Leave lives behind
...A family man from Wisconsin. A spirited artist from Hawaii. An Ivy League graduate from Maryland. At face value, Ryan Borgwardt, Hannah Kobayashi and Luigi Mangione lead distinct lives and come from disparate backgrounds. Yet, they all took unexpected paths, disappearing from their jobs, routines, f
The US held off sanctioning this Israeli army unit despite evidence of abuses.
...Former commanders of the Netzah Yehuda battalion, an Israeli military unit that has been accused by the United States of gross human rights violations against Palestinians in the Israeli occupied West Bank prior to October 7, have been promoted to senior positions in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
The world is sitting on a $91 trillion problem. ‘Hard choices’ are coming...Governments owe an unprecedented $91 trillion, an amount almost equal to the size of the global economy and one that will ultimately exact a heavy toll on their population. increases and spending cuts needed to tackle the deluge of borrowing. In some cases, they’re even making profligate promises
Host clubs in japan...Yu felt a rush of excitement as she walked into his bar for the first time, eager to meet the charming young host she’d been following for years online.
Yu, 41, a clinician and divorced mother of two, soon began spending every spare minute with him at the bar in Tokyo’s main red light distric
Israeli precision guided munition likely killed group of children playing foosball in Gaza, weapons ...The last time Mona Awda Talla saw her daughter Shahed alive, she was leaving the house to go buy her some cake, wearing pink pants. The 10 year old stopped to play foosball with her friends beside the cake shop in Gaza’s Al Maghazi refugee camp. Moments later, she was dead.
Grief stricken and s
Trump’s Truth Social is now a public company. Experts warn its multibillion dollar valuation defie...For the first time in almost 30 years, part of Donald Trump’s business empire has gone public. Trading started with a bang, but the frenzy eased considerably by the closing bell, with shares ending well off their highs of the day.
Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of struggling social m
Michigan primaries.. Warning for the dinosaurs.. Biden and Trump...Joe Biden and Donald Trump won their respective primaries in Michigan on Tuesday, but a glance under the hood of the results reveals serious concerns for both campaigns as they pivot to a likely November rematch that is looking more volatile by the day.
Biden’s victory in the Democratic primary
Mexico City runs out of water...Mexico City
Alejandro Gomez has been without proper running water for more than three months. Sometimes it comes on for an hour or two, but only a small trickle, barely enough to fill a couple of buckets. Then nothing for many days.
Gomez, who lives in Mexico City’s Tlalpan district, doesn’t
Billion dollar scam...In three short years, according to UN and FBI investigators, transnational crime organizations have exploited developments in technology and the civil war in Myanmar to build a billion dollar industry to scam people across the world out of their life savings.
This huge scam operation relies on army of modern day slaves, assembled by what the UN has called one of the largest human trafficking events in Asia in recent history.
It’s known as a “pig butchering” scam a type of confidence fraud in which victims are lured by scammers of
Supreme Court rejects Jack Smith’s request for justices to quickly hear Trump immunity dispute...The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request by special counsel Jack Smith to fast track arguments on whether Donald Trump has any immunity from federal prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office a move that will likely delay his trial.The court’s decision is a major blow to Smith, who made an extraordinary gamble when he asked the justices to take the rare step of skippin
Pizza Hut selling snake pizza in Hong Kong...Hong Kong
American company Pizza Hut has teamed up with a century old Hong Kong restaurant to put a modern spin on a traditional dish, or more simply, snake on a pizza.
The new offering combines shredded snake meat, black mushrooms and Chinese dried ham all indispensable ingredients of an
Hungary warns against more Russia sanctions...Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said new sanctions against Russia are not needed because they “cause more harm to Europe than Russia.”
Szijjarto made the comments in an interview with Russian state media TASS on Friday following his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
“If we look at the
San Francisco is undeniably having a moment...San Francisco is undeniably having a moment.
Over the past year, headlines claiming the city is caught in a spiraling “doom loop” have become so prominent that a city commissioner decided to cash in on downtown San Francisco’s storefront vacancies, homelessness and opioid issues by anonymou
Why a stalled Ukrainian offensive could represent a huge political problem for Zelensky in the US...One of Ukraine’s greatest tragedies as it pursues a critical offensive that has, so far, failed to meet its own and Western expectations is that it cannot, by itself, decide its destiny.
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government is dependent on a massive pipeline of US and western armaments.
More Baby Boomers are living alone. One reason why: ‘gray divorce’... Edith Heyck didn’t expect she’d be 72 years old and living alone.
“I always thought I’d be married,” she says. “I was definitely raised to be a wife, and I never imagined I’d be on my own.”
Heyck, an artist and part time park manager in Newburyport, Massachusetts, is one of ne
Deadly tornado and severe storms sweep South...At least 26 people have been killed and dozens more injured after powerful storms, including a confirmed tornado, struck the southern United States on Friday night. Mississippi has seen the most severe damage and the highest death toll. State agencies are leading the search for victims, and the Fede
Video claims to show Russian mercenary executed by sledgehammer...A gruesome video released Monday claimed to show a Russian mercenary who fled while fighting in Ukraine being executed with a sledgehammer although the group behind the alleged execution later said the footage was staged and all “fun.”
The disturbing clip, captioned “Video from the court
