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Ex-JPMorgan banker Chirayu Rana’s lawyer got the green light to dump his client – but the attorney will now have to disclose to JPMorgan if any false claims were made in his ex-client’s explosive sex-assault lawsuit. Daniel Kaiser’s motion to withdraw from repping Rana in his bombshell “sex slave” lawsuit was approved Tuesday during a brief hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court. Kaiser, who previously repped Jeffrey Epstein accusers, first requested to withdraw from the case in late May, though it remains unclear why. But, the judge on Tuesday also ordered Kaiser — who was absent from the hearing — to...

Tony Seruga@TonySerugaOkay, here is the truth. CIA Director Ratcliffe has been on an absolute tear. He's done more house-cleaning at Langley than anyone in decades — and predictably, the entrenched bureaucracy is screaming bloody murder about it. The Purge: What He's Actually DoneMass Firings & Buyouts•February 2025: Ratcliffe extended the government-wide deferred resignation buyout program to the entire CIA workforce — the first time any intelligence agency had done this. The pitch was blunt: take the deal and walk, or get on board with the new mission.•51 DEI-related officers were targeted for termination. A judge temporarily paused the firings of...

When the Afghan man, who lives in a taxpayer-funded asylum center, was finally arrested, he was caught with his pants down raping a goat A 19-year-old Afghan man, Massoud S., was tried Monday at the Aix-en-Provence court for sexual assault against six goats, one of which died, and a 6-month-old lamb at an educational farm. He has been convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison and a ban from French territory. Afghan migrant Massoud S. was initially charged with “serious abuse or act of cruelty against a domestic, tame, or captive animal.” He continued to deny the rapes in...

Carnival Cruise Line has banned 16 people after a massive fight broke out among passengers as they waited in a customs line in Florida. Dramatic footage captured the moment a group of unruly individuals charged at each other at around 8am on Monday after the Carnival Conquest ship docked at Port Miami following a trip to the Bahamas. Two unidentified women kicked off the brawl as one of them, dressed in a black strapless dress, ducked under a line divider and started swinging at a woman in polka dot pajamas. Another woman, who donned a yellow and white maxi-dress, then...

The Senate on Tuesday adopted a resolution instructing President Trump to end the war in Iran or seek congressional authorization to continue it, delivering the most significant bipartisan rebuke yet of the conflict. The resolution does not have the force of law and is therefore unlikely to compel an immediate change in policy. But the 50-to-48 vote — in which four Republicans joined Democrats in favor — marked a striking break by the G.O.P.-led Congress with a president who has faced little resistance from his party on any topic, particularly matters of war and national security. It underscored a growing...

Quarterback Brendan Sorsby will not play in the NFL in 2026, as the league has elected not to hold a supplemental draft. The NFL's decision came down to its right to decide whether to hold a supplemental draft, per the collective bargaining agreement, as league officials said they believed it would ultimately become a distraction to teams as they begin training camps. "His application carries with it a lot of issues," an NFL source told ESPN. "Core of the game integrity issues." Sorsby admitted to betting thousands of times on college and pro sports, bets that totaled upward of $90,000...

Just the News @JustTheNews BREAKING: @jsolomonReports to temporarily step aside in role as editor-in-chief to assist the government in identifying classified or withheld documents concerning weaponization and election integrity. @AmandaHead TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~John Solomon: One programming note, I want to make sure everybody on this show is aware of it. I put it as a disclaimer on all my shows. I mentioned it on my podcast today.For the next couple of months I'm working as an unpaid government employee to help the government identify documents that can be released to the public.It's your information after all. Bureaucrats keep it from...

Explanation: What would it look like to fly past Triton, the largest moon of planet Neptune? Only one spacecraft has ever done this -- and the images of this dramatic encounter have been gathered into a video. In 1989, the Voyager 2 robotic spacecraft shot through the Neptune system with cameras blazing. Triton is slightly smaller than Earth's Moon but has ice volcanoes and a surface rich in frozen nitrogen. The first sequence in the video shows Voyager's approach to Triton, which, with the exception of an overall false green tint, appears in approximately true color. The mysterious cantaloupe terrain...

ABC is going all-in to shore up support for its extremist, left-wing daytime gabfest, The View by hosting TV ads urging viewers to contact the FCC to show support for the hardcore, leftist fake news-pushing show. ABC is facing several proceedings before the FCC, led by Trump-appointed Chairman Brendan Carr, as detractors of The View, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and other shows begin pushing for sanctions against the network for violating equal time for opposing viewpoints and other rules. ABC debuted its first spot on Monday urging fans to tell the FCC that The View is a “bona fide” news program....

On this day in 1962, the final Boeing B-52 Stratofortress ever produced rolled out of Boeing’s Wichita factory, marking the end of a historic production era. More than six decades later, that same aircraft continues to serve with the United States Air Force. The aircraft, a B-52H with serial number 61-0040, was the 744th and final B-52 built and left the production line on June 22, 1962. Today, it remains operational with the 23rd Bomb Squadron of the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base.

When Canada legalized medical assistance in dying (MAID) in 2016, the public debate focused largely on one situation: people facing the end of life and suffering intolerably. For many Canadians, that remains their understanding of the law today. But Canada’s MAID framework has evolved significantly since then. In 2021, Parliament expanded the law through Bill C-7, creating two pathways for assisted death. The first pathway applies to people whose natural death is imminent and expected soon (reasonably foreseeable). The second — known as “Track 2” — allows separate access to MAID for individuals with disabilities who are not dying. This...

@RandPaul Did Dr. Fauci fund gain-of-function research while telling Congress he didn't? Why were records destroyed? And why did he need a presidential pardon? The American people deserve answers, and I am going to make sure they get them during our hearing next month.

A tour of the old town of the Austrian period will provide an opportunity to get acquainted with the architectural ensembles of the 19th - early 20th centuries. Chernivtsi is one of the few cities in Ukraine, which is rightfully considered the pearl of architecture. In the historical part of the capital of Bukovina, there are 602 architectural monuments, 17 of which are of national importance. The architectural gem of Chernivtsi is rightfully considered the ensemble of the former Residence of the Metropolitans of Bukovina and Dalmatia. in terms of architecture and a wide selection of interesting establishments, it is...

The National Park Service is investigating an incident involving a 23-year-old male at Nevada Fall in Yosemite National Park on June 20, 2026. Emergency personnel responded to the incident, which remains under investigation. No additional information is available at this time,” the NPS told The California Post. ... “There were a bunch of friends that were dragged by the current in the top of Nevada’s fall today. The girl was saved but another person with her went with the current to the fall,” a user on Reddit said. The person went on to say a rescue helicopter appeared in the...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A Florida woman arrested after calling 911 to complain about a traffic ticket was later found with 28 bags of fentanyl hidden inside her body. The incident began when deputies blocked a roadway to assist utility crews working on power lines, per the Polk County Sheriff's Office. According to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, 48-year-old Gina Redding of Lake Wales bypassed the roadblock, driving around a deputy stationed to redirect traffic. She was stopped at the other end of the closed road by a second deputy and issued a citation. Displeased with the ticket, Redding...

It is fortunate that the 12th Congressional District of New York has among the highest number of mental health professionals per capita in the USA. Their services will be sorely needed as revealed by New Yorker editorial staffer Naaman Zhou on Monday in "The NY-12 Primary Is Awash with Money but Short on Belief."Short on belief? After reading what Zhou has to say about two of the better known congressional candidates, the eternally TDS George Conway and social media goofball Jack Kennedy Schlossberg, it is more than obvious that the race is also short on mental health.First Zhou attended what...

Tony Seruga@TonySeruga1/6 🧵📡 The Invisible Exhaust You’re Leaving EverywhereThis barely registers in public discourse, but in practical terms, it is one of the most comprehensive surveillance systems ever built — and it wasn’t built by fiat. It accreted. One Bluetooth earbud at a time, one key fob, one “smart” appliance, until the ambient radio landscape around every person became a unique identifier more reliable than a face.Let me walk through the layers here, because the implications are worse than most people grasp. Tony Seruga@TonySeruga·Jun 222/6🔵 The Protocol-Level ProblemYour phone’s privacy controls are genuinely meaningful — randomized MAC addresses, permission dialogs,...

Oops: Twenty-eight years ago, Pixar nearly lost 90% of Toy Story 2's digital files – not because a system crashed, but because someone ran a routine Unix command that engineers had been using for years without a second thought. The command /bin/rm -r -f instructs the system to recursively delete everything under a directory without asking for confirmation. At Pixar in 1998, it was apparently executed in the wrong location. The studio's animation pipeline at the time ran across a network of Unix and Linux machines holding hundreds of thousands of production files. Artists and technical staff had broad access...

Despite the children speaking multiple languages and being talented piano players, the São Paolo court upholds its position that the couple neglected their kids' education. Audato and Ieda Denardi with their children - ADF International. A Brazilian couple has been sentenced to 50 days in jail for homeschooling their daughters according to their own beliefs and not introducing them to gender ideology. Audato and Ieda Denardi were convicted of “intellectual neglect” after a court concluded that the education they provided at home failed to include programs on “gender and sex education” and “tolerance and diversity.” The girls, aged 15 and...

Men and women aren’t the same. We’re also not “equal.” There are things men are better at and things women are better at. One of those things is police work. Does that mean there are no good female cops? Of course not. But it does mean there’s a dangerous pattern that’s been forming for a long time, where female officers are being overwhelmed by perps, running from crime scenes, and even killing innocent people in Keystone Cops-style situations. But none of this is the least bit funny It’s actually alarming. And it’s time to ask the million-dollar question: Should we...