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The cuts represent about 6 percent of the streamer's workforce as it seeks a reset in its business. Netflix staff were informed that the company will undergo significant layoffs Wednesday, a source confirms to The Hollywood Reporter, as the streaming giant seeks a reset amid efforts to keep its global business growing. The company is expected to cut about 6 percent of its workforce, or about 1,000 people, making it the largest staff reduction at the company since 2022. Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters announced the cuts in a memo to staff Wednesday morning. The company’s product, tech,...

The mom accused of murdering her husband and their young son at a Poconos resort was found with her wrists and her neck slashed, according to cops — who said she told them she was “suicidal, not stupid.” Metallica Rose Harrison, 27, also ranted about how she worked hard to be “the best mother, the best wife” after calling 911 Monday to allegedly admit murdering husband Charles Harrison and their 3-year-old son, identified only by his initials T.H., at Great Wolf Lodge, according to an affidavit obtained by WNEP. “My husband and son are already gone in the bed in...

Raman has campaigned on grievance and gain at the expense of those who work for their money or own property. Last year, I told New Yorkers to vote for Republican Guardian Angel (and perennial candidate) Curt Sliwa, but prepare for the worst. Democratic Socialist Mamdani was the favorite from May to November 2025, with polling consistently giving him the edge. Former governor Andrew Cuomo, forever corrupt and incompetent and glorying in self-aggrandizement, was the last person who should have been mayor. Democrats and Republicans who didn’t want a crazy commie taking over their city glided toward Cuomo. Mamdani had the...

This video features Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Wasilla, Alaska (Oct 13, 2026), where he announces and signs unconditional pardons for three individuals, including diesel mechanics Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming (0:40 - 0:56). Key Highlights: Pardoning Process: Trump calls the mechanics to the stage to receive their pardons, asserting that they were "wrongly charged" for fixing engines and allegedly violating the Clean Air Act (1:13 - 1:18, 2:18 - 2:20). Criticism of Regulations: Throughout the event, Trump criticizes environmental regulations, characterizing them as "environmental crap" and arguing that the charges were an unjust response to mechanics modifying...

Ontario is set to move parts of the province’s northwest region to permanent daylight time in order to align with Manitoba, Indigenous Affairs Minister Greg Rickford told The Canadian Press. Rickford said there is overwhelming consensus among municipalities, First Nations and businesses to make the time change permanent. Rickford says the province intends to make a regulatory change in the Time Act on Nov. 1 to allow regions west of the 90th meridian to align with Manitoba. Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew announced last month the province would stop twice-annual clock changes and stay on daylight time year-round in the central...

Filmed inside the British Museum, this episode features renowned Assyriologist Irving Finkel, exploring the Library of Ashurbanipal -- the earliest known library in human history. Built in the 7th century BCE in Nineveh, this extraordinary library preserved thousands of clay tablets covering law, science, medicine, astronomy, religion, and literature -- including the Epic of Gilgamesh. Without Ashurbanipal’s vision, much of ancient Mesopotamian knowledge would have been lost forever. King Ashurbanipal, one of the few ancient rulers who could read and write, gathered the knowledge of the known world and created humanity’s first true archive -- laying foundations for modern civilisation....

Though Ossoff is the incumbent, the race remains close in a state that Donald Trump won by two points in 2024. Keeping tight seats is a top priority for Democrats in their bid to take control of the upper chamber come November.

Don’t believe the polls! Many are designed to make Republicans feel there is no reason to vote. Anyone can conduct a poll solely to obtain specific results and have it picked up by supposedly reliable sources. In the summer, a previously unknown organization called Median Strategies put out bogus poll results that were picked up and promoted in our frenzied 24/7 news cycles. In an admission to the Los Angeles Times, the organization admitted that its poll “was created as a short-term social experiment examining how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent...

Holly Burns and about a dozen other girls walked away from a cross-country race in Washington on Tuesday. They refused to compete against a male athlete who had started the season racing on the boys’ team. When the race began, half of the girls competing, and the male athlete, took off running. Burns and the other half of the girls slowly walked forward past the starting line, and then into the nearby tree line, sacrificing one of their high school competitions. Footage of the protest has since gone viral across social media, igniting widespread awareness for one of the trans...

Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant banned in the U.S. and Europe, seeks to strengthen ties with Mexico. In recent months, Mexico’s secretary of Science and Technology, secretary of Energy, Anti-Corruption secretary and members of the Mexican Senate have held key meetings with senior executives from the Chinese firm. The new head of Huawei Mexico, David Tao, has made it clear that the company wants to deepen and expand their operations in telecommunications, power grids and artificial intelligence. During the last two decades, Huawei has generated bipartisan concern in America. The company has been charged with allegations including espionage, racketeering and...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that black voters would not vote for Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed because the candidate mocks and disrespects them. “Why would black people vote for Mohammed El-Sayed when he openly scorns them, mocks them, and disrespects them? THEY WON’T! President DJT,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Trump’s statement comes as El-Sayed faces complaints from some black voters and community leaders about his outreach ahead of the election against Republican Mike Rogers.

September brought little relief to the accelerating cost of living, as consumer prices increased again and kept the inflation rate well above the Federal Reserve’s goal. The consumer price index, a broad measure of goods and services costs across the U.S. economy, rose a seasonally adjusted 0.6% for the month, putting the 12-month rate at 3.7%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expected respective gains of 0.6% and 3.6%. Stripping out volatile food and energy costs, so-called core CPI rose 0.3% for the month and was up 2.6% on an annual basis, compared to...

We finally had our first hurricane this season in the North Atlantic region: Isaias. Isaias formed on October 7 as a tropical storm in the Gulf of America, and made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on October 10 near Destin, Florida. Paul Homewood of Not a Lot of People Know That collects the relevant data in a post from October 11. Homewood notes that Isaias represents the latest ever first hurricane for the North Atlantic, at least since the satellite era (1966) has provided full data: Isaiah was the first Atlantic hurricane of the season, the latest on record....

The Ten Ugly Faces of Anthony Fauci One of the Most Heinous Men in Medical History ...This is my piece detailing the Ten Ugly Faces of Tony Fauci that serve as the foundation of the prosecution of one of the most heinous men in medical history... Dr. Anthony Stephen Fauci has had everything the American establishment could bestow upon a bureaucrat: magazine covers, prayer candles, presidential medals, the highest salary in the federal government, a record pension, and finally a sweeping presidential pardon. What Tony Fauci has never had is you, the jury. In my new book, Why Fauci MUST...

These are not the hard-working economic immigrants of old; this is a whole new type of immigrant, and America must address the change soon. In Wednesday’s Pluralism Is Broken, I argued that pluralism only works when cultural differences operate within a shared civic framework. Multiculturalism reverses that premise by asking America to accommodate differences without requiring assimilation. When immigration policy no longer reinforces a common framework—and when we become unwilling to examine its consequences—we are not preserving pluralism; we have sown the seeds of our own destruction. The central question is whether a society committed to individual liberty can remain...

While SpaceX's most recent earnings report barely mentions X -- the social media platform previously known as Twitter -- it is clear that the company's advertising revenue has fallen hundreds of millions of dollars since Elon Musk took over in 2022. Tucked into SpaceX’s “AI Segment” category, X’s second-quarter ad earnings were $367 million between April and June of this year. While this number is an improvement over the previous quarter ($343 million), prior to SpaceX becoming a publicly traded company, it marks an $83 million year-over-year decline. X's current quarterly ad revenue has dropped even more drastically compared...

“Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined student protesters in France on Tuesday after weeks of violent confrontations with police, thousands of arrests and widespread school closures over demands for education reform. The 23-year-old Swedish activist appeared outside a high school in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, where students were demanding more teachers, better facilities and shorter school days, Reuters reported.”

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Explore the shift towards a cashless society in Europe and its far-reaching implications! In this video, we delve into the benefits of digital payments, including enhanced security and convenience, as well as the concerns from various stakeholders. We discuss the EU's timeline for potentially banning cash payments by January 1, 2027, and the impact this will have on merchants and consumers alike. Learn about the motivations behind this transition, the financial benefits, and the potential drawbacks, such as privacy issues and accessibility challenges.