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Elon Musk reacted to the uproar out of the United Kingdom involving Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old stabbing victim who died after being handcuffed by police over a racism allegation. Musk vowed to fund a lawsuit against the police, who he described as “disgusting excuses for law enforcement.” “Unconscionable,” Musk wrote in a Wednesday X post, adding, “I am happy to fund a wrongful death lawsuit against these disgusting excuses for law enforcement. They damn well better have been fired.” The SpaceX CEO was responding to an X post from Tommy Robinson, who reacted to a fellow UK-based X user who shared an…

Amazon founder and sole owner of the failing, far-left Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, said he is done subsidizing this failure. During a Wednesday appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box, anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin appeared eager to shame Bezos into subsidizing the Washington Post as-is rather than make the necessary changes to make it a profitable enterprise: Andrew Ross Sorkin: And there’s a lot of people out there who said, ‘Jeff’s super wealthy. He’s talked about this being a public trust. That’s something that he bought early on.’ How much do you care about that piece of it? Why, why lay people off? Why…

The religion that “formed the American consciousness” was “decidedly Christian, founded upon the principles and the divinity of Jesus Christ,” Vice President JD Vance said in a message for the “Rededicate 250” celebration of faith on the National Mall Sunday. During the event – described as a “National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving” to God – Vance offered a message to attendees, reminding them of the importance of the Christian foundation of America and the reality that Jesus is Lord. “In 1783 Washington also proclaimed that imitation of divine charity is necessary for the mutual affection of our citizenry and the…

Senators are signaling an appetite for pursuing legislation that would create federal standards for prediction markets that allow people to place cheap bets on sports — and just about anything else. “There’s interest from members on the panel to move forward and get something on the books,” said Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday in an interview after she presided over a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing on the topic. She added she planned to confer with the full Commerce Committee chair, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), about a path forward. The hearing, convened by the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, was billed…

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…