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Eleven firefighters were injured in a large explosion at a warehouse in Los Angeles, the city’s fire department has said.
Fire crews were called to the building, which is used by a hash oil manufacturer, after a fire had been reported. Continue reading “LA explosion: Huge blast at hash oil warehouse injures 11 firefighters”
Remember when Jeff Bezos agreed to buy the Washington Post back in 2013 for a paltry ~$250 million?
Well, nearly 10 years later, Facebook has reportedly agreed to pay ~$400 million for Giphy, described by Axios as “a popular platform for animated images”. The deal comes as the Trump Administration DoJ cranks up anti-trust scrutiny of tech titans. Continue reading “Facebook Buys Giphy For $400 Million As Tech Giant Pledges To Banish All “Hateful Memes””
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced he was officially reopening his California electric car plant in defiance of local government lockdown orders amid the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading “Elon Musk defies local pandemic lockdown orders to reopen California Tesla plant”
Since President Trump pulled the US out of the JCPOA (better known as “the Iran nuclear deal”), Iran has suffered one embarrassing mishap after the next. Earlier this year, the IRGC accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger airliner filled with young Iranian students. The fact that the regime ineptly lied about the shoot-down, before finally coming clean in the face of overwhelming evidence, only compounded the embarrassment. Continue reading “19 Killed & 40 Missing Or Wounded After Iranian Destroyer Mistakenly Fires On Own Warship”
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Oglala Sioux Tribe leaders have rejected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s demand that they remove checkpoints meant to regulate traffic through their reservation, set up to prevent the spread of coronavirus on tribal land. Continue reading “South Dakota Governor Demands Tribe Leaders Remove Checkpoints Set Up to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19”
DALLAS (AP) — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday got his hair cut at a Dallas salon that became a rallying cry for conservative protests against coronavirus lockdown orders in Texas after the owner refused to shut down and ultimately went to jail. Continue reading “Ted Cruz gets haircut at salon whose owner flouted orders”
A GoFundMe account for Shelley Luther, who made national headlines after she was sentenced to 7 days in jail after refusing to tell a court she was “selfish” for reopening her salon despite an ongoing stay-at-home order, has now been officially closed to new donations after racking up a stunning $500,110 in just a few days.
Continue reading “GoFundMe For Dallas Salon Owner Raises Massive Money”
Today’s jobs report was, as expected and as previously discussed, absolutely horrific, although as Bank of America points out there was one silver lining which Larry Kudlow quickly latched on to: with 72% of jobs lost being reflected as temporary layoffs, workers should be able to be more seamlessly rehired as the economy reopens. However, the longer this pandemic goes on, the more likely that what was temporary becomes permanent, and as we pointed out in a previous post, even baseline cases see unemployment not returning back to normal until 2022 or later. Continue reading “A Tragic Record: For The First Time Ever, More Than Half Of The US Population Is Not Working”
A father and son were arrested and charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a man whose shooting death in February has sparked protests, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) announced Thursday night. Continue reading “Ahmaud Arbery case: Georgia father and son arrested, charged with murder”
The U.S. Space Force‘s first commercial has a message for its new troops and potential recruits: “Maybe your purpose on this planet isn’t on this planet.” Continue reading “Space Force Has Launched Its First Recruiting Commercial”
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed that two US citizens were captured along with a group of “mercenaries” Caracas accused of trying to infiltrate the Latin American nation in order to assassinate him. Continue reading “Maduro says 2 Americans ‘on Trump’s security team’ were among ‘mercenaries’ behind failed invasion attempt”
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A woman, her adult son and husband have been charged in the fatal shooting of a security guard who refused to let her daughter enter a Family Dollar in Michigan because she wasn’t wearing a face mask to protect against transmission of the coronavirus. Continue reading “3 charged in killing of store security guard over virus mask”
AUSTIN, Texas — A video has surfaced online showing a park ranger being pushed into Lake Austin at Commons Ford Metropolitan Park.
The ranger was approaching the crowd because they were unlawfully drinking and smoking in the park, according to an arrest affidavit. Continue reading “Video shows man push park ranger into Lake Austin, suspect arrested”
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham invoked the state’s Riot Control Act on Friday to essentially lock down the city of Gallup after its mayor requested that she do so on Thursday. Under the act, all roads leading into Gallup are now closed off “to mitigate the uninhibited spread of COVID-19 in that city.” Continue reading “Governor closes all roads into a New Mexico city”
At least one California county says it can no longer afford to abide by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s shelter-in-place response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Officials in Modoc County, in the far northeast corner of the state, say it’s one of five Golden State counties with no confirmed cases of the virus – and the local economy has been hurting. Continue reading “California county plans to defy Gov. Newsom, lift stay-home order”
LANSING (WJRT) (4/30/2020) – Michigan lawmakers did not approve a State of Emergency for the coronavirus pandemic and instead authorized a lawsuit challenging Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s authority. Continue reading “Republicans don’t extend State of Emergency, vote to sue Gov. Whitmer instead”
Two California cities voted Thursday night to take legal action against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s beach-closure order, arguing it should be up to local leaders and not the Democratic governor to decide when it’s safe to return. Continue reading “California cities threaten legal action against Newsom’s newest beach-closure order”
Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended the state’s coronavirus emergency declaration by executive order after the Republican-controlled Legislature advanced a bill that would not have renewed the original declaration. Continue reading “Michigan governor extends state of emergency after lawmakers refuse to lengthen disaster declaration”
A Michigan court on Wednesday ruled that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) stringent stay-at-home order in response to the coronavirus outbreak does not violate residents’ constitutional rights, denying a motion for a preliminary injunction. Continue reading “Michigan court rules governor’s stay-at-home order does not violate constitutional rights”
Tenth Judicial District, District Attorney Stephen Crump, announced Wednesday that his office will no longer enforce a criminal sanction or penalty against a citizen for a violation of one of the COVID-19 executive orders of Governor Bill Lee. Continue reading “DA Stephen Crump Will Not Prosecute Violations Of Governor’s COVID-19 Executive Orders”