'Should never be allowed to happen'

'Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime and arrested'

'Our president is actually enduring pain'

The police reportedly confirmed the incident as "an unclassified death incident"

'Varsity members would often record the hazing/bullying'

Using nothing other than light, Canadian scientists have developed an organic smart material that can either soak spilled oil out of water, or repel it. The material can be used in this way like a sponge to quickly clean up marine oil spills before the oil reaches the shoreline and mixes with or poisons sand, […] The post Researchers Unveil Reusable ‘Sponge’ for Soaking Up Marine Oil Spills–Even in Frigid Waters appeared first on Good News Network.

News Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery The Latest Actor Cast in Wake Up Dead Man Might Hint at an Extra Glass Onion Connection Halle Berry! That has a kick! By Molly Templeton | Published on May 30, 2024 Screenshot: Marvel Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Marvel Studios A new day, a new bit of casting news about Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the upcoming Rian Johnson film in which Daniel Craig will, for the third time, play detective Benoit Blanc. As of Tuesday, the film’s lineup (of suspects?) included Andrew Scott (Ripley), Josh O’Connor (Challengers), and Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla). Now we’ve got three more actors to peer closely at, looking for clues. Kerry Washington (Scandal), Glenn Close (Damages), and Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye, pictured above) are the latest trio to join Johnson’s next murder mystery. Deadline exclusively reported the news on Washington and Renner, noting, of course, that this is Renner’s first feature film role since his early-2023 snowplow accident. But there’s another notable thing about Renner joining the cast of this particular film. In the second Knives Out mystery, Glass Onion, a particular hot sauce serves as a running gag. Or perhaps I should say a Renning gag, given that said (fictional) hot sauce is Jeremy Renner’s Renning Hot. Jeremy Renner does not, in real life, have a hot sauce brand. (He did have an app. And also Rennervations.) But one does have to wonder whether, in the upcoming trip to the Knives Out Cinematic Universe, he will be playing the fictional creator of the previously appearing fictional hot sauce, or if his character will be something else entire. No one is saying; all plot and character details are still top secret. Wake Up Dead Man is expected to arrive on Netflix in 2025.[end-mark] The post The Latest Actor Cast in <i>Wake Up Dead Man</i> Might Hint at an Extra <i>Glass Onion</i> Connection appeared first on Reactor.

Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee are touting provisions to the annual defense spending bill that would remove several left-wing policies and initiatives, according to a memo on the bill’s provisions obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Armed Services Committee passed on May 22 the draft of the National Defense Authorization Act, an $883 billion bill to set the Department of Defense’s 2025 spending budget. The memo touted several new provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act draft, including barring the Biden administration’s Pentagon from implementing or maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and climate change programs in the military. The National Defense Authorization Act would bar the Defense Department from running committees or programs responsible for helping implement DEI policies at Department of Defense Education Activity schools worldwide. Pentagon internal documents previously obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation outlined millions in budget allocations from the Biden administration for DEI infinitives at DODEA schools. “The FY25 NDAA builds upon our efforts last year to restore the focus of our military on lethality,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “By requiring merit-based promotions, ending affirmative action at service academies, and prohibiting climate change nonsense, the FY25 NDAA makes it clear that the military is no place for President Joe Biden’s far-left politics.” The document promoted a provision in the House Armed Services Committee’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act that would require the Department of Defense to make all promotional and command decisions based on “individual merit and demonstrated performance, rather than political affiliation, race, sex, ethnicity, or religion.” In doing so, the bill would also end affirmative action programs at service academies, including the Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy, and West Point, which would be consistent with the Supreme Court’s ruling that high academic institutions cannot factor race into admission selections. The National Defense Authorization Act would also ban the implementation of any new climate change policies in the military, including Defense Department policies to pursue defense operations with “lower climate impacts” or implement greenhouse gas regulations on military initiatives. The bill would further require the Pentagon to release a report on how strict climate rules hinder the military’s capabilities and increase defense costs on the taxpayer’s dime. The memo notes that the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act will build on the accomplishments from the 2024 version of the bill, including provisions that halted the Pentagon’s DEI hiring program and capped out the pay of existing DEI hires, and prohibited funding for the Pentagon’s counterextremism program that targeted what it defined as “extremist” ideologies, a program that has found little evidence of such extremism and may have created feelings of alienation with the military. The National Defense Authorization Act draft, having passed the House Armed Services Committee last week, now moves to the full House for consideration and vote. Members will have the ability to suggest and make alterations before it is passed to the Senate, where upper chamber members will vote on whether to pass it for Biden’s signature. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post House Armed Services Panel Touts Removal of Leftist Policies From Defense Spending Bill appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The U.S. economy grew less than previously thought in the first quarter of 2024 amid a slowdown in consumer spending, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced Thursday. Gross domestic product was revised down in the first quarter from 1.6% to 1.3% year-over-year in a sign that the economy is not as strong as initial estimates indicated, according to a release from the BEA. Economists originally expected growth in the first quarter to be around 2.2%, more in line with the above trend growth seen in the third and fourth quarters of 2023, which were 4.9% and 3.4%, respectively. The revision was due to new information that shows that consumer spending, private inventory investment, and federal government spending were lower than initial estimates, while state and local government spending, nonresidential and residential fixed investment, and exports were slightly greater than original tallies, according to the BEA. Current-dollar GDP was also revised down to 4.3% from 4.8%, and real gross domestic income totaled just 1.5% in an initial estimate from the BEA. Disappointing GDP reports have spurred fears that the economy is entering a period of stagflation marked by slow economic growth and high inflation. Inflation measured at 3.4% year-over-year in April, staying stubbornly above 3% since it peaked under President Joe Biden at 9% in June 2022. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell pushed back against speculation that the economy is undergoing stagflation following the Fed’s May meeting, pointing to low unemployment and decelerating inflation. Biden has also tried to downplay the state of the economy, particularly inflation, blaming corporate greed on rising prices, prompting the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco to disprove that claim by comparing historical trends. Gross domestic income continues to lag far behind gross domestic product, and the latter is below its pre-pandemic trend despite being fueled by a debt binge for the last several years; seems less likely that GDI catches up and more likely that GDP catches down… pic.twitter.com/mzyx2a76CC— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) May 30, 2024 In an attempt to bring inflation back down to around 2%, the Fed has placed its federal funds rate in a range of 5.25% and 5.50%, a 23-year high, which has put pressure on consumers and businesses to slow spending. The hike in the federal funds rate has increased the cost of credit across the board, making it more expensive to take out debt, such as through credit cards. The cumulative amount of debt held by Americans totaled $17.69 trillion in the first quarter, with $1.12 trillion of that being on credit cards. The share of people who were behind 90 days or more on their credit card payments in the quarter jumped to 10.7%, outdoing the pandemic high of 10% in the first quarter of 2021. Job growth has also slowed as of late, with the U.S. adding just 175,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in April, far lower than the 242,000 that were expected, while the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 3.9%. In April, there were fewer gains in government jobs than in previous months, contributing largely to the slowdown, with March adding 303,000 new jobs. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post US Economic Growth in First Quarter Was Even Worse Than Previously Thought appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The Supreme Court has paved the way for the National Rifle Association (NRA) to pursue a lawsuit against a former New York state official, asserting that their free-speech rights were infringed upon. The NRA’s lawsuit claims that following the tragic Parkland, Florida school shooting in 2018, which resulted in 17 deaths, Vullo coerced banks and insurance companies into severing ties with the NRA, raising First Amendment concerns. We obtained a copy of the opinion for you here. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the NRA contends that Vullo’s actions amounted to an unconstitutional suppression of their free speech. The NCLA also filed an amicus curiae brief in this case. The court ruled 9-0. On May 30, the Court’s unanimous ruling overturned a previous lower court’s dismissal of the NRA’s lawsuit against Maria Vullo, the former Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services. The ruling underscores that while advocacy groups are not exempt from regulation, governmental actions to suppress speech must adhere to First Amendment protections. Justice Sonia Sotomayor emphasized, “Ultimately, the critical takeaway is that the First Amendment prohibits government officials from wielding their power selectively to punish or suppress speech, directly or (as alleged here) through private intermediaries.” Maria Vullo defended her actions by stating that her investigation into NRA-endorsed insurance policies, often criticized as “murder insurance,” was justified. She acknowledged expressing concerns about the risks of doing business with gun groups but denied exerting undue pressure, alleging that many companies were independently distancing themselves from the NRA. The NRA argued that Vullo misused a state investigation into the legality of its insurance products as leverage, allegedly offering leniency to companies that withdrew support from the organization. These insurance policies, which provided coverage for losses related to firearms, including intentional harm, were deemed illegal under state law. This investigation, which began prior to the Parkland shooting, culminated in substantial fines for the insurance providers involved. Additionally, Vullo issued guidance letters to financial institutions, highlighting the “reputational risks” of associating with the NRA. The NRA maintains that these letters, given Vullo’s authoritative position, significantly influenced several companies’ decisions to cut ties, leading to substantial financial losses for the organization. “The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision today was a crucial reaffirmation of fundamental First Amendment principles: that the government cannot coerce private parties to suppress disfavored viewpoints,” said NCLA counsel Jenin Younes in a statement to Reclaim The Net. “We hope that the Court also remembers that the First Amendment prohibits government from abridging freedom of speech— through coercion, collusion, or any other means— when it issues its decision in Murthy v. Missouri in upcoming weeks.” The Supreme Court’s decision thus reaffirms the principle that government officials must not misuse their regulatory power to selectively silence speech, reinforcing the robust protections afforded by the First Amendment. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post NRA Triumphs in Free Speech Battle with Former NY Regulator appeared first on Reclaim The Net.