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If you wanna be a big shot in Big Tech, the secret is to be like Nancy Kerrigan. In the leadup to the 1994 Olympics, the world was transfixed by the bizarre-yet-riveting spectacle of Tonya Harding, Jeff Gillooly, and “America’s Sweetheart,” Nancy Kerrigan. The tabloid tale pirouetted into high gear when poor Nancy got her knees whacked by a mysterious assailant at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Before long, the entire plot was unmasked as a desperate attempt by one skater, Tonya Harding, to literally kneecap a rival. (Harding has denied direct knowledge of the attack, insisting her ex-husband was...

President Donald Trump ordered a freeze starting Tuesday on potentially trillions of dollars in federal funding to Americans, impacting everything from education grants to small businesses loans -- and sparking accusations that he is violating the constitution.The order was issued by the White House budget office in a memo a week into Trump's second term.It was not clear in the memo, signed by acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Matthew Vaeth, how such a pause on disbursements of funding will work or for how long.The extraordinary measure follows a similar announcement that US foreign aid is...

When more than 77 million Americans delivered resounding victories for Republicans in the 2024 election, they gave the GOP a mandate to implement an America First agenda that serves the interests of the people. So, why are GOP lawmakers in so-called “red states” working overtime to deny their voters’ wishes? In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis is having to fight members of his own party to push through legislation that would assist the Trump administration’s deportation operations. The governor’s proposal includes policies enhancing penalties against illegal aliens, greater state cooperation with federal immigration authorities, election integrity safeguards, and more. Rather than...

"The sovereignty of Ukraine is close to zero in this sense," the Russian president notedTOGLIATTI, January 28. /TASS/. The conflict with Ukraine will end in a month or two if Kiev is out of ammunition, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "They cannot actually exist; they will not exist for [a] month if money and, speaking in a broad sense, ammunition comes to the end. That’s all! Everything will end in a month, month and a half or two," the head of state said. "The sovereignty of Ukraine is close to zero in this sense," Putin noted. "If their Western sponsors...

Hamas have used condoms as bomb-carrying balloons to terrorize Israel, reports say Secretary of State Marco Rubio's decision to freeze foreign aid over the weekend included pulling millions of dollars-worth of U.S. funding for "condoms in Gaza," a White House official told Fox News Digital. The revelation came as the official explained that a separate memo from the Office of Management and Budget will temporarily pause grants, loans and federal assistance programs pending a review into whether the funding coincides with President Donald Trump's executive orders, such as those related to ending diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), the Green New...

LOS ANGELES, California — Mayor Karen Bass joined a community meeting about the recent L.A. fires on Tuesday that opened with a denunciation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which had nothing to do with the natural disaster. “The politicization of the pain in our communities is immoral,” said Rabbi Ken Chasen of Leo Baeck Temple, repeating it twice for emphasis. “Attempting to capitalize off the misery of fire survivors is unjust — the very definition of injustice.” “Now is not the time for tearing down leadership. We thank Mayor Bass and our elected leaders for listening and acting swiftly,”...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - A Georgia man has been trying to get a refund for months after he says he ordered a drill from AliExpress but received a printed photo of one instead. Sylvester Franklin, of Savannah, decided it was time for some new tools, so he logged onto AliExpress and ordered a drill, among other items. He did not get what he paid for, WTOC reports. “They sent me this. A picture is what they sent me,” Franklin said. Instead of the actual drill, Franklin received a printed picture of the drill he ordered. He says more items...

Boom Supersonic made history today (Jan. 28) when its XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time. Boom Supersonic's chief test pilot Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg took off in the company's XB-1 jet from the storied Mojave Air & Space Port in California this morning under mostly clear skies. Some 11.5 minutes into the flight — the 12th overall for the XB-1 — at an altitude of around 35,000 feet (10,668 meters), the test plane exceeded Mach 1, the speed of sound, marking the first time a civil aircraft has gone supersonic over the continental United States. "This is...

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray is slamming the Trump administration’s order pausing all federal grants and loans as a “brazen and illegal move” that would have devastating consequences for universities, cities, schools and other institutions. In a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday morning, Murray said her office has been flooded with panicked calls since news of the order emerged Monday night.

CT-scan of bovid femur, showing three bone arrowhead fragments and poison substance. (Dr Aliénor Duhamel/CC BY-NC-ND) In 1983 archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified antelope and was found to be 7,000 years old. X-rays revealed that three modified bone arrowheads had been placed into the marrow cavity. At the conclusion of the 1983 excavation the bone, together with other artefacts recovered from the cave, was placed in the University of the Witwatersrand's Archaeology Department storerooms. It lay there until 2022. That's when new archaeological investigations began at the site...

Gwynne Wilcox: screen image YouTube President Trump is on a roll and cleaning house. Trump fired Biden-appointed Democrat chair of the National Labor Relations Board Gwynne Wilcox and the general counsel of the board in the latest shakeup. Trump’s decision to fire pro-union members Gwynne Wilcox and the labor board’s general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo is getting pushback from the agency and is being described as an “unprecedented and illegal” move. Gwynne Wilcox may challenge Trump’s decision to fire her. In a statement to Reuters, Wilcox said she will pursue “all legal avenues” to challenge Trump’s firing. Axios reported: President Trump...

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called on the Senate to investigate Trump for pulling John Bolton’s security. ........ Snip........ RINO Lindsey Graham ran to CNN to call for an investigation into Trump’s decision to pull John Bolton’s security. “Whether you like Bolton or anybody else, we need to make sure that if you serve in our government and you take a foreign power at the request of the administration, that we do not leave you hanging,” Lindsey Graham told CNN’s Dana Bash. “The Senate needs to look at what happened and sit down and figure out what’s the best way forward,”...

The Los Angeles Unified School District is giving out informational “red cards” to immigrants as President Donald Trump’s mass deportation of mostly criminal illegals heats up. The cards contain information about encounters with federal immigration officials, NBC Los Angeles reported Tuesday. The news comes as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials deported 7,300 illegal migrants during Trump’s first week in office, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said, according to Breitbart News. The outlet noted: Most of the deported migrants were criminals guilty of — or facing charges of — robbery, rape, assault, domestic violence, drunk driving, and reckless driving....

Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree outlawing peace negotiations with Moscow in 2022, months after the West sabotaged a ready peace treaty to pursue an all-out proxy war against Russia.President Putin has expressed readiness to find negotiators to speak directly with Volodymyr Zelensky. "If he wants to take part in negotiations, I will select such people, it's not an issue. The question is about the final signing of the documents," Putin said in a TV interview Tuesday, noting that Zelensky's legitimacy has expired, and he therefore "does not have the right to sign anything." Under Ukrainian law, the end of the...

The U.S. military transferred around 90 Patriot air defense interceptors from storage in Israel to Poland this week in order to deliver them to Ukraine, three sources with knowledge of the operation tell Axios. Why it matters: Getting more Patriot missiles to Ukraine has been a top priority for the Pentagon to help Kyiv defend against Russia's attacks on its critical infrastructure. This is also the most significant delivery of weapons from Israel to Ukraine since the Russian invasion almost three years ago.

Tesla is under scrutiny from Swedish authorities following a complaint lodged by the Union of Swedish Electricians, Bloomberg News reported. The labor union has accused the US automaker of conducting unauthorized electrical work at its charging stations in an attempt to bypass a sympathy strike by union members. The union's allegations, made public on Tuesday, suggest that Tesla performed work at certain installations without registering it with the National Electrical Safety Board, a requirement under Swedish law. The complaint is the latest twist in a 15-month dispute between Tesla and Swedish labor unions, which began when the electric vehicle manufacturer...

Explanation: Comets can be huge. When far from the Sun, a comet's size usually refers to its hard nucleus of ice and rock, which typically spans a few kilometers -- smaller than even a small moon. When nearing the Sun, however, this nucleus can eject dust and gas and leave a thin tail that can spread to an enormous length -- even greater than the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Pictured, C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) sports a tail of sunlight-reflecting dust and glowing gas that spans several times the apparent size of a full moon, appearing even larger on...

Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) claimed Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that President Donald Trump’s pardons have excused political violence, and that has created a “really dangerous precedent.” Co-host Sara Haines said, “Governor in your memoir, True Gretch you write about being the target of a far-right militia kidnapping plot. We talked about that a lot during the height of the pandemic.” She asked, “Did Trump’s pardoning of roughly 1,500 January 6th rioters bring back your own experience with political violence and what message do you think that sends?” Whitmer said, “I think it does send a bad message, right, that...

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) confirmed he was not in attendance at the Florida retreat for House Republicans while taking a shot at those who were present. “It is being reported I am not at the so-called Republican retreat in Florida. I am not,” Roy wrote in a Tuesday statement on X. * * *

It was Christmas 2011, a year after Roman Abramovich had taken delivery of his new superyacht, Eclipse. But it seemed the oligarch would not be using it over the festive period - records show it had been chartered by a company based in the British Virgin Islands. And yet photographs from Christmas Day that year show Mr Abramovich in the Caribbean sunshine, standing on the swim platform at the rear of the yacht, with Eclipse's large letter-E logo behind him. Charter records such as this were part of a decade-long scheme to mislead tax authorities, now uncovered in an investigation...