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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on Thursday said that Disney has a history of allegedly discriminatory behavior, including hiring, promoting, compensating, and practices based on race, gender, and other protected classes. Disney-owned ABC on Thursday asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to renew its licenses for eight broadcast televisions stations; however, it also attacked Carr over alleged free speech issues. Carr initiated the early license renewal process in April, citing Disney’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. The FCC chairman has spent much of his chairmanship reviewing companies that have “invidious” discriminatory DEI policies. Carr said in a statement: The FCC…

An unidentified corporation reportedly spent half a billion dollars on Claude AI in just one month after failing to implement usage restrictions on employee licenses, highlighting growing concerns about runaway AI costs in corporate America. Axios reports that a mysterious company has become the latest cautionary tale in corporate AI spending after accidentally racking up $500 million in charges for Claude AI usage in a single month. The staggering expenditure occurred because the organization neglected to establish usage limits on the Claude licenses provided to its employees. The revelation came from an AI consultant speaking with Axios as part of a broader…

MIAMI GARDENS, Florida — Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Democrat from Florida known for championing education causes and expanding opportunities for Black communities, announced Friday she will not seek reelection. During a street-naming ceremony in her honor next to the elementary school where she once served as principal, the 83-year-old said, “This has been a journey. But it’s time. It’s time.” “I know all of you are saying, ‘What is the congresswoman going to do?’ Well, the congresswoman is going to not seek another term,” she said to a collective “aw” from the crowd gathered. Wilson’s announcement makes her the latest…

A drone crashed into an apartment block in eastern Romania near the Ukrainian border on Friday The uproar surrounding the drone incident in Romania is being used by the West to divert attention from Kiev’s “horrific killing” of students in Russia’s Starobelsk, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has told RT. The Ukrainian drone attack, carried out in three waves, on Starobelsk Professional College in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic on May 22 killed 21 students, most of them young women studying to become teachers. Another 65 people were injured in what local officials described as a double-tap strike that also targeted first…

WIENER NEUSTADT, Austria (AP) — A verdict is expected Thursday in the case of a man who admitted to plotting to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago. The plot was thwarted, but Austrian authorities still canceled Swift’s three performances in August 2024. The defendant, a 21-year-old Austrian citizen known only as Beran A. in line with Austrian privacy rules, faces charges including terrorist offenses and membership in a terrorist organization. His defense attorney said he pleaded guilty to the charges related to the concert plot during the opening day of the trial last month. He could face up to…

Vice President J.D. Vance’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud has taken a number of actions to tackle fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the months since its establishment. From Operation Cold SNAP, in which multiple government agencies coordinated to execute warrants on SNAP retailers in Minnesota, to the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) probe into millions of allegedly fraudulent payments to dead people in Puerto Rico, and indictments secured by the Department of Justice, the federal government has taken a variety of actions to root out fraud in the food assistance program. “Every day, the Trump…

Hayden Haynes, Speaker Mike Johnson’s longtime chief of staff, will leave the job in June, Johnson’s office confirmed Friday. Haynes will be replaced by Garrett Fultz, Johnson’s deputy chief of staff. Haynes has been by Johnson’s side for all of his key achievements since ascending to the speakership in 2023, including the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a sweeping domestic megabill considered the signature legislative accomplishment of President Donald Trump’s second term. The bill made it through the House by just a single vote last summer. But his time in Johnson’s office has not been without controversy. In March 2025,…

The Middle East crisis proves the old security order is broken. Now Eurasian states have a chance to build one of their own. Last year, in an extensive piece on the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the XXI Century, published by Russia in Global Affairs, I argued that external interference in the affairs of Eurasian countries has consistently prevented their successful and independent development. I traced this pattern from the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and to the post-Cold War US strategies of “enlargement” and…

FIFA is under investigation after allegations of “artificially inflating prices” and “misleading fans” over the sale of tickets for the upcoming 2026 World Cup. Attorneys-general of New York and New Jersey –  which is hosting eight World Cup matches including the final – are leading the inquiry into FIFA’s practices as announced Tuesday. New Jersey attorney general Jennifer Davenport called the process a “gauntlet of confusion, fake scarcity and impossibly high prices,” the BBC reports, specifically citing matches at MetLife Stadium, which will host the final. She added there would be a “thorough investigation of FIFA’s conduct” with world football’s governing body…

Dumb people are crowing over the fact that Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed drew only 878,000 viewers, which is less than the 2.15 million his oh-so sacred predecessor, Stephen Colbert, drew on average. Welcome to today’s episode of Retards Who Don’t Understand Business. Before we get to the specifics, allow me to use an example to try to explain basic economics. Okay, let’s say you and your neighbor open competing restaurants… You spend $1.50 to make a hamburger, and you sell 50 of those burgers for $2.50 a piece. Are you dumb people still with me? This is about to get…