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Rapper Bad Bunny responded to the backlash surrounding the NFL’s decision to book him for this year’s Super Bowl Halftime show as he kicked off the 51st season of “Saturday Night Live.” The 31-year-old Puerto Rican native, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, said he was “excited” to be named the headlining act for the big game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara in February, but urged critics they have “four months to learn” Spanish. “I’m really excited to be doing the Super Bowl, I know that people all around the world who love my music are also...

I just signed legislation allowing the 800,000 rideshare workers in California to unionize. California is determined to give working people a voice, to give them choice, give them dignity, and give them a say about their future.

More than 400 people were arrested at a pro-Palestine protest in central London today, held in defiance of calls to cancel the demonstration following the terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester. Elderly people, relatives of Holocaust survivors, and those with disabilities were among the 492 arrested in Trafalgar Square, as protesters voiced their support for banned terror group Palestine Action. “The final arrest total for today’s public order policing operation in central London is 492. 488 of the arrests were for supporting a proscribed organisation,” Met Police said. “The remainder were for being drunk and disorderly, common assault, a...

CBS News now reporting that the Trump FBI are planning for Comey’s perp walk, and that FBI agents are being suspended for refusing to cooperate. Kash confirmed that agents will be relieved if they don’t follow chain of command. Comey’s perp walk sounds imminent 👀

A federal judge in Massachusetts denied a request for an injunction sought by two “sanctuary cities” in the state — Chelsea and Somerville — that sought to bar the Trump Administration from withholding federal funds due to their support for illegal aliens. Somerville and Chelsea had requested a preliminary injunction in June, arguing that the targeting of cities and towns over their “sanctuary” policies — which openly defy federal immigration law by barring local authorities from working with immigration agents — is unconstitutional and at odds with advice from local law enforcement, according to a report from the Boston Herald....

MANCHESTER, U.K. — Police in Great Britain are working to determine the motive of a man named Jihad Jewkiller who attacked a synagogue earlier this week. "So far we have no idea why Mr. Jewkiller would have attacked a synagogue," U.K. police officer Cecil Landers told reporters. "His social media profile, replete with messages about conducting a jihad against the Jews, has so far been unhelpful. We promise that we will continue to investigate what could have motivated such a surprising rampage." Jewkiller's family said the man is fueled by deep hatred for members of the Jewish faith and that...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Rescue efforts were underway on Sunday to clear access to campsites on Tibet's eastern slope of Mount Everest, where nearly 1,000 people have been trapped by a blizzard that has blocked roads, according to Chinese state media reports. Hundreds of local villages and rescue teams have been deployed to help remove snow blocking access to the area, which sits at an altitude above 4,900 metres (16,000 feet), according to a report in Jimu News. Some tourists on the mountain have already been brought down the mountain, it added.

Six Flags Over Texas is raising the bar for thrill-seekers with the announcement of Tormenta Rampaging Run, a record-breaking roller coaster scheduled to open in 2026. Billed as the world’s first “giga dive” coaster, the ride will have a peak of 309 feet, launching riders down a one-of-a-kind 95-degree drop from 285 feet high, and eventually reaching speeds of up to 87 miles per hour. Along the way, passengers will flip through a 179-foot vertical loop, the world’s tallest, and twist through a 218-foot “Immelmann inversion” (a helix track named after maneuvers pulled by War War 1 pilots). In total,...

LONDON — Despite being headlined by a genuine star and staged at one of London’s premier theaters, a play about the foundation of a sprawling and troubled public service seemed unlikely to provoke night after night of standing ovations. But that’s what happened with “Nye,” an unlikely hit about the creator, and origin story, of Britain’s taxpayer-funded National Health Service. The play, written by Tim Price and directed by Rufus Norris, came at an inflection point for the NHS, as it’s known. Almost 80 years after it was founded, the medical service once touted as the envy of the world...

Trump is clearly listening to the NEOCONS, and he may believe their BS that Russia’s economy is collapsing, so Russia can be defeated in three days, as Kinzinger was claiming. Mark Rubio is a Neocon. I believe Trump hired him as a compromise to the Neocons. But he is taking us into World War III in slow motion. Trump is listening to the wrong people, and he had better look unbiased at why Putin is being put into a precarious position. He has insulted the dignity of Russia and reduced it to a meaningless 4th-world country. If Putin is replaced...

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is revealing bounties of up to $10,000 have been put on the heads of federal agents, encouraging Americans to murder officers enforcing U.S. immigration laws. "Gangs, cartel members, and known terrorist organizations have placed bounties on the heads of several of our law enforcement officers," Noem posted Sunday on X. "These violent riots are not about free speech. This is the rule of law vs. anarchy. We will win."

Anti-American leftist anarchists are doxing, stalking, and targeting federal agents in coordinated plots across major U.S. cities, with some groups offering thousands of dollars to kidnap or kill them, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. "So our intelligence indicates that these people are organized," Noem warned in a Sunday morning TV interview. "They're getting more and more people on their team, as far as attacking officers, and they're making plans to ambush them and to kill them. "We have specific officers and agents that have bounties on their heads. It's been $2,000 to kidnap them, $10,000 to...

The Biden Justice Department and prosecutor Jack Smith were involved in more than just destroying President Trump in 2022-2023 as a presidential candidate. We now know, thanks to Sen. Charles E. Grassley and documents provided by an FBI whistleblower, that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s team launched a much more exhaustive investigation. Called Arctic Frost, the FBI onslaught focused on Mr. Trump and on the conservative movement, its money, infrastructure and brain trusts. The FBI theory was that groups such as the Republican National Committee contributed to Mr. Trump’s claims that the 2020 election count was rigged. In September, Mr. Grassley...

New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) today announced the selection of Louisiana Scrap Metal Recycling to remove the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center (VCBC) to take apart the barge and use its materials to help build new things. VCBC is a decommissioned five-story jail barge in Hunts Point. The company—which has substantial experience dismantling and recycling large barges and U.S. Navy vessels—will tug the barge away from the Hunts Point peninsula to their facility in Gibson, Louisiana, where they will dismantle the vessel for resale of its recovered metals to steel mills and other metal foundries. The City will...

The United States has long been seen as a land of opportunity, where ambition and hard work promise professional growth and personal freedom. But for international students and professionals, that promise can be fragile, shaped by visa rules, corporate decisions, and global economic uncertainty. Ananya Joshi, an Indian biotechnology graduate, recently became the human face of this precarious reality. After earning her master’s degree at Northwestern University in 2024, she began her career under the F-1 Optional Practical Training (OPT) programme at a biotech start-up. But a sudden company-wide downsizing left her unemployed, and with her OPT period nearing its...

It was the perfect coda to my visit to Portland, Oregon, when my phone lit up as I sat at the airport. Lyft was letting me know that my driver, who had spent 20 minutes lecturing me about how President Trump has laundered money for Russia for decades and that Antifa doesn’t exist, had registered a complaint claiming I had discriminated against him — presumably because I disagreed with his hectoring screed. The most amazing thing about Portland isn’t actually how far left-wing it is. Everyone has seen episodes or clips from the TV show "Portlandia." It’s how sure the...

Federal agents in Portland, Chicago and elsewhere cracked down on the sustained anti-ICE riots and violent protests that have continued on a near nightly basis outside federal facilities in the blue strongholds. Last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that besieged facilities in Portland, Broadview, Illinois and elsewhere would be bolstered by additional agents in accordance with President Donald Trump’s executive actions aimed at dismantling left-wing terrorist groups. “I have witnessed the continued onslaught of violence perpetrated against ICE officers across our country. The Department of Justice will not stand idly by in the face of such lawlessness. At my...

Tibetan monk lived three centuries, weighs just 30 killo, has clear mind with strong memory, no signs of illness.

The defendants allegedly spray painted “expletive Israel” and affixing pro-Palestinian/Hamas stickers to the exterior of the church. Three Muslims charged in connection with vandalizing a church in Euless, Texas, last year argue doing so was their First Amendment right. So far, jurors have disagreed, convicting one man, Raunaq Alam, of vandalism but not of a hate crime. Alam was one of three charged in connection to the vandalization of a nondenominational church, Uncommon Church in Euless, in Tarrant County in March 2024. They are accused of spray-painting “expletive Israel” and affixing pro-Palestinian/Hamas stickers on the exterior of the church building,...

Sir Keir Starmer's party's traditional stronghold in south east Wales could pivot to support Reform UK instead, polling and residents have suggested. Caerphilly has been a safe Labour seat since 1918 but growing disillusionment with the Prime Minister has left some lifelong supporters looking elsewhere, with their switching allegiance lining up with recent polls showing Reform's growing influence in the region. "I grew up in this town as a Labour supporter," teacher Andrew O'Shea, 65, said. "They were the party for the working class but now they've lost themselves. Starmer is out of his depth." "I want somebody to take...