Shocking News
- Guy who acts like he has brain worms had a brain wormwww.nytimes.com R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain
The presidential candidate has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ate part of his brain.
This one is almost a not the onion post.
- Man Arrested After Mother Found ‘Fused’ to Bed Covered with ‘Soiled’ Blanketpeople.com Man Arrested After Mother Found ‘Fused’ to Bed Covered With ‘Soiled’ Blanket
Authorities in Pennsylvania arrested a man after they found his elderly mother allegedly “fused” to her bed and covered in a “soiled” blanket in a home reeking of foul odor and flies buzzing around, said police.
- "Tax reform" bill passed for the rich by the rich results in the rich getting richertruthout.org US Billionaires Have Doubled Their Wealth Since 2017 Trump Tax Overhaul
Billionaires now control 1 out of every 25 dollars of American wealth.
I almost fell off my chair when I read this headline.
- 7news.com.au Small Aussie business devastated after Temu and Shein ‘copies’ her designs
‘Do you know what they are made of when you are buying from these places?’
- www.bbc.co.uk PC Sharon Beshenivsky: Murder suspect spent two decades in Pakistan
Piran Ditta Khan, 75, denies murdering the police officer in Bradford in 2005.
- www.nbcnews.com A Colorado town’s newspapers were stolen after a story about rape charges at the police chief’s house
The rack price for the weekly newspaper is $1, so someone spent $12 opening racks and removing all the newspapers, the publisher said.
- Advertisers an owner of a company told to "go f--- themselves" say they are not planning on going back to doing business with the companywww.nytimes.com Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk’s Comments
Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news@lemmy.world/t/669370
> Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.
- Disgraced priest Alex Crow, 30, marries 'groomed' 18-year-oldnypost.com Disgraced priest Alex Crow, 30, marries 18-year-old he ‘groomed’ before pair ran off to Italy
Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch said over the summer he believed “there was some grooming that’s gone on” between Crow, who was ordained in 2021, and the teenager.
- Party that tried to overthrow the US government might be what's wrong with US politicswww.politico.com ‘What Is Broken in American Politics Is the Republican Party’
Fourteen experts on the roots of Kevin McCarthy’s ouster and why Republicans keep destroying their own leaders.
- Guy (Kevin McCarthy) who made it extremely easy to fire him from his job is fired from his jobapnews.com Speaker McCarthy ousted in historic House vote, as scramble begins for a Republican leader
Kevin McCarthy was ousted as the Speaker of the House. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida forced the vote on the “motion to vacate.”
- Links to JPEGs turn out to not be priceless collector's items after allwww.rollingstone.com Your NFTs Are Actually -- Finally -- Totally Worthless
NFTs, once hyped as a revolution in cryptocurrency and digital art, have crashed since their boom market, becoming worthless.
- Guy famous for not paying people isn't paying for his supporters' legal defensewww.cnn.com 'Trump isn't funding any of us': Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills | CNN Politics
Some of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills – yet the costs of the 2020 election fallout may quickly exceed their abilities to pay.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4251114
> Some of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills – yet the costs of the 2020 election fallout may quickly exceed their abilities to pay. > > At least four have turned to crowdfunding online, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for defense lawyers. One now has a political action committee to help with legal fees. Another has an ally in Congress vowing to support his legal defense. While another ended up spending nearly a week in jail because he initially couldn’t afford to hire an attorney. > > Trump has covered the legal bills of aides, advisers and employees during the House select committee’s probe into January 6, 2021, and federal investigations, including his two co-defendants in the classified documents case, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, both of whom work for the former president. > > But there is no sign yet that Trump intends to do so for any of his co-defendants in the Georgia case, which alleges that he and others engaged in a criminal conspiracy to subvert the state’s 2020 election results. In fact, Trump has publicly distanced himself from them, telling Newsmax he doesn’t know “a lot of these people.”
- www.nbcnews.com Pride flag killing suspect appears to have a long history of anti-LGBTQ social posts
An X account that appears to have belonged to the deceased suspect has violent anti-LGBTQ messages dating to 2018.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3660014
> The 27-year-old man who police say shot and killed a California business owner over a Pride flag draped in her store appears to have had a yearslong history of posting disturbing — and often violent — anti-LGBTQ messages on social media. > > The suspect, Travis Ikeguchi, gunned down Laura Ann Carleton, 66, on Friday, after confronting her and “yelling many homophobic slurs” over her clothing store’s Pride flag, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said at a news conference Monday. Shortly after fleeing the store, Mag.Pi, Ikeguchi was killed in a shootout with law enforcement.
- A guy who recently led a brief rebellion against the Russian dictator was killed in mysterious plane crash in Russiawww.bbc.co.uk Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin presumed dead after Russia plane crash
The Russian private military company boss was on the passenger list of the jet which came down near Moscow.
- futurism.com Forcing Workers Back to the Office Might Not Have Been a Good Idea After All
A new survey shows that the vast majority of senior executives say would've approached their return-to-work push "differently."
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/workreform@lemmy.world/t/367568
> A new survey shows that the vast majority of senior executives say would've approached their return-to-work push "differently."
- CEO of company with large investments in AI continues to hype up AIfinance.yahoo.com Microsoft CEO Says AI Is a Tidal Wave as Big as the Internet
(Bloomberg) -- In 1995, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates sent a memo calling the internet a “tidal wave” that would be crucial to every part of the company’s business. Nearly two decades later, Microsoft’s current leader, Satya Nadella, said he believes the impact of artificial intelligence wil...
In a real shocker for the ages, a guy who has a personal and professional stake in a technology thinks that technology might just be the most important thing there is.