For a film about sex work to win an Oscar is rare. For it to win the respect of sex workers is even rarer. If Sean Baker’s “Anora” triumphs at the Academy Awards next Sunday, as predicted by most pundits, it will have achieved both. “Sean gets sex work. He just does,” porn actress and […]

NORTH Korean cyber criminals are feared to have carried out the “worst hack in history” after a $1.19billion crypto heist was uncovered. Hackers were able to gain control of an Ethereum wallet and rip all of its contents in a shock theft. 4 North Korea’s Kim Jong Un’s goons have been accused of being behind […]

All federal employees will have to share what work they’ve accomplished in the last week or be fired, according to President Trump’s efficiency czar Elon Musk.  “Consistent with President [Donald Trump’s]  instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,” Mr. Musk said on X on […]

MUSCAT, Oman—The winter is lovely in Oman. For centuries, this sultanate at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula has been a meeting point for the Middle East and the rest of Asia (its cuisine reflects this rich history). It signed its first treaty with the United States early in Andrew Jackson’s second term. Jackson […]

GW also ordered to conduct review of former psych professor Lara Sheehi’s infamous social media posts Lara Sheehi (Twitter) A federal civil rights investigation uncovered evidence that the George Washington University faculty retaliated against Jewish students based on “shared ancestry-related advocacy” by placing them in a remediation program after the students lodged an anti-Semitism complaint […]

NBC’s top anchors made ‘verifiably false’ statements about a doctor they accused of performing ‘mass hysterectomies’ on female inmates at ICE facility, a federal judge ruled last year Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow (MSNBC/Youtube) NBCUniversal quietly settled a $30 million defamation lawsuit filed by a Georgia doctor after MSNBC’s biggest stars—including Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, […]

Beyond headlines about the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, and the Biden administration’s failure to prevent them, the Indian Ocean and its inlets garner little U.S. media attention. Off the coast of East Africa, however, another battle is brewing—one that pits the United States against the Chinese Communist Party. The Indian Ocean sits between […]

New York filed a lawsuit Friday asking a judge to restore $80 million in migrant aid money that the Trump administration plucked out of the city’s accounts earlier this month. City officials said the feds quietly reached into a New York bank account and “grabbed $80,481,861.42,” just a week after the Federal Emergency Management Agency […]

A federal judge has refused to shut down the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to human resources files of government employees, saying there was no “concrete evidence” that the DOGE was misusing the data right now. “Plaintiffs’ fears of future harm are much too speculative,” Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. ruled Friday.  The Electronic Privacy […]

Rep. Troy Balderson believes that some of President Trump’s avalanche of executive orders are getting ahead of Congress’ authority.  Since taking the oath of office last month, Mr. Trump has signed dozens of such orders. Some have been lauded, while others have been slowed by a retaliatory flurry of lawsuits.  Mr. Balderson, Ohio Republican, told […]