Netflix and the NFL announced a three-year deal Wednesday to stream games on Christmas Day.
The streaming giant will carry two games this year and at least one game in 2025 and ‘26. Netflix announced during a presentation to advertisers that it will have defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City at Pittsburgh followed by Baltimore at Houston.
“Last year, we decided to take a big bet on live — tapping into massive fandoms across comedy, reality TV, sports and more,” Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s chief content officer, said in a statement. “There are no live annual events, sports or otherwise, that compare with the audiences NFL football attracts. We’re so excited that the NFL’s Christmas Day games will be only on Netflix.”
Congress gave final approval Wednesday to a $105 billion bill designed to increase the number of air traffic controllers, add more safety inspectors at aircraft factories, and require airlines to automatically pay refunds to travelers whose flights are canceled or significantly delayed.
The House passed the measure to reauthorize Federal Aviation Administration programs by a 387-26 margin and sent it to President Joe Biden. The Senate passed the measure last week.
Supporters called the provisions of the legislation a key step in improving aviation safety after a number of close calls between planes at U.S. airports in the last two years.
Florida congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna is leading a congressional resolution in an attempt to bestow the medal onto Mr Trump, who is currently on trial facing 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to “hush money” payments he made to the adult star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election campaign. Mr Trump denies the charges.
Ms Luna wants the Republican presidential candidate to receive the honour “in recognition of his exceptional leadership and dedication to strengthening America’s diplomatic relations during his presidency,” according to legislative text.
French President Emmanuel Macron is considering imposing state of emergency in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia to curb spiraling violence, the presidency said Wednesday.
At least three people were killed and four others, including a gendarme, were seriously injured, according to officials in the territory and French media reports on Wednesday. More than 130 people have been arrested and more than 300 have been injured since Monday, when protests over a constitutional reform pushed by Paris turned violent in the archipelago, which has long sought independence.
Speaking at parliament, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who attended a two-hour meeting with top ministers at the Elysee, said the aim of the state of emergency would be “to restore order in the shortest time possible.”
Three climate activists have been convicted of “interference with key national infrastructureby marching in the road in west London for 20 minutes, in the new offence’s first test at trial.
Phoebe Plummer, Chiara Sarti and Daniel Hall were the first defendants to face a jury trial on the new section 7 of the Public Order Act 2023, which bans any act preventing harbours, airports, railways or roads “from being used or operated to any extent”.
Critics have called the law repressive, and claimed that it gives authorities a licence to crack down on virtually any protest at their discretion.
Exactly a year ago on May 14, Cyclone Mocha wreaked havoc as it landed in Sittwe
Township, Rakhine State. As armed conflicts ignited several months after the cyclone’s impact, the people of Rakhine State, continue to endure the legacy of the 137mph strength of the cyclone, and their hardships multiplied by military blockades and war.
On May 14, 2023, Sittwe was battered by Cyclone Mocha, unleashing winds reaching 137 mph. The gigantic cyclone claimed the lives of 146 people and destroyed 216,681 homes across Rakhine State.The United League of Arakan/ Arakha Army (ULA/AA) approximated that over 1 million residents bore the brunt of the cyclone’s impact, with estimated losses soaring as high as $1.5 billion.
South Africa’s main opposition party announced it would go all the way to the Constitutional Court to fight the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill, aimed at providing universal health coverage, on Tuesday.
Just two weeks out from the general election on May, 29 2024, the Bill would see free healthcare provided at the point for care for all South Africans, whether in public or private facilities. The Bill is described as a material step towards achieving universal access to quality health care services in accordance with section 27 of the constitution, which instructs that “[t]he state must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of each of these rights”.
Shots were fired, and the assailant was apprehended. The area is evacuated. Fico was transported to the hospital in Banska Bystrica.
Shots were fired, and the assailant was apprehended. The area is evacuated. Fico was transported to the hospital in Banska Bystrica.
Slovak politicians condemned the attack, with Deputy Speaker Lubos Blaha blaming progressives for spreading hatred, while opposition party Progressive Slovakia called for restraint.
Slovak President Zuzana Caputova said on Wednesday that the shooting attack on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was “also an attack on democracy.”
The Wall Street Journal is raising concern over declining global birth rates, which experts predict will dip below the replacement rate, 2.2, for the first time in human history.
“The world is at a startling demographic milestone,” the outlet reported in a May 13 feature piece. “Sometime soon, the global fertility rate will drop below the point needed to keep population constant. It may have already happened.”
The United Nations’ most recent statistics revealed that the global fertility rate was down to 2.3 in 2021, 0.2 points lower than experts estimated that it was in 2017. The UN has not yet released data for 2022 and 2023.
A black New Jersey man who enlisted last year has been accused of plotting to carry out mass murder
A US Marine Corps rifleman who completed basic training last year has been arrested on allegations that he threatened to kill as many white people as possible.
Joshua Cobb, a 23-year-old New Jersey native, was jailed on May 10 and discharged from the Marine Corps on the same day. Until then, he had been serving as a private first class in the 1st Marine Division in California. He was charged with transmitting a threat via the internet, which is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Federal prosecutors announced Cobb’s arrest on Monday, citing alleged threats dating back to December 2022, about six months before he joined the military. A Marine Corps spokeswoman told Military.com that the 1st Marine Division learned of the allegations against Cobb from civilian authorities in New Jersey.
Prosecutors cited a social media post in which Cobb threatened to “cause mayhem on the white community.” The post said, “The reason I specifically want to target white people is because as a black male, they will never understand my struggles . . . . I want to erase them – all of them really, but in this case, as many as I possibly can.”
The post indicated that Cobb planned to carry out his attack against white people in 2023 in New Jersey. “I have not chosen an exact date, but I am going to be sure it is close to an important holiday to their race,” he allegedly said. “I have a location in mind already, which I have frequented for the past year, and I am certain nobody there is armed to be able to stop me from spraying them to the ground.”
Later messages, posted in April and May of 2023, indicated that Cobb was training for an attack while stockpiling ammunition. “I hope I do progress into a serial killer because I f*cking hate life, man. But one day, everyone will suffer. I promise I will make everyone feel my f*ucking pain – my deep, sincere, raw and sharp pain.”
Cobb admitted in statements to law enforcement that he wrote the threatening posts, prosecutors said. They added that he also told investigators that he “idolized” mass shooters and that he had considered such locations as a fitness center and an Aldi grocery store for his attack.
More threatening messages were discovered in a search of Cobb’s cellphone, prosecutors said. The messages indicated that Cobb saw mass murder as the only possible escape from his pain. “I’m ready to get to the good part of my story, where I start taking you motherf*ckers out and killing you all,” one message said.
Ex-marines and other former US service members have committed some of America’s worst mass shootings. An October 2023 analysis by CBS News found that 26% of mass shooters over a 60-year period had military backgrounds. One of the most infamous cases involved a former marine who climbed the clock tower at the University of Texas in 1966 and went on a shooting spree that left 14 people dead and 33 injured.
Illegal immigration benefits many people, but none of those people happen to be American citizens. In fact, they are the ones who suffer the most. However, some areas suffer more than others. And one Texas border town may be suffering more than anyone reading this.
Since Sleepy Joe has taken office and opened the floodgates, Kinney County, Texas saw criminal prosecutions increase by at least 5,000 percent. However, the left claims this is just a coincidence and that there is no possible way that illegal aliens commit crimes.
During a hearing on the border crisis hosted by the House Budget Committee, Kinney County Attorney Brent Smith noted that in 2020, only 134 criminal charges were recorded in his jurisdiction.
“This drastically changed in 2021,” he explained, “after President Biden issued multiple executive orders revoking numerous border security policies that the DHS was operating under to successfully secure our border.”
New anti-Israel protests have erupted at The New School in New York City, with students and faculty members reportedly occupying a building on the institution’s campus.
The pro-Hamas protesters are reportedly attempting to get the school’s board of trustees to vote on divesting from companies supporting the Jewish State.
The occupation of the Welcome Center in Manhattan comes as two anti-Israel encampments have been ongoing at The New School.
One protest is led by students and the other by faculty.
Eleven people were killed Tuesday in mass shootings in a small town in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas, the state prosecutor’s office said, marking at least the fourth mass killing in the county in just a week.
The office said the shooting occurred in the township of Chicomuselo, an area known as a trafficking route for migrant and drug smuggling that has been hit by cartel turf battles in recent months.
Security forces launched patrols of the region near the border with Guatemala as part of efforts to find the perpetrators, officials said.
The township — and the outlying hamlet of Morelia, where the killings occurred — is in a sparsely populated area near Mexico’s border with Guatemala.
A group of self-described “anti-colonial anarchists and communists” took responsibility for a destructive break-in at the University of California’s administrative offices in Oakland, calling the move an act of “solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance.”
The anonymous authors of a statement released Monday night claimed credit for smashing 7 windows, spraying red paint all over the office, and releasing “500 cockroaches” inside the office of university president Michael V. Drake. The statement was attributed to “sacred black and red,” a reference to the colors of the anarchist flag.
“With the Aurora Borealis above us and the martyrs in our hearts, we attacked the UC Office of the President in solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance,” the statement said. “As anti-colonial anarchists and communists we offer this act of material and spiritual solidarity with the hopes of shattering the illusion that resistance is limited to a single site.” The statement was published on IndyBay, a site that routinely publishes communiqués from far-left anarchists.
Three people were injured after gunfire erupted on the set of rapper Lil Baby’s music video production Tuesday.
The video was being filmed in northwest Atlanta, Georgia, near a business area when someone opened fire wounding three men, according to Hip Hop DX.
One 27-year-old victim was struck in the back, a second, 24, in the arm, and the third, a 23-year-old man, was hit in the neck, but police officials say all three will survive their wounds.
The rapper, who was arrested on drug charges in Paris in 2021, was not one of those short during the incident.
A serial rapist who has been at large since posting bail in 2000 and neglecting to show up for a Moultrie County court hearing was apprehended in Branson, Missouri, on May 11, 2024, by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force (GLRFTF) and the Midwest Violent Fugitive Task Force (MWVFTF).
Herman Carroll, 72, was wanted on a 2001 failure to appear charge out of Moultrie County stemming from a 2000 Moultrie County warrant issued for Carroll, charging him with five counts: Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a Child, Criminal Sexual Assault, Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse, Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a Child, and Criminal Sexual Assault.
A report recently released by US News & World Report has revealed that Washington and Oregon are among the most dangerous states in the nation.
The report, which relied on the latest data from the Federal Bureau of Investigations for corrections outcomes and public safety, put Oregon, the Beaver State, in 46th place while its neighbor to the north came in 39th.
According to the data, Oregon had an incarceration rate of 295 per 100,000 residents, and a juvenile incarceration rate of 121 per 100,000 juveniles. The violent crime rate sat at 342 per 100,000 residents, slightly lower than the national average of 381 per 100,000 residents.
While the state was only slightly below the national average when it came to incarceration and violent crime, its rate of incarcerated juveniles was three times higher.
According to a notice from the Federal Aviation Administration, former President Donald Trump’s Boeing 757 “clipped” an unoccupied private jet Sunday while taxiing after landing at West Palm Beach International Airport.
“AIRCRAFT TAXIING AND WINGLET STRUCK THE REAR ELEVATOR OF A PARKED VISTAJET,” the notice reads, as cited by WFLA (emphasis original).
The outlet noted that the FAA included the plane’s registration number, N757AF, which FAA records show belonging to DJT Operations I LLC.
The report indicated that any damage that might have occurred in the incident was as yet unknown, but that no one had been injured.
The most dangerous claw in the world sits isolated in the Ukrainian forest, miles away from arguably the most famous radioactive location on Earth.
And experts believe that touching it could kill you as it is one of the numerous objects that have been contaminated with nuclear radiation in the area.
The forest is near the infamous Chernobyl nuclear site, which is home to the failed number four reactor that produced the lethal ‘Elephant’s Foot’ in 1986 when steam explosions and a meltdown caused the plant to be destroyed by the nuclear reactors, leaving the area uninhabitable for the foreseeable future.
The Chernobyl disaster is the worst nuclear disaster in human history and the costliest disaster in human history – so it’s fair to say that a lot more damage was done to the city than just the reactor site.
Tesla Inc. CEO and xAI founder Elon Musk recalled how he holds former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever in such high regard that he broke his friendship withAlphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) co-founder Larry Page over it.
What Happened: Musk shared a cryptic post following the resignation of Sutskever, recalling his interaction on the Lex Fridman podcast.
Responding to a user, Musk agreed with what he said back then: “That really was the linchpin to OpenAI being successful.”
