News- US

http://youtu.be/3QRpyOKcu78 A tech tycoon has been branded a “creep” after allegedly offering a woman $100,000 to take off her face mask on board a Delta flight. Steve Kirsch took to Twitter to say he made the anonymous passenger the offer last Friday. “I am on board a Delta flight right now. The person sitting next to me in first-class refused $100,000 to remove her mask for the entire flight,” the millionaire wrote. “No joke. This was after I explained they don’t work. She works for a pharma company.” Kirsch accompanied his post with a selfie that showed him smiling on board the full flight. He did not disclose the destination to which he was traveling. The Post reached out to Kirsch for comment. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/15/tech-tycoon-called-a-creep-for-100k-offer-t...

http://youtu.be/qx709xm8CHE Lame duck Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot got a tongue-lashing at a raucous city council meeting Wednesday, with a longtime critic telling the controversial pol to “get the hell out of my city.” Journalist William Kelly, a frequent adversary of Lightfoot, berated the outgoing mayor for her botched leadership, including her response to the COVID-19 pandemic, during a public comment portion of the meeting. “You shut down our schools, you shut down the churches, you shut down the businesses,” Kelly railed, according to a video posted by Forbes. “You did the one thing that I thought could never happen,” he said. “As someone who was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, I never thought in my life that I would ever see the city of Chicago brought down so low ...

http://youtu.be/mN4EL887tds CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert couldn’t resist a jab at Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday night after she answered a question about her role in the administration by rambling about President Biden’s leadership skills. While discussing his and Harris’ mutual admiration for HBO’s “Veep,” the reliably liberal “Late Show” host noted how title character Selena Meyer, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, was often frustrated by the “vague duties of the role” and asked Harris to describe how she found being a heartbeat away from the presidency. “Well, I have the great privilege of serving with Joe Biden, who is the president of the United States,” Harris responded. “Does he understand what it’s like to be vice president?” Colbert asked, a sarcastic reference to...

http://youtu.be/X2IYJ4VbgzY President Biden’s daughter-in-law Hallie is the mysterious “new Biden” family member who got paid Chinese cash in 2017, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer revealed exclusively to The Post Thursday. Comer said the payments to first son Hunter Biden’s sister-in-law-turned-former lover were revealed in subpoenaed bank records. The records show Hallie Biden received $35,000 over two transfers in 2017 from Biden family associate Rob Walker, who got $3 million on March 1, 2017, from State Energy HK Limited, a firm affiliated with CEFC China Energy. President Biden, who allegedly was the “big guy” mentioned in communications about the same Chinese venture, dined at Hallie Biden’s residence last Friday during his regular weekend trip home to Delaware. It...

http://youtu.be/u_bKlFrlMSA A 21-year-old soldier was found dead in a burning car in Honolulu – and her boyfriend has been charged with murder for allegedly stabbing her in the neck and igniting the vehicle. Spc. Laau Jordan Laulusa, a member of the Hawaii Army National Guard, was discovered at about 6:40 a.m. Monday inside the torched car, which was parked outside Mililani High School, KITV reported. Witnesses told police they saw a man holding a “bladed weapon” opening and closing the car’s doors moments before it went up in flames, and then fleeing from the scene. The passersby followed him until police arrived and took him into custody. The suspect, identified as Samuel Jones, was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree arson. His bail was set at $1 million. Read more ...

http://youtu.be/CwdUeBiDvGI Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine has been called “reprehensible” for proudly announcing that “gender-affirming” treatment of transgender kids is supported “at the highest levels” of President Biden’s administration. Levine, the highest-ranking transgender official in US history, made the claim at a talk in Connecticut last month when asked about criticism of health centers treating children with the likes of puberty blockers and hormones. She maintained the attacks are “ideologically and politically motivated,” calling them “unconscionable.” “I can say that the children, their families and you all as their providers have support at the highest levels of the federal government,” Levine told the Pediatric Grand Rounds session in Hartford. “Presid...

http://youtu.be/gcwUr9m0fNg Here are The Post’s biggest video headlines for March 17, 2023: When an Oklahoma police captain was pulled over for swerving and speeding footage reveals he tried to pull rank and asked for the bodycam to be turned off, March Madness fans ripped TNT for panning to an emotional Utah State cheerleader during her team's loss to Missouri, the royal family would simply "collapse" without Kate Middleton according to Princess Diana's former butler. #oklahoma #marchmadness #cheerleader #katemiddleton The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports: https://www.youtube.com/c/nypostsports Catch the latest news here: https://n...

http://youtu.be/fxY9t4qmZjw As President Biden weighs a re-election bid at age 80, his long-troubled son Hunter has all but guaranteed the commander-in-chief will be bringing plenty of baggage on the campaign trail. Hunter Biden on Friday escalated his legal war with the former computer repair shop owner who came into possession of his now-infamous laptop, with a countersuit that claims his privacy was invaded — and which threatens to put all his sordid drug binging, sexcapades and shady foreign business deals right back into the spotlight. In the countersuit, filed in US District Court in Delaware first thing Friday, the first son alleged John Paul Mac Isaac had no legal right to copy and disseminate the contents of the laptop that was abandoned at his Delaware store in 2019. The 42-p...

http://youtu.be/d67LTPz9F6E Former President Donald Trump will be allowed back on YouTube after a more than two-year ban, the platform told The Post Friday. The video streaming service owned by Google suspended Trump’s account on Jan. 12, 2021, in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. YouTube public policy VP Leslie Miller said that beginning Friday, Trump can return to his channel with more than 2.5 million followers and “is no longer restricted and the ability to upload new content is restored.” “We carefully evaluated the continued risk of real-world violence, balancing that with the importance of preserving the opportunity for voters to hear equally from major national candidates in the run-up to an election,” Miller said in a statement. The announcement comes after Trump wa...

http://youtu.be/K6_M7pQouZ8 The body of a young South Carolina man who died mysteriously just a few miles from the infamous Murdaugh family’s home is set to be exhumed, his family has said Friday. Stephen Smith’s family announced Thursday that they will exhume his body for an independent autopsy after his July 8, 2015, death received renewed attention during Alex Murdaugh’s trial. Stephen Smith’s family announced that they will exhume his body for an independent autopsy after his July 8, 2015, death received renewed attention during Alex Murdaugh’s trial, WYFF reported. The move comes more than seven years after Smith, 19, was found dead on Sandy Run Road outside Hampton County, not far from the Moselle estate where Alex Murdaugh gunned down his wife and son six years later. At the ti...

http://youtu.be/Of5MXbBOldQ The Justice Department is investigating claims that the Chinese company that owns TikTok has been spying on US tech journalists, according to a report Friday. The probe into ByteDance stems from the company’s acknowledgment in December that employees had obtained data of US TikTok users, some of whom were reporters, the New York Times said. Sources told the Times that the Justice Department, along with the FBI and the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, are looking into how ByteDance employees were able to access that data. The Justice Department did not respond to an inquiry from the Times or The Post, and the specific scope of the investigation is unclear. The report comes as the Biden administration has pressured ByteDance to sell ...

http://youtu.be/5P5WHD_9ySk President Biden refused to take reporter questions at a St. Patrick’s Day meeting with visiting Irish leader Leo Varadkar. The media duck came despite press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre a day earlier attempting to quell a reporter outcry over the lack of a joint press conference by saying Biden might do so. The 80-year-old president smiled and raised his eyebrows as he ignored shouted questions in the Oval Office while sitting alongside Varadkar — as press wranglers bellowed “Thank you so much!” and “Please follow this way.” Without a formal press conference, Varadkar, whose title taoiseach is equivalent to the role of prime minister, was left to talk to reporters on the White House driveway — a less dignified venue than the East Room or Rose Garden, where U...

http://youtu.be/a1La5Op3pNI Vice President Kamala Harris was showered with boos while attending an NCAA Tournament game Thursday. Her alma mater Howard University was blown out in a first-round game of March Madness. When the veep was shown on the video board during the men’s basketball game, the boos were louder than the applause inside Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, the Associated Press reported. The Democrat witnessed the top-seeded University of Kansas Jayhawks trounce the Howard Bison — Harris graduated from Howard in 1986 – by a score of 96-68 in the west region matchup. Harris, who watched the game in a suite with her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, visited Howard’s locker room after the loss to commend the players on their effort and impressive season. “You gu...

http://youtu.be/gYfDfw9kxb0 Just in case artificial intelligence wasn’t parroting people well enough already: OpenAI’s brand-new GPT-4 — ChatGPT‘s newest tech update — tricked a human into thinking it was blind in order to cheat the online CAPTCHA test that determines if users are human. The digital deception came to light after the AI was unveiled on their site and in a developer livestream with 2.3 million views in 48 hours. According to their 94-page report, “GPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs)” that “exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks.” These next-level capabilities include completing taxes, writing code for another AI bot and passing a mock bar exam with a score among the top 10% o...

http://youtu.be/OCJvUGZ19zY An explosive fight at a Louisiana high school among nearly 200 students and parents ended with several cops injured and at least 10 arrests. Swarms of police officers responded early March 8 to a “major campus disturbance” at East Baton Rouge Readiness Alternative School, finding a loaded gun abandoned on the ground, WBRZ reported. Officials say one fight broke out and escalated, spilling out into the school’s courtyard and gym. By the time police arrived, there were about 200 people involved in brawls across the campus. Videos of the chaos taken inside the school’s gym show chairs getting tossed and students being detained by law enforcement. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/12/fight-among-200-brawlers-at-louisiana-hs-ends-in-10-arrests/ #louisiana...

http://youtu.be/NhjmG1g7i20 Chaotic video shows the moment hundreds of migrants stormed across a major bridge linking Mexico to the US. Footage first shared with Fox News shows the crowd screaming and even jumping for joy Sunday afternoon as they start streaming onto the Paso Del Norte bridge from Juárez under a sign saying “Feliz Viaje,” or happy travels. The rush followed a rumor that the border was being opened to give them fast-tracked political asylum in the US, according to Mexican outlet Norte Digital. Many — including elderly and young kids — started running and appealing for others to follow as they raced up the bridge leading to el Paso, Texas. The group — which Fox estimated was at least 1,000 mostly Venezuelan migrants — then clamored to be let in through gates at the bord...

http://youtu.be/C8l3bEG6YZw President Biden defended the stability of the US banking system on Monday morning after the stunning collapse of Silicon Valley Bank sparked fears of a major economic crisis. “Thanks to the quick action of my administration over the last few days, Americans can have confidence that the banking system is safe,” Biden said. “Your deposits will be there when you need them.” The president sought to reassure worried Americans and small business owners even as regional bank stocks led by First Republic Bank plunged in premarket trading Monday due to fears that SVB’s meltdown would prompt a nationwide flurry of withdrawals. Biden also blasted executives at SVB and other failing banks, declaring that those whose actions prompted the current crisis “will be fired.” ...

http://youtu.be/XwSGamxzRt8 Shares of First Republic Bank tanked by nearly 70% in pre-market trading on Monday before trading in the stock halted — just hours after federal regulators announced that they would step in and assume control of failed lenders Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. The San Francisco-based First Republic Bank, a regional lender with more than $216 billion in assets under management, was last down 67% at $27.08 before its trading was halted for volatility. Trading was halted despite President Biden addressing the burgeoning crisis. First Republic was one several regional banks that led Monday’s decline in the banking sector — fueling more fears that large financial institutions were at risk. Among other regional lenders, Western Alliance was down 82.% and Pa...

http://youtu.be/8C0EUyprny4 A daredevil dog was rescued by a lifeguard Saturday evening after it darted into the water at Long Beach and was spotted swimming out to sea. The incident took place around 6 p.m. Saturday, when lifeguards were alerted to a pooch that was observed running loose in the Junipero Beach parking lot In Long Beach, according to a statement from the Long Beach Fire Department. By the time lifeguards arrived on the scene, the small white pup had run out to the Pacific Ocean and started doggy-paddling out to sea. One of the lifeguards donned his red wetsuit, grabbed his rescue board and buoy, and jumped in after the courageous canine to bring it to safety. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/california-lifeguard-rescues-tiny-dog-swimming-out-to-sea-video/ #c...

http://youtu.be/yFRV6zxb8Xw Three hikers in South Africa sustained broken legs following an attack by “agitated” baboons, who rolled a large boulder down at them. A Facebook post detailing the alleged interspecies assault is currently blowing up on Facebook. “Three hikers all suffered broken legs – after a boulder smashed down a mountain,” reads the shocking post, which was posted by the Western Cape-based Wilderness Search and Rescue. According to the post, the freak incident occurred last month after a group of seven hikers embarked on an abseiling expedition in the remote Banhoek mountains in the Western Cape. The excursion was going well until the second day when the adventurers stopped for lunch and noticed a troop of Cape baboons on a cliff above them. The simians — which are som...

http://youtu.be/oY-xYm-XpzA The swift collapse of Silicon Valley Bank sent shock waves through the US financial system over the weekend — with many wondering how the nation’s 16th-largest lender, which catered to thousands of innovative tech startups, could fail so spectacularly. Before last week, SVB had $209 billion of assets under management. Its fall qualifies as the second-largest bank failure in US history. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/a-timeline-of-silicon-valley-banks-collapse-how-it-all-unfolded/ #svb #business #siliconvalleybank The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports: https://www.youtube.com/c/nypostsports Catc...

http://youtu.be/F87mbsn_Izc CNN tapped two veteran executive producers on Monday to oversee Don Lemon’s ratings-challenged and controversy-marred “CNN This Morning.” Longtime CNN producer Lauren Mensch and Chris Russell, who recently was the executive producer for NewsNation’s “On Balance with Leland Vittert,” will grab the reins from Eric Hall, according to the cable news network. The moves come amid a flurry of bad publicity for Lemon. The host infamously put his foot in his mouth last month by claiming GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley was not “in her prime,” which not only upset co-anchors Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collin but ignited a firestorm of criticism that led to Lemon publicly apologizing and being sent to “formal training.” His tone-deaf remark was ridiculed Sunday by ...

http://youtu.be/VMvKJruuuNg The Colombian Navy stumbled upon a chilling sight after seizing a ghost submarine and finding two dead bodies — along with more than $87.7 million worth of cocaine aboard. Officials estimated that there was more than 2.6 tons of cocaine on the 49-foot-long vessel found floating in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday. Two survivors were also located and in need of life-saving medical attention. “Once the illegal device was located, military personnel found two individuals in poor health conditions on the outside of the vessel,” Colombia’s Ministry of National Defense said in a statement. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/ghost-submarine-with-87-7-million-of-cocaine-two-bodies-aboard-seized-off-coast-of-colombia/ #colombia #submarine The New York Post is y...

http://youtu.be/zzGvIC4rrwY Silicon Valley Bank's new CEO Tim Mayopoulos said the bank is "open" and "conducting business as usual" after the stunning collapse of the nation's 16th-largest bank sparked fears of a major economic crisis, Avril Lavigne told a topless protester at the 2023 Juno Awards to "get the f-- off the stage", as the world waits for a decision on Aaron Rodgers' future he seemed to break his silence with an ambiguous tweet but soon Packers cornerback Rasul Douglas claimed responsibility for the message, which apparently referenced his own name. #svb #business #avrillavigne #junoawards2023 #aaronrodgers #rasuldouglas The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more...