NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Two Belgian teenagers were charged Tuesday with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficking smaller and lesser known species. Lornoy David and Seppe Lodewijckx, two 19-year-olds who were arrested on April 5 with 5,000 ants at a guest house, appeared distraught during their appearance before a magistrate in Nairobi and were comforted in the courtroom by relatives. They told the magistrate they were collecting the ants for fun and did not know that it was illegal. read more
Opinion from The Guardian. There are some spectacles of US decadence and decline that almost seem too on the nose -- the sort of orgies of vulgar provocation or fantastic lack of self-awareness that exceed the limits of parody, so that if they were in a novel, you'd think the writer was laying it on a little thick. Among these is the all-female flight by Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos-owned rocket tourism company ... read more
Wall Street's biggest banks reaped almost $37bn in trading revenues in the first quarter of the year -- their best performance in more than a decade -- as Donald Trump's administration unleashed a barrage of market-moving announcements. The combined performance by JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup marks a return to favor for a business that until 2020 had been a shadow of its pre-financial crisis form.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s visit to the FDA Friday was supposed to introduce him as a trusted leader to agency employees. read more
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House's Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department's budget by almost 50%, closing a number of overseas diplomatic missions, slashing the number of diplomatic staff, and eliminating funding for nearly all international organizations, including the United Nations, many of its agencies and for NATO headquarters, officials said. The proposal, which was presented to the State Department last week and is still in a highly preliminary phase, is not expected to pass muster with either the department's leadership or Congress, which will ultimately be asked to vote on the entire federal budget in the coming months.
"It's not okay to [--] someone. Period. . . .
How is Trump related to this incident?"
How many blanks can we fill in?
Boaz seems triggered by minor local events as the world his armed service was supposed to protect falls apart. I guess such terrors help folks sleep at night.