Initial filings for unemployment benefits in New York rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday.
New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to 13,193 in the week ending June 8, up from 11,648 the week before, the Labor Department said.
U.S. unemployment claims rose to 242,000 last week, up 13,000 claims from 229,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis.
Puerto Rico saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims, with claims jumping by 309.8%. North Dakota, meanwhile, saw the largest percentage drop in new claims, with claims dropping by 58.1%.
Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk has advised against the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs), citing concerns about their potential vulnerabilities to hacking. His remarks come amidst growing debates over the security of EVMs worldwide, especially following allegations of irregularities in Puerto Rico’s recent primary elections.
“We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high,” Musk posted on X.
We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high. https://t.co/PHzJsoXpLh
Democratic elected officials at their party’s state convention emphasized Saturday that the issues of abortion and education could help the party regain ground from Republicans in the state.
Iowa Democrats are facing steep challenges in Iowa. Following the 2022 midterm elections, the state’s congressional delegation is made up entirely of Republicans, and all statewide elected officials except for Iowa Auditor Rob Sand are also members of the GOP. In the Statehouse, Republicans hold a majority in the House and supermajority in the Senate.
At Prairie Meadows Events Center in Altoona, Iowa Democratic Party Chair Rita Hart called for Iowa Democrats to prepare for the 2024 general election, and to be ready for a potentially tough road ahead. She talked about her experience growing up on a farm in Iowa, having to pick rocks with her siblings on farmland.
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban has suggested that SEC Chairman Gary Gensler’s adversarial stance on cryptocurrencies might jeopardize President Joe Biden’s re-election chances.
At the State of Crypto Summit hosted by Coinbase, Mark Cuban expressed his view that SEC Chairman Gary Gensler’s approach to cryptocurrencies could “literally cost Joe Biden the election,” according to Fox Business reporter Eleanor Terrett.
Milwaukee Democratic Mayor Cavalier Johnson defended his city, which is set to host the Republican National Convention this summer, after former President Donald Trump called the city “horrible” in a closed-door meeting with House Republicans earlier Thursday.
“This is a great place, and the former president and every Republican who’ll have the chance to come to our great city, they’ll see that when they’re here on the ground in Milwaukee for the convention,” Johnson told CNN’s Laura Coates Thursday night.
Johnson added that insulting the home of tens of thousands of Republican voters in Wisconsin, a swing state, could be politically costly for the former president as he seeks to return to the White House.
Donald Trump has hit back at billionaire Illinois governor JB Pritzker, who branded him a ‘felon’ in an interview earlier this week as the pair’s war of words escalates
Donald Trump has unleashed a scathing attack on governor JB Pritzker on Sunday, calling him “rotund,” “sloppy” and “pathetic” after the Illinois governor labeled the ex-president a “felon” earlier in the week.
The billionaire Democrat, who holds the title of America’s wealthiest elected official, makes no effort to conceal his contempt for the 77-year-old presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Nineteen minutes after Trump’s conviction on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial last month, Pritzker denounced the former president as a racist, homophobe, and a con artist.
Pritzker, 59, is a loyal supporter of president Joe Biden and is driven to “fight to keep him in the White House,” thereby keeping Trump at bay, he wrote on X on Friday.
JB Pritzker called Trump a ‘felon’ on Wednesday(Joel Angel Juarez/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock)
“I can’t mince words when it comes to talking about who Donald Trump is,” Pritzker told The New York Times on Wednesday. “It’s important, I think, for people to really refocus on the idea that: Do they really want a president who is a felon who faces jail time?”
Trump didn’t waste any time hitting back as their feud escalated, taking several low blows at Pritzker’s physical appearance, business achievements, and political acumen, reports the Mirror.
“Sloppy J.B. Pritzker, the Rotund Governor from the once great State of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model,” Trump wrote, while also throwing shade at the Republican ex-governor of New Jersey in a fiery Truth Social tirade on Sunday.
Despite Pritzker’s estimated $3.5 billion fortune, as reported by Forbes, the former president alleged that his family “wanted him out of the business” – the global hotel chain, Hyatt – before he doubled down on his “pathetic” business acumen.
After Trump’s initial barrage of insults about his business ventures, he proceeded to criticize the senior Democrat’s politics. The incumbent has been a longtime financial supporter of the Democratic Party and has served since 2019 as the 43rd governor of Illinois.
JB Pritzker was the latest Democrat in Donald Trump’s crosshairs(AFP via Getty Images)
However, the ex-president accused Pritzker of presiding “over the destruction and disintegration of Illinois at levels never seen before in any State,” he claimed.
Trump concluded: “Crime is rampant and people are, sadly, fleeing Illinois. Unless a change is made at the Governor’s level, Illinois can never be Great Again!”
Pritzker has long been critical of Trump’s inflammatory language and staunch conservative stance on women’s rights.
“It’s President Biden who is fighting to restore reproductive rights or Trump who bragged about overturning Roe v. Wade,” Pritzker stated last month at The Democratic National Convention.
Flashback to November and he also accused Trump of using descriptions mirroring those of Nazis in the 1930s.
“The rhetoric that’s being used by Trump, by some of the Maga extremists, is rhetoric that was used in the 1930s in Germany [and] I am very concerned about the direction of the country if we see policies like what Donald Trump is espousing come to light,” he expressed on MSNBC’s Inside with Jen Psaki.
“And I’m deeply concerned about his predilection for revenge and what that will mean for groups of people that didn’t support him in the 2024 election if he gets elected.”
In recent years, Elon Musk appears to have gone from lightly flirting with politics to having a full-blown love affair with growing his influence in Washington.
As the presidential election inches closer and the billionaire businessman continues teasing the idea of a Trump endorsement, it’s becoming clear that Musk has a lot at stake depending on who next leads the country.
While Musk hasn’t publicly endorsed any candidate, Business Insider previously reported he bonded with fellow billionaires over a shared distrust of Democrats and privately discussed how best to defeat them in this year’s election.
According to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, Musk has also talked with the Trump campaign about taking on a potential advisory role if the former president returns to the White House.
On Sunday, former President Trump targeted Illinois Democratic governor J.B. Pritzker, who has been considered a rising star in the Democratic Party but who has presided over the state while natives flee.
Pritzker was inaugurated as governor of the state in January 2019; between July 2021 and July 2022, over 142,000 people left Illinois. The only state that had a faster rate of population decline during that same time period was New York.
“Sloppy J.B. Pritzker, the Rotund Governor from the once great State of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model, and whose family wanted him out of the business because he was so pathetic at helping them run it, has presided over the destruction and disintegration of Illinois at levels never seen before in any State. Crime is rampant and people are, sadly, fleeing Illinois. Unless a change is made at the Governor’s level, Illinois can never be Great Again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Detroit — Former President Donald Trump warned of increases in illegal immigration, weakened global policy and a struggling economy under another Biden term as he courted both Black voters at a Detroit church and conservative stalwarts at a convention at Huntington Place.
The former president dinged the leader of United Auto Workers, Shawn Fain, as doing an “absolutely terrible job” and warned of environmentally-friendly emissions limits implemented under Biden.
“We can’t let these people destroy our country like this,” Trump said. “They’re going crazy.”
Springfield, IL-(Effingham Radio)- In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court striking down a ban on bump stocks, Governor J.B. Pritzker says the ruling should have no impact on Illinois. The high court stated that bump stocks do not transform a firearm into an automatic weapon.
Governor Pritzker says Illinois is ahead of the curve when it comes to banning assault-type weapons.
(The Center Square) – More than 300,000 Illinois residents stand to be cleared of all outstanding medical debt through the creation of the Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program Fund ready to be sent to the governor.
Sponsored by state Sen. Mike Simmons, D-Chicago, House Bill 5290 seeks to alleviate medical debt for families across the state residing in households with individuals falling below 400% of the Federal Poverty Level or saddled with medical debt equating to 5% or more of their household income.
As another Flag Day is celebrated on June 14, it seems there have been many flags in the news recently, from upside-down U.S. Flags to the Appeal to Heaven flag.
Flag Day is not a national holiday, but some states celebrate it, like Pennsylvania, as a state holiday. New York also celebrates the second Sunday in June as Flag Day which is a state holiday, according to Wikipedia.
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – An Arizona man who is accused of planning a mass shooting in an attempt to start a “race war” was arrested in New Mexico, according to federal authorities.
Mark Adams Prieto, 58, of Prescott, was indicted on Tuesday for charges of firearms trafficking, transfer of a firearm for use in a hate crime, and possession of an unregistered firearm, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona wrote in a news release.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Almost all U.S. hospitals were hurt financially by the cyberattack on United Health Group’s Change Healthcare unit earlier this year, according to a survey from the American Hospital Association (AHA).
The AHA said that 94% of hospitals reported damage to cash flow and more than half reported significant or serious financial damage due to Change’s inability to process claims.
“While this event had disparate impacts on providers, all communities felt the effects in some way,” the AHA wrote in a letter to leadership of the U.S. Senate Finance and House Energy and Commerce committees.
The association, which represents almost 5,000 hospitals and healthcare systems in the United States, sent the letter on Monday ahead of Wednesday’s Congressional hearings on cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the healthcare sector.
Elon Musk’s brain-implant startup Neuralink Corp. forced an employee to work with monkeys that carried the Herpes B virus in conditions in which the animals scratched her bare skin, according to a complaint filed Friday in state court in California.
The employee, Lindsay Short, said that once she transferred to the company’s Fremont, California, site in August 2022, she encountered “a work environment fraught with blame, shame, and impossible deadlines.” She said she was later fired after telling her supervisors that she was pregnant.
Short sued the company for retaliation, wrongful termination and discrimination based on her gender among other issues.
Neuralink didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the suit.
An Arizona man who planned to commit a mass shooting at an Atlanta rap concert as a way of inciting a “race war” has been indicted by a federal grand jury on hate crime and firearm charges.
The man, Mark Adams Prieto, hatched a plan in several discussions with two people working with the F.B.I. who posed as racist extremists to carry out a mass shooting targeting Black people and other people of color at a concert in Atlanta on May 14 and May 15, the Justice Department said on Tuesday.
Mr. Prieto intended for the shooting to incite a “race war” before the presidential election, prosecutors said in a news release.
Mr. Prieto, 58, was reported to the authorities last year by an acquaintance who said he had made concerning comments calling for mass shootings targeting Black people and others, according to officials.
The number of Kenyans relocating to the US grew at the fastest pace in a decade in 2022, signalling growing opportunities for skilled and semi-skilled labour in the world’s largest economy.
Data from the American liberal think-tank Migration Policy Institute (MPI) indicates that Kenyan immigrants to the US in 2022 stood at 168,915, a 9.6 percent jump from the 154,062 recorded in 2021 when global economies were recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The jump was the highest since the 15.9 percent recorded in 2011 when the number stood at 102,561 up from the 88,519 that had relocated in 2010.
The drift also comes as a result of a shrinking job market in the local economy, which has compelled labour providers to seek openings abroad.
Some are born into worlds where men wear $1,100 calfskin-and-suede Zegna sneakers. Others have to scrap, hustle and charm their way into them. There was nothing given about the ascent of Will Lewis—who wears his Zegnas in navy blue with the white leather strap—to the top of the Washington Post.
Lewis, 55, is not a product of the playing fields of Eton, or any of England’s grand institutions. He was sent to Whitefield, a post-war public school built on the site of a disused waterworks. It was next to a vast shopping mall and the pulsating ten-lane highway that cuts through London’s northern suburbs.
Other British men running American newsrooms—CNN’s Mark Thompson, Bloomberg’s John Micklethwait—were privately educated in august surroundings before going “up” to Oxford. Lewis’s parents could have sent him to a private school (his father ran a packaging business) but they were opposed to them, and Lewis’s much older brother had gone from Whitefield to Oxford. Lewis didn’t get in. He went to Bristol, a mid-tier university. No path was laid out for him. He had to find one.
Deal sealed between Disney and Disney World governing district with approval by DeSantis reps
Orlando, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees on Wednesday gave final approval to an agreement that buries the hatchet between Disney and the governing district for Walt Disney World, which the Florida governor took over after the company two years ago publicly opposed a state law critics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.”
The five DeSantis-appointed board members to the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District unanimously voted to approve a 15-year development deal in which the district committed to making infrastructure improvements in exchange for Disney investing up to $17 billion into Disney World over the next two decades.
The agreement followed a detente in March in which both sides agreed to stop litigating against each other in state court and work toward negotiating a new development agreement and a new comprehensive plan no later than next year. The district provides municipal services such as firefighting, planning and mosquito control, among other things, and was controlled by Disney supporters before the takeover by the DeSantis appointees.
Labour could win ‘freak majority’ bigger than Blair’s and Thatcher’s combined
Boris Johnson has warned Britain faces a Labour “freak majority” bigger than that of Sir Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher combined unless Tories turn out to vote at the election.
The former prime minister also claimed that Sir Keir Starmer gaining a supermajority would be “dangerous” and lead to “the least-merited election triumph in history”.
His remarks in his Daily Mail column came as he intervened in the general election campaign for the first time by starting to produce video endorsements for Tories standing for re-election.
There was some criticism that Mr Johnson appeared to be choosing to support those former MPs who had been most loyal to him.
But a source close to him told The Telegraph: “Every Conservative MP who has asked for a digital endorsement from him will get one.”
Trump ridicules special counsel’s gag order request in new filing in classified documents case
The attorneys continued, comparing the request to the gag order Trump is under in a separate case in New York, adding, “Like Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Smith seeks to restrict President Trump’s campaign speech as the first presidential debate approaches at the end of this month.”
The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (AFT) regulation that effectively bans bump stocks by declaring them a machine gun. Even the wording of the regulation suggested that far more than bump stocks could be banned, as it considered anything that improves the trigger performance to be the same as a making the gun a machine gun.
The Supreme Court disagreed, with 6 Americans voting to strike down the measure and the 3 die-hard anti-Americanist judges predictably voting for it, given their awareness of the fact that without an unarmed population, their dystopian leftist nightmares can never full take hold in these STILL American lands. It goes without saying that an American congress would long have removed these anti-American judges, not just on SCOTUS, but throughout our infested court system.
“A bump stock does not convert a semiautomatic rifle into a machinegun any more than a shooter with a lightning-fast trigger finger does,” Thomas wrote in his opinion. “Even with a bump stock, a semiautomatic rifle will fire only one shot for every ‘function of the trigger.’”
An anti-American, anti-capitalist foreign judge could defy the people and deny Tesla CEO Elon Musk a bonus of $56 billion even though 75 percent of the shareholders voted for it. Delaware Judge Kathaleen McCormick, the one who originally nixed the 2018 deal that led to this payoff, called the amount “an unfathomable sum,” a phrase that could only be used by a Marxist.
The Judge’s argument for nixing the deal was that the board had vested interests in Musk’s success and thus were not voting for the company, but for Musk. Now that the shareholders have voted 75 percent to 25 percent, the anti-Capitalist judge’s faulty logic has even less credibility than it did before. The shareholders also voted to move the company out of the now-Marxist-controlled state of Delaware to an American one, Texas.
Tesla boss Elon Musk let Delaware know it can eat cake as the company reportedly put in paperwork to shift its incorporation from the First State to the Lone Star State.
Nearly 90% of shareholders on Thursday voted in favor of the move, leading Musk to quip on his social media site X that he was sending a cake to Delaware “as a parting gift.”
The post included an image of a vanilla-frosted sheet cake with the words “Vox Populi, Vox Dei” – Latin for “the voice of the people is the voice of God” – written in red letters, along with a big heart.
Nearly 90% of shareholders on Thursday voted in favor of the move, leading Elon Musk to quip on his social media site X that he was sending a cake to Delaware “as a parting gift.”
Musk initiated the move from Delaware to Texas in January after Delaware judge Kathaleen McCormick struck down his $56 billion pay package that was approved in 2018, calling the massive compensation “an unfathomable sum.”
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is claiming American plane manufacturer Boeing and European plane manufacturer Airbus may have fault planes that are flying ticking time bombs thanks to the defective titanium they purchased from China.
The FAA is claiming the faulty titanium came from Spirit AeroSystems, who built plane parts using titanium bought from China. They possess faked certification documents that show the company was sending out titanium parts that had not been properly certified as being up to industry standards. The FAA stated it has begun an investigation to determine the scope of the problem. The Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 door that came off during flight had parts on that door manufactured by the same company.
Airliners manufactured by Boeing and Airbus have components made from titanium that was sold with fake documentation.
The Federal Aviation Administration revealed the problem after Boeing reported it to the agency when it was notified by parts supplier Spirit AeroSystems.
Spirit is the same company that made the door on the 737 Max plane that suffered a door blowout on January 5 and began Boeing’s recent spate of problems.
Faked documentation certifying the authenticity of the titanium could mean it was not up to standard or tested to withstand the rigors of air travel.
The FAA said it was ‘investigating the scope and impact of the issue’ and how it could affect the safety of the unknown number of planes using the parts.
… Sources told the New York Times that the issue dates to 2019 when material supplier Turkish Aerospace Industries bought the batch of titanium from a Chinese supplier, and sold it to several other suppliers.
The FDA approved mifepristone in 2000 as part of a two-drug regimen to end a pregnancy. Over the course of two decades, the agency loosened restrictions it initially placed on the drug’s use. In 2016, it allowed women to take the drug later into a pregnancy, to 10 from seven weeks of gestational age. It also permitted non-physicians, such as nurse practitioners, to prescribe it. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the FDA announced it would no longer enforce the in-person dispensing requirement.
(CNN) — A Texas bankruptcy judge has rejected a proposed liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ company Free Speech Systems, the parent company of Infowars, saying that a denial of the bankruptcy plan was, in his opinion, in the best interest of the creditors. But the judge approved a separate liquidation of Jones’ personal assets.
