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Mexican artist crushes Tesla under giant stone head

A giant stone head resembling an ancient Indigenous sculpture sits on top of a crushed Tesla car. It’s not the scene of a freak accident, but a piece of art — whose creator says he wanted to provoke Elon Musk. Chavis Marmol, a 42-year-old sculptor who has never owned a car and travels by bicycle, came up…
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Chinese Mogul Funneled Millions to Bannon, Fox, Gettr, Docs Show

An indicted Chinese businessman pumped millions of ill-gotten dollars into the bank accounts of some of the most influential figures in MAGA World—including former Trump aides Steve Bannon and Jason Miller—according to a raft of documents filed in federal court in February. The materials represent an effort by the court-appointed trustee in the bankruptcy case of Guo…
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Russian missiles kill 20 in Odesa, Zelenskiy vows retaliation

A Russian ballistic missile attack struck a residential area in Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa on Friday, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 70, in Moscow’s deadliest attack in weeks, Ukrainian officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia would receive a “fair response” from Ukrainian forces for what he said was a…
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Boeing whistleblower John Barnett ‘made powerful enemies’ before his death, as workers ‘skeptical’ he killed himself

Boeing workers warn that whistleblower John Barnett “made powerful enemies” before his alleged suicide, as a puzzling discrepancy on his police report has emerged. The whistleblower was found dead in his pickup truck in a Charleston, South Carolina, hotel parking lot on March 9, the same morning he was due to conclude private testimony in a lawsuit…
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Vladimir Putin breaks silence as angry Russians burn down ballot boxes ahead of election

Vladimir Putin has claimed Ukraine is carrying out ‘terrorist’ attacks in Russia to disrupt the presidential elections. Vladimir Putin has weighed in on multiple reports alleging Russian citizens have burned down ballot boxes in protest as the Russian election is underway. Footage has emerged online showing Russian voters expressing their dissent by tampering with voting papers at…
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Death of beaten Oklahoma nonbinary teen ruled a suicide

Oklahoma’s medical examiner on Wednesday ruled that nonbinary teenager Nex Benedict died by suicide in a death that friends and family said came one day after a beating at school that culminated a pattern of bullying due to their gender identity. The case of Benedict, 16, has drawn scrutiny from LGBTQ advocates who believe school officials may…
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Taiwan, China join rescue mission near Kinmen islands

Taiwan and China dispatched teams on a rare joint mission to rescue a boat that capsized near Taiwan-controlled Kinmen islands on Thursday (Mar 14), amid heightened tensions in the Taiwan Strait. Authorities from both sides dispatched rescue boats after a Chinese fishing vessel capsized in the early hours of Thursday, Taiwan’s coast guard said in a statement.…
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In US Move For Ban On China’s TikTok, A Mention Of ‘Bold India’

In a major bipartisan move, the House of Representatives passed by 352 to 65 votes the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act co-authored by Indian American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat, and Congressman Mike Gallaghe from the Republican party. The bill, which seeks to control the ownership of foreign apps like TikTok in the US,…
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How Malaysia Airlines came back from twin tragedies

Ten years ago, Malaysia Airlines was devastated by the twin disasters of MH370 and MH17. Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared over the Indian Ocean on 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board. Despite millions of dollars spent on the largest search in aviation history the plane has still not been found. The airline…
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Denmark to start conscripting women for military service

Denmark has announced plans to extend military conscription to women for the first time and increase the standard service time. It also wants to boost its defence budget by nearly $6bn (£4.6bn) in the next five years to meet Nato targets. “We do not rearm because we want war. We are rearming because we want to avoid…
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United Boeing 777 is forced to land after hydraulic fluid leak during takeoff – the FIFTH safety incident in week that included suicide of whistleblower – as airline tells aviation giant to STOP making its delayed 737 Max 10s

United Boeing 777 is forced to land after hydraulic fluid leak during takeoff – the FIFTH safety incident in week that included suicide of whistleblower – as airline tells aviation giant to STOP making its delayed 737 Max 10s • The incident – just the latest involving the embattled manufacturer – occurred Monday, shortly after the San…
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NOT DON YET Don Lemon pressed Elon Musk on ketamine & Trump meeting in interview before ex CNN anchor’s show partnership was axed

DON Lemon has returned to CNN after his firing to reveal the conversation he had with Elon Musk before X, formerly Twitter, abruptly ended its partnership with Lemon. Lemon said he pressed Musk on alleged ketamine use, a recent meeting with former President Donald Trump, and better moderation on X. The appearance came just hours after X…
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US to send new weapons package worth $300 million for Ukraine

The United States will send a new military aid package for Ukraine worth $300 million, President Joe Biden’s administration said on Tuesday, the first such move in months as additional funds for Kyiv remain blocked by Republican leaders in Congress. The White House has been scrambling to find ways to send more military assistance given the situation…
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US prosecutor says classified document report does not exonerate Biden

A U.S. prosecutor said on Tuesday his investigation of President Joe Biden over his handling of classified documents didn’t exonerate the president despite declining to charge him, after setting off a political firestorm by saying Biden had a “poor memory.” Former U.S. Special Counsel Robert Hur faced a grilling from the Republican-led House of Representatives Judiciary Committee,…
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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Armed groups ‘invade’ Russia; footage shows burning military plane plummeting to earth

Ukraine-based military groups, allegedly made up of Russian partisans, say they have carried out an incursion across Russia’s western border. Meanwhile, a transport plane has crashed about 250 miles east of Moscow, the defence ministry has told state news agencies. These images come to us from the Ukrainian region of Sumy, where firefighters were pictured battling a…
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RFK Jr ‘considering’ Aaron Rodgers as running mate, rep says

There’s an outside chance that Aaron Rodgers will be working overtime this year. The New York Jets quarterback is working on getting healthy from his ruptured Achilles to suit up for the 2024 season after playing just four snaps. However, Rodgers is also a potential candidate to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential running mate, a representative…
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Ukraine-based Russian armed groups claim raids into Russia

Three Ukraine-based Russian paramilitary groups say they have crossed into Russia and are now fighting government troops there. The Freedom of Russia Legion (FRL) and Siberian Battalion (SB) posted videos purportedly showing their fighters in Russia’s Belgorod and Kursk regions. The FRL and an exiled Russian politician claimed two villages were now in control of “liberation forces”.…
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Donald Trump joins Joe Biden in securing his party’s presidential nomination – setting up rematch in race for White House

Mr Trump has reached the 1,215 delegates needed for the Republican presidential nomination, after contests were held in Georgia, Mississippi, Washington and Hawaii on Tuesday, NBC News is reporting. Donald Trump has won enough delegates to become the Republican presumptive nominee for a third straight election. He joins Joe Biden as his party’s presumptive presidential nominee, after…
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Oscars 2024: Atomic bomb movie ‘Oppenheimer’ crowned best picture

“Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster biopic about the race to build the first atomic bomb, claimed seven Academy Awards including the prestigious best picture trophy on Sunday as Hollywood celebrated a triumphant year in film. Irish actor Cillian Murphy won best actor for playing theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the U.S. effort in the 1940s to create…
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Haiti gang violence: UK warns against all travel to Caribbean nation as US secretary of state tries to solve crisis

Attacks by powerful gangs on key government targets began on 29 February across Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. The United Nations estimates thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced, with widespread reports of rape, torture and ransom kidnappings. The UK government has warned against all travel to Haiti as intense fighting and gang violence continues to spiral…
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America’s election chiefs are worried AI is coming for them

Election officials are important enough to fake — and public enough to make it easy to do — but anonymous enough that voters may easily be tricked. A false call from a secretary of state telling poll workers they aren’t needed on Election Day. A fake video of a state election director shredding ballots before they’re counted.…
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Haiti’s capital ‘under siege’ as Port-au-Prince surrounded by armed gangs

Brutal gangs opposing Haitian President Ariel Henry now ‘control the capital in all its peripheries.’ Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince has become a “city under siege” leaving terrified civilians terrified as gangs continue to cause chaos. Many violent gangs have united under the lead of Jimmy Cherizier, a former police officer-turned-gang leader hoping to overthrow the current Prime Minister,…
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United States faces ‘increasingly fragile world order,’ spy chiefs say

U.S. intelligence agencies said on Monday the country faces an “increasingly fragile world order,” strained by great power competition, transnational challenges and regional conflicts, in a report released as agency leaders testified in Congress. “An ambitious but anxious China, a confrontational Russia, some regional powers, such as Iran, and more capable non-state actors are challenging longstanding rules…
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Inflation makes essentials unaffordable: Younger generations are ‘paying their fair share’ in Biden’s economy

Young generations attempt to mitigate inflation costs by opting to use their credit cards to purchase essential goods. Fox News’ Dr. Nicole Saphier discussed on Sunday how the present day economy under the Biden Administration is affecting younger generations’ spending habits alongside co-hosts on ‘The Big Weekend Show.’ “Gen Z and Millennials seem to be paying their…
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Portugal’s conservatives win election as far-right surges

Portugal’s centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) won Sunday’s general election, its leader Luis Montenegro said, though it was unclear if he could govern without the support from far-right Chega, with whom he again refused to negotiate. Chega’s parliamentary representation more than quadrupled to at least 48 lawmakers in the 230-seat legislature, giving the combined right a majority. The…
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Man arrested after crashing car into Buckingham Palace gates

The incident took place in the early hours of the morning and the driver was sectioned under the mental health act, police said. A man has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage after crashing his car into the gates outside Buckingham Palace. The crash at the royal residence in central London took place at around 2.35am…
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Haiti: US evacuates embassy staff amid gang violence

The United States says it has airlifted non-essential embassy staff from Haiti, as the country spirals further into gang violence. The Americans have also boosted security at their mission in the capital, Port-au-Prince. It follows attacks by gangs on the airport, police stations and prisons this week. They are pushing for Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s removal.…
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‘A perfect mess’: Thailand’s proposed cannabis crackdown steeped in political games and business owner anger

Thailand’s cannabis buyers might soon need a doctor’s note. But business operators say a draft bill’s clampdown on recreational weed could derail a fast-growing industry and hinder health advancements. On a weekday afternoon, more and more people start slowly filing into a subterranean plaza off Bangkok’s iconic Khaosan Road – for decades a tourist hub in the…
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Trump blasts Biden over Laken Riley’s death after Biden says he regrets using term ‘illegal’

President Joe Biden said Saturday that he regretted using the term “illegal” during his State of the Union address to describe the suspected killer of Laken Riley, as his all-but-certain 2024 GOP rival, Donald Trump, blasted the Democrat’s immigration policies and blamed them for her death at a rally attended by the Georgia nursing student’s family and…
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Joe Biden says he would sign bill banning TikTok

While his administration has raised national security concerns about the popular video-sharing app, Mr Biden’s re-election campaign joined the platform last month. Joe Biden has said he would sign legislation banning popular video-sharing app TikTok in the United States. Legislation passed through the US House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously on Thursday calling on China’s ByteDance to…
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US lawmaker’s sister-in-law dies after accidentally reversing Tesla into pond: Report

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s sister-in-law, Angela Chao, has died after she accidentally put her Tesla in reverse, resulting in the car going into a pond at her private ranch in Texas, according to The Wall Street Journal. Angela Chao, the sister-in-law of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, has ‘drowned’ after she accidentally reversed her Tesla car…
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At least 19 killed, 7 missing in flash floods in Indonesia

Disaster management agency says more than 80,000 people have fled to temporary government shelters. Flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia’s Sumatra island have left at least 19 people dead and seven others missing, officials have said. Mud, rocks and uprooted trees rushed down a mountainside and engulfed villages in the Pesisir Selatan district of West Sumatra…
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United Airlines plane rolls off runway in Houston

Passengers had to be evacuated from a United Airlines plane after it rolled off a runway and got stuck in the grass in Houston Friday morning. No injuries were reported among the 160 passengers and six crew members, United Airlines said in a statement. Video taken after the landing showed the plane tilted to one side with…
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Gaza hospital medic says aid airdrop kills five

GAZA: A medic at Gaza’s largest hospital said Friday (Mar 8) a humanitarian airdrop in the north of the Palestinian territory killed five people and wounded 10. The casualties were taken to Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, the emergency room’s head nurse, Mohammed al-Sheikh, told AFP. Sheikh said the deadly airdrop occurred north of the coastal Al-Shati refugee…
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CCTV Footage Of Khalistani Terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s Killing Aired By Canada’s Public Broadcaster

Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who had been designated as a terrorist by the National Investigation Agency in 2020, was fatally shot as he exited a Gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia, on the evening of June 18, 2023. In a significant development concerning the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a designated terrorist according to India, the CCTV footage of…
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Trump ally Michael Whatley and daughter-in-law Lara Trump take over at RNC

Donald Trump has cemented his take-over of the Republican Party with the ascent of two loyalists to the top leadership positions in its national organisation. The former president earlier endorsed Michael Whatley and Lara Trump, his daughter-in-law, for chair and co-chair of the Republican National Committee. Their elections were formalised on Friday at the RNC’s spring training…
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Ceasefire deal in Gaza before Ramadan ‘looking tough’, Biden says – after US denies causing airdrop deaths

The US president’s comments come as a Pentagon spokesperson denied that US aid airdrops have resulted in civilian deaths in Gaza after reports that five Palestinians were killed on Friday. US President Joe Biden has said reaching a six-week ceasefire deal in Gaza before the start of Ramadan is “looking tough”. His comments come after the US…
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NATO Moving Missiles Closer to Russia’s Borders

NATO countries are implementing a rotational air defense model stationed in Lithuania in response to calls from the Baltic states to boost Europe’s defense capabilities in the region. According to Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anušauskas, who spoke about the defense model at a press conference Thursday, the defense systems will be operational in his nation later this…
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Republicans plan vote on TikTok ‘ban,’ defying Trump

House Republican leadership is moving forward with a vote on a bipartisan bill that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok — or face a ban — next Wednesday, despite former President Donald Trump’s public opposition to the measure. House Republican leaders huddled Friday morning to confirm the House would move forward on the TikTok bill with plans…
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Biden blames ‘eavesdropping’ media after Netanyahu needs ‘come to Jesus’ moment hot-mic snafu

President Biden was caught saying on a hot mic Thursday evening that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needed a “come to Jesus” talk about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. The president, 81, made the awkward comment about the Jewish state’s head of government while mingling with lawmakers following his State of the Union address —…
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