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The cranky Vermont senator who believes billionaires should be abolished wants to legislate them out of existence. It’s too bad that he doesn’t understand that one billionaire is more valuable than a thousand Bernie Sanders. “Billionaires should not exist,” Sanders, who identifies as a socialist, raged in 2019 during his previous attempt to hit the wealthy with an additional tax that punished them for their success. That effort, the New York Times reported, was “particularly aggressive in how it would erode the fortunes of billionaires” and “would cut in half the wealth of the typical billionaire after 15 years, according...

Former First Lady Michelle Obama kept it real during a segment of her “IMO Podcast” with her co-host brother, Craig Robinson, taking a dig at the Trump Administration, saying there is “no way” President Donald Trump’s behavior would be accepted if it were her family in the White House acting that way. Obama spoke with comedian and host of the 98th Academy Awards, Conan O’Brien, who brought up a time when he traveled to a military base in the Middle East with “the first Black family” of the White House. The former late-night talk show host compared the Obamas’ need...

MICHELLE Obama is under fire for missing Jesse Jackson’s funeral – even though it’s in her hometown of Chicago. The former first lady has been noticeably absent from many political events in the past few years. Her husband, former president Barack Obama, was present, as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Joe and Jill Biden, and Kamala Harris. “Michelle Obama is FROM Chicago — but she’s not there. Seems very odd,” a social media user said. “Michelle was busy again?” another said. The former first lady was similarly criticized for skipping the funeral of Jimmy Carter in January 2025. Her...

It’s 1992. I’m on tour for my hit single, “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover,” off the album “Tongues and Tails.” My band and I, including a woman drummer and percussionist, a woman keyboard player, and a woman background vocalist, arrive at the Old Vic theatre in Chicago. The sound man hands me a note. It’s from Tori Amos, who also had a hit album out, “Little Earthquakes.” She writes to me that we shouldn’t be compared in the press. We are two unique artists, and she loves my album, especially the song, “Carry Me.” I’ll never forget her...

Ogunbowale, 29, was arrested Thursday on a battery charge for the alleged incident that happened at the club on Northeast 11th Street, the report said.You’re watching the NBC6 South Florida News streaming channel, which plays local South Florida news 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can find the “NBC6 South Florida News” streaming channel on your phone or computer, and on Peacock, Samsung, Roku, Xumo or on our app, so you can watch our local news on your schedule. WNBA star Arike Ogunbowale was arrested after she allegedly punched a man inside Miami's E11even nightclub, an arrest...

After our look at the forgotten everyday items of the 1970s — remember the rabbit ears, the pull tabs, and other "You did what with what?" things that would confuse the heck out of Gen Zers today — it only felt right that would keep the time machine grooving and Jazzercize ourselves into the 1980s. After our look at the forgotten everyday items of the 1970s — remember the rabbit ears, the pull tabs, and other "You did what with what?" things that would confuse the heck out of Gen Zers today — it only felt right that would keep...

And We Know© @andweknow·8h THIS IS A HISTORIC MOMENT.Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi says he has accepted the responsibility to lead a transition for Iran once the Islamic regime is removed.“The Iranian people have called on me to lead the transition after the regime is gone. I have accepted that responsibility.”He says the goal is an orderly transition, national stability, and letting Iranians decide their future through the ballot box.For millions of Iranians who have waited decades for this possibility… this is emotional.

The Trump White House released a chaotic video montage of US military strikes on Iran combined with iconic movie scenes Thursday night, drawing backlash from both sides of the aisle for making light of the Middle East war. The X video — which stitched together memorable moments from Hollywood blockbusters like “Gladiator” and “Top Gun: Maverick” with footage of strikes on Iranian targets — was posted by the White House with the message, “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY,” and later boosted by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Hegseth himself made a brief appearance in the 42-second montage, which was crammed with...

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New York City doesn’t have enough hotel rooms for hordes of visitors coming to this summer’s FIFA World Cup and should suspend the current restrictions on Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms, business leaders told Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin on Friday. Groups including the Partnership for New York City and chambers of commerce for all five boroughs say the city must pause its short-term rental laws from June 1 to July 31 so more people can stay in the Big Apple during the games — along with celebrations for the country’s 250th anniversary and Fleet...

Obama uses Jackson eulogy to slam Trump's America By Emily Goodin President Barack Obama used his eulogy for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson to rail at President Trump’s administration, decrying the state of country under his leadership. “Each day we wake up to some new assault on our Democratic institutions, another setback to the idea of the rule of law, an offense to common decency. Every day you wake up to, to things you just didn't think were possible,” he said. Obama didn’t say Trump’s name but his meaning was clear. And the crowd at the Chicago’s House of Hope...

@TheNatPulse 🔴 WATCH: Archived Senate footage shows John Cornyn peddling the Russia hoax.

CNN is taking a lot of criticism for what some say is reporting favorable to Tehran’s regime.

Decades after his death, Wes Montgomery’s keen ears and boundless imagination still bowl over jazz aficionados and newbies alike.If jazz seems too impenetrable and intimidating to get into, dig this. Wes Montgomery, arguably its greatest guitarist, couldn’t read music, didn’t know theory, and didn’t understand his instrument’s electronics. He also strummed exclusively with his thumb, an idiosyncrasy that would make any music instructor run faint. But with the possible exception of Jim Hall, any jazz guitarist with an iota of self-awareness genuflects to him as the greatest to ever do it. Decades after his death, his keen ears and...

Keir Starmer has been mercilessly mocked on social media for 'copying Trump' with an 'embarrassing' TikTok video about the Iran conflict. The clip, set to the guitar riff of Dire Straits hit 'Money for Nothing', opens with footage of Royal Navy Wildcat helicopters flying over the Labour leader's head. 'Our number one priority is protecting our people' Sir Keir is heard narrating, with the word 'our' sounding strangely elongated. As more high-octane footage flashes up of F-35 jets on sorties, the Prime Minister continues speaking - although his voice is at times barely audible over the music. Another clip flashes...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — The United States State Department issued an evacuation order for the U.S. embassy located in downtown Minneapolis on Friday, citing concerns over the safety of American citizens in the area. In light of ongoing unrest in the Muslim world, the embassy advised all citizens to leave Minneapolis immediately as they began breaking down their own offices ahead of a final departure back to America. "We've received multiple threats from Minneapolis narcoterrorist groups and believe it is in the best interest of ongoing diplomatic talks to abandon ship before someone tries to kill us," reported Paul Mayfield, U.S....

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Explanation: Do young stars blow bubbles? The larger view shows a stellar field observed with the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, and the inset highlights HD 61005, a star like our Sun, only 120 light-years away. Much younger than the Sun, at just about 100 million years old, it blows a fast and dense stellar wind that pushes out the cooler dust and gas that surrounds it, forming a bubble called an astrosphere. The star-blown bubble was detected with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and it has a diameter roughly 200 times the Earth-Sun distance. Our Sun has a bubble...

Canada performed thousands of same-day assisted suicides, as it was revealed one elderly woman was killed despite withdrawing her request the day before. The medical assistance in dying (MAiD) program was approved in 2016 and has since been expanded to include requests from patients whose deaths are 'not reasonably foreseeable,' and will soon include those with mental illness. More than 200 people in Ontario alone chose to die within 24 hours of their approval in 2023, a 2024 Ontario report found, The Free Press first reported. Of the 219 deaths, 30 percent of them chose a same-day procedure. In 2024...

If you remember Alan Greenspan becoming chair of the Federal Reserve System, you are almost certainly over 50. He was nominated in June 1987, the same month in which President Ronald Reagan, visiting West Berlin, urged Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” It is language from another era: West Berlin, the Soviet Union, glasnost and perestroika. Alan Greenspan was born in Washington Heights in New York City in 1926, just over 10 miles from Donald Trump’s birthplace of Jamaica Hospital in Queens. There ends any significant similarity. Greenspan’s parents, Herbert and Rose, were Jews of Eastern European descent. He...