Judge To Approve Auctions Liquidating Alex Jones’ Infowars To Help Pay Sandy Hook Families

LOADING ERROR LOADING Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, under an order expected to be approved by a federal Continue reading

Harris calls Trump’s tariff proposals a ‘sales tax on the American people’

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris called former President Donald Trump’s tariff proposals “a sales tax on the American people” in an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle. President Joe Biden has also backed certain tariffs and done little to roll back ones Trump put into place while president, but Harris emphasized that tariffs should not Continue reading

X releases its first transparency report since Elon Musk’s takeover

The report, which details content moderation practices, shows the company has removed millions of posts and accounts from the site in the first half of the year. X, formerly Twitter, suspended nearly 5.3 million accounts in that time, compared with the 1.6 million accounts the company reported suspending in the first half of 2022. The Continue reading

AOC calls for Mayor Eric Adams to resign amid possible Democrat corruption probe

A New York congresswoman known for left-wing opposition to her fellow Democrats is calling on Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams to resign after a series of raids on his top aides and others in his inner circle in connection with a federal investigation. “I do not see how Mayor Adams can continue governing New York Continue reading

Fluoride in drinking water poses enough risk to merit new EPA action, judge says

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to further regulate fluoride in drinking water because high levels could pose a risk to the intellectual development of children. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen cautioned that it’s not certain that the amount of fluoride typically added to water is causing Continue reading

Bear Grylls Meets President Zelenskyy review: TV action man eager to set the world to rights

But under the facial fuzz, it’s still the same Grylls Irish viewers will recognise from Running Wild with Bear Grylls, Bear Grylls Survival Story and other dollops of small-screen derring-do. He remains, in other words, the light entertainment equivalent of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, bounding into the danger zones relying on nothing beyond a Continue reading

Man who was due in court is blamed for California courthouse explosion

A California man who had recently been arrested on a gun charge threw an explosive device into the Santa Maria courthouse where he was to be arraigned on Wednesday, injuring three people, officials said. None of the injuries were life-threatening, and everyone who was hurt was treated at and released from a hospital, Santa Barbara Continue reading

After Marcellus Williams is executed in Missouri, a nation reacts

After Marcellus Williams is executed in Missouri, a nation reacts Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri on Tuesday, having been convicted for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, a former police reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch killed during a burglary at the St. Louis suburban home she shared with her physician husband. Williams, 55, Continue reading

Why Biden’s speech at UNGA should set off alarm bells across the globe

President Biden’s swan song on the world stage Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly was a sad demonstration of American weakness and the failed foreign policies of the Biden-Harris administration. Knowing full well that Iran is the leading state sponsor of terror, responsible for the escalation of instability and hatred on a global scale, Continue reading

Inquiry into Defence Forces failings ‘as soon as possible’, Varadkar says

Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images The Government is keen to have a statutory inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct, bullying and discrimination in the Defence Forces up and running “as soon as possible”, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. Speaking during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil on Wednesday, the Taoiseach said a report on the Defence Forces Continue reading