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The Walt Disney Company announced Wednesday it is trimming its payroll by some 7,000 employees, becoming the latest major firm to cut jobs as economic uncertainty weighs. The Mouse House said the move is part of a major restructuring aimed at saving the company billions of dollars, and was announced by CEO Bob Iger during the company's first-quarter earnings call. Disney said it plans to save $5.5 billion in its overhaul, cutting $1.5 billion in operating costs and another $3 billion from reductions in non-sports content — including the job cuts.

Sundance is that quietly salty cuss who prefers to swing the sharp machete alone amid the deep weeds; clearing the path simply for the sake of creating clarity and larger understanding about the topography of the stuff the professional political class would prefer to keep hidden in the weeds. At times, he settles himself atop the bluff, opens his lunchbox and thermos to eat a simple sandwich, shirt sleeves will suffice as a napkin, while looking at the flow coming into the clearing… Amid this era of insufferable pretending, our dear and rebellious non-pretending CTH friend, the Great Lou Dobbs,...

The Islanders will be the latest team to avoid wearing rainbow warmups for Pride Night on Thursday against the Canucks. Unlike the Rangers, who pulled their plans to do so without explanation, the Islanders have never worn rainbow jerseys due to an organizational policy against wearing specialized warmups. The only ones they wear are mandated by the league: Hockey Fights Cancer, Military and St. Patrick’s Day. The Islanders also won’t be using rainbow tape in warmups, another common theme in Pride nights throughout the league.

A man was tracking his stolen vehicle when he allegedly shot and killed the driver — a 12-year-old boy — during an exchange of gunfire Sunday. Sometime Sunday, the Denver Police Department received a report of an auto theft from the 8300 block of East Northfield Boulevard. The vehicle owner told authorities he was tracking the vehicle using an app, and found it in the area of West 12th Avenue and North Decatur Street. When the owner approached the car, he was "involved in an exchange of gunfire" with those inside the vehicle, according to Denver police. A juvenile male...

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine will have Military Jets 100% | Zelenskyi went to UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp0uXghNA-s Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ ****SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: NEW- https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-350-summary/ https://militaryland.net/maps/deployment-map

MT-Tester has stated he is "undecided" on whether to seek re-election. OH.-Sherrod Brown is running for a fourth term.[32] WV-Joe Manchin has received cross-party endorsements from fellow senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).

A Massachusetts 32-year-old woman charged with strangling her three young children to death last month planned the killings, prosecutors argued on Tuesday, disclosing new details about the alleged actions of the woman, Lindsay Clancy, on the day of the incident.Prosecutors, trying to prove that Clancy was not mentally compromised on Jan. 24, the day of the deaths, described in court a day that suggested nothing out of the ordinary. She took a child to the pediatrician's office and built a snowman with her kids in their backyard, they said. Later that afternoon, according to prosecutors, Clancy, who appeared in court...

At today's House Oversight Committee, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) assailed ex-Twitter executives over her shadowban. 5 Mins of worth while watching as Boebert laces into the Twitter Nazi's

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Twitter boss Elon Musk has warned most people are completely unaware of the threat posed by World War 3 breaking out. Musk warns that “most are oblivious to the danger” of being on the brink of a global war as the conflict in Ukraine continues to escalate. The comment was in response to a speech by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the General Assembly on Monday. During his address, Guterres expressed his fear that humanity was marching toward a “wider war” with its “eyes wide open.” “Could we please not do WWIII,” asked commentator Luke Rudkowski. “Most are oblivious to...

Priceless, a great portrayal of the way leftists think about 'assault' rifles'. Pew Pew Pew PewAR-15 Goes On Trial For Murder

A Russian ultranationalist who once held the skull of what he purported was a dead Ukrainian soldier has died in hospital after being shot in the head. Igor Mangushev, 36, who also claimed to have invented the Z symbol used as a symbol of support for Russian forces, was shot in a close-range attack, doctors told his wife. He died in hospital four days later at 6am on Wednesday. His wife hit out at Russian authorities for failing to investigate the killing seen as a warning to one of Putin’s closest allies, head of Wagner private army Yevgeny Prigozhin. In...

Update from Bakhmut Front: A series of geolocation of drone footages by DeepStateUA confirmed a MASSIVE breakthrough by Russian forces after the Russian forces overrun a major entrenchment west of Blahodatne.The Russian forces advanced all the way to the Bakhmut-Slovyansk highway; and Ukrainian MoD tacitly confirmed the situation by reporting fighting near Orikhovo-Vasylivka and Dubovo Vasylivka, the 2 towns lines along the southern side of the highway.This breakthrough threatens an encirclement of all the Ukrainian troops that are currently valiantly and successfully holding the Russian advance in Krasna Hora and Paraskoviivka. A major withdrawal from this region is now expected.

Republican Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins told former Twitter executives to prepare to be arrested for alleged criminal interference in the 2020 elections during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter censorship Wednesday. Higgins accused Twitter executives of working with the FBI to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story the month before the 2020 election in order to hide criminal evidence against the Biden family.

A new method to reduce the progression of diabetic kidney disease, affecting 40% of people with diabetes, has been discovered by scientists. The study could help people with diabetes who are four times more likely to need either dialysis or a kidney transplant. Recent clinical trials show a commonly used blood pressure medicine, known as spironolactone, is an effective treatment by reducing protein leak into the urine. However, despite its positive effect, the drug can have adverse side effects, causing problems including high blood potassium levels (hyperkalaemia) in patients, making clinicians reluctant to use it. Researchers aimed to understand how...

A Virginia woman who advocated for “traditional American values” was kicked from the Virginia Board of Education after contending that socialism is “incompatible with freedom.” Suparana Dutta, who Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin appointed to the Virginia Board of Education in July, was removed from her nomination just moments before she was set to be confirmed by the Senate of Virginia. Virginia State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi introduced an amendment that stripped Dutta of her nomination. The amendment passed on a party line vote.

"And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. "And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm." "But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money." "" Matthew, Chapter 8 1 When he was...

"In December of 2021, two months before the first Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Jake Sullivan convened a meeting of a newly formed task force—men and women from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the State and Treasury Departments—and asked for recommendations about how to respond to Putin’s impending invasion. It would be the first of a series of top-secret meetings, in a secure room on a top floor of the Old Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, that was also the home of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB). There was the usual back...

Former federal prosecutor Mark Pomerantz has written a new book in which he presents the case that the Manhattan District Attorney should have charged former President Donald Trump with several crimes relating to his financial dealings. Pomerantz, who assisted the Manhattan District Attorney's office in its investigation into Trump's finances from December 2020 until he left the case in February 2022, had been in private practice for a long time before taking the position. He was originally hired by DA Cyrus Vance but left the job after new DA Alvin Bragg decided not to continue with charges against Trump. He...

Bills and Sabres owner Kim Pegula is still in recovery from suffering cardiac arrest in June 2022 and is dealing with “significant expressive aphasia” and “significant memory loss,” daughter and tennis star Jessica Pegula revealed in an article she penned for The Players’ Tribune which published Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know: Jessica said Kim, 53, can “read, write, and understand pretty well, but she has trouble finding the words to respond.” Jessica also said, “The doctors continue to be blown away by her recovery, considering where she started, and her determination is the driving force of that.” According...