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Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across all sectors, from crypto to enterprise SaaS. The reasoning behind these workforce reductions follows a common script, citing the macroeconomic environment and a need to find discipline on a tumultuous path to profitability. Still, tracking the layoffs helps us to understand the impact on innovation, which companies are facing tough pressures and who...

Lawmakers are demanding answers after the suicide deaths of two young people involved in a transgender hormone study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Chloe Cole, an 18-year-old woman who regrets surgically removing her breasts, holds testosterone medication used for transgender patients in Northern California on Aug. 26, 2022. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)Additionally, 11 participants reported suicidal thoughts during the study, according to a January article by researchers published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).In a letter to Dr. Lawrence Tabak, acting director at NIH, 15 Republican lawmakers question why the study wasn’t halted after participants died...

A lot of parents have been sending their kids to religious schools in order to avoid the excesses of Leftist policies.Well, that was a mistake. Catholic universities are just as woke as any other, apparently. Despite the fact that even the liberal Pope has spoken out against transgender ideology, the academic bureaucracy at St. Thomas University in St. Paul is secretly putting trans students into single-sex dorms with women, even hiding their gender from their dormmates.They even give preferential housing choices if you claim to be trans. Nice.Director of Housing at @UofStThomasMN tells citizen journalist: “she could room with a...

CNN CEO Chris Licht must be thinking of Donald Trump, “I wish I knew how to quit you.” Licht has been trying and failing to turn around the troubled, little-watched news network, but so far has had little success as ratings continue to dwell in the cellar.Enter Former President Donald Trump, and BOOM—the ratings go through the roof and CNN beats rivals Fox News and MSNBC for the first time in seemingly ever. The numbers were yuge:Donald Trump’s town hall boosted CNN’s ratings to their highest in years, bringing in 3.3 million viewers in his 8pm slot last night. The...

Just when you think the roller coaster has stopped moving, it ratchets back up in speed to take the next loop. At least that’s how the legal wranglings between writer E. Jean Carroll and former President Donald Trump feel at the moment. As we previously reported, a federal jury awarded Carroll over $5 million, finding Trump “liable of battery and defamation.”Trump took the opportunity to address several issues on Wednesday evening at the town hall event CNN held in New Hampshire. And one of those issues he expounded on was both the alleged incident with Carroll at a New York...

The migrant crisis, which has been going on since shortly after President Joe Biden took office, is getting worse. Title 42, a provision that makes it easier for border authorities to turn away migrants coming to the southern border, is set to end on Friday, which has prompted thousands of people to travel to the border to try to make it into the United States.New York City, having already experienced a severe influx of migrants from Texas and Arizona, is struggling to accommodate each of the individuals being sent its way. Mayor Eric Adams has had a hard time figuring...

On the southern US border and beyond tensions tonight as the Title 42 policy... The warring parties in Sudan reaching a preliminary agreement at talks in Saudi Arabia... French President Emmanuel Macron calling for a pause in any new European environmental regulations... Twitter's owner Elon Musk announcing a new CEO to replace himself... South Africa's government announcing an independent investigation after US Ambassador Reuben Brigety accused it of supplying arms to Russia... The British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace confirms that the UK has provided Ukraine with long range missiles... Turkish politics and one of the minor candidates in the presidential...

A federal judge on Thursday evening blocked the Biden administration from implementing a policy that allows for the release of migrants without court dates – just hours away from the end of the Title 42 public health order. Judge T. Kent Wetherell II imposed a two-week restraining order on the Biden administration policy with would see migrants released on "parole with conditions." The policy was outlined in a Border Patrol memo, which says that migrants can be allowed into the country on parole — a process typically reserved for "urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit" — if Customs and...

Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys on Thursday filed a notice to appeal the $5 million judgment awarded to E. Jean Carroll in her civil lawsuit against Trump. A nine-member jury on Tuesday found Trump liable for sexual battery and defaming Carroll and granted her an award of $5 million in damages. The jury awarded Carroll $2 million in damages for the sexual battery claim and $3 million for defamation. On Thursday afternoon, Trump’s attorneys filed a notice of appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, formally starting the appeal process after Trump previously indicated he would...

A bus carrying immigrants from Texas arrived at Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence hours before Title 42 was set to expire. The 30 men, women, and children arrived at the home of the vice president on Thursday morning and were received by the organization SAMU First Response and Mutual Aid. This bus was the second one to arrive at the Naval Observatory in under 24 hours. The first bus carried almost 40 people, according to NBC Washington. “Many on the bus told me they were from Venezuela,” a reporter for NBC News wrote on social media. "This morning, a group...

We admit that when we first heard that Tucker Carlson was abruptly taken off the air, we suspected it was somehow related to the Dominion settlement—either it was a term in the settlement, or the settlement resulted in Fox News no longer being willing to work with Mr. Carlson. Thus, what we are hearing today is not actually a total surprise (if it is true): BREAKING: Carlson was told by a member of the Fox board that he was taken off the air as part of the Dominion settlement, per Tucker's legal teamhttps://t.co/rcFBEH6Xhk — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 9,...

The head of U.S. Border Patrol has sent out a memo authorizing the release of illegal migrants into the U.S. without court dates if agents face overcrowding as the Biden administration scrambles to deal with a historic surge in migration at the border ahead of the end of Title 42. The memo says that migrants can be allowed into the country on parole — a process typically reserved for “urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit” — if Customs and Border Protection (CBP) faces overcrowding. The memo calls the practice “parole with conditions” as migrants are required to make an...

What will President Biden do if his son is indicted by the federal prosecutor in Delaware? That’s one of three questions looming over U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ fateful choice. The second is whether the indictment will go after a larger, coordinated family scheme of influence peddling or confine itself to smaller, tightly-confined issues like lying to get a gun permit and not registering as a foreign lobbyist. The third is whether Attorney General Merrick Garland will approve Weiss’ proposed charges. Significant political calculations follow from those decisions. It’s easy enough to answer what Garland will do. He has little choice...

With the Biden administration preparing to end Title 42 on Thursday, and Texas bracing for the coming onslaught, several border security measures were approved in a meeting of the Texas House that lasted until nearly 2 a.m. The centerpiece bill, however, was defeated after House Speaker Dade Phelan sustained a point of order on the bill, sending it back to committee past the deadline for bills to be considered. “This kind of fiasco is emblematic of his leadership in the House. Instead of passing the most important border security bill in decades, he let it die on a spurious interpretation...

[Catholic Caucus] Trail of chaos left by Cardinal Roche. He is now destroying the liturgy in the way he destroyed his diocese.Cardinal Roche: his strange management methods in LeedsPaix Liturgique has investigated Cardinal Roche, once bishop of Leeds where he left some bitter memories to say the least - a method that led to the total failure, human, pastoral, financial, that he is now replicating with the traditional Mass and its faithful...the result risks being the same."Before becoming Cardinal-Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship in Rome, responsible for the implementation of Desirio desideravi, the Franciscan charter for the new...

Consumers are being urged to boycott Target in response to their Pride collection for children, with one activist group accusing the retailer of 'indoctrinating and grooming' young people, calling it 'highly inappropriate and disturbing.' One former Target customer said the company 'deserves the Bud Light treatment' - a reference to the boycott sparked by Bud Light's decision to partner with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. The disastrous marketing decision wiped $6 billion off the value of the company and saw sales plummet. Target has supported Pride - celebrated throughout the month of June - every year since 2013. This year's collection...

Dear marriage supporter, The Church of England has been accused of abandoning marriage by claiming it is no better than cohabitation for family life. The claim comes in a major new report from the Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households called ‘Love Matters’. The report summary states that “the quality of family relationships matters more than the form a family takes”. In a section headed ‘Celebrating Diversity in Family Life’, one of the key messages is that: “It is critical to recognise and value all kinds of loving couple relationships.” The Commission Chair Janet Walker told Premier Christian News: “What...

Beginning on this May 11th, and scattered depressingly over the coming weeks, we revisit New York City’s great terrorist panic … of 1741. This was scarcely the first security scare of New York — indeed, the city had been rocked by a major slave revolt back in 1712, a revolt that included arson. By 1741, New York “boasted” the second-largest slave population of Britain’s North American colonies, behind only Charleston: enough souls to outnumber the city’s propertied elite should they manage to act in concert. As the cruel winter of 1741 abated, a series of fires in the city raised...

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Thursday that exempts records related to his travel from the state's robust public disclosure law. Under the new law, law enforcement agencies would be barred from sharing any records related to the governor's security and travel, as well as "for persons for whom such services are requested by the governor." The expansive language could allow the DeSantis administration to keep secret trips arranged by the governor's office even when he wasn't involved. The law comes on the heels of the governor's recent trips to key primary states and Israel, and...

While I presume her discussion with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was meant to embody the Liberals’ self-avowed commitment to feminist and democratic ideals, it instead epitomized the ways in which they’re increasingly out of touch. It’s difficult to imagine a political party elsewhere inviting a foreign politician to play such a prominent role in its signature summit. But unlike many prior Liberal governments, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals never had a vision for a strong and proud Canada. Rather, they treat patriotism with suspicion and preach morality to their political advantage while squandering Canada’s international reputation for real moral leadership. It’s...