A woman discovered a secret car hack thanks to a hot tip on social media. Teacher and TikToker @jmac8781 learned that the handles in the back seat of her car were more functional than she thought. Apparently, the spring-loaded handles for passengers to pull down and hold don't always need to be pulled.
Elon Musk said China will produce "some very strong companies," praising the country's workforce. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he expects China to produce "some very strong companies," due to the country's workforce. "There's just a lot of super-talented hardworking people in China who strongly believe in manufacturing," Musk said in an interview with the Financial Times on Tuesday.
Extremist Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) ranted Tuesday on the House floor about what she claimed was the censorship of conservatives, railing against the government's new disinformation governance board. The conspiracy theory-endorsing lawmaker received a surprising response when Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) later took to the floor. “Unlike some of our colleagues on the other side, we're not interested in censoring other people's speech,” Raskin told the chamber.
A woman on TikTok is issuing a warning to all travelers that the swim-up bar commonly found at hotels and resorts may look cool but should be avoided. Vacation pro tip: Avoid the pool with the swim-up bar,” TikTok user @twofoodpiggies advised in the video. There were literally intoxicated guests admitting that they were peeing in the pool here.
Ukrainian paratroopers note that the Russian Mi-24 attack helicopter, shot down on 10 May, is already the 15th on their account. Details: In total, the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces have already shot down fifteen of the oddupiers' helicopters during the large-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops. On 10 May, in one of the mission areas, the air defence unit of the 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down a Russian Mi-24 attack helicopter from the Stinger MANPADS.
Law enforcement officers in Indiana warned each other about the gun Vicky White had in her hand as they discussed how to retrieve her from her flipped vehicle, according to footage of the incident released by the Evansville Police Department on Tuesday. In one video, officers on the scene crouch in the grassy ditch by the overturned Cadillac, minutes after a U.S. Marshal rammed it, ending both a short police chase and White's 11-day stint on the run with a murder suspect. The 56-year-old assistant director of corrections shot herself “almost instantaneously” before deputies could reach her, Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding said at a Tuesday press conference.
Soon after Jim Medeiros bought his 143-acre (58-hectare) cattle and poultry farm in rural Virginia a decade ago, he and his wife were startled by the sounds of 20 hunting dogs barking and howling as they circled their house and chased their chickens. When Medeiros confronted a hunter nearby, the man told him he had permission to hunt on Medeiros' property. In disbelief, Medeiros called the agency that enforces a state law allowing hunters to retrieve their hunting dogs from private property, even when the property owners object.
A Ukrainian soldier in a liberated town said that killing Russian forces is "like a sport now." Volodymyr Demchenko described what it was like killing Russian forces during an interview with CNN. It's a "very weird feeling to be honest, but it's like a sport now," Demchenko said.
The 26-year-old New York woman accused of fatally shoving an 86-year-old voice coach did so in an angry fit that began when she was kicked out of a closing park while eating dinner with her fiancé, prosecutors said Tuesday. Lauren Pazienza spent the night of March 10 gallery-hopping with her fiancé in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood in celebration of 100 days until their wedding, the fiancé told authorities, according to a court document. Pazienza had "several glasses of wine" during the evening before the pair stopped at a food cart for something to eat, according to the document filed by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France (Reuters) - The Russian military's failure to seize the Ukrainian capital was inevitable because in the preceding years they had never directly faced a powerful enemy, according to a former mercenary with the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group who fought alongside the Russian army. Marat Gabidullin took part in Wagner Group missions on the Kremlin's behalf in Syria and in a previous conflict in Ukraine, before deciding to go public about his experience inside the secretive private military company. He quit the Wagner group in 2019, but several months before Russia launched the invasion on Feb. 24 Gabidullin, 55, said he received a call from a recruiter who invited him to go back to fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine.
There's just one problem: The candidate, J.R. Majewski, was repeatedly filmed talking about Q on web shows, spray-painting QAnon logos onto his lawn, and wearing QAnon merchandise. “This guy has more QAnon merchandise than basically any QAnon person I've ever talked to,” says Fever Dreams co-host Will Sommer, who found videos of Majewski wearing an extensive Q-themed wardrobe. This week on Fever Dreams, we dive deep into the far right's livestreamed publicity woes, from Majewski's QAnon comments, to a nasty fight in the white nationalist “America First” movement.
Coinbase said its users' crypto assets could become company property if it went bankrupt. The company added disclosure for the first time in its earnings report Tuesday. Coinbase, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, warned that its users might lose access to their holdings if the company ever went bankrupt.
The Ukrainian military said it destroyed a Russian tank in Kharkiv Oblast with an anti-tank rifle provided by the Swedish government. Ukraine's defense ministry said the vehicle, which it identified as a Russian T-90 main battle tank, was destroyed by a hand-held “Carl Gustaf” anti-tank recoilless rifle provided by the government of Sweden. An undated video posted to Twitter on May 10 by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine shows a line of vehicles near Staryi Saltiv in Kharkiv, and a strike on the rear vehicle.
New audio has leaked of Sen. Lindsey Graham revealing his feelings about Biden and Trump. Graham is heard saying he thinks Biden is the "best person" to have after the Capitol riot. Graham also criticizes Trump in another tape, saying he "plays the TV game" and "went too far."
Watch: Prince Charles delivers Queen's Speech in House of Lords Britain's Prince Charles on Tuesday delivered the Queen's Speech for the first time after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, began suffering from what officials called ”episodic mobility problems. One key moment struck a sour note with many observers. The speech, which marks the formal opening of Parliament, is written by government officials.
Many observers expected Russia's air force to blow away Ukraine's forces in the opening days of the Kremlin's invasion. Ukraine's military would be left completely vulnerable as Russian warplanes could pick off targets at whim. More than two months later, Russia has still not established air supremacy over large swaths of Ukraine, despite having the world's second-largest air force — and a highly advanced one at that.
A London Afrobeat singer has been charged in the U.S. with allegedly breaking into unwitting victims' brokerage accounts and using their money to buy stocks in order to manipulate prices so he and his accomplices could profit off the price swings. Idris Dayo Mustapha, a U.K. citizen who was born in Nigeria, is accused of running a wide variety of swindles dating back to 2011 when he was as young as 15, including romance scams, phishing schemes and complex stock frauds. “The defendant was part of a nefarious group that caused millions of dollars in losses to victims by engaging in a litany of cybercrimes, including widespread hacking, fraud, taking control of victims' securities brokerage accounts, and trading in the name of the victims,” said Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the eastern district of New York.
An annual event at Lake George in Florida lived up to its name – "Mayhem at Lake George" – after videos circulated online of brawls breaking out on the water. Last weekend at the lake 40 miles west of Daytona, hundreds gathered – many of them on boats – to enjoy music and libations. People are just out there to have a good time, but like anything else, when you have a huge concentration of people like this and you have alcohol involved, you do have some incidents,” Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood told WESH 2, an Orlando-Daytona NBC TV station.
But a top Biden administration official told Yahoo Finance on Monday that certain export controls may hurt Vladimir Putin's army in the immediate future. Because of the export controls we've already put in place, Russia's top two manufacturers of tanks are no longer in business,” Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo said Monday. Russia today has far fewer tanks than they had going into this invasion, and they can't make more because of the action that we're taking with sanctions.
Saudi Oil Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman warned Tuesday that the world is "running out of energy capacity at all levels." The amount of unused capacity that the world can tap to produce more energy products is running out, warned top oil ministers. Referring to recent price spikes for refined products, Saudi Oil Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said at a Tuesday conference, "I am a dinosaur, but I have never seen these things," according to Bloomberg.
The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is prepared to dig his heels in over the war in Ukraine and let it drag on for some time—and along the way, Putin might resort to extreme measures to ensure Russia wins in the end, top U.S. spies warned Tuesday. The next steps Putin might take include escalating domestic measures that could contribute to the war effort, such as instituting martial law, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines warned in a Tuesday briefing. The uncertain nature of the battle...
Four Russian regional governors resigned on Tuesday as the country braces for the impact of economic sanctions. The heads of the Tomsk, Saratov, Kirov and Mari El regions announced their immediate departures from office, while the head of Ryazan region said he would not run for another term. Elections are scheduled to take place in all five regions in September.
Tucker Carlson proudly wore his prejudice Tuesday in a cheap shot at new White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre is the first Black woman and openly gay person to hold the position being vacated by Jen Psaki this week. Jean-Pierre previously worked as President Joe Biden's deputy press secretary.
The 2023 Cadillac Escalade-V high-performance SUV has the most powerful street-legal production internal-combustion engine that General Motors has yet produced. It's a supercharged 6.2-liter V8 that's closely related to the engine in the CT5-V Blackwing. But output has increased to 682 horsepower and 653 pound-feet of torque.
With six days until Pennsylvania's primary, Republicans are openly worrying that a leading candidate in the crowded GOP field for governor is unelectable in the fall general election and will fumble away an opportunity for the party to take over the battleground state's executive suite. Doug Mastriano, 58, a state senator since 2019 and a retired U.S. Army colonel, is running to the right of the nine-person Republican field and against the party's establishment in a state still roiled by former President Donald Trump's baseless conspiracy theories that Democrats stole the 2020 election there. Mastriano is a prominent peddler of the unsubstantiated claims that widespread fraud marred the 2020 election and that Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf was responsible for thousands of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes.
“It could give millions a chance to finally buy a house or start their business or help their kids get an education, too.”
“You signed a contract…If you don’t want to deal with the financial pressure of debt, don’t take out the loan.”
“Without action from Biden, Black student debt will hinder his agenda with respect to eliminating racial inequities.”
“Blanket relief could end up routing too much relief to those who do not need it and too little to those who do.”
“Unlike a number of other policy issues, student debt relief doesn’t need to be pushed through a narrowly controlled Congress.”
