FBI DIRECTOR KASH Patel enjoys access to a litany of professional perks, among them use of a Gulfstream G550 jet, a 15-passenger luxury aircraft owned by the Department of Justice that he has reportedly taken to visit his aspiring country musician girlfriend. Responding to growing outrage about his personal use of the government jet, Patel has insisted those who track his flights are dangerous and cowardly.

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Community organizer Katie Wilson… campaigned on a message of affordability in a city where the cost of living has soared. Wilson’s platform calls for progressive taxation to raise revenue from the wealthiest households and corporations to pay for affordable housing and social programs benefiting families. Wilson spoke to reporters Thursday after Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell conceded.

Mining company BHP has been found liable for a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil, known as the country's worst-ever environmental disaster, by London's High Court.

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Ah fuck it's burnt

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The first thing Lana Ponting remembers about the Allan Memorial Institute, a former psychiatric hospital in Montreal, Canada, is the smell - almost medicinal.

After six momentous leaps from a small aircraft, skydiver Gabriel C. Brown completed his mission. Brown is friends with astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy and now, also one of his collaborators. Together, the pair created a stunning image that shows the adventurous subject falling in front of the sun.

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A federal bankruptcy court judge on Friday said he would approve OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma’s latest deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids that includes some money for thousands of victims of the epidemic.

The prospect of chaos and war excited Jeffrey Epstein. The late New York financier and child abuser kept a keen eye on news about foreign conflicts that could be exploited for commercial gain. On February 21, 2014, Epstein sent an e-mail to Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister, with whom he would partner the following year as investors in a security tech firm Reporty Homeland Security (later renamed Carbyne). Epstein wrote, “with civil unrest exploding in ukraine syria, somolia [sic], libya, and the desperation of those in power, isn’t this perfect for you.” Barak tried to tamp down his friend’s enthusiasm, noting, “You’re right [in] a way. But not simple to transform it into a cash flow.”

Eugene Yuanzhi Wu (Chinese: 吳元之; pinyin: Wú Yuánzhī) is an American lawyer and politician who is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, serving since 2013. Since January 2025, he has served as chair of the Democratic caucus. He was formerly a prosecutor for Harris County.

A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed the Black man with a shotgun.

A community to discuss fruit trees, fruit forestry, fruitarianism, and all things fruit-related.

I was always kind of afraid of dealing with beans but it's made out to be harder than it is. A can of beans is now approaching $1 US, and I use them quite frequently in soups and chili, etc. Well, a pound of dry beans also costs around $1 US (or $2 US, depending on make and model) - but a pound of dry beans makes roughly about 6 cans' worth of beans. From a cost perspective, it's a no-brainer.

I used to love this one, a very mild fruity curry. Fine for kids.

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Art is weird. If the task is "draw a koi" that is, on the surface, easy. Be as technical or abstract as you want. If it's fish like and maybe has some orange in it then it will pass.

Earlier this week, more than a dozen Jewish organizations signed a statement accusing the ADL of “racist and Islamophobic attacks on our mayor-elect [that] undermine our shared commitment to confronting both antisemitism and Islamophobia in New York City”. Mamdani told reporters that “anyone is free to catalog the actions of our administration.” He added, in reference to a false statement made by Greenblatt in a CNBC interview: “I have some doubts about Jonathan [Greenblatt]’s ability to do so honestly, given that he previously said I had not visited any synagogues, only to have to correct himself.”

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My parents have this old 2015 MacBook Air that they wanted to use but couldn’t due to no security updates and slow running. I convinced them to let me load up fedora on it instead of junking it. They only really need it for some basic document writing, email, and web surfing so I figured this is perfect for them.

Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the United Nations climate conference on Friday to send a message to Japan: end financing of coal and natural gas projects across Southeast Asia and other regions of the Global South.

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“One person made a mistake by posting a video in a private chat where it shouldn’t have been shared. Another leaked it publicly for views. The masses got a beautiful picture—and the next group paid the price under fire at that same spot,” Howell wrote.