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The Italian prime minister has condemned as “unacceptable” the footage in which Itamar Ben-Gvir taunts activists Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has summoned Israel’s ambassador in Rome after condemning the treatment of pro-Palestinian activists detained during Israel’s interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.In a sharply worded statement on Wednesday, Meloni described footage showing Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir taunting the detainees as “unacceptable.”“It is inadmissible that these demonstrators, including many Italian citizens, are subjected to this treatment that violates human dignity,” she wrote.While Meloni was among Israel’s strongest EU supporters after the October 2023 Hamas attacks, she has become…

Music executive Scott Borchetta, founder of Big Machine Records and the man who discovered Taylor Swift, was roundly booed by college graduates when he praised AI during a commencement address at Middle Tennessee State University. The New York Post reports that the record label CEO delivered his speech on May 10 at the Murphy Athletic Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where he addressed graduates from the Scott Borchetta College of Media and Entertainment, the College of Education, and the College of Business. The college of media and entertainment bears his name in recognition of his contributions to the music industry. During…

On Wednesday, on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said lower-salaried workers should not be paying taxes. Co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin said, “One of the topics that I thought we should talk about and maybe even start with, yeah, is these days it feels almost impossible to pick up a newspaper without reading a headline about wealth in America. About the billionaire class, about wealth inequality and policy and and everything else. And it’s taking a uniquely critical turn, I think. And I’m so curious, before we even get into everything else, what you think about…

A fourteen-year-old was shot in the chest during a “teen takeover” in Detroit, Michigan, on Sunday, and the city’s Democrat mayor said her administration will not tolerate such behavior from young people. The shooting happened downtown near the intersection of Farmer Street and Grand River Avenue as the city curfew was taking effect, Click on Detroit reported Monday, noting the rules said teenagers 15 and under were not allowed on the streets after 10:00 p.m. while older teens were given one more hour to get home. There was reportedly an altercation when two groups of teenagers gathered outside a Gucci…

In a blow to the White House, Senate Republicans will remove a $1 billion Secret Service funding request that would help President Donald Trump’s ballroom project from their immigration enforcement funding bill amid internal objections. “We were told that the ballroom money is out,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told reporters after a GOP lunch meeting Wednesday, adding he’d “like to read the text.” The decision to omit the security funding came after twin blows: Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled over the weekend that the provision didn’t comply with the strict rules governing what Republicans can put in their filibuster-skirting bill…

A former DeepMind engineer has said he questioned the use of the company’s AI products by West Jerusalem for military purposes A former AI engineer at Google DeepMind has accused the US tech giant of unfairly dismissing him over protests against the company’s deals with Israel, The Guardian reported on Wednesday. The man described the decision to fire him as discriminatory and filed a claim with a British employment tribunal.Google’s ties with the Israeli government, including a $1.2 billion AI and cloud computing contract signed jointly with Amazon, have repeatedly sparked employee protests. In 2024 alone, the company fired dozens…

WASHINGTON, DC — Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr told Breitbart News at a press conference on Wednesday that parents are increasingly concerned about transgender content in children’s television as the agency considers updating television ratings. Breitbart News reported about how the FCC Media Bureau is seeking comment on if the agency should update television ratings to warn parents about children’s programs that discuss “gender identity” and other controversial topics. The agency has said that it has “significant concerns” with how the ratings system operates, with a lot of content that is meant for adults now being rated as appropriate…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations officers (AMO) worked with the U.S. Border Patrol and ICE Homeland Security Investigations agents to interdict a maritime smuggling event off the western coast of Puerto Rico. The operation resulted in the apprehension of 64 illegal aliens attempting to make landfall on the island. According to CBP, the interdiction occurred on Saturday, May 9, and began when the AMO Maceda Marine Unit detected a suspected illegal alien smuggling scheme involving a “Yola-type” marine vessel. A yola is a wooden vessel made by hand that is generally used for fishing off the…

One of America’s oldest beer brands is being discontinued after a nearly two-century run. Schlitz Premium, a beer brand that dates all the way back to Milwaukee in the 1840s, went from being one of the largest breweries in the U.S. to being placed “on hiatus,” its parent company Pabst Brewing Co. said on Friday. The company confirmed the brand’s discontinuation after Wisconsin Brewing Company said it is brewing the final batch of the beverage at the end of May, Fox Business reported. “Unfortunately, we have seen continued increases in our costs to store and ship certain products and have…

An illegal alien, residing in the United States for at least two decades, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for murdering a mother of two young boys and her unborn child in May of last year in York County, South Carolina. Pedro Mondragon Ramirez, a 43-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in court and was sentenced to 50 years in prison. According to prosecutors, on May 16, 2025, Ramirez ruthlessly stabbed 37-year-old Leonor Alpizar, 29 weeks pregnant at the time with her baby girl named Brittany, to death in front of the woman’s…