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Tampons in the company’s men’s washroom led Republican congressmen to think Netflix was far more left-wing than they tried to portray themselves during the streamer’s congressional evaluation for its bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, reports now say. Netflix invited a contingent of GOP congressmen to its headquarters to woo them into signing onto its now aborted plans to buy Warners. The goal was to convince the Republicans that Netflix wasn’t a bastion of left-wing, hardcore, woke ideology. But the tampons in the men’s room didn’t seem to help a bit. There were plenty of other factors that ultimately led…

Two young Argentine Jewish tourists in Milan were violently assaulted by a group of about 10-12 North African migrants for wearing a Kippah, Italian outlets reported on Wednesday. The Italian newspaper La Stampa reports that the incident occurred on late Sunday night outside a 24-hour supermarket in Milan’s Piazzale Siena. Upon leaving the supermarket, the two Jewish men were approached by a group of about of “apparent North African origin,” who hurled antisemitic slurs at the pair in response to their kippahs. The men then surrounded, mocked, and insulted the Jewish men before the verbal aggression escalated into a physical one.…

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz told lawmakers Wednesday that his state has been terrorized by the Trump administration over mass welfare fraud allegations, pointing to the killing of U.S. citizens in the midst of an immigration enforcement surge around Minneapolis. “Let me be clear: In Minnesota, if you defraud public programs, if you steal taxpayer money, we’ll find you, we’ll prosecute you, we’ll convict you, and we’ll throw you in jail,” the Democrat said in his opening remarks at a hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. But, he added, “the people of Minnesota have been singled out and…

In a strange way, markets could come to be a surrogate institutional check on a country that otherwise doesn’t know restraint The missiles are again flying and a thick fog of war has descended over the Middle East. US President Donald Trump has said it might take four to five weeks or longer to achieve America’s objectives, whatever those are. During a hot war, that’s an eternity in the world of mercurial financial markets. So far, however, markets have been remarkably sanguine, perhaps, as the excellent Yves Smith posits, because “bigotry and Western narrative control were able to shore up the…

A funeral was held in Minab for the 168 children killed when their elementary school was attacked on the first day of the bombing campaign Thousands of mourners have filled the streets of the southern Iranian city of Minab for the funeral of 168 schoolgirls and staff killed in an attack on an elementary school on the opening day of the US-Israeli strikes.Images from the funeral show row upon row of small, shallow graves – the final resting places of children aged mostly between seven and 12.Participants dressed in mourning black and carried photographs of the deceased as the funeral…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has entered into a multiyear AI content licensing agreement with News Corp that could generate up to $50 million per year for the media company that owns the Wall Street Journal among many other major publications. The Wall Street Journal reports that Meta Platforms has secured a comprehensive AI content licensing deal with News Corp, the parent company of the Journal, in an arrangement that will compensate the media giant with up to $50 million annually. The agreement represents one of the most significant partnerships between major technology firms and traditional media organizations as AI continues to reshape the…

Due to the widespread corruption and cartel infiltration in the border state of Tamaulipas, Mexican military forces kept local and state authorities out of the loop in a recent operation targeting a commander with the Gulf Cartel. The raid took place last week, when a group of special forces soldiers with Mexico’s Army arrived at the Reynosa International Airport from Mexico City. From there, the soldiers moved to a rural community called Sandoval, which is just west of Matamoros. Credit: Breitbart News Foundation / Cartel Chronicles The soldiers moved quickly and were able to carry out a raid at a…

U.S. businesses went on a hiring spree in February, the latest data from payroll processor ADP shows. Private sector employers added 63,000 workers, a big rebound from the mere 11,000 in ADP’s revised January estimate. Economists had forecast 43,000 jobs added in the month. This was the strongest hiring in the private sector in seven months, according to ADP’s data. “We’ve seen an increase in hiring and pay gains remain solid, especially for job-stayers,” said ADP chief economist Nela Richardson. Annual pay is up 4.5 percent for workers who have stayed in their jobs. The biggest pay gains for job…

A 19-year-old husband fatally shot his 24-year-old wife, then himself, in a Homewood, Alabama, hospital just minutes after the birth of their first child Sunday night. WVTM 13 reported that Kynath Terry Jr. shot his wife, Precious Johnson, numerous times around 9:25 p.m. then turned the gun on himself. The Homewood Police Department described the incident as “an apparent murder-suicide and is domestic in nature.” Terry’s mom admitted the couple had been having marital problems and that the Johnson did not want Terry’s family to be at the hospital when the child was born. Despite the problems, Terry’s mom said she…

Texas Democratic Reps. Al Green and Christian Menefee are headed to a runoff, extending a member-on-member matchup defined by the latest fight over generational change. Neither Green, 78, or Menefee, 37, earned a majority of votes in the newly drawn Houston 18th District resulting from Texas Republicans’ recent gerrymander of the state’s congressional map. Green, a civil rights icon, jumped into the race after his former district was scrambled by the GOP’s redistricting. The matchup comes as the Democratic Party is engaged in an intense debate about whether the old guard should step aside and make room for a younger…