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The motive of the man who held four people hostage inside a nightclub in the eastern town of Ede remains unclear.

Screenshot: MSNBC The contrast was on full display Thursday. Three former Presidents and the current one were in New York City on Thursday. One was there to attend the funeral of New York City Police Officer Jonathan Diller. The officer was tragically shot and killed in the line of duty on March 25th while conducting a traffic stop in Queens. Diller was savagely murdered by a career criminal during a routine interaction. In a Democrat-run city. A city that prioritizes illegal aliens and career criminals over its citizens. A city where law enforcement officers have been villainized by the feckless Democrat politicians. Where disastrous policies allowed a…

In March, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that could force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban in U.S. app stores. Much of the related discussion and debate has centered around American data security and speech rights, but a potential move also highlights something else: TikTok is growing its focus on e-commerce, but the interplay of tech giants and geopolitics is squeezing smaller merchants. Over the past few months, merchants — many of them from China — looking for an Amazon alternative have flocked to TikTok to peddle clothes, cosmetics, electronics and a variety of…

Posted: 3/28/24 | March 28th, 2024 I didn’t know what to expect when I first visited Budapest. I thought it would a drab, bland city, owing to its Communist past. Fortunately, I was wrong. Once under the radar, Budapest has been growing in popularity thanks to its affordability and its lively nightlife. The city also has photogenic architecture and layers of interesting history, making it a well-rounded choice for anyone visiting Europe. I’ve been visiting the city for over a decade and always have an amazing time. I love the city so much I used to run tours here! Naturally,…

Your local Girl Scout troop could be incubating the next Fortune 500 CEO. Eight women leaders of Fortune 500 companies were once Daisies, Brownies, Juniors, or more, according to an analysis by Fortune staff.  “It’s no surprise that so many women in leadership roles were at one time a Girl Scout,” the Girl Scouts of the USA’s CEO, Bonnie Barczykowski, told Fortune when asked about the results.  Current Fortune 500 CEOs who are Girl Scouts alumnae include General Motors’ Mary Barra, Centene’s Sarah London, Oracle’s Safra Catz, General Dynamics’ Phebe Novakovic, Bath & Body Works’ Gina Boswell, Edward Jones Investments’…

US says crackdown by Hong Kong officials includes new national security law targeting treason, espionage and other crimes. The United States has said it will impose new visa restrictions on a number of Hong Kong officials responsible for cracking down on “rights and freedoms”, days after a draconian national security law went into force in the Chinese-ruled territory. The law ­- referred to as Article 23 – gives the government new powers to crack down on all forms of dissent on the grounds of alleged treason, espionage, sedition and external interference in Hong Kong’s internal affairs. US Secretary of State…

The irony is that they’re causing more harm than good.

The killing of Camila Gómez triggered protests and a lynch mob in the southern city of Taxco.

Cointelegraph, CC BY 3.0 By Brett Rowland (The Center Square) A judge sentenced FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison on Thursday, marking the long fall of the onetime cryptocurrency star. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan also sentenced Samuel Bankman-Fried, known as SBF, to three years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay $11 billion for orchestrating a massive fraud.  Bankman-Fried, who was the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research, misappropriated billions of dollars of customer funds deposited with FTX. He defrauded investors in FTX of more than $1.7 billion and defrauded lenders…

After Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump’s indie music detour to launch a heavily autotuned track called “Anything is Possible,” the Democrats have responded with “Party’s Fallin’ Down.” Published three days too early to be passed off as an awkward April Fools’ Day joke, it’s described as “a new AI-generated song about Lara Trump’s rocky start as RNC co-chair.” You can listen to it here. My recommendation, however, is that you don’t in favor of doing anything else with your time, regardless of your political affiliation, musical taste, or thoughts on AI. In a statement, Harrison calls Trump’s music career…

It all began when  Dutch journalist Teun van de Keuken, or “Tony,” turned himself in for being a “chocolate criminal” in 2003. His crime? Paying for chocolate that used exploitative practices along the cocoa value chain. After a trial, he wasn’t found guilty of the said crime, but he made it his mission to turn chocolate into a vehicle that could spread awareness about all the things that needed to change in the cocoa industry.     And so, in 2005, Tony’s Chocolonely was born—with its bright packaging and punchy messaging. Nearly 20 years on, little has changed about the spirit of the…

Hanoi, Vietnam – At a private venue tucked away in a narrow alley in Hanoi’s city centre, a group of more than 20 people listened attentively to Saleem Hammad, a charismatic, 30-year-old Palestinian man, as he spoke in fluent Vietnamese. Hammad, who runs a business in Vietnam, shared an incident from his childhood in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. Those present listened as he recounted a vivid memory of being awoken one night as Israeli soldiers surrounded and raided his family home. Earlier, he had told those attending the discussion that Vietnam’s history of fighting for liberation against the…