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The group of plaintiffs claim that the A-listers peddled the non-fungible tokens — which have plummeted in value in the last year — without disclosing their investment in the company behind them, Yuga Labs. Other celebs named in the suit include: Justin Bieber, Kevin Hart, Stephen Curry, Serena Williams and her husband Reddit CEO Alexis Ohanian, Snoop Dogg, The Weeknd, and DJ Khaled. Adidas and Jimmy Fallon’s production company Election Hot Dog are also named as defendants. The suit claims that talent manager Guy Oseary was behind most of the promotions, recruiting famous people in exchange for payment through a...

A retired Navy SEAL who became famous nearly 10 years ago after coming out as transgender announced he is detransitioning and called on Americans to "wake up" about how transgender health services are hurting children., "Everything you see on CNN with my face, do not even believe a word of it," Chris Beck, formerly known as Kristin Beck, told conservative influencer Robby Starbuck in an interview published earlier this month. "Everything that happened to me for the last 10 years destroyed my life. I destroyed my life. I'm not a victim. I did this to myself, but I had help.""I...

n 1636, according to an 1841 account by Scottish author Charles MacKay, the entirety of Dutch society went crazy over exotic tulips. As Mackay wrote in his wildly popular, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, as prices rose, people got swept up in a speculative fever, spending a year’s salary on rare bulbs in hopes of reselling them for a profit. Mackay dubbed the phenomenon “The Tulipomania.”

Liberal slime merchant David Brock has emerged from the woodwork again. This time, he's leading a counter-attack on the GOP-majority House committee that will be investigating Hunter Biden's influence-peddling schemes and the possible connections to his father the president. They call their new group "Facts First USA." Did that verbiage work to make CNN sound less partisan? Brock appeared on MSNBC's The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart. The host claimed maybe he's watched too much House of Cards and is a big Scandal fan, but when he heard Brock say that he is going on "offense" he wondered just how...

A former chief financial officer of commodity firm Agritrade International duped 16 financial institutions worldwide into providing her company with millions of dollars in trade financing, causing losses of US$469 million (S$631 million). The financial institutions, which included major banks in Japan, South Korea, India and Taiwan, incurred the losses between January 2016 and November 2019. This amount, described by the prosecution as "unprecedented and staggering", is almost as high as the $633.3 million victims in Singapore lost to all scams in 2021. On Friday, Singaporean Lulu Lim Beng Kim, 63, pleaded guilty to 12 charges, including cheating and falsification...

A British YouTuber was recently left stranded on the side of the road for hours after his Tesla shut down and trapped him inside. Tom Exton, a YouTube personality who focuses on the collection of cars and watches, was traveling to London in the Tesla that he bought 5 days prior when the incident occurred. Exton said he started out with close to a full charge and after only 15 minutes into his trip, his Model Y forced him to pull over, Business Insider reported. He said on Twitter that the screen inside “glitched” and he “couldn’t do anything.” Minutes...

Everyone is entitled to keep pets, but how much should neighbours tolerate a noisy animal? Tracy Lee says it’s best to speak to the pet’s owner sooner rather than later. One morning several months ago, I was rudely awakened at 5.45am by an unearthly sound best described as a vuvuzela tooted at full blast. The ear-splitting “uh-uh-uh-ooooooooooooh!” lasted about 4 seconds, followed by a 15-second silence. The ruckus repeated itself on loop for about 10 minutes. By then, there was no way I could get back to sleep. It occurred again around 10am, 1pm and 5pm, and became a daily...

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Waits for Frosts to start the Massive counterattack | Glory to Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfZ9d3hSl_U Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ SUMMARY & MAPS Military maps & comment here: Invasion Day 290 – Summary December 10, 2022 https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-290-summary/

Comfort, celebrity endorsements and its iconic look are the driving forces behind the revival of Crocs, say designers.Remember Crocs, the chunky rubber slip-on dotted with ventilation holes? They are becoming popular again - on red carpets and in supermarkets alike. “Personally, I used to hate it. But I loved how open, willing, and adaptable the brand is,” said fashion educator and creative consultant Rio Furqan Saini. “At its core, and let’s be honest, it’s an ugly pair of rubber slides. But ugly is subjective.”

Twitter owner Elon Musk appeared to call for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be brought up on criminal charges in a tweet on Sunday that also poked fun at people who post their gender pronouns. “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk posted on Twitter Sunday morning. He also posted a photoshopped image of the retiring White House chief medical adviser whispering in President Biden’s ear captioned, “JUST ONE MORE LOCKDOWN MY KING…” Musk, 51, did not elaborate why he thought Fauci — the face of America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic — should be prosecuted. The 81-year-old has said he will be...

Japanese lunar exploration company ispace began its long-anticipated first mission on Sunday, with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching the venture’s lunar lander. “This is the very, very beginning of a new era,” ispace founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada told CNBC. If successful, ispace would be the first private company to land on the moon – a feat previously accomplished by global superpowers.

A former DEA agent who played a major role in bringing notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout to justice more than a decade ago believes that Russia got the upper hand in the Brittney Griner prisoner swap — and that the US may end up paying a heavy price for it. “I’m kind of in disbelief that someone with the potential to orchestrate arms deals that can kill Americans anywhere in the world would be traded for a prisoner,” Tom Pasquarello told Yahoo! Sports just hours after Bout was exchanged for Griner in Abu Dhabi. Bout, 56, dubbed the “Merchant of...

Strickland panned the executive order on his Facebook page, posting that the order is a “typical kick the can down the road political response. You have proven how ineffective and weak you are as a leader. I won’t let you trick the people into thinking you’re ‘taking action.’”

Today's Mass Sermon looks at the purpose of the Desert- and the Patience required to allow it to blood. We all have a desert we must go through- and allow God to get us through it- as he will never abandon us. 13 min. YouTube video link below: Wait For The Desert to Bloom

"A superintendent has been fired by a school board after a grand jury issued a damning report into the district's handling of two sex attacks by a male pupil wearing a kilt. The 15-year-old boy raped his female classmate in a transgender-friendly bathroom at Stone Bridge High School in Virginia in May last year. The boy, who was wearing a kilt during the incident, was convicted of sexually assaulting another girl at a different school in October last year. Loudoun County Superintendent Scott Ziegler denied there were any records of the assaults – with the grand jury report exposing him...

This could explain why Democratic candidates won over 50% of election day votes despite only recording 17% of the turnout on election day. This finding is similar to a Maricopa County 2020 election report from Verity Vote that used public records requests to discover that more than 20,000 2020 election ballots were illegally counted. The Gateway Pundit reported on these illegally counted ballots during the 2020 election investigations. They used the same illegal tactics as in 2020 to steal this election. Lake’s filing states, “Maricopa County’s public statements concerning remaining ballots to be counted on November 9, 2022, and November...

The 100th anniversary of the late cartoonist Charles Schulz's birthday came and went last week without any notice anywhere, that I saw. And so, with thanks to Mark, I pen my own little tribute here to one of the great creative geniuses in American history. If you were young at any time between 1950 (when Schulz first began publishing his comic strip Peanuts) and 2000, when Schulz died at the age of 77, you grew up in a world in which everyone read the latest Peanuts comic strip (particularly in the US and Canada) as part of their daily newspaper...

New Orleans, Louisiana – A man who fatally stabbed his Uber driver on Thursday posted video of the victim dying in her car to Facebook. Brandon Jacobs, 29, was charged with second-degree murder for fatally stabbing Yolanda Dillion, 54. Yolanda Dillion, a breast cancer survivor, was a fiscal analyst at the New Orleans Police Department and worked as an Uber driver on the side for extra cash. Brandon Jacobs told police he woke up in the morning and decided he was going to kill someone. ... A breast cancer survivor herself, Dillion was also her elderly’s mother’s only child and...

An employee at a restaurant in Georgia shot and killed an armed intruder in self-defense after being pistol-whipped during the attempted robbery. Police in Warner Robins, Georgia say an armed and masked intruder entered an American Philly N Wings restaurant last week and demanded money from an employee before jumping over the counter and pistol whipping the worker, according to a report according to a report from WMAZ. The employee was knocked to the ground and began fighting over the gun with the intruder, who police identified as 23-year-old Joshua Hickey, eventually pulling out his own legally owned pistol and...

The FBI not only has possession of a laptop computer owned by slain Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich, but a report detailing forensic imaging of what’s being described as Rich’s work computer, the bureau revealed in a new filing. The FBI’s records office located the report while searching for the work computer, Michael Seidel, chief of the office, said in a sworn declaration filed with a federal court in Texas on Dec. 9. He described the document as “a three (3) page forensic report detailing the actions performed by an outside entity to image the work laptop.”The report...