawatts (GW) this week, but operator EDF's delay in restarting reactors meant it rose to only around 35 GW, leaving France more reliant on imports and gas-fired production. Refinitiv analyst Nathalie Gerl said the situation as a cold spell grips northwestern Europe this weekend and next week would be "much more critical" but for efforts to curb demand, especially...

VIDEOAs you can see, FTX CEO Scam the Scam is desperately AFRAID of going to jail. His only hope is for all that protection money he donated to the Democrats will serve as his Get Out Of Jail Free Card. Which is why we "mysteriously" don't hear demands from Democrat officials for the prosecution of Sam the Scam.

Gaylord Perry, a Hall of Fame pitcher who won two Cy Young Awards over the course of his 22-year career, died Thursday at his home in South Carolina. He was 84. Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler said Perry died in Gaffney at around 5 a.m. local time of natural causes. He did not provide any more details around his death.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Thursday he will keep senators working in Washington until they pass legislation to avoid a nationwide rail strike, which he warned could begin disrupting the nation’s supply chain as soon as next week. “The Senate cannot leave until we get the job done and Democrats will keep working with Republicans to find a path forward that everyone can support,” he announced on the Senate floor. The Democratic leader began the so-called Rule 14 process on Wednesday evening to put a House-passed bill to avert the rail strike on the Senate calendar. The legislation...

The relentless attacks on Elon Musk since he purchased Twitter should be familiar to most Americans. It’s exactly what Democrats and their media and corporate allies did to demonize Donald Trump. The McCarthyite formula is simple: Claim you are defending high-minded principles (Democracy! The rule of law! Civil discourse!) to justify efforts to delegitimize someone you’ve identified as a political opponent. Democrats denied Trump’s presidency from day one; Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden themselves declared for years that he had stolen the 2016 election. In the name of election integrity, Democrats turned a bogus conspiracy theory cooked up by Clinton’s...

Tightening food supplies and soaring prices have put food security high on the agenda of Southeast Asian nations, as reflected in discussions at their leaders' summit last month in Phnom Penh. In Laos, inflation reached a 22-year high of 34% in September, largely due to higher food costs. Prices for rice, the staple of Lao diets, were 45.3% higher than a year before. In the Philippines, food prices jumped 9.8% in October, up from a 7.7% rise in September. These developments have complex implications for the agri-food industry across the region. Higher commodity prices may provide a short-term windfall for...

Ursula von Der Leyen’s did the unthinkable today — she told the truth. During a speech condemning Russia for committing war crimes, she noted in passing that 100,000 Ukrainian “officers” (sic) have been killed since the start of the SMO.Ukraine was not happy:Ukraine has hit back at a claim by the European Commission’s president that 100,000 of Kyiv’s troops have been killed since Russia’s invasion in February.Ursula von der Leyen used the number in a video address, prompting Kyiv’s armed forces to state that the death toll was “classified information.” Footage of her speech has since been edited to cut...

A Gwinnett County School District English teacher suffered a violent attack from one of his students, according to reports and video footage. A student at Discovery High School in Lawrenceville, Georgia, was recorded hitting his teacher multiple times on school property Tuesday, according to cellphone video footage shared with WSB-TV2. The video depicts what seems to be the high school student and the teacher engaging in a short discussion before the student is seen striking the teacher repeatedly with his fists. The student continues to beat the English teacher even after one of his blows forces the latter off his...