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A group of students allegedly celebrated Adolf Hitler’s birthday on the UC Santa Cruz campus, the university announced last week.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday he was convinced that Russian President Putin would face an international war crimes court when Ukraine wins the war that has been raging for over a year. In a speech titled “No Peace without Justice for Ukraine” given in The Hague, the city that hosts the International Criminal Court, Zelenskyy said that Putin “deserves to be sentenced for these criminal actions right here in the capital of the international law.”

Last month, Insider reported that Smalls had been caught on video fighting an Amazon employee outside the Staten Island warehouse. The video also showed Palmer restraining the employee as Smalls hit him. Smalls was arrested last year on assault allegations unrelated to the fight outside the warehouse and taken to court over some $20,000 in overdue child support, which he eventually paid. Some core union members are questioning Smalls' leadership, saying he seems more focused on fame than a union contract...When reached via email by Insider for comment on the charges against Palmer, Smalls responded: "Listen I'm so sick of...

Jacksonville, Fl — A man accused of killing former Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan in Jacksonville Beach in February 2022 faces a possible death sentence if convicted. The State Attorney’s Office says it will seek the death penalty against Mario Fernandez Saldana. He is charged with first degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, solicitation to commit a capital felony and child abuse. Bridegan, a father of four, was murdered in Jacksonville Beach in front of his 2-year-old daughter. Police say he was shot execution-style after he had stopped to move a tire from the road. Fernandez Saldana is married to...

The developments come ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris's meeting with executives from Google's parent company Alphabet, Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI on Thursday...OpenAI is the creator of the widely used AI tool, ChatGPT...

Bud Light sales fell 26% by volume last month. Fox lost half its viewers in the 8 PM timeslot in one week. The protests against hiring Dylan Mulvaney and firing Tucker Carlson are working. (snip) “American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump. In the case of Trump, though, the GOP shares the blame, and not just because his fellow Republicans misdirected their ad buys or waited so long to criticize him. Trump is in part a reaction to the intellectual corruption of...

Subpoenaed memo records allegations from a confidential human source in mid-2020 about a foreign pay-to-play scheme when Joe Biden was Barack Obama's vice president. multiple officials said. They did not identify the informant. The hunt for answers in the long-running Hunter Biden investigation is returning to questions that prompted the scandal four years ago: did Joe Biden trade U.S. policy for money his family was receiving from overseas sources like Ukraine. Prompted by a whistleblower, House and Senate Republicans investigators on Wednesday issued a subpoena for an FBI memo they say documents allegations of a pay-to-play bribery scheme involving the...

First Horizon Corp. and TD Bank Group have mutually agreed to end their merger agreement, which was valued at $13.4 billion when it was first announced more than a year ago, the companies announced Thursday morning. First Horizon shares were plummeting 45% in premarket trading after the announcement. Prior to the announcement, First Horizon stock had been trading well below the $25-per-share deal price, a sign that investors were skeptical that the deal would go through.

An ex-FBI official who allegedly urged rioters to "kill" officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was previously the supervisory special agent in charge of Homegrown Violent Extremism for the FBI New York Field Office's Joint Terrorism Task Force, a senior law enforcement official told NBC News. Jared Wise was arrested in Oregon this week, charged with four misdemeanor counts. After he entered the Capitol and exited through a broken window, an FBI affidavit alleges, Wise yelled at officers outside the Capitol. "You’re disgusting. You are the Nazi. You are the Gestapo. You can’t see it," he...

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the world's first RSV vaccine: a shot for adults ages 60 and up, made by pharmaceutical giant GSK. The milestone was decades in the making. Researchers first attempted to develop a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus roughly 60 years ago. In a late-stage clinical trial, the single-dose shot lowered the risk of symptomatic illness by 83% and of severe illness by 94%. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must still recommend the vaccine before it becomes available to the public. A CDC advisory committee is scheduled to meet in June to...

New York/London CNN — Another US regional lender caught up in the worst banking crisis since 2008 is looking for help. PacWest Bank (PACW), based in California, confirmed Thursday that it is exploring “all strategic options” after its share price was cut in half in after-hours trading following a Bloomberg report that it was considering a sale. “Exploring strategic options” is Wall Street lingo for “please help.” The last bank to announce it was exploring strategic options was First Republic Bank (FRC). That regional bank failed Monday, and JPMorgan purchased most of its assets. “In accordance with normal practices the...

If the latest employment trends continue and economists' forecasts prove true, Friday's jobs report could bring back that pre-pandemic feeling. Economists expect the US economy to have added 180,000 jobs in April, according to consensus estimates on Refinitiv. Excluding the losses during the first year of the pandemic, that would be the smallest monthly gain since December 2019. It could also hammer home the fact that the US labor market has indeed cooled down from its red-hot recovery over the past two years. Earlier this week, the latest labor turnover report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics — the Job...

A group of attorneys general from across the U.S. is going after one of the country’s largest banks, which it claims treats some Christians unfairly. In a letter recently sent to JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, the groups said the bank preaches “openness and inclusivity,” but it has “persistently discriminated” against some religious liberty groups. “Chase cannot call itself ‘inclusive’ and say that it ‘opposes discrimination in any form’ while simultaneously disenfranchising its clients over religious and political differences,” Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who took the lead in the effort, said. “I’m leading this coalition to stand up...

A Ghana national pleaded not guilty in federal court Wednesday to stealing about $2.4 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party in a wire fraud scheme. Paul Williams Anti, 59, was charged in February with embezzlement, online court records show. According to court documents, scammers manipulated state GOP employees’ email accounts in October 2020 to divert funds meant for vendors into the scammers’ bank accounts. Williams Anti allegedly controlled two of those accounts. A cybersecurity firm that the state GOP hired to investigate found that an employee's email account had been altered so that any message with the words “invoice,” “wire...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, said he will veto a proposed bill that would ban abortions after 12 weeks. According to House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger, House and Senate Republicans came to a consensus on legislation that would enact the legislation. Currently, state law prohibits abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy with the exceptions of circumstances involving rape, incest, fetal abnormality, or when the life of the mother is at risk. Those exceptions remain in the new legislation, which Cooper has called an attack on women’s freedom to choose. “It will effectively ban access...

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VIDEOWARNING! If you vote a certain way in 2024, it could result in MSNBC's Mike Barnicle reaching for his pill bottle and swallowing it whole. If you think this is an exaggeration, you won't after watching this clip of Barnicle moaning how deeply deeply DEPRESSED he is over a certain Orange Man who ruined his life. Yes, it appears that poor Mike is suffering from terminal TDS to the extent that the Mean Tweeter has such complete control over him that it has removed any trace of happiness from his life resulting in sending Barnicle into a deep, deep depression.

Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter in October 2022. Prior to Musk’s taking control, there had been many complaints, particularly from the right, of Tweets getting suppressed, down-graded, “shadow-banned,” or the like, but without anyone having detailed information of exactly what Twitter was up to. Then in December 2022 a group of journalists recruited by Musk — e.g., Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Glenn Greenwald, Alex Berenson — started releasing lengthy Twitter threads documenting exactly how pre-Musk Twitter had “moderated” politically sensitive content to manipulate the public discussion. The releases, known as the Twitter Files, show Twitter executives in the...

The World Health Organization has fired a senior scientist who had a heavy role in claiming the COVID lab-leak theory was 'unlikely' over sexual misconduct accusations. The agency said Peter Ben Embarek, a Danish scientist who previously headed up its 'One Health' initiative on diseases jumping from animals to humans, was removed from his post last year. 'Peter Ben Embarek was dismissed last year following findings of sexual misconduct against him that were substantiated by investigations, and corresponding disciplinary process,' said WHO spokesperson Marcia Poole. In a statement, Ben Embarek said he contested the accusation of harassment and was challenging...

Jamie Foxx remains hospitalized more than three weeks after suffering a medical emergency. While Foxx's exact condition remains unknown to the public at this time, sources close to the 55-year-old actor echoed this plea, per TMZ: "Pray for Jamie"—a possible indication that things with the actor's health may be more complicated than fans had hoped they would be. His daughter and Beat Shazam co-host/DJ Corinne originally announced on April 12 that her father—star of Ray, Just Mercy, Django Unchained, Disney's animated flick Soul, and countless other blockbuster hits—had experienced a "medical complication" the day prior. The Hollywood heavyweight was in...