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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...

http://youtu.be/k7iWvQk6ZZw An Oregon high school is under fire over an X-rated assignment that asked students to come up with a “sexual fantasy’’ featuring items such as massage oil, flavored syrup and feathers. Health class students at Churchill High School in Eugene were told to write a short story detailing a “sexual fantasy,’’ including sex toys — as instructed in a syllabus approved by the district, furious parents said. “You will write a short story of a paragraph or two. This story is a sexual fantasy that will have NO penetration of any kind or oral sex (no way of passing an STI),’’ the assignment read. “You will choose 3 items (romantic music, candles, massage oil, feather, feather boa, flavored syrup, etc) to use in your story. Your story should show that you can show and re...

http://youtu.be/Z9Zy1N3s7C8 WARNING: Distressing Content. A 15-year-old boy with autism was dragged off a Manhattan train and pummeled on the platform by a crew of heartless strangers who hurled a racial slur at him, disturbing video shows. The alarming clip, posted to Instagram late Monday, shows a young woman wearing a Chicago Bulls sweatshirt pulling the defenseless teen off a northbound A train at the 181st Street–Fort Washington Avenue station around 5:30 p.m. Friday and screaming, “Get off!” She keeps a grip on the boy’s shirt, pulls him down the busy rush-hour platform and repeatedly yells, “Walk! Walk!” A male voice can then be heard yelling the N-word followed by “alert.” The teen is shown trying to get back on the train, but the woman drags him off again before someone el...

http://youtu.be/NERizST-tmA The U.S. military was forced to take down one of its own drones Tuesday after it collided with a Russian fighter jet over the Black Sea. The MQ-9 drone was brought down in international waters after its propeller was struck by one of two Russian Su-27 aircraft that conducted an “unsafe and unprofessional intercept,” US European Command (EUCOM) said in a statement. “Several times before the collision, the Su-27s dumped fuel on and flew in front of the MQ-9 in a reckless, environmentally unsound, and unprofessional manner,” EUCOM added. “This incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional.” Air Force Gen. James B. Hecker, the commander of US air operations in Europe and Africa, said the drone was carrying out “routi...

http://youtu.be/UWEVXVvzcdw President Biden has said he experienced an “epiphany” while in high school that led him to support gay marriage — but his voting record as a senator and remarks made over the following decades suggest otherwise. ​ Biden, 80, was asked during an interview Monday by ​”The Daily Show” host Kal Penn about his evolving views on same-sex marriage and how the federal government could protect LGBTQ Americans. The president answered Penn, “I can remember exactly where my epiphany was” before launching into a story about his father dropping him off when he was a high school senior. “I remember about to get out of the car and I look to my right and two well-dressed men in suits kissed each other. ​… And I’ll never forget it, I turned and looked at my dad and he said, ...

http://youtu.be/nzGRKGltdd4 “Twitter Files” reporters Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger held firm Thursday against an onslaught of attacks from Democrats who referred to them as “so-called journalists” and demanded they give up their sources during a tense House subcommittee hearing. “The Republicans have brought in two of [Twitter CEO] Elon Musk’s public scribes to release cherry-picked, out-of-context emails and screenshots designed to promote his chosen narrative — Elon Musk’s chosen narrative — that is now being parroted by the Republicans,” said Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-USVI), the ranking member of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Plaskett — who could be described as a “so-called congresswoman” since she cannot vote on the House floor —...

http://youtu.be/l8oWmBriDx8 A married Connecticut lunch lady accused of grooming a 14-year-old boy before sexually assaulting him in her SUV was tight-lipped and dismissive Thursday about the disturbing accusations. Andie Rosafort, 31, was seen outside her New Fairfield home — lugging a Walmart plastic shopping bag topped with a box of Peeps, and clutching her phone and a pack of Marlboro cigarettes as she climbed out of an SUV. She refused to answer questions about the reported inappropriate relationship with a student at New Fairfield High School. Wearing white sneakers, blue jeans, and a green sweatshirt, Rosafor only flashed a little grin when asked to comment on her situation. The school district filed a report against Rosafort after the father of one of the victim’s friends told...

http://youtu.be/QL7o7BbY_zw At least six people were killed and seven injured during a shooting inside a church in Hamburg, Germany on Thursday. Hamburg police reported that shots were fired inside a Jehovah’s Witness center in the Gross Borstel district at around 9 p.m. local time. Police said there was no clear motive yet for the shooting, and the suspects are currently on the run as emergency services arrive at the scene, CNN reports. Residents in the area received a shelter-in-place order amid the police investigation, with officers currently searching the Alsterdorf area. In a tweet about the shootings, Hamburg police wrote: “According to initial findings, a shot was fired in a church on Deelböge street in the #GroßBorstel district. Several people were seriously injured, some eve...

http://youtu.be/72NZcdle39s An accused Oregon murderer fled cops and busted out of a courthouse in a daring escape during his pretrial last month. Edi Villalobos, 28, who was charged in the 2021 slaying of 33-year-old Artemio Guzman-Olvera, fled the Washington County Courthouse during the jury selection process on February 27. Security cameras inside Oregon’s Washington County Courthouse caught two officers escorting Villalobos into the courtroom before sitting him down in a chair, removing both his leg shackles and handcuffs. State law requires all accused persons to be unshackled from their restraints while in front of a jury so the restraints do not taint the jurors’ decision. “Those were removed because of Oregon law,” said Washington County Sheriff’s Communications Sergeant Danny...

http://youtu.be/yxNNulT9imU The parents of slain Georgia high school football star Elijah DeWitt are suing the mall where he was killed, claiming its owners ignored serious safety risks to their son’s ultimate detriment. DeWitt, 18, was fatally shot on Oct. 5 outside a Dave & Buster’s in an attempted robbery outside the Sugarloaf Mills Malls in Lawrenceville, Georgia. With full knowledge of the “dangerous and hazardous conditions,” the mall “negligently represented to its invitees that the [premises] were properly maintained and reasonably safe,” lawyers for DeWitt’s parents, Craig and Dawn, said in their suit filed in the State Court of Gwinnett County. The suit names Simon Property Group, Sugarloaf Mills Limited Partnership, Universal Protection Service, the mall’s security dire...

http://youtu.be/nuO4yf5o_Nk President Biden sounded pessimistic about his re-election chances Thursday, calling his predecessor and 2024 challenger Donald Trump the “maybe future president” of the United States. Biden, 80, also referred to himself as “400” years old during a rambling speech in Philadelphia that was meant to highlight the release of his annual budget proposal — which includes key planks of his re-election campaign platform. “As you can tell, I’ve only been around a few years — like 400,” Biden said jokingly after declaring he’d “never been more optimistic about America’s future than I am today.” Biden is already the oldest-ever president but is gearing up for a rematch against the 76-year-old Trump in the next election. He would be 86 if he completes a full second term...

http://youtu.be/D4endLEKBbQ A patient and three crew members survived when a medical transport helicopter crashed in western North Carolina Thursday evening. Macon County 911 Communications Supervisor Todd Seagle said the helicopter went down moments after it declared an emergency around 7 p.m., WLOS-TV reported. Macon County Sheriff Brent Holbrooks said the EC-135 helicopter was traveling to Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, when it crashed in Macon County. Holbrooks confirmed all four people on the flight were alive, WLOS reported. The aircraft was transporting a patient from a medical facility in Murphy, North Carolina. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/patient-crew-survive-north-carolina-medical-helicopter-crash/ #northcarolina #helicopter The New York Po...

http://youtu.be/fU1S79FKA2A The House on Friday unanimously passed its version of a Senate-approved bill to force the White House to declassify intelligence reports about the origins of COVID-19 and its ties to a Chinese lab. The 419-0 vote sends the bill to President Biden’s desk completely unopposed in Congress after the Senate approved the measure by unanimous consent last week. So far, the White House has not indicated whether Biden will veto the legislation, meaning Americans may soon know what intelligence officials have learned about the pandemic’s source. The bill requires Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to declassify “any and all information relating to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology” and COVID-19, as well as “make available to the publi...

http://youtu.be/jRvCiOKdJlE President Biden defended his proposal to raise the corporate tax rate to 28% — up from 21% — by saying Friday that “wacko liberal” former President Ronald Reagan taxed businesses at an even higher rate. Biden included the proposed increase, which stands no chance of passing Congress, in his annual budget released Thursday. “When we talk about 28% tax rate — Ronald Reagan was doing a 28% tax rate, you know that wacko liberal guy, you know,” Biden said in a stage whisper during White House remarks touting the release of strong job-growth figures from February. Biden didn’t mention that Reagan, a Republican who advocated small-government policies, had to work with a Democrat-controlled House throughout his two terms in the White House. Read more at https://nyp...

http://youtu.be/hJiRiqnSFTE A Concord, New Hampshire, father who was banned from occupying an elementary school’s property dressed up as Julius Caesar at a recent school board meeting on Monday to drive his claims that a public school district is “facilitating gender confusion.” “I am Caesar. Julius Caesar of Rome, the emperor. I am also a female,” Michael Guglielmo said. “Does anybody here believe that? That I am Julius Caesar? Anybody believe that? No, of course not. It’s ridiculous.” Guglielmo called for the suspension of both CSD Superintendent Kathleen Murphy and Christa McAuliffe Principal Kristen Gallo for “facilitating gender confusion” by allowing an art teacher who identifies with the LGBTQ community to continue teaching in the elementary school. Guglielmo has been outspoken ...

http://youtu.be/RC0C89PcUAc A North Carolina man has been charged for careening his hatchback into the terminal of Wilmington International Airport while evading police — and injuring a TSA agent who was scrambling to safety, officials said Friday. Tray Anthony Dvorak was nabbed just after 7 p.m. Thursday after busting through the fences surrounding the Wilmington, North Carolina, airport and driving into the airfield and onto the tarmac, North Hanover County Sheriff’s Lt. J.J. Brewer said. Authorities caught up to him as he was driving off the airfield, at which point he allegedly plowed his vehicle through the glass doors and windows of the terminal and onto the tiled floor. At least one law enforcement officer, a TSA agent, was injured, Brewer said. The woman broke her ankle as she ...

http://youtu.be/C8YfxziProk Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was hospitalized Wednesday night after he fell at a Washington, DC, hotel. McConnell (R-Ky.), 81, was having dinner at the hotel when he took a tumble, his spokesperson said. “This evening, Leader McConnell tripped at a local hotel during a private dinner,” the rep said. “He has been admitted to the hospital where he is receiving treatment.” The spokesperson didn’t provide details on the extent of the Republican’s injuries. The minority leader was reportedly at the Waldorf Astoria DC for an event when he fell, according to Punchbowl News reporters. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/09/mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized-after-fall-at-waldorf-astoria-hotel/ #mitchmcconnell #hospitalized #dc #politics The New York Post...

http://youtu.be/8q_CAo7JA0A Passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Cuba to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, erupted in panic and chaos after the jetliner was forced to make an emergency landing following a bird strike. Shortly after taking off from Havana, smoke began filling the cabin of Flight 3923 after birds reportedly struck one of the plane’s engines and nose. The Boeing 737 had 147 passengers and six crew members onboard, and the pilot was able to return the flight to Havana safely. There were no reported injuries, Southwest Airlines told the Guardian. In shocking cellphone footage recorded inside the cabin, some passengers desperately try to punch the ceilings over their seats to release their oxygen masks as the smoke overwhelms the worried travelers. Read more at https://n...

http://youtu.be/-z_E3PV5uII New emails uncovered by House Republicans probing the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the deceptive nature of Dr. Anthony Fauci. They show he “prompted” or commissioned — and had final approval on — a scientific paper written specifically in February 2020 to disprove the theory that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. Eight weeks later, Fauci stood at a White House press conference alongside President Donald Trump and cited that paper as evidence that the lab leak theory was implausible while pretending it had nothing to do with him and he did not know the authors. “There was a study recently,” he told reporters on April 17, 2020, when asked if the virus could have come from a Chinese lab, “where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists look...

http://youtu.be/5P83wi_fr58 A Florida couple’s marriage got off to a rocky start when the owner of their reception venue pointed a gun at them and ordered everyone to “get out” — after a row over the music. Insane video posted by Jonathan Campo, the DJ and cousin of the bride, shows the irate man waving the weapon and shouting at the terrified guests Thursday night at Cielo Farms in Southwest Ranches. “He begins to wave it at everyone at the party, telling us to all get out, ‘Get out! Get out!’” Campo told WPLG, adding that the mayhem erupted during the last song of the night. The DJ told WSVN that a worker at the venue ordered him to turn off the music over fears of noise complaints — then spilled a drink on his equipment even though he had turned the music down. “By this time, the e...

http://youtu.be/Dm32T4NQyCw Walmart will close its last two stores in crime-plagued Portland, Ore., as the city contends with a relentless wave of shoplifting that has hammered retailers. The two stores, located in the North and Southeastern sections of the Rose City, will shutter on March 24. The closure announcement followed a “careful review of their overall performance,” a Walmart spokesperson told local news outlet KPTV last month. “We consider many factors, including current and projected financial performance, location, population, customer needs, and the proximity of other nearby stores when making these difficult decisions,” the spokesperson added. “After we decide to move forward, our focus is on our associates and their transition, which is the case here.” Nearly 600 employ...

http://youtu.be/zSA99bi_RoM Buster Murdaugh’s attorney girlfriend was a constant presence by his side as his disgraced lawyer father Alex Murdaugh’s high-profile murder trial gripped the country. His 26-year-old girlfriend, Brooklynn White, was spotted comforting the now-convicted murderer’s flame-haired son repeatedly in the courtroom throughout the six-week trial in South Carolina. And that support continued in the days after Murdaugh’s life sentence was handed down, with the young couple quickly escaping to a condo in Hilton Head, SC, where they were spotted walking her dog. While they appear to keep their relationship mostly under wraps, here’s what we know about Brooklynn White so far. Read more at https://nypost.com/article/who-is-brooklynn-white-buster-murdaugh-girlfriend/ #al...

http://youtu.be/JZaBAHow5Qs Sen. Joe Manchin refused to endorse President Biden Sunday ahead of his expected 2024 re-election run — and went so far as to suggest he may throw himself into the race against his party’s leader. “I’m not taking anything off the table. And I’m not putting anything on the table,” the 75-year-old Manchin (D-WV) told CBS’ “Face The Nation,” minutes after throwing cold water on Biden’s re-election bid. “The bottom line is, let’s see who’s involved … Let’s wait until we see who all the players are. Let’s just wait until it all comes out.” The former West Virginia governor also said he had “plenty of time to make up my mind” and would wait until December to announce whether he will run for another term in the Senate or set his sights on higher office. “We’ve got ...