The Petersburg Post
Top News Stories for Wednesday, May 8th 2024
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
After being warned by the judge in his New York trial over continued violations of his gag order, former President Donald Trump errantly framed himself as being deprived of his First Amendment speech rights, and appeared to vow that he would break the order sometime in the near future. Trump has been accused of hiding hush money payments to women with whom he had extramarital affairs, using illegal bookkeeping ...
Source: truthout.org
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Washington, DC – The United States has played down the deadly Israeli assault on Rafah, saying the offensive appears to be "limited" despite concerns over the fate of the more than 1.5 million Palestinians sheltering in the southern Gaza city. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters on Tuesday that the US still opposes a major Israeli offensive against Rafah. Israel had stepped up ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
By Matthew Salesses Salesses is the author of The Sense of Wonder O n April 30, 56 years after Columbia sent the police in to arrest student protesters who had taken over Hamilton Hall in protest of the Vietnam War—protests the school loves to promote—I was walking my 12-year-old daughter home after her choir performance. We had gone an extra stop on the subway because the stop at 116th, Columbia's ...
Source: time.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Apple unveiled new products at its 'Let Loose' event Apple officially introduced updated iPad Pro and Air models that will hit the market later this month. The tech giant gave details about the new devices, both of which come in two sizes, as part of the product event it held on Tuesday called "Let Loose." The upcoming iPad Pro will have a "stunningly thin and light design" as well as an Ultra Retina XDR display ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner spaceship was dramatically called off around two hours before launch after a new safety issue was identified, officials said Monday, pushing back a high-stakes test mission to the International Space Station. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were strapped in their seats preparing for liftoff when the call for a "scrub" came, in order to give engineers time to ...
Source: france24.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Law curtails "massive amounts of protected speech," TikTok and ByteDance allege. TikTok and its owner ByteDance today sued the federal government to block the "Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications" law that would prohibit TikTok in the US if the company isn't sold to a non-Chinese firm. The complaint in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit alleges that the law is unconstitutional and ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday told Kristi Noem to "stop digging herself in a hole" after the South Dakota governor suggested that President Joe Biden 's dog Commander be put down. (Watch the video below.) Noem turbocharged a rocky rollout of her new book, " No Going Back ," by defending a passage in which she described shooting her 14-month-old dog Cricket over behavioral problems. She went further in an interview ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
May 7 (UPI) -- Boeing is facing a new investigation, this time over falsified inspection reports on its 787 Dreamliner. The Federal Aviation Administration opened an investigation Monday after Boeing "voluntarily informed us in April that it may not have completed required inspections to confirm adequate bonding and grounding where the wings join the fuselage on certain 787 Dreamliner airplanes." The inspection was ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Several tornadoes hit Michigan on Tuesday, with one twister pummeling a mobile home park in the southern part of the state, leaving a dozen people hurt and rescuers looking for more possible victims. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared an emergency for Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, Branch and Cass counties on Tuesday, citing significant damage inflicted on buildings and roads during severe storms. At least 12 people were ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed former President Donald Trump's classified documents trial in Florida, citing significant issues around classified evidence that would need to be worked out before the federal criminal case goes to a jury. In an order Tuesday, Cannon cancelled the May trial date and did not set a new date. While Trump was in criminal court Tuesday for his hush money trial in New York , ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
In one of the biggest beefs in recent hip-hop history, Drake and Kendrick Lamar are feuding — to the point that police were asked about their feud after a security guard was shot outside Drake's Toronto mansion on Tuesday. But it wasn't always this way. Over a decade ago, the pair collaborated on a few songs: On Drake's 2011 track "Buried Alive Interlude," on Lamar's 2012 release "Poetic Justice," and on A$AP ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The U.S. Army has confirmed that an American serviceman—Staff Sergeant Gordon Black—was arrested last week during an unauthorized visit to the Russian far eastern port city of Vladivostok. Black, 34, had been stationed in South Korea and was in the process of returning home to Fort Cavazos in Texas when he made the trip to Vladivostok—which sits close to the Chinese and North Korean borders on the ...
Source: newsweek.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing business management by offering powerful tools and techniques to streamline operations, improve decision-making, and drive innovation. From data analytics to process automation, AI technologies are transforming the way organizations operate across various industries. This article explores the application of AI in business management and highlights the role of AI ...
Source: ventsmagazine.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The Japanese company aims to sell 13.5 million Switch units this year, aiming to maximize sales from the current device Japan's Nintendo said on Tuesday it plans to make an announcement about the successor to its long-lasting Switch console during the financial year ending March 2025. Nintendo has extended the lifecycle of the Switch device with hit titles such as "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom", with ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The Social Security Administration said Monday it has enough funds to pay all scheduled benefits and associated administrative costs until 2035, one year later than projected last year. "This year's report is a measure of good news for the millions of Americans who depend on Social Security , including the roughly 50% of seniors for whom Social Security is the difference between poverty and living in dignity ...
Source: usatoday.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The 24-year-old won the beauty pageant last year and represented the US at the Miss Universe competition in November. Competition organisers say they are reviewing plans for "the transition of responsibilities to a successor". The current Miss USA has said she is relinquishing her title to prioritise her mental health. Noelia Voigt, 24, won the beauty pageant last year and represented the US at the Miss Universe ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. Reddit — The social media stock popped nearly 18% on the back of a better-than-expected quarterly earnings in its first report since the company's initial public offering in March. Reddit saw a faster rate of advertising revenue growth than its top competitors. Reddit posted $243 million in revenue, while analysts polled by FactSet forecast ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
People who carry two copies of the gene mutation most strongly implicated in Alzheimer's disease are almost certain to develop brain changes related to the degenerative disorder, a new study says. A single mutated APOE4 gene has been found to pose the strongest genetics-driven risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's , researchers said. Virtually everyone with two copies of the APOE4 gene mutation wound up with ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Google has unveiled its Pixel 8A budget phone, which will sell for $500 starting May 14 -- the same day the company's I/O developers conference kicks off. How does this lower-priced device stack up against the flagship Pixel 8 (which starts at $700)? Like previous Pixel A devices, this one shares a lot of commonalities with its pricier counterpart. That includes similar displays, battery life and ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
This isn't the first time the organization has sought to change its moniker. After more than 100 years, the Boy Scouts of America are getting a rebrand. On Tuesday, the organization announced that it will be changing its name to Scouting America, to reflect the organization's thousands of female members. The new name is the extent of the organization's rebrand, as girls have been welcomed into the group—which ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Panera's Charged Lemonade has been under fire from consumers and regulators after lawsuits alleged the highly caffeinated beverage has been the source of long-term health problems and even death. Now, the chain has decided to phase out the drink as a part of overarching menu changes. "We listened to more than 30,000 guests about what they wanted from Panera, and are focusing next on the broad array of beverages we ...
Source: entrepreneur.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
May 7 (UPI) -- President Joe Biden called on all Americans to fight anti-Semitism and hate during speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual Day of Remembrance ceremony in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. Biden said that since the start of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas there has been a "ferocious surge of anti-Semitism in America and around the world," adding that people are "denying, downplaying, ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Mortgage rates are down slightly following the release of April's softer-than-expected jobs report. Average 30-year mortgage rates are now back below 7%, according to Zillow data. Hot inflation data pushed mortgage rates up last month. But last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the US economy added 175,000 jobs in April, way below the 238,000 forecast, and a significant slowdown from March . This ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
After months of speculation about Steward Health Care's dire financial straits, the struggling organization filed for bankruptcy at 3:30 a.m. Monday. Chapter 11 bankruptcy will let Steward continue operating its hospitals — including eight in Massachusetts — while restructuring its finances. The bankruptcy and resulting transitions will likely disrupt Massachusetts' health care system, but bankruptcy ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The Department of Justice has unsealed charges against a Russian national accused of developing and administrating LockBit ransomware. In a filing on Tuesday , the DOJ claims the 31-year-old Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev helped make LockBit one of "the most prolific and destructive ransomware group[s] in the world." Khoroshev has allegedly had involvement in LockBit since it first emerged in September 2019. Over the ...
Source: theverge.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Financial institutions can improve the value of their suspicious activity reports for law enforcement by taking steps such as providing citations and identifying known ties to foreign countries, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Director Andrea Gacki said Monday. in New York City, Gacki said her agency received nearly 119,000 SARs between April 1, 2022, and March 31 of this year, for an average of 5,000 a month. ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
'She can't decide what she wants to do other than try and be famous' House Democrats don't like the fact that they might have to save House Speaker Mike Johnson . But they are coming to accept they will do it, if it means stopping Johnson from cutting a deal with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene . On Tuesday, Greene met for more than an hour with the speaker in his office , even as votes began on the House ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Understanding the conflict two years on. More on this topic As Russian leader Vladimir Putin was sworn in as president for the fifth time on Tuesday, his country's armed forces made preparations to hold tactical nuclear weapons drills, presenting a dramatic split screen that underlined just how much Russia has changed since Putin was first sworn in as president 24 years ago to the day. As Russian leader Vladimir ...
Source: foreignpolicy.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Light famously cannot escape the event horizon of a black hole, leaving astrophysicists to theorize and speculate what it's like beyond the limits of human perception. Now, NASA researchers take that theorization a step further, in the form of an animation that takes you (the viewer) into the black hole. Black holes are some of the densest objects in the universe. Light cannot escape their event horizons because ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Robinhood's SEC battle asks if crypto is a security. The answer could change how we trade. Whether cryptocurrency is a security or not may have to do with how retail investors treat it. Robinhood, one of the most popular retail brokerages for investing in securities, is trying to convince the Securities and Exchange Commission that crypto is not a security. On Monday, Robinhood HOOD, +1.18% revealed that its crypto ...
Source: marketwatch.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
In the last five days, Helldivers 2 was removed from the PC market in 177 countries and the game's Steam reviews collapsed under the weight of more than 200,000 negative ratings, dropping from Positive to Mixed. It's now Tuesday and the Helldivers 2 Steam page is overrun with people ranting against Sony and celebrating democracy, and for anyone taking their first glance at the game, it's all a bit confusing. Here's ...
Source: engadget.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Scientists believe artificial intelligence will one day help them learn to communicate with the whales in the same way. If successful it would be the first time that humans have spoken with another species. Scientists using artificial intelligence to decode the sounds made by sperm whales believe their calls are so complex they are similar to human language. New research by a group of experts studying a clan of ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Kathy Hochul made comment at California conference to showcase upstate AI center before apologizing on Monday night The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul , has rapidly backtracked on remarks she made on Monday after she came under a blizzard of criticism for saying that Black children in the Bronx did not know the word "computer". Hochul had intended her appearance at the Milken Institute Global Conference in ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
TUESDAY, May 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Planters peanut products sold at Publix and Dollar Tree in five states are being recalled due to the risk of Listeria contamination, maker Hormel announced. The products are Planters Honey Roasted Peanuts (4 ounces) and Planters Deluxe Lightly Salted Mixed Nuts (8.75 ounces). So far, there have been no reports of illness linked to the recalled products, the company ...
Source: healthday.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Today's high-rate environment has made it pretty tough for people to juggle their daily living expenses and their revolving debt. After all, when interest rates are high overall, variable-rate debt, like credit card debt , tends to cost a lot more than it otherwise would. And, with the average credit card rate currently closing in on 22% , and persistent inflation pushing prices higher on housing, gas and food, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more . Earth's magnetic field plays a key role in making our planet habitable. The protective bubble over the atmosphere shields the planet from solar radiation, winds, cosmic rays and wild swings in temperature. However, Earth's magnetic field almost collapsed 591 million years ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
More than 6 million people subscribed to Disney+ in the past three months, helping Walt Disney Co. post a surprise profit in its on-demand video streaming division, executives with the entertainment giant said Tuesday. The earnings boost comes after a rough 18 months at the House of Mouse. In early 2023, CEO Bob Iger announced that 7,000 jobs would be cut across the company as part of a broader plan to slash costs ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Microsoft deployed a generative AI model on Thursday for U.S. intelligence agencies to analyze top-secret information, Bloomberg reports . Microsoft announced the AI offering at the 2024 SCSP AI Expo for National Competitiveness in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. The GPT-4-based model was created to be entirely divorced from the internet, allowing it to securely process classified data. "This is the first time we've ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Wayve, a UK company specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) for self-driving vehicles , has secured more than $1bn of investment from Softbank, Nvidia and Microsoft. The UK government said the investment cements the country's position as a world leader in AI and self-driving vehicle technology. The funding announcement comes just weeks before the industry-backed Automated Vehicles Bill is set to become law. ...
Source: computerweekly.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
At least 20 Tesla vehicles with Autopilot engaged were involved in crashes since the company issued a voluntary recall for the advanced driver-assist system last December, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed in a new filing this week . Tesla recalled over 2 million vehicles with Autopilot in response to NHTSA's investigation into dozens of crashes involving the company's driver-assist ...
Source: theverge.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan , a Republican, is bucking his party and endorsing President Joe Biden over Donald Trump in this year's election. "This November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a criminal defendant without a moral compass," he wrote in an opinion piece in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Duncan wrote that the GOP can't rebuild until it rebukes Trump, who he ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The Ukrainian security services arrested two Ukrainian colonels and accused them of spying for Russia. They said the plot also targeted top Ukrainian intelligence officials. Listen to this article · 4:48 min Ukraine's security services said on Tuesday that they had foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky and other top military and political figures. Two Ukrainian colonels accused of ...
Source: nytimes.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The company's new advertiser tool can help you get more out of a single product image. Social media feeds are an ideal place to advertise, and a well-executed campaign can help businesses grow significantly -- but creating them is a lot of work. Meta's new generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools aim to help make curating the perfect ad easier. On Tuesday, Meta unveiled new generative AI ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Conservative judges cite a former liberal Supreme Court justice to justify their boycott against Columbia. The problem is... it's a lie. Yesterday, 13 Trump-appointed federal judges took a break from their busy schedule of adjudicating cases and controversies on the taxpayer's dime to write a snarling letter to Columbia University declaring that they would no longer hire any graduate of either the law school or the ...
Source: abovethelaw.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
BEIJING — Chinese state media are reporting a knife attack with possible deaths at a hospital in the country's southwest. The official Xinhua News Agency said there were more than 10 casualties in what it called a "vicious assault" on Tuesday in Yunnan province. An online post from Guizhou province television citing unnamed authorities said that two had died and 23 people were injured. A suspect has been ...
Source: time.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - Floridians will save more than a billion dollars in state taxes over the next year. Governor Ron DeSantis signed off on a tax package Tuesday that includes a tax holiday on property and flood insurance premiums. "We are providing some different types of relief. These are not something that we have done every year. Some of these things are new," DeSantis said. ...
Source: mysuncoast.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
OpenAI has added a new tool to detect if an image was made with its DALL-E AI image generator, as well as new watermarking methods to more clearly flag content it generates. In a blog post , OpenAI announced that it has begun developing new provenance methods to track content and prove whether it was AI-generated. These include a new image detection classifier that uses AI to determine whether the photo was ...
Source: theverge.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Disgraced Theranos founder's release date moved up, prison records show Theranos founder and convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes has had more time cut from her prison sentence, after her original release date was slashed by nearly two years last summer. Holmes, 40, was originally ordered to serve more than 11 years behind bars after she was found guilty in January 2022 of four counts of fraud and conspiracy for ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
This beloved condiment has been shown to help the body run longer—now, new research suggests it could keep your brain in young shape, too. Remember the days before we used olive oil, and instead primarily cooked in ingredients like butter, margarine, and vegetable oil? Thanks to popular influences like doctor talk shows, cooking TV, and Blue Zones research , we now understand that olive oil—rich in ...
Source: thehealthy.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
The regulation aims to ensure leaders of financial institutions do not take on excessive risk A trio of regulators have jointly proposed regulation aimed at increasing the risk sensitivity of executive compensation schemes within financial institutions. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Housing Finance Agency proposed a rule that would prohibit ...
Source: bankingexchange.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
A group of 95 people filed a lawsuit in Illinois on Monday alleging they were sexually abused as children in juvenile detention centers across the state for over two decades. The 186-page suit, filed in the Illinois Court of Claims, alleges state employees "sexually abused Claimants and/or negligently allowed or failed to prevent sexual abuse of Claimants while they were children in the legal and physical custody ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON — An independent examination of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. workplace culture released Tuesday painted a picture of an agency with rampant instances of sexual harassment, discrimination, and various other forms of misconduct spanning several years. The report, commissioned by the FDIC and performed by law firm Cleary Gottlieb, portrayed a culture characterized by patriarchy and ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Two years ago, Veena Singla of San Francisco volunteered to participate in a study researching drivers' exposure to flame retardants used on car seats. Singla drives a hybrid car to help the environment, but hadn't thought much about the air inside her vehicle. But according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, "vehicles are likely important sources of ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
With the goal of enrolling more than 100,000 participants, the American Cancer Society is planning the largest U.S.-based, behavioral- and environmental-focused study on cancer risk and outcomes in Black women. Compared to white women, Black women are 40% more likely to die from breast cancer and are 2.3 times more likely to die from stomach cancer, according to CDC data compiled by HHS. To discover the root ...
Source: beckershospitalreview.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Researchers are looking at proactive ways through which we can defend ourselves from viruses. A team of scientists from Cambridge University have developed a vaccine that works against the common elements of all coronaviruses. The vaccine, which has only been tested on mice so far, promises to protect us from existing strains, as well as ones that haven't emerged yet. "Our focus is to create a vaccine that will ...
Source: zmescience.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Venus (NASA/JPL-CALTECH/AFP) Today, the atmosphere of our neighbor planet Venus is as hot as a pizza oven and drier than the driest desert on Earth – but it wasn't always that way. Billions of years ago, Venus had as much water as Earth does today . If that water was ever liquid, Venus may have once been habitable . Over time, that water has nearly all been lost. Figuring out how, when and why Venus lost its ...
Source: rawstory.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Cape Town, South Africa — Rescue teams trying to find dozens of construction workers missing since a multi-story apartment complex collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa have made contact with 11 people buried alive beneath the mangled wreckage, authorities said Tuesday. One man called his wife from underneath the rubble of the five-story building that had been under construction when it collapsed ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
MELBOURNE – A woman accused of serving her ex-husband's family poisonous mushrooms pleaded not guilty in an Australian court on Tuesday to three charges of murder and five charges of attempted murder. Erin Patterson, 49, appeared briefly in Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court by video link from a Melbourne prison, where she has been held since her arrest in November last year. She is accused of killing her ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Ronnie Wiggs strangled his wife as she was in hospital for procedure related to ongoing kidney dialysis treatment A 75-year-old Missouri man strangled his wife to death in a hospital bed while claiming that he could no longer afford to pay for her ongoing kidney dialysis treatment, according to authorities. Ronnie Wiggs has been jailed on a count of second-degree murder in connection with a femicide that starkly ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
And is it feasible? Plus three other questions about the student protesters' demands. A core demand at the heart of the protests over the war in Gaza currently roiling college campuses across the US and around the world: that universities divest from Israel . That means withdrawing funds their endowments have invested in companies that are linked to Israel. Their demands have revived a long-running debate about ...
Source: vox.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
About 42 million US adults have been impacted by identity theft, according to a 2023 survey from analytics firm Gallup. Perhaps as a result, identity fraud ranked as respondents' top ongoing concern — more so even than violent crime. It's a problem that's getting worse, thanks in part to increasingly powerful AI tools that are easily accessible to cybercriminals . The good news is that these tools ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
Paris — Ukrainian double European champion weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko was killed in the war against Russia, the Ukrainian weightlifting federation announced Monday. Pielieshenko, 30, won European gold in 2016 and 2017, and narrowly missed out on a medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics where he came fourth in the 85kg category. "It is with great sadness that we have to tell you that the heart of the great ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 -
A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit against Alabama's Attorney General Steve Marshall to go forward. The decision comes after Marshall filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that several abortion rights groups lacked standing to sue him for threatening to prosecute anyone who helps an Alabama woman obtain an out-of-state abortion. On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Myron Thompson declined to dismiss the ...
Source: reason.com
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
Xi's first visit to Europe since 2019 will also see him hold talks in Serbia and Hungary . Xi has said he wants to find peace in Ukraine even if analysts do not expect major changes in Chinese policy. But his choice of France as the sole major European power on his itinerary indicates the importance the leader of the one-party Communist state of more than 1.4 billion people accords to Macron as an EU ...
Source: france24.com
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
A painting that nearly sold at auction three years ago for $1,600 has been revealed to be a missing masterwork by the by the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio . It will go on public view for the first time at the Prado in Spain on May 27, according to the Associated Press . The painting, which depicts Jesus Christ being present to the masses just before his crucifixion, is ...
Source: artnews.com
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz might have left the coffee giant several months ago, but he's still offering critiques of the company he ran for about 25 years over three stints. Following the release of Starbucks' dismal earnings , Schultz wrote on his LinkedIn account that he was asked by "people inside and outside the company" about his thoughts that the chain's US operations are the "primary reason for the ...
Source: cnn.com
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
A fraternity member who at a Black University of Mississippi student during an anti-war demonstration was kicked out of the organization on Friday after video of the encounter spread on social media. "Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters is aware of the video regarding the student protest at the University of Mississippi," the organization wrote in a statement on Sunday. "The racist actions in the video were those ...
Source: huffpost.com
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
Victor Wembanyama had a year like no rookie in NBA history. Others scored more points, others grabbed more rebounds, others had more blocks, others made more steals. But never had there been a player who, in year one of his career, posted all these averages – at least 21.4 points, 10.6 rebounds, 3.9 assists, 3.6 blocks and 1.2 steals per game. Until now. The long-expected result became reality on Monday, when ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
The Jerusalem offices of Al Jazeera were raided Sunday after Israel's far-right Cabinet banned the Qatar-based satellite news network—the sole international media outlet providing 24/7 live coverage from Gaza—from operating in the country. "If you're watching this… then Al Jazeera has been banned in Israel ," correspondent Imran Khan said in a ...
Source: truthdig.com
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
The Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC) has laid charges at the door ofAudit Firm BF Borgers CPA PC (BF Borgers) for massive rules violations affecting thousands of filings. The regulatory body's statement revealed that BF Borgers's actions have affected a staggering number of over 1,500 SEC filings. SEC charges BF Borgers The auditory firm has seen a ripple effect tear through its existing financial ...
Source: entrepreneur.com
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
Independent senator, 82, stresses need to improve healthcare and protect abortion rights – and condemns 'extremist' Netanyahu Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent senator and former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, announced on Monday that he will run for a fourth six-year term – at the age of 82. In a video statement, Sanders thanked the people of Vermont "for giving me the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, May 6th, 2024 -
Heartbeat International, affiliated with more than 2,000 facilities, aims to convince people to continue their pregnancies The organization behind an international network of anti-abortion facilities is misleading people with claims that abortions can be "reversed", a lawsuit filed on Monday by Letitia James , the New York attorney general, alleges. The organization, Heartbeat International, is affiliated with more ...
Source: theguardian.com