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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...

http://youtu.be/LgnPnRpZsZw Meta confirmed plans Tuesday to lay off approximately 10,000 more employees — expanding a bloodbath that began with about 11,000 job cuts last November. The Facebook and Instagram parent will also close about 5,000 open roles as part of top boss Mark Zuckerberg’s latest major cost-cutting push. “Here’s the timeline you should expect: over the next couple of months, org leaders will announce restructuring plans focused on flattening our orgs, canceling lower priority projects, and reducing our hiring rates,” Zuckerberg confirmed in a memo titled “update on Meta’s year of efficiency.” Meta shares rose nearly 6% in early trading on the announcement. Investors have had a positive reaction to the company’s belt-tightening efforts, with shares surging more than 53...

http://youtu.be/gvteNXSFYP0 Dramatic new video shows the moment a Kyiv kamikaze-style drone stalks a Russian tank as it struggles in vain to outrun the unmanned aircraft. Aerial footage shot from the suicide drone’s point of view, and released by Ukraine’s Security Service, shows the armed aircraft zeroing in on a Russian tank, identified as a T-80BV, racing along a desolate road in the Kharkiv region. The remotely operated drone pivots in the air and begins pursuing its target in the recording set to the jaunty tune of Dick Dale and The Del Tones’ 1963 hit “Misirlou,” made popular by Quentin Tarantino’s cult classic “Pulp Fiction.” As the chase heats up, the drone descends to an altitude of just a few dozen feet above the ground, flying almost directly above the fleeing tank. Moments...