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After X owner Elon Musk made a hand gesture on Monday that many people said resembled a Nazi salute, a protest movement broke out on the social media platform Reddit. NBC News has identified more than 50 subreddit communities where moderators have since announced that links from X, formerly Twitter, will no longer be allowed…
In the early days of Donald Trump’s second presidency, his administration already overhauled the federal government’s online footprint. The White House website no longer has a Spanish version. It has removed a disclaimer that promised to make it accessible to people with disabilities. And several federal agencies have removed web pages related to reproductive rights…
On his third day in office, President Donald Trump signed more executive orders aimed at closing the US southern border to immigration and increasing deportations, although large-scale deportation raids had yet to materialize as of Wednesday. the afternoon. According to a fact sheet released by the White House, Trump signed an executive order that “suspends…
Less than two months ago, actress Cheryl Hines posted a provocative video of her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showering behind her while she promoted products from her cosmetics line. Today, Hines, of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” fame, agreed to suspend sales of the company’s inventory if her husband becomes the next secretary of Health and…
The rich are getting richer. The combined wealth of the world’s richest rose from $13 trillion to $15 trillion in just 12 months, according to Oxfam’s latest annual inequality report, recording the second-largest annual increase in billionaire wealth since the global charity began tracking this data. Last year alone, approximately 204 new billionaires were minted,…
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, announced Wednesday the creation of a select subcommittee to investigate events before and after January 6, 2021. “House Republicans are proud of our work so far in exposing the false narratives spread by the politically motivated January 6 Select Committee during the 117th Congress, but there is still…
Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Delaware, the first openly transgender member of Congress, called President Donald Trump’s executive order proclaiming that there are only two sexes that are not changeable “red meat for his extreme base.” “This is red meat for online trolls who do their bidding every day, but this is not what the American people…
Two students were shot in a Nashville high school cafeteria on Wednesday and the suspected shooter “is no longer a threat,” authorities said. Police responded to a call about a shooting at Antioch High School at 11:11 a.m. CT, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department told NBC News. The alleged shooter suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound,…
Elon Musk claimed overnight Tuesday that tech giants OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank do not have enough money to fulfill their high-profile promise to invest $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO made the comment just hours after President Donald Trump unveiled the massive project at the White…
New Orleanians and tourists on Tuesday marked the city’s highest snowfall in decades by skiing down Bourbon Street, walking to neighborhood restaurants that remained open and having a snowball fight in the French Quarter. The snow brought a certain levity to a city shaken on New Year’s Day by a terrorist attack that killed 14…