PoliticsYahoo NewsGOP senate candidates allege Facebook's Zuckerberg spent millions to 'buy the presidency' for Biden — but there's not much backing up the claim
Two high-profile Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate, both of them close to tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel, are supporting an effort to merge former President Donald Trump's lies about a stolen 2020 election with accusations of meddling against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In Arizona, Senate candidate Blake Masters says that voters should “elect people who will tell you the truth.” “I think Trump won in 2020,” Masters said in a recent video.
U.S.The Daily BeastGhislaine Maxwell and the Ecstasy of the Feet
When the feds raided Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion in 2019, they unearthed a trove of evidence including binders of CDs containing tens of thousands of photographs. The exhibits contain several snapshots showing Maxwell giving Epstein a foot rub, seemingly on his private jet. The cheery pictures are at odds with the disturbing accusations against them: that for years, Epstein molested and raped scores of teenage girls after paying them for “massages,” and Maxwell allegedly played the role of scheduler and recruiter.
PoliticsAxiosThe uncomfortable truth 9News' Kyle Clark wants Colorado media to confront
9News anchor Kyle Clark is admitting an uncomfortable truth — and challenging local news outlets to find a solution. The intrigue: In a commentary for his prime time "Next" show, Clark acknowledged that his NBC-affiliated TV station covers U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Rifle) differently than any other elected official in Colorado. "We hold Congresswoman Boebert to a far lower standard," Clark said.
BusinessReutersApple's Tim Cook signed $275 billion deal to placate China - The Information
Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The five-year agreement was made when Cook made visits to China in 2016 to quash a host of regulatory action against the company, the report said, citing interviews and internal Apple documents. Cook lobbied Chinese officials, who believed the company was not contributing enough to the local economy, and signed the agreement with a Chinese government agency, making concessions to Beijing and winning key legal exemptions, the report added.
PoliticsHuffPostMatt Gaetz Chills Critics With ‘Terrifying’ Prediction About GOP In 2022
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Tuesday envisioned an extremist Republican takeover of House oversight in a speech that critics slammed as “terrifying.” “We are going to take power after this next election and when we do, it's not going to be the days of Paul Ryan and Trey Gowdy and no real oversight and no real subpoenas,” Gaetz told a news conference highlighting District of Columbia jail conditions for accused U.S. Capitol rioters. “It's going to be the days of Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Dr. [Paul] Gosar and myself doing everything” to get answers to claims about FBI involvement in the deadly violence on Jan. 6, he added.
U.S.Military.com14 Rarely Seen Photos that Reveal the Horror of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, they catapulted the United States into World War II in one swift stroke, removing from the international playing field the bulk of the American fleet, which had been strategically moved to Pearl Harbor only 18 months prior by President Franklin Roosevelt. The damage to Pearl Harbor and the surrounding area was astounding. The Japanese hit Pearl Harbor, located on Oahu, Hawaii, just after 8 a.m. The entire attack lasted a mere 75 minutes.
U.S.In The Know by YahooWoman reaches breaking point over her roommate’s ‘ridiculous’ new household rule: ‘She’s being absolutely unreasonable’
The roommate has to wake up at 5 a.m. for three months due to her schedule. Because of this, she banned her housemates from using the kitchen after 6:30 p.m.
U.S.TheGrioBlack family to sue American Airlines after being kicked off plane in Charlotte, N.C.
Allan Ali and his newborn-holding partner, Kamia Hoilett, had a negative interaction with a flight attendant Sunday on Philly-bound plane. A Black family traveling with a newborn baby was kicked off an American Airlines flight on Sunday as they headed home to Philadelphia from Charlotte, North Carolina. As seen in a now-viral video, Allan Ali and his partner, Kamia Hoilett, were asked to leave a Sunday afternoon flight before departure after a brief, negative interaction with a white male passenger and a white female flight attendant.
BusinessBusiness InsiderA fired Better.com employee's work email and messaging were cut off so fast after the Zoom mass firing he had to quiz ex-colleagues via Facebook
A former Better.com employee said the company pulled access to his work email shortly after firing him. "It was a surreal moment," said Christian Chapman, a former underwriter. One of the Better.com employees fired in an infamous Zoom call said he had to message his ex-colleagues on his personal social media to ask about the mass firing because the company had already pulled access to his work email and messaging.
TechnologyIn The Know by YahooWoman uncovers alleged stalking tactic increasing in popularity: ‘Seems it’s happening to a lot of people’
Then, @angel.edge95 stated that locating the tracking device may not be possible because there was a chance that law enforcement or Apple Support wouldn't be able to assist without the device's serial number. After, she received a second “unknown accessory” message. In the comments of her video, @angel.edge95 said she's working with law enforcement to resolve the problem and noted that they didn't want her to share an update just yet.
TechnologyRobb ReportThis New Off-Road Camper Van Has an Interior Sleeker Than Most NYC Condos
When it comes to picking out a camper, you usually have to decide whether to prioritize capability or comfort—that is, unless you're eyeing Stone Offroad Design's latest model. The German shop—which goes by SOD for short—has just unveiled a heavily modified camper called the Rise 4×4. The company's new creation is rugged enough to tackle nearly any terrain you can find, but also so well-appointed that you'll forget you're roughing it, no matter how far you've traveled from civilization.
U.S.Bradenton Herald5-foot invasive snake found living in man’s newly purchased sofa, Florida cops say
A man's newly purchased couch was carted out to the yard over the weekend — after he realized a large snake was coiled inside the padding. The disturbing discovery was made Saturday, Dec. 4, at Clearwater's Marilyn Pines Condominiums and the homeowner resorted to calling the police. It was “a call you don't see every day,” the Clearwater Police Department wrote on Facebook.
BusinessReutersKellogg to permanently replace striking employees as workers reject new contract
(Reuters) - Kellogg Co said on Tuesday a majority of its U.S. cereal plant workers have voted against a new five-year contract, forcing it to hire permanent replacements as employees extend a strike that started more than two months ago. Temporary replacements have already been working at the company's cereal plants in Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Tennessee where 1,400 union members went on strike on Oct. 5 as their contracts expired and talks over payment and benefits stalled. Kellogg also said there was no further bargaining scheduled and it had no plans to meet with the union.
U.S.FTW OutdoorsCan you spot both bobcats photographed in Wisconsin forest?
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on Saturday shared an image that shows two bobcats camouflaged in a wintry landscape, and asked its Facebook followers: “There are two bobcats in this snapshot from Lincoln County! Can you find both? It's probably not so much a matter of if viewers will spot both bobcats, but how long it will take them.
U.S.PeopleBrooke Shields Says Barbara Walters Interview with Her as a Teen Was 'Practically Criminal'
Brooke Shields is reflecting on the response to her 1980 Calvin Klein jeans campaign. During an appearance on Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast, Shields spoke about how she was over-sexualized by the media and the public in response to the now-infamous campaign. After the backlash, Shields did a number of interviews, including one with Barbara Walters, she was asked a series of intimate and invasive questions about her sexual history.
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Mandatory food recycling to begin in California
Starting in January, banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't be allowed in most California trash bins under a mandatory food recycling program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from landfills. Dec.
PoliticsFox NewsPsaki breaks with AOC, Lightfoot on smash-and-grab robberies: 'We don't agree'
Psaki was asked during her daily press briefing by Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich to weigh in on comments by Ocasio-Cortez, who cast doubt on the existence of mass smash-and-grab robberies, and Lightfoot, who appeared to place part of the blame on retailers for not better protecting their merchandise. "We don't agree," Psaki responded bluntly, adding that the Biden administration has been working with the Justice Department and FBI in providing resources to boost local police departments. "We have seen some of these extremely disturbing videos showing retail theft," Psaki continued.
U.S.OxygenMississippi Man Executed In Wife’s Murder Admitted To Sister-In-Law’s Slaying Before Death
A convicted Mississippi child rapist, who was put to death for the 2010 murder of his wife, confessed to killing his sister-in-law in a separate slaying prior to his execution, officials said this week. David Neal Cox, who was sentenced to death in the murder of his estranged spouse, Kim Kirk Cox, also admitted to carrying out the killing of his brother's wife, Felecia Cox, weeks before he was executed at a state penitentiary on Nov. 17, according to prosecutors. Officials are now putting together a search to locate the remains Mississippi mother based on information provided by the former death row inmate.
U.S.Associated PressScott Peterson faces new life sentence in wife's 2002 death
Nearly 17 years after being sentenced to die, Scott Peterson will be resentenced Wednesday to life in prison in the 2002 slayings of his pregnant wife and unborn son that gripped the world then and since. Wednesday's hearing is expected to be brief but could be emotional, with statements from some family members of 27-year-old Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant when she was killed carrying the boy the couple planned to name Connor. “You are going to burn in hell for this,” Laci's father, Dennis Rocha, who died in 2018, yelled at Peterson during his first sentencing.
U.S.Pensacola News JournalBlue Angels release 2023 air show schedule. Here's where the team will perform:
The U.S. flight demonstration squadron will perform its first show of the season March 11 in El Centro, California, where the team trains during the winter. As is tradition, the final show of the season will take place in Pensacola. That show, named the Homecoming Air Show, is scheduled to take place Nov. 3 and 4 at Naval Air Station Pensacola.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderMark Meadows says Trump was never more 'despondent' than when the Supreme Court rejected Texas' lawsuit to overturn the 2020 election
Mark Meadows said Donald Trump was "despondent" when the Supreme Court tossed Texas' election suit. The lawsuit was a brazen and dubious bid by Texas to throw the 2020 election to Trump. "Can you believe this?" Meadows' memoir recalls Trump saying after the court struck down the suit.
BusinessYahoo FinancePeople are laughing at Trump’s new company
An “investor presentation” the company recently filed with the Securities and Exchange commission is provoking guffaws among business analysts, with laughable evasions and barely any business strategy. It does feel like every public action by this company is designed give the impression that it is a joke,” Bloomberg analyst Matt Levine wrote on Dec. 7. The oddest part of the TMTG presentation is the “technology team” listed on Slide 21.
U.S.The Daily Beast‘You Don’t Belong Here’: Son Charged With Assault After Mom Calls Cops on Black Worker
A man accused of racially profiling a Black worker in a Tennessee parking garage with his white mom has been charged with assault after a video of the altercation went viral on social media, the Nashville Metro police said. According to an arrest warrant filed Dec. 2, Edward Brennan took a swing at Johnny Martinez, who was checking cars for parking permits in the Nashville garage, after his mom called the police because Martinez refused to show them identification. Martinez told The Daily Beast that he was working in the River House apartment building's parking garage on the evening of Nov. 27, when he saw the white mother and son monitoring him.
HealthBuzzFeedThis Man Peed Out A Kidney Stone, His Girlfriend Shared It Online, And It Has Unlocked A New Fear For Millions Of People
Meet Lauren and Solomon. And, although the kidney stone looks enormous in the video, it actually measured five millimeters (which FYI is still big for a kidney stone!). "Five millimeters may not seem big, but when it's a jagged rock making its way through your ureters and then out the urethra, it sure does feel big," Solomon said.
U.S.In The Know by YahooAmazon customer captures Ring footage of delivery driver’s ‘hysterical’ encounter with her husband: ‘He was so nervous’
An Amazon delivery driver is drawing all sorts of praise after a customer captured his “hysterical” encounter with her husband. The exchange, captured on a Ring doorbell camera, comes courtesy of a TikTok user named @Stephanielerin. With holiday shopping season in full swing, TikTok has been flush with popular clips involving delivery drivers and their customers.
“I know it doesn’t feel like it, but inflation is both a feature and a bug of a normalizing economy.”
“What is not going to work, and hasn’t worked, is trying to talk people out of the lived reality of higher prices.”
“When inflation expectations rise, actual inflation tends to follow.”
“The Fed must acknowledge that its monetary policy has been a source of inflation, and that it will need to raise interest rates.”
“The supply chain logjams are the core of the problem right now, and that should work itself out over time.”