Brazil has opened an investigation into Elon Musk over a potential obstruction of justice after the X owner said he reactivated accounts on the social media platform Brazil had ordered the platform to block.The inquiry opened by Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Sunday follows a string of heated interactions between Musk and the Brazilian government. On Saturday‚Xs global government affairs team announcedthat court decisions had forced the platform to...

Some of the countrys savviest economic trend predictors spend all day answering call-center phones.Operators at 211 emergency helplines raised alarm bells about ababy formula shortageahead of the headlines about empty shelves. And they knew that families were defaulting on their mortgages before thesubprime collapse in 2008.Now‚ even as the economylooks healthy by many measures‚ 211 workers say they are hearing something concerning...

Riverside County‚ California‚Sheriff Chad Bianco is helping lead an effort to reverse a 2012 ballot measure he says is directly contributing to the homelessness and crime crisis in the Golden State and is calling on Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to get on board.";California‚ we';re in a very trying time right now when it comes to public safety and for the most part‚ from a law enforcement perspective‚ we can say that‚ we can attribute the majority of our issues that we are having‚ or at...

The U.S. Federal Reserve is determined not to reduce interest rates too soon and some economists say recent data has pushed a summer cut completely off the table.Fridaysjobs reportreiterated the seemingly unwavering strength of the U.S. labor market and suggestedfurther need for Fed caution. All eyes will now be on Wednesdays consumer price index‚ afterFebruarys annual inflation rateof 3.2% came in slightly higher than expected.It comes as a growing...

Former Marvel star Jonathan Majors was ripped by his ex-girlfriend‚ the dancer Grace Jabbari‚ as a remorseless abuser Monday as he avoided jail time on his conviction for assaulting her last year inside a Manhattan car service.He is not sorry‚ he has not accepted responsibility and he will do this again‚ Jabbari‚ wearing a pink suit‚ said during an emotional hearing for his sentencing in Manhattan Criminal Court.He will hurt other women‚ continued Jabbari‚ tearing up midway...

The Biden administration announced plans to provide billions in funding to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to build cutting-edge chip factories in the U.S.‚ a major development in its push to reshore advanced technology supply chains.The Commerce Department said TSMC‚ which is based in Taiwan‚ will receive $6.6 billion in funding through the CHIPS and Science law to build three semiconductor manufacturing facilities in Arizona. Plans for two of the facilities had already been...

Some pairs of glasses for thetotal solar eclipseare being recalled due to a ";potential safety concern‚"; according to reports.According to a report from NBC affiliate WHEC in Rochester‚ New York‚ people who purchased certain eclipse glasses from Amazon may have received an email from the online retailer saying the glasses are in fact not safe to view the eclipse in‚ and that the packaging labeling of ";AAS Approved"; is in fact incorrect.

TheVaticandeclared Monday that transgender surgeries‚ surrogacy‚ and gender theory are threats to human dignity‚ breaking with the progressive approach to social issues that Pope Francis has adopted in recent years.In a 20-page document titled Infinite Dignity‚ the Vatican argues these practices are comparable to euthanasia or abortion as violations of Gods plan for human life. The declaration‚ five years in the making‚ was signed and approved by Pope Francis‚ who ordered it...

TheVaticanissued a declaration on Monday claiming that gender-affirming surgeries risk threatening the unique dignity of people‚ further criticizing gender theory and rejecting attempts to obscure the sexual difference between man and woman.Thedocumentfrom the Vaticans doctrinal office titled Dignitas InfinitaLatin for Infinite Dignityalso reaffirmed the faiths opposition toabortionand euthanasia. It comes asPope Francishas faced...