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On Thursday, the giant panda Ya Ya, who had been living in the US for 20 years, landed in China. Ya Ya's return was highly anticipated and joyful. However, CNN has published an article on Wednesday, entitled, "'Bring Ya Ya home': How a panda in the US turbocharged Chinese nationalist sentiment," using the panda's homecoming trip to create hype. CNN not only misinterpreted Chinese people's attention to Ya Ya as a symbol of Chinese nationalism, but also claimed that the Chinese media uses pandas to fan anti-US sentiment. CNN discusses Chinese people's concerns about giant pandas from the perspective of...

VIDEO AT LINK....... A TJ Maxx customer was attacked online after he attempted to stop a shoplifter in Mira Loma, California. In the now-viral video, the man can be seen throwing the shoplifter to the ground after she tried to walk away with bags full of merchandise that she did not pay for. Instead of being thanked for stopping a crime in progress, the man was maligned on social media, with people implying that he was motivated by racism and should have minded his own business. Multiple respondents said that he committed assault and should be charged accordingly. Another user...

A former FBI supervisory agent has been arrested on charges that he joined a mob storming the U.S. Capitol, where he cheered on rioters attacking police officers, federal authorities said.

Pfizer’s latest quarterly results underscored the pressure the drugmaker is facing to sustain sales growth by hitting on drugs in development and recent acquisitions as demand wanes for its leading Covid-19 products. Pfizer’s first-quarter revenue and earnings were down by nearly a third from a year ago on plummeting demand for its Covid-19 vaccine, though the results topped Wall Street expectations. The company also faces sales declines for big-selling products in coming years due to expected patent expirations that will clear the way for lower-cost competition. Pfizer could lose $17 billion in sales from these patent losses.

The Federal Reserve voted to raise interest rates Wednesday by another 0.25 percentage points, brushing aside concerns about the financial sector and an expected recession later this year. The Fed’s rate-setting committee voted Wednesday to boost its baseline interest rate to a range of 5 to 5.25 percent, the point where Fed officials expected in March to stop hiking rates, according projections from the Fed’s last meeting. The latest rate hike is the tenth in a row since the Fed began its program of quantitative tightening in March of last year. Over the past 14 months, the Fed has boosted...

The world's most expensive monument to overconfidence is nearer than you think… I'm talking about Forest City, a massive ghost town right across the Causeway. This development is around 1,740 hectares (17.4 square kilometres), which is almost the entirety of Jurong East or apparently four times the size of Monaco. It was built by Country Garden (China's largest developer) supposedly to the tune of $100 billion. But as of 2019, only 500 out of the expected 700,000+ residents were living there. I've had a chance to briefly visit the place, and while we can crack any number of jokes about...

(Last Updated On: May 2, 2023) NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CUSTARD DAY National Chocolate Custard Day on May 3rd each year celebrates a delicious pudding-like dessert enjoyed by many. #ChocolateCustardDay Pastry chefs and home cooks alike make custards by blending eggs with milk or cream and heating the mixture either on the stove or in the oven. Since custards come in a variety of consistencies, you can choose the one that best fits your dessert preference. For example, they range from a thin liquid-like a crème Anglaise to a firm creme brulee. Custard is also a versatile dessert. When paired with pastries...

A project intended to provide an entire apartment building for “women-only” won’t be as free from Y-chromosomes as initially thought, with organisers admitting that biologically male transgender and non-binary individuals will be allowed to rent flats in the building. A feminist scheme to build a 15-storey apartment block for single women, particularly “vulnerable” women from ethnic minority backgrounds or those facing domestic abuse, has been given the go-ahead by the Ealing Council in west London this week, the BBC reported. Under the plans, men would be prohibited from renting apartments in the building, and would only be allowed into the...

Eight students and a security guard were killed during a school shooting in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Wednesday (May 3), the interior ministry said, as police arrested a teenage student suspected of carrying out the attack. The incident rocked the Balkan nation, where there has not been a school shooting of this magnitude in decades. The shooting occurred at 8:40am (06:40 GMT) at an elementary school in Belgrade's downtown Vracar district. "Eight children and a security guard were killed, while six children and one schoolteacher were wounded," the interior ministry said.

The Fed has increased the Fed Funds rate by 25 basis points.Tune in to business news for Powell’s asinine presser

The US government slapped three McDonald’s franchises in Kentucky with more than $200,000 in fines after an investigation found they employed minors, including a 10-year-old who was illegally made to work until 2 a.m. and who was allowed to operate a deep fryer — all without getting paid. A franchise in Louisville employed two 10-year-old workers who were among some two dozen minors under the age of 16 to work across 10 McDonald’s locations owned by Louisville-based Bauer Food LLC, it was alleged. The minors were tasked with preparing and distributing food orders, cleaning the store, manning the drive-thru windows,...

Tori Bowie, a 32-year-old former Olympic track-and-field gold medalist, was found dead in Florida on Tuesday, TMZ reported. A cause of death is unclear as of Wednesday. Bowie’s management team confirmed her death in a statement Wednesday morning on Twitter. “We’re devastated to share the very sad news that Tori Bowie has passed away,” Icon Management said in the statement.

This may be even more disturbing than the AI beer commercial that was posted here yesterday. It's like Hieronymus Bosch got hired to make TV ads. Burger Blast 1985 - AI Generated Commercial

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was "unbelievable" that data revealed earlier this year show the number of journalists killed in 2022 was 50% higher than during the previous year. UNESCO's data record the deaths of 86 journalists during 2022, "amounting to one every four days, up from 55 killings in 2021." But it's also the nature of that threat worrying officials at UNESCO. "When we started this monitoring many years ago, the main cause of journalists killings in the world was journalists covering conflicts, and now this is the minority of the killings," Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, who...

Vladimir Putin is reportedly preparing a contingency plan in the event that Russia sustains more losses in the war against Ukraine, sources have said. Russia's presidential administration sent an instruction manual to the Kremlin's team of propagandists, urging not to 'underestimate' Ukraine's planned counter-offensive and not to spread the idea Kyiv is not ready for it. Ukraine's strategy is thought to focus on the eastern side of the Dnipro River, near Kherson city. Infiltration of the area is an attempt to dislodge Russian forces from positions they are using to shell Ukraine-held Kherson. Independent news outlet Meduza - which obtained...

If you had any doubt that Bernie Sanders (I-USSR) was an actual Communist, doubt no longer. The guy who stands ready in case Old Joe retires and the Democrats opt to pick another octogenarian Leftist sat down Friday for a chat with Chris Wallace on HBO Max, and declared that if someone earns more than $999 million in a given year, the U.S. government should seize all of it. That’s right: all of it. Not 90 percent. Every last penny. And he showed no indication of having any idea why this policy, if it were ever enacted, would kill the...

At least six Russian regions have scrapped 9 May Victory Day parades that mark the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany amid fears over Ukrainian strikes, with a region 400 miles from the border being the latest to cancel. The governor of Saratov announced the parade there would not go ahead because of “safety concerns”, adding to a string of cancellations that are a glaring admission of the country’s military vulnerability more than 14 months into the war. Earlier, heads of Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh, Oryol, and Pskov region, as well as the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula, similarly cancelled their annual military parades....

While Bud Light has seemingly seen the brunt of the backlash to its partnership with Dylan Mulvaney coming from conservatives opposed to the brand aligning itself with the transgender community, a growing number of voices from that community are now speaking out against the beer. Since calls for a boycott emerged on social media at the start of April, Bud Light's parent company has, in the words of a marketing strategist, made a series of "knee-jerk" moves to quell the outrage, including releasing an advert for Budweiser infused with patriotic imagery and placing marketing executives involved in the partnership on...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Atlanta police are responding to an “active shooter” at a medical complex in Midtown. According to officials, multiple people were injured and taken to Grady Hospital. No suspect is in custody, police said. “Anyone in the area is asked to secure their building and continue to shelter in place. Anyone not in the area is asked to stay away,” APD said in a statement. This happened at 1100 West Peachtree Street in a building that houses several medical offices and is operated by Northside Hospital. Atlanta News First has a crew on the scene...

A few years ago I came across a photo of an American solder posing with a tiger he shot during a patrol. Tigers were a threat in Vietnam, especially to LRRPs (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol soldiers) who would go behind enemy lines for days at a time and report on enemy activity. Shortly after sharing, a reader named Larry Flanagan said he was the man in the picture. “The soldier in the picture is me,” Flanagan wrote. “I was with K Co. 75th Rangers, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division LRRPs. I was the team leader of a four-man team doing...