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Vox Media is ending its deal to distribute former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz’s podcast and YouTube show after the journalist made a slew of explosive comments about the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a source close to the situation confirmed. Semafor scribe Max Tani, who first reported the news, revealed late Sunday that the controversial tech columnist had a short-term partnership that is set to expire at the beginning of the year. Lorenz took to social media on Monday ripping the report as “100% false,” claiming media reporters “lie” about her as she vowed to discuss the situation...

Mangione referred to Ted Kaczynski’s actions as those of a “political revolutionary” rather than a lunatic, chillingly suggesting that violence might sometimes be necessary to “survive.” A former high school classmate of the person of interest identified and detained Monday in the apparent assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson spoke to The Gateway Pundit on Monday, expressing incredulity over the incident. Authorities identified Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old former Ivy League student at UPenn, as a person of interest in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, The Gateway Pundit reported Monday. As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, new details...

(Dec. 9, 2024) — On Sunday’s “The Big Weekend Show” on the Fox News Channel at 7:00 p.m. EST, co-hosts Dr. Nicole Saphier, Anita Vogel, Jason Chaffetz and Johnny Joey Jones reacted to President-Elect Donald J. Trump’s lengthy interview with Kristen Welker of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” particularly regarding his comments on abolishing the automatic awarding of U.S. citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. The decades-long practice appears to have arisen from the 14th Amendment ratified in 1868, the pertinent section of which reads: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to take the witness stand in his own defense on Tuesday in a criminal trial that his critics say is essential to the rule of law, and which his supporters say is a political prosecution. Netanyahu’s lawyers asked for additional time to prepare for his testimony, given the exigencies of Israel’s ongoing war on several fronts. But the court refused, meaning that Netanyahu will take the stand, for the next several weeks.

About 200 people were killed in violence in Haiti’s capital over the weekend, many in a massacre in which a gang boss reportedly targeted Vodou practitioners. The killings of at least 110 people were overseen by a “powerful gang leader” convinced that his son’s illness was caused by followers of the religion, according to the civil organisation the Committee for Peace and Development (CPD). “He decided to cruelly punish all elderly people and Vodou practitioners who, in his imagination, would be capable of sending a bad spell on his son,” a statement from the Haiti-based group said. “The gang’s soldiers...

How much lower can the FBI sink? Just when you think this disgraceful agency has hit rock bottom, they manage to dig even deeper. This time, it’s yet another DEI hire making a total mockery of the badge. Agent Nicholas Anthony Williams has been arrested and convicted for robbing people blind during home invasion raids—and yes, at least one of those raids targeted a January 6th political prisoner. As if it wasn’t bad enough that the regime weaponized the FBI to go after non-violent Americans, now we find out that during those raids, Agent Williams was lurking around like a...

It was barely a century ago that we thought the Milky Way encompassed the entirety of the Universe. Now? We’re not even a special galaxy. Key Takeaways Our galaxy, if you measure its longest axis from end-to-end, extends for over 100,000 light-years in space: a remarkable distance to fathom that’s billions of times the Earth-Sun separation. Yet if we compare our Milky Way to the largest galaxies in the Universe, we learn that not only are we nothing special, but we’re not even in the same league as the largest ones of all. How large can the largest galaxy truly...

A new study reveals a 30-year acceleration of equatorial Pacific currents, driven by stronger winds, with implications for global climate and El Niño patterns. The findings, based on NOAA-supported data, may enhance climate model accuracy and ENSO predictions. A crucial ocean layer essential to the dynamics of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). A recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans reports a marked acceleration in upper-ocean circulation within the equatorial Pacific over the last three decades. The primary driver of this acceleration is intensified atmospheric winds, resulting in stronger and shallower ocean currents. These changes may influence...

After being named in surfacing reports, rapper Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter has now been officially accused of raping a 13-year-old girl with Sean “Diddy” Combs, a lawsuit filed on Sunday alleges. The suit, filed on behalf of an anonymous plaintiff, accused Carter of engaging in the act while Combs and another “unnamed celebrity” watched at an MTV VMA after-party in 2000, according to court documents that were revealed to the press. The suit claimed that Carter “has been with Combs during many such instances described herein,” and that “both perpetrators must face justice.” The suit continued, alleging that Combs and Carter...

Eddy Merckx hospitalised after bike crash 79-year-old cycling legend required to undergo surgery on broken hip By Tom Davidson published 8 hours ago Legendary cyclist Eddy Merckx has broken his hip in a “stupid” cycling accident in Belgium, his wife has said. The 79-year-old crashed his bike on Monday afternoon, falling in a town on the outskirts of the city of Mechelen. He was assisted at the scene by onlookers, who phoned for an ambulance for the five-time Tour de France champion. Confirming the news to Belgian publication Het Nieuwsblad, Merckx’s wife Claudine said it was a “stupid accident”. “There...

Two drunk Ohio cops, in a bar, attack African man who is a naturalized citizen thinking he was here illegally. One has resigned from police force now we need rid of the other.

Ian takes a drive in a fully restored Dion Bhuton with 8 HP

An Appeals Court on Friday upheld a law that would force TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the popular short-form video app or see it banned throughout the country. The law doesn’t specifically ban TikTok but blocks app stores like Apple’s (AAPL) App Store or Google's (GOOG) Play Store from distributing it unless ByteDance divests itself from the social network. While the decision is a setback for TikTok, it’s not the end of the story. ByteDance is expected to appeal the law to the Supreme Court, which will make the ultimate call on the matter. If the law ultimately moves forward,...

There is speculation at Mar-a-Lago that Kari Lake — who twice failed to win office in Arizona — is being considered as President-elect Donald Trump’s ambassador to Mexico, The Post has learned. One source confirmed to The Post on Monday there were discussions at the once and future president’s West Palm Beach, Fla., resort this weekend about her being a top contender for the diplomatic post. Lake, 55, is considered the leading candidate for the ambassador position, two sources familiar with the situation previously told Semafor. Trump’s ambassador to Mexico will play a significant role in what he has said...

Cyanobacteria use an AM radio-like mechanism to regulate their genes, with the cell division cycle acting as a “carrier wave” and their circadian clock modulating the pulse strength to integrate signals from these two rhythms. This discovery explains how cells coordinate these oscillatory processes and may have applications in biotechnology and synthetic biology. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Cyanobacteria use an AM radio-like principle to coordinate cell division with circadian rhythms, encoding information through pulse amplitude modulation. Cyanobacteria, an ancient group of photosynthetic bacteria, have been discovered to regulate their genes using the same physics principle used in AM radio transmission. New research...

According to an ARTNews report, archaeologists have uncovered some 1,035 fragments of historic artworks beneath Notre Dame Cathedral, which was engulfed in flames and nearly destroyed in spring of 2019. The five-year reconstruction process following the conflagration, however, has given archaeologists a unique and unprecedented opportunity to dig underneath the church, which was built beginning in 1163. Beginning in February of 2022, a team from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research were given permission to excavate only 16 inches beneath the nearly 900-year-old cathedral's stone floor—the same depth as the foundations for scaffolding required for construction work. The...

The historic political comeback of Donald Trump has left Democrats largely unable and unwilling to process what they’ve done to themselves. Yes, they whine and cry and emote, like wounded adolescent narcissists, because that’s all they can do. What of cold-eyed analysis that might compel them to make difficult choices and save what remains of their party? No. They’re afraid. That is beyond them now. They’re locked in their doom loop. In granting Trump the White House through an electoral college landslide and popular vote, American voters also made it clear that they were fed up with leftist ideology. This...

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to lift the gag order imposed on Trump in his NYC ‘hush money’ case. This is the second time the Supreme Court declined to intervene and lift the gag order. “The Supreme Court on Monday declined to lift a gag order restricting President-elect Donald Trump from making statements about jurors, court staff, and their families in his New York criminal case,” The Washington Examiner reported. “Justice Samuel Alito handled the denial on behalf of the full court, marking the second time this year the justices have upheld the restrictions. There were no additional...

The far-right is rejoicing at Daniel Penny being found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the May 2023 New York City subway strangling death of Jordan Neely. Penny, who is white, put Neely, a Black man, in a chokehold for six minutes while other train passengers captured the incident on film. Penny’s lawyers argued that he believed Neely was a volatile, mentally ill man who posed a threat to the public. Neely was unarmed and had a muffin in his pocket, but Penny quickly became a hero to the right wing. Right-wing figures, including one Donald Trump staffer, immediately...