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On Day 7 of the pro-Palestinian protests on the Columbia University campus, Osama Abuirshaid stopped by the student encampment.
The executive director of American Muslims for Palestine walked through the tent city, then made a fiery speech to the gathered crowd.
“This is not only a genocide that is being committed in Gaza,” Abuirshaid said. “This is also a war on us here in America.”
Forty-eight hours later, Abuirshaid appeared at another campus — George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he delivered another speech.
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JPMorgan Chase‘s chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon says a “hard landing” for the U.S. cannot be ruled out.
When asked by CNBC’s Sri Jegarajah about the prospect of a hard landing, Dimon replied: “Could we actually see one? Of course, how could anyone who reads history say there’s no chance?”
The CEO was speaking at the JPMorgan Global China Summit in Shanghai.
Dimon said the worst outcome for the U.S. economy will be a “stagflation” scenario, where inflation continues to rise, but growth slows amid high unemployment.
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A MILITARY package worth £150million to boost air and sea defences is being sent to Ukraine.
It will help to protect the country’s battered infrastructure, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps says.
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Excerpt from www.foxnews.comThe Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which released the footage, said the five women were all captured at the Nahal Oz base near the Israel-Gaza border during Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
“On that horrific Saturday, 15 female observers were murdered, and seven were abducted alive from the Nahal Oz base,” it said. “Ori Megidish was rescued by IDF forces after 23 days in captivity; Noa Marciano was murdered by Hamas terrorists while in captivity, and her body was returned by the IDF for burial in Israel. Five female observers – Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Daniela Gilboa, and Naama Levy – have been held captive by Hamas for 229 days.”
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A member of forensic services inspects the area where a stage collapsed the day before a campaign rally for Mexican presidential candidate Jorge Alvarez Maynez in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, on 22 May 2024. (Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP)
- Presidential hopeful Jorge Alvarez Maynez said the structure was brought down by gusting winds “that lasted five minutes.”
- At least 78 people were injured in the accident on Wednesday night.
- Mexicans will vote for a new president as well as members of Congress, several state governors and local officials on 2 June.
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NEW DELHI: At least 5 people died and 35 were injured after multiple tornadoes swept through Iowa causing a large-scale destruction in Greenfield, the officials said on Wednesday.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety reported Tuesday’s tornadoes killed four people in the Greenfield area, while the Adams County Sheriff’s Office claimed a fifth victim, a woman whose car was thrown off the road, was killed by a twister about 25 miles (40 kilometers away).
It further anticipated the number of victims to be much higher.
The Greenfield tornado ripped through the community of 2,000, roughly 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) southwest of Des Moines, destroying homes, splintering trees, and crumpling cars. The tornado also ripped apart and collapsed enormous power-generating wind turbines many kilometers outside of the city.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) demanded the DOJ investigate Dr. David Morens for allegedly destroying emails about the origins of COVID-19.
Morens served as a top aide to Dr. Anthony Fauci at the NIH.
“I write to urge the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to open an investigation into the alleged improper concealment and intentional destruction of records by Dr. David Morens, Senior Advisor to the Director at the National Institutes of Health (NIH),” Paul wrote to AG Merrick Garland. “Additionally, I request you investigate allegations that employees within NIH’s FOIA office may have conspired with Dr. Morens to evade public records retention laws.”
It’s a felony to destroy records. It’s a felony to destroy evidence. Without question, Morens has admitted in his emails that he was destroying evidence. David Morens is Anthony Fauci’s Michael Cohen, he’s the fixer. pic.twitter.com/vq9P1XoxPy
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 22, 2024
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Excerpt from www.latimes.comA second human case of bird flu in a diary worker has been confirmed in Michigan, state and federal health officials announced Wednesday.
The symptoms were mild, consisting of conjunctivitis. The Texas dairy worker who contracted the virus in March also came down with pink eye.
At a press call on Wednesday, Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the finding was “not unexpected” and that it was a scenario “that we had been preparing for.”
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- Hunter Biden’s trial on federal tax charges is delayed to Sept. 5.
- The trial had been scheduled for June, when Hunter Biden also faces trial on federal firearms charges.
- Biden, who has a residence in Malibu, has claimed both cases are politically motivated.
A judge delayed the start of Hunter Biden’s federal tax trial to September after a hearing Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom where his attorneys argued they would have little time to prepare for two federal trials in the same month.
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Cyberattacks targeting water utilities across the country have increased in frequency and severity, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warned Monday as it urged community water systems to take immediate steps to reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities and protect the nation’s public drinking water supplies.
The EPA has issued an enforcement alert detailing “urgent cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities” to community drinking water systems, the agency said in a news release Monday. A majority of water systems — over 70% — inspected by the EPA since last September violated standards in the Safe Drinking Water Act, according to the alert.
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Former UK Post Office CEO Paula Vennells arrives to give evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry in London on 22 May 2024. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
- Paula Vennells is sorry for those who went bankrupt and the families of others who committed suicide under her watch.
- She ran the UK Post Office during part of the period when it falsely prosecuted more than 700 people for theft.
- Vennells, an ordained priest, said she had been too trusting.
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As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis defeated her primary challenger, Christian Wise Smith, after garnering 90 percent of the vote.
Following her victory, Willis hosted a victory party on Tuesday, and to the shock of many guests at the party, former special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who was forced to resign from the Trump RICO case due to his romantic relationship with Willis, was in attendance.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Tamar Hallerman was the first to report on Wade’s attendance and took to X and wrote, “Well consider me shook.”
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Elon Musk’s takeover of social media platform Twitter was among the most dramatic in recent years. Upon taking control of the platform, Musk proceeded to cut the company’s workforce. He also got rid of the company’s behind-the-scenes moderators, with the Tesla CEO stating that Twitter would be focusing on using Community Notes to fight misinformation instead.
Unlike Twitter’s legacy anti-misinformation efforts, which relied on fact checkers whose identities and credentials were unknown, Community Notes, like its name suggests, is a crowdsourced system that allowed users of the social media platform to flag misleading posts and add corrective commentary. These commentaries are typically accompanied by links to scientific papers or legitimate media sources.
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Dozens of wildfires are burning across Canada in May 2024 and sending unhealthy smoke blowing into the northern U.S. again. At the same time, the southeastern U.S. is getting smoke from Mexico, where drought conditions have been fueling fires.
Last year, Canada’s record 2023 wildfire season introduced millions of Americans across the Midwest and northeastern states to the health hazards of wildfire smoke, with air quality alerts that reached levels never seen there before.
Professional baseball games were postponed and the skies in New York City turned orange with haze, at times exposing millions of people to the worst air quality in the world. In some regions, the smoke hung on for days.
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One of the most important cities in Spain is already facing scorching temperatures, weeks before the official beginning of summer.
People in Seville, the largest city in the southern region of Andalusia, baked under a 30C heat on Wednesday – and have been told to prepare for even more blistering conditions in days to come.
The Spanish weather forecasters believe temperatures in the southern region will continue to rise over the next few days, with Meteored saying: “Saturday will be sunny and warm.
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The Singapore Airlines flight plummeted some 6,000ft injuring many passengers including Linda Kitchen, whose husband Geoff is believed to have suffered a fatal heart attack
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California man allegedly threatened shooting at Sandy Hook for ISIS, feds say Torrington Register Citizen
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The owner of a well-fortified San Gabriel Valley jewelry store is reeling after thieves managed to break in and get away with some $800,000 worth of diamonds, gold and cash.The May 15 incident occurred late at night when a crew of four to five burglars broke into Desiré Jewelry in Glendora, disabled the shop’s alarm system and surveillance cameras, hauled in heavy equipment and spent six hours cutting into the store’s safes.
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A COVID vaccination centre in Ceredigion has been forced to temporarily shut its doors after two snakes were found on site.
The snakes have been named Cwm and Cou after the Welsh village where the centre is located.
Cou is the larger of the snakes and is believed to be an adder, while Cwm is believed to be a grass snake.
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North Carolina legislators are considering legislation that critics say would ban wearing respirators or other masks in public for health reasons — but allow groups such as the Ku Klux Klan to wear face coverings.
“Thought the North Carolina mask ban couldn’t get any worse? Buckle up!” read a May 14 post on X, formerly Twitter, adding: The bill “has specific carve outs for entities like the KKK to continue wearing hoods in public.”
More than 172,000 people saw the post and nearly 400 accounts shared it, according to X’s metrics.
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COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, OH (WXIX) – Four people are locked up in Ohio prisons right now in what is considered one of the Tri-State’s most high-profile murder-for-hire cases.
Roshawn Bishop, Vandell Slade, James Echols and Michael Sanon are all serving time after one person died and eight others were hurt, including several children, in the July 2017 shooting in Colerain Township.
Newly released police interviews show how detectives unraveled a web of lies that pointed toward a target, the host of the gender reveal party, and one main motive – missing money.
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Excerpt from www.foxnews.comMissouri prosecutors said Wednesday that they intend to seek the death penalty against a Kansas City-area man who is charged with murder in the killings of a court employee who tried to serve an eviction notice on him and a police officer who responded.
Larry Acree, 70, of Independence, is accused of shooting court employee Drexel Mack on Feb. 29, plus two police officers who came to the scene, including Cody Allen, who was killed. Officers returned fire and arrested Acree, who suffered minor injuries.
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A coroner has warned about the lack of support for vulnerable women who receive disturbing information about abusive partners from the authorities after a mother-of-four killed herself.
Katie Madden, 32 – who survived child sex abuse and a string of ‘toxic’ partners – was hoping to have her children returned to her from her mother’s care when she asked police for information about her partner under Clare’s Law.
The response she received led to an argument with the man and social services deemed her too ‘inconsistent’ to have her children back.
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‘Seinfeld’ star Michael Richards, 74, revealed a shocking health crisis in his new memoir “Entrances and Exits,” set to hit shelves on June 4.
During a routine checkup in the summer of 2018, Richards was blindsided with a stage 1 prostate cancer diagnosis after tests revealed elevated PSA levels. “I thought. well, this is my time. I’m ready to go,” Richards told PEOPLE. “But then my son came to mind just a few seconds later and I heard myself saying, ‘I’ve got a 9-year-old and I’d like to be around for him. Is there any way I can get a little more life going?’”
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The mother of the Ghanaian toddler officially recognised as the world’s youngest male painter has told the BBC of her pride in her son’s artistic ability, and hopes he can take the art world by storm.
Ace-Liam Nana Sam Ankrah achieved the incredible feat aged one year and 152 days.
“He already knows what colours complement each other,” said his mother Chantelle Kuukua Eghan, who has been an artist herself for eight years.
Ms Eghan said she first realised his talent when he was only six months old.