Month: April 2022

Twitter Accepts Elon Musk’s $44 Billion Takeover Bid

Twitter’s Board of Directors has approved Elon Musk’s offer to purchase the social media firm and take it private in a transaction valued at about $44 billion, the company announced Monday. The company accepted the billionaire’s proposal of $54.20 per share. “Twitter has a purpose and relevance that impacts the entire world. Deeply proud of…


Twitter Accepts Elon Musk’s Offer

Twitter’s Board of Directors has approved Elon Musk’s offer to purchase the social media firm and take it private in a transaction valued at about $44 billion, the company announced Monday. The company accepted the billionaire’s proposal of $54.20 per share. “Twitter has a purpose and relevance that impacts the entire world. Deeply proud of…


UK Government Withdraws Plan to Push Back Migrant Boats in the English Channel

The UK government has abandoned its plan to turn migrant small boats back to the French side of the English Channel ahead of a judicial review of the policy. Campaign groups that were challenging the tactic said on Monday that it was informed by the government’s legal department that the policy had been withdrawn by the…


Tesla Shareholder Lawsuit Reveals Elon Musk’s Private Texts With Saudi Fund on Proposed Privatization

Text messages between Elon Musk and a representative of a Saudi Arabian investment firm have now surfaced as part of an ongoing shareholder lawsuit, shedding more light on the billionaire’s controversial 2018 tweet about taking the publicly traded company, Tesla Inc., private. “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured,” Musk said in the…


Climate Misanthropes Say Fighting Climate Change Is More Important Than Food, Reliable Energy, and Peace

Commentary In the face of unbearable human tragedy around the world, children starving, women and children being bombed, and homes and businesses without power, climate scolds continue to insist climate change is the most important danger the world faces. With pictures streaming daily out of Africa and Ukraine showing grossly malnourished and starving children as…


Pit Bulls Attack 1-Year-Old Girl in Pico Rivera

PICO RIVERA, Calif.—A 1-year-old girl was rushed to a trauma center after she was injured in a pit bull attack in Pico Rivera, and she is expected to undergo surgery on April 25 for a hip fracture at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center. Paramedics were sent to the 9600 block of Homebrook Street…


Lab Owner Who Exposed FTC Scandal Now Eyes the FBI

For more than a decade, LabMD owner Michael Daugherty told his story to anyone willing to listen: An allegedly rogue cybersecurity firm used FBI surveillance software in an attempt to extort him before colluding with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a malicious enforcement action that financially ruined his cancer research center. Throughout that time,…


Mom of Slain Quebec Boys Seeking Compensation Over Alleged Youth Protection Failures

The mother of two deceased boys whose father is accused of killing them is seeking $2 million from the Quebec government, alleging youth protection services failed her family. In a lawyer’s letter dated Friday, Émilie Arsenault accused Quebec’s youth protection service of failing to act despite the fact the agency had been allegedly contacted three…


China Threat ‘Unprecedented in History’: FBI Director

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the single greatest cyber and counterintelligence threat to the United States, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray, who warned that the regime was targeting every sector of the American economy. “The biggest threat we face as a country from a counterintelligence perspective is from the People’s Republic of China…


China Gains Access to the Bay of Bengal

News Analysis The United States and India are threatened as the Chinese regime stands on the brink of securing a port in the Indian Ocean on pace to achieve its goal of sea control by 2030 and naval superiority by 2049. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a long history of circumventing sanctions to support…