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Publicis Groupe, the French advertising conglomerate that led the 2018 seed round for news blacklist organization NewsGuard, has signed a $2.2 billion deal to acquire LiveRamp, an ad-tech company whose former head of products argued in Forbes that ad-blocking technology was part of the tech industry’s fight against racism. The deal would bring together two companies with a history of support for online censorship. In December 2020, Anneka Gupta, LiveRamp’s then-head of products and platforms published a column in Forbes under the headline “Tech’s Greatest Asset In The Fight Against Racism Is Inclusive Product Development.” It opens by complaining that the…

Friday on CNN’s “The Arena,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) predicted President Donald Trump’s attorney general pick Todd Blanche would not be confirmed. Host Kasie Hunt asked, “When you look at the landscape, are there more Republicans than meet the eye who are opposed to the Blanche nomination over these issues that Cornyn and Tillis have raised?” Hunt asked. “And is that number potentially five senators or more like 15?” Fetterman said, “I’m a hard no on Blanche, and I mean, I haven’t encountered a single Republican that’s like, ‘’Oh, I love that $1.8 billion slush fund,’ or whatever you want to refer to…

Hungary and Romania have cut nuclear power output as record-low river levels disrupted shipping and supply chains The disastrous heatwave and drought across Europe have pushed the Rhine and Danube rivers to historic water lows, forcing two EU countries into atomic energy power-downs while disrupting industrial output and major trade routes.The Rhine and Danube serve as vital commercial corridors, historic borders and a continuous navigable link between the North Sea and the Black Sea. Many European power plants rely on the rivers for cooling water, and that is why record-low levels have sharply reduced electricity output.Hungary faces ‘unprecedented’ energy crunchThe…

A police officer in the small New Jersey borough of Dunellen took undercover work to a whole new level this week by dressing up as a shrub to catch distracted drivers illegally glued to their cellphones. The unconventional tactic paid off for the Dunellen Police Department, which handed out 74 citations in just six hours on a busy downtown road. The operation, conducted on Wednesday, targeted motorists violating New Jersey’s strict cellphone law in a pedestrian-heavy area known for traffic and a relatively high number of accidents for a one-square-mile town. The department boasted about the high citations in a…

For centuries, mainstream archaeologists have dismissed the idea that an advanced civilization existed long before modern times. Now, an independent researcher claims he has uncovered ‘paradigm-shifting evidence of a lost civilization’ that hid a sophisticated code through geometry, symbolism, and monument design across the globe to preserve its knowledge ahead of catastrophic events. Matthew LaCroix told Daily Mail the discovery, sparked by a recent find in Egypt, links symbols across continents and dates back 38,000 to 40,000 years. According to LaCroix, this civilization tracked cosmic cycles, anticipated global disasters, and embedded teachings about human origins, the structure of the universe,…

The son of a convicted Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) cartel boss who is serving a life term in a U.S. federal prison went to a posh private school in Florida, while his relatives continued to run a terrorist organization in Mexico. This week, 45-year-old Wendy Dalaithy Amaral Arevalo, the ex-wife of a top drug lord, pleaded guilty to violating counternarcotics sanctions by enrolling her son in a posh private boarding school in Florida where contracts point to more than $500,000 in tuition. She faces a possible prison sentence of up to 10 years and a $10 million fine at…

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) co-chair Megan Romer doubled down this week in her viral Fox News interview, describing the U.S. Senate as an institution with “no real purpose.” Romer spoke on the Bad Faith podcast, hosted by Briahna Joy Gray. Gray once served as national press secretary for Bernie Sanders. The appearance followed Romer’s Fox News Sunday interview from days earlier that drew backlash from both parties. On the podcast, Romer defended the DSA platform and hit back at critics who called her earlier remarks radical. Gray asked why anyone would defend the Senate, saying people talk about the…

Washington holds preferential access to the country’s rare earth wealth under a 2025 pact The US can take “pretty much whatever we want” from Ukraine’s rare earth deposits under a minerals agreement signed last year, President Donald Trump has said, adding that profits from the agreement could ultimately exceed total American aid to Kiev since 2022.Trump made the remarks in an interview with Real America’s Voice aired on Friday as he chastised his predecessor Joe Biden for “giving away” a purported $300 billion in military support to Ukraine without securing repayment.“He could have Europe… paid for it. All you had…

A contentious Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on COVID-19 origins and the government’s pandemic response erupted Wednesday when Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio unleashed a profane tirade at Dr. Anthony Fauci. Moreno, a first-term Republican, told the 85-year-old former White House chief medical adviser, “Here I am, sitting in front of you six years later, saying who the f*ck do you think you were for doing that,” referring to lockdowns, masking rules and school closures he blames on Fauci’s guidance. The exchange came during a GOP-led session chaired by Sen. Rand Paul, who has pursued Fauci for…

The leadership of the Spanish right-wing party Vox called for the prosecution of the country’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday after tens of thousands of foreigners invaded the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, which borders Morocco, and have proceeded to terrorize the small local populace. Vox party leader Santiago Abascal placed the blame for the disastrous situation – which has resulted in dozens of deaths at press time – on Sánchez and his Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), whose leadership has embraced mass migration. Sánchez is already widely reviled in his country, particularly after multiple corruption scandals and the…