President-elect Donald Trump has announced he will nominate Sheriff Chad Chronister to serve as the next administer of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has announced that it will stop publishing content on Elon Musk's social media platform, X, from January 20th, 2025, when Donald Trump will officially become the 47th president of the United States. The organisation stated that it can "no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda". It joins The Guardian and other European media outlets including Dagens Nyheter, La Vanguardia, Ouest-France and Sud-Ouest in coming off the platform, due to the impact of Musk on the organisation. The EFJ is the largest organisation of journalists in Europe, representing over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries has announced that it will stop posting content on X.
Chinese Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana " sold by Sotheby's as conceptual art " and then ate it last Friday. The banana is not Sun's most notable recent purchase. On November 25, Sun purchased $30 million in crypto tokens from World Liberty Financial, a new crypto venture backed by President-elect Donald Trump. Sun said his company, TRON, was committed to "making America great again." On March 22, 2023, the SEC charged Sun and three companies he owns. The SEC accused Sun of marketing unregistered securities and "fraudulently manipulating the secondary market" for a crypto token "through extensive wash trading."
President-elect Donald Trump watched the election results roll in accompanied by a far-right German politician who's been convicted of theft and accused of taking part in pornographic films, the Daily Beast reported Tuesday. Phillipp-Anders Rau, a candidate for the right-wing German Alternative fr Deutschland party, was at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 5 with several other Germans. Rau, who the Beast reported was convicted of stealing from a hotel and who was thrown out of university for doctoring high school transcripts, is a member of the party that his country's intelligence service deems a "suspected extremist" organization.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul now claims that she is willing to work with ICE in order to deport illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in the state. This comes as it has been revealed that there some 58,000 illegal immigrants living in New York City who have been charged or convicted of crimes. New York City is a "sanctuary city" in the "sanctuary state. Hochul told reporters that she will be the "first one to call up ICE" in order to deport illegal immigrant criminals in the state. Previously, New York had been unwilling to work with ICE. Trump's new border czar Tom Homan has said he would undertake mass deportations with or without cooperation from local elected leaders and officials.
Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan has lost her appeal against her death sentence for masterminding the world's biggest bank fraud. The 68-year-old is now in a race for her life because the law in Vietnam states that if she can pay back 75% of what she took, her sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment.
Marta Castillo is angry about immigration. There are too many migrants in her town, she said, and they don't speak the language. "We've been invaded," she said, standing outside her job at a restaurant. "I changed my opinion (about them), because I live in a place where we didn't see any of this. But now everywhere there are people who aren't from here." Read more
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's record-breaking $56bn (47bn) pay award will not be reinstated, a judge has ruled. The decision in the Delaware court comes after months of legal wrangling and despite it being approved by shareholders and directors in the summer. Judge Kathaleen McCormick upheld her previous decision from January, in which she argued that board members were too heavily influenced by Mr Musk.
Today on Truth Social, Donald Trump seemed to threaten to use a tactical nuclear weapon if the hostages in the middle east weren't released.
A Monday afternoon shooting left eight people shot and three dead in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side, according to the Chicago Fire Department. The shooting occurred around 2 p.m. near West 59th Street and South St. Louis Avenue, CFD spokesman Larry Langford said. CPD Chief of Patrol Jon Hein said there were no suspects in custody as of about 5:15 p.m. The victims were four men and four women and ranged in age from 20 to 35, Hein said. Three of the men died of their wounds. The fire department had transported six to local hospitals while two of the victims had self-transported for medical treatment, he said. Police had been called to the address before, he said. Hein was unable to give many details about the shooting but said it appeared to have taken place at a social gathering.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A white ex-police detective in Kansas died Monday in an apparent suicide just before the start of his criminal trial over allegations that he sexually assaulted Black women and terrorized those who tried fight back. Local police found Roger Golubski dead of a gunshot wound on the back porch of his split-level home outside Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said "there are no indications of foul play" in the 71-year-old's death, discovered Monday morning after a neighbor heard a gunshot.
A final congressional report on COVID-19 released Monday has determined the virus likely emerged from a lab accident in China and that the U.S. government perpetrated "misinformation" by incorrectly calling the lab leak theory a "conspiracy."
Featuring highly-regarded actors like Dick Van Dyke, Valerie Harper, Glenne Headly and Matthew Modine, they don't all share the screen at once, but it's easy to believe they're a family, thanks to the great dialogue delivered with a blend of spikiness and familiarity that characterize a close family that nevertheless is drifting apart. Read more
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Republican President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday he wanted former National Security official and loyalist Kash Patel to lead the FBI, signaling an intent to drive out the bureau's current director, Christopher Wray. Patel, who during Trump's first term advised both the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense, has previously called for stripping the FBI of its intelligence-gathering role and purging its ranks of any employee who refuses to support Trump's agenda.
A massive Trump statue is being built by Ohio artist Alan Cottrill, and the backers of his project hope that the statue will be displayed at Trump's inauguration.
