Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation holds an illegal monopoly over the concert and live event industry, a Manhattan federal jury found on Wednesday.
Over the years, America has been blessed with visionaries in fitness who have reshaped how we exercise. Including one who hails from the great state of Oklahoma. Oklahoma senators decided the 79-year-old should be our school-aged children's fitness role model. While the details of the Trump administration's fitness plan are still being worked out, I suspect someone whose only exercise is playing golf probably wouldn't be able to pass the screening. The guidelines are expected to include pull-ups or push-ups, V-ups (a modified version of a sit up), a 1-mile run, and some sort of stretching component to measure how far you can reach beyond your toes.
BRISTOL, Va. (WCYB) -- Multiple violations were found involving a 3-year-old at a daycare in Bristol, Virginia, according to the Virginia Department of Social Services (DSS). According to the DSS, a complaint against Victory Children's Center on Island Road was substantiated, with an investigation finding multiple violations involving a 3-year-old child. The DSS report states staff used forbidden discipline methods, including rough handling, and forced feeding while the child was gagging. Read more
The U.S. Navy admitted that it lost a $240 million spy drone during fighting in Iran, according to a new report. It's the first time an MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle is known to have been lost since they were introduced into service in 2018. The drone was listed in a new naval report on aviation "mishaps" as having "crashed" on April 9, with the location of the accident withheld. The crash marks just the latest entry on the ever-growing tab for President Trump's war in Iran, which is thought to already stand in the tens of billions before any impact on the U.S. economy is considered.
The FIFA 2026 World Cup tournament has opened our eyes to the complexities of implementing border intelligence and protection measures for a tri-nation event drawing six million visitors from around the world. With the Summer Olympics arriving in Los Angeles in 2028 ("LA28") and major international sporting events and concert tours unfolding, there's likewise opportunity to reassess how we handle security at major events themselves.
Late last year, I relaunched Giant Freakin Robot with a renewed determination to avoid these pitfalls by making this the most exclusionary geek site on the internet. What does that mean? It means we will not work with writers who have bad ideas or ideas that are in direct conflict with the values and interests of our readers. That doesn't serve them or us. Specifically, Giant Freakin Robot's readers are geeky men, and always have been, so that means finding commentators who have the same fundamental world view that most geeky men have. Engaging Alex Kurtzman fans to write for Giant Freakin Robot would make about as much sense as investing in Giant Freakin Robot makeup tutorials.
"On 14 April, at the direction of the commander of US Southern Command, Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Four male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No US military forces were harmed."
Expect More XJK and Growing Body Count in Latin America
The Israelis attacked another Palestinian police vehicle in Gaza City, killing at least four people, including Yahya Al Malahi (3) and a police officer, while wounding nine others, some critically.
This ICC-indicted war criminal and barbarian automatically receives billions of dollars of hardworking American taxpayer dollars every year
White supremacist David Daniel (38), who Donald Trump pardoned in Jan 2025 for attacking the US Capitol on 6 Jan 2021, has now pled guilty to charges related to the sexual exploitation of a minor and possessing sexually explicit images of children.
6 Jan maniacs pardoned by Donald Trump are conducting nationwide crime spree
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is a deranged old pervert whose brain, long since sodden and pitted from a lifetime of indulgence and Diet Coke, is foaming out of his ears. Over the weekend he wigged out and posted some floridly unhinged shit on his busted little playpen social-media site about how Pope Leo XIV, the supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, is "too liberal" and "weak on crime""for God's sake, there's graffiti all over the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel!"apparently in tantrum response to Leo XIV having criticized both Trump's war of aggression on Iran and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's framing of that war as having been ordained by God. A little while later, Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ, healing by touch a guy who looks an awful lot like Jeffrey Epstein while a crowd of uniformly white people gaze on in wonder. Read more
The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the far-right extremist groups in attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep President Donald Trump in office more than five years ago. Trump commuted the prison sentences of several Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders last January in a sweeping act of clemency for all the more than 1,500 defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US last year after rekindling a 1960s romance is being detained at an immigration enforcement centre in Louisiana.
The son of Marie-Thrse, from the city of Nantes, sounded the alarm after his mother was arrested in Anniston, Alabama, earlier in April.
"They handcuffed her hands and feet like she was a dangerous criminal," he told French outlet Ouest-France.
You probably know a woman supporting an unemployed man. Maybe you've been that woman. What used to be an embarrassing secret has quietly become a macroeconomic data point, and now the Federal Reserve has the receipts. Read more
In June 2024, St. Louis police were investigating a suspected stolen vehicle. After officers stopped the car, two occupants fled on foot. According to the St. Louis Police Department's account, the driver, Emeshyon Wilkins, ran into the backyard of a vacant house, where he allegedly "turned and displayed a handgun," prompting an officer to shoot him. The department later released body camera footage, which appears to differ from this account. In the video, Wilkins can be seen fleeing at full speed, moving in and out of the camera's frame several times for brief moments. The footage then shows the pursuing officer firing four rounds, which fatally wounded Wilkins. Notably, the video does not clearly show Wilkins carrying a firearm or turning toward the officer. A lawsuit brought against the city claims that parts of a disassembled gun was found on Wilkins but no actual gun was found.
A hidden feature on most smart TVs tracks everything you watch"even offline. Learn how to shut it down in minutes.
You can't count on privacy when sitting in the comfort of your living room, because while you're watching TV, your TV might very well be watching you.
A feature common to all major smart TV platforms can analyze what you're watching to determine which ads to display and which content to suggest.
The data it collects is valuable on its own, too, and can be sold to any company that wants to understand your (and everyone's) viewing habits. Read more
The analysis reveals that almost 8 in 10 farmers in the southern U.S. say they can't afford all needed supplies this year, followed by the Northeast and West at 69% and 66%, respectively, compared to 48% of the farmers in the Midwest," reads a report published Tuesday from the AFBF, a major farming nonprofit and lobbying group.
