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The head of the world's largest and most ambitious construction project has stepped down amid jaw-dropping claims about its death toll. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Nadhmi al-Nasr, the CEO of Saudi Arabia's futuristic city project Neom — which includes The Line, a planned pair of skycrapers that would be 100 miles in length — has abruptly departed the role he's held since 2018. This exit comes after a new Channel 3 documentary alleged that more than 21,000 foreign workers had died during its construction, a figure that doesn't even seem to include the number of indigenous people displaced...

BERLIN — Newly uncovered footage appears to show Adolf Hitler doing the famous Trump dance. "The similarities between Trump and Hitler run much deeper than we thought," said CNN's Jake Tapper as he unveiled the footage. "They even danced the same. We in the media tried to warn the country, but no one listened." The footage, recovered by German officials while cataloging their archives and converting hard copy files to digital, shows Adolf Hitler dancing at one of his many rallies. He is seen pumping his arms, feet planted firmly in place, while his body sways gently back and...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump appears to be planning to attend a SpaceX “Starship” rocket launch on Tuesday, in the latest indication of founder Elon Musk ‘s influence in the Republican’s orbit.

Election meltdown 2024 Video of Kamala supporters losing their mind at her loss set to music

fficials in the Gaza Interior Ministry, controlled by Hamas, reported that more than 20 local residents were killed in a crime prevention operation carried out by Palestinian security forces in cooperation with tribal committees. According to the report, the victims were members of gangs that took control of aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip. "Today's security operation will not be the last," these officials told Hamas's Al-Aqsa channel. "This is the beginning of a large-scale security operation that has been planned for some time and it will expand to include everyone involved in the theft from the aid trucks." They...

Two undersea fiber-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, were severed, raising suspicions of sabotage by bad actors, countries and companies involved said on Monday. The episode recalled other incidents in the same waterway that authorities have probed as potentially malicious including damage to a gas pipeline and undersea cables last year and the 2022 explosions of the Nord Sea gas pipelines. The 1,200-kilometer (745-mile) cable connecting Helsinki to the German port of Rostock stopped working around 0200 GMT on Monday, Finnish state-controlled cyber security and telecoms company Cinia said. A 218-km (135-mile) internet...

It's another two months before US President-elect Donald Trump takes office, but China is already setting boundaries between the two countries. On Saturday, China's leader, Xi Jinping, outlined his "four red lines" in US-China ties at a meeting with US President Joe Biden. The four hot-button issues are Taiwan, democracy and human rights, China's path and system, and the country's rights to development. "They must not be challenged," Xi said, according to a statement published after the two leaders met on the sidelines of the 31st APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Lima, Peru. "These are the most important guardrails and...

The Associated Press said Monday that it would begin offering buyouts and lay off selected employees, part of a plan to reduce the news outlet's staff by about 8% and accelerate a transition to a digital-first organization. The move is part of what is expected to be a dispiriting end-of-year period in the news industry, which is beset by business woes that go back years. The end of a busy presidential-election cycle was also expected to accelerate reorganization plans. The AP said those eligible for buyouts were to learn of the offer, which would include severance pay and partial health...

Colin 'Smiley' Petersen has died aged 78. Petersen - who played a pivotal role during the early success of Bee Gees - as the group's original drummer, passed away on November 18. He contributed to their timeless hits such as Massachusetts, To Love Somebody, and Words. His drumming was a vital element on their groundbreaking albums, including Bee Gee's first, helping to establish the group's international stardom.

Today marks to 50th Anniversary of the release of my favorite album of all time. I always enjoy Abigail's reviews, so I included the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiAtFkME7dA

Alyssa Farah Griffin was met with a hard silence on Monday’s episode of “The View” after she expressed her opinion that good people should work for and interview Donald Trump in his second term. The moment came during the first “Hot Topic” of the day, in which the women discussed their thoughts on “Morning Joe” hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough revealing that they met with Trump for 90 minutes, and plan to “restart communications” with him.

In 2017, when she was still a Democratic member of Congress, Tulsi Gabbard traveled to Syria and met the country’s authoritarian president, Bashar al-Assad. She also accused the United States of supporting terrorists there.The day after Vladimir V. Putin began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ms. Gabbard blamed the United States and NATO for provoking the war by ignoring Russia’s security concerns.She has since suggested that the United States covertly worked with Ukraine on dangerous biological pathogens and was culpable for the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany in September 2022. European prosecutors...

Pennsylvania Supreme Court held Monday that incorrectly dated mail ballots cannot be counted.The court held the ballots “shall not be counted for purposes of the election held” on Nov. 5. The Republican National Committee sued Thursday after several counties decided to count ballots with incorrect dates.

RIO DE JANEIRO — President Biden missed a group photo of world leaders at the G20 summit on Monday — as a perplexed pool reporter could be heard telling colleagues that the commander in chief was “behind the palm tree!” Biden, 81, skipped the family picture after buzz ahead of time that he would do so to avoid being seen smiling alongside Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov during the ongoing Ukraine war. The White House blamed “logistical issues” afterward and said it was simply a matter of bad timing that Biden missed the photo. “Oh my God… they took it!”...

When last week Mika Brzezinski said that she and Joe Scarborough would like to have a face-to-face meeting with Trump, I wrote: "As for scoring an interview with Trump himself any time soon, don't bet the rent money at Polymarkets on it, Mika!" Oy, was I wrong! On today's Morning Joe, Mika announced that this past Friday, she and Joe did indeed meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. She described Trump as being "cheerful, upbeat, and interested in finding common ground with Democrats on some of the most divisive issues." Mika and Joe apparently suffer from an exaggerated sense of self-importance....

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VIDEOMorning Joe and Mika just waved the white flag and publicly kissed Trump's ring. Yes, after years of calling Trump another Hitler, the undynamic duo suddenly performed a humiliating U-Turn. Now EVERYBODY despises Joe and Mika. Conservatives still mock them and liberals now hate them for their betrayal for the ratings they are still destined to LOSE. I can't say I blame the liberals and I sure do appreciate the comedy GOLD of their reactions. This time I went to the new website, Bluesky, set up to give Liberals escaping Twitter (aka X) a protective bubble where they can talk...

Explanation: Stars can create huge and intricate dust sculptures from the dense and dark molecular clouds from which they are born. The tools the stars use to carve their detailed works are high energy light and fast stellar winds. The heat they generate evaporates the dark molecular dust as well as causing ambient hydrogen gas to disperse and glow. Pictured here, a new open cluster of stars designated IC 1590 is nearing completion around the intricate interstellar dust structures in the emission nebula NGC 281, dubbed the Pac-man Nebula because of its overall shape. The dust cloud just above center...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government could have acted faster to rein in immigration programs, after blaming "bad actors" for gaming the system. Trudeau released a nearly seven-minute video on YouTube on Sunday talking about the recent reduction in permanent residents being admitted to Canada and changes to the temporary foreign worker program. Over the next two years, the permanent residency stream is being reduced by about 20 per cent to 365,000 in 2027. In the video, Trudeau talks about the need to increase immigration after pandemic lockdowns ended in order to boost the labour market, saying the...

Leftists have a master plan to ensure that President-elect Donald Trump’s economy tanks: They are not going to buy anything. Leftists across the country are still reeling from Trump’s historic comeback victory, which saw him sweeping all seven swing states, garnering 312 electoral votes and also winning the popular vote after making historic gains in traditionally blue areas. There was a sizable shift in the electorate and a clear mandate for change, but some leftists ardently disagree and have a plan to tank what everyone anticipates to be a strong economy under Trump’s leadership. “Trump will not have a good...