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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., attends a roundtable discussion with members of the House Freedom Caucus on the COVID-19 pandemic at The Heritage Foundation on Thursday, November 10, 2022. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has been tapped to lead a new House subcommittee that will work with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.Greene and House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., who aims to establish the DOGE subpanel early next year, have met with Ramaswamy and his team and are “already working together,” a source familiar with…

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and a top Hamas leader on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. This is the first time that Netanyahu or any Israeli official has been indicted by an international court for the ongoing war on Gaza. In a decision posted online on Thursday, the ICC charged Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas leader Mohammed Deif over Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel and Israel’s subsequent genocidal war in Gaza. Israel claimed to have killed Deif in July, however.…

Elon Musk took a shot at Jeff Bezos, calling him out for supposedly predicting — wrongly, we may add — that Donald Trump would lose the presidential election to Kamala Harris. On Wednesday night, Musk hopped on his social media platform, X, writing, “Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock.” Clearly, Musk was referring to the stock value of his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, plunging if Trump had lost to Harris, but, of course, that didn’t happen. Trump walloped Harris…

Ben Barbro (pictured above)Bagpiper, Caldwell, New Jersey I’m curious how you got started with the bagpipe. Are you Scottish?I have Scottish ancestry, but I’m not from Scotland. There’s no connection in that way. I felt compelled to learn about 25 years ago when I met a guy who was in the Canadian Army in World War II. Bagpipe was his passion, and he taught me how to play. Is this your full-time job?Occasionally, I play a paid gig, but typically it’s me doing it just because I love it. My day job is at a pharmaceutical company. You were playing…

“Joy” is about the British doctors who helped conceive the first IVF baby.The Netflix movie stars Bill Nighy, Thomasin McKenzie, and James Norton.Here’s where Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, is now.”Joy” is about the British doctors who helped conceive the first baby using IVF treatment in the late 1970s.The Netflix movie stars Bill Nighy as Patrick Steptoe, the director of the Centre for Human Reproduction, Thomasin McKenzie as Jean Purdy, an embryologist, and James Norton as Robert Edwards, a physiologist.The trio started working on IVF in the late 1960s when Steptoe started collecting egg cells from women and using…

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as Hamas’s military commander.A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected Israel’s challenges to the court’s jurisdiction and issued warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.A warrant was also issued for Mohammed Deif, although the Israeli military has said he was killed in an air strike in Gaza in July.The judges said there were “reasonable grounds” the three men bore “criminal responsibility” for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war between Israel and Hamas. Both Israel…

America will no longer have Ellen DeGeneres to kick around. According to The Wrap, DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have moved to rural England and put their Montecito estate on the market. Moreover, they plan to never return to the United States, a source tells this outlet, allegedly because Donald Trump was re-elected as President this month. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are seen as RH Celebrates The Unveiling of RH San Francisco, The Gallery at the Historic Bethlehem Steel Building on March 17, 2022 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for RH) DeGeneres endorsed…

Penthouses asking $45 million and $39 million topped Manhattan luxury contracts during the week ending Nov. 17, according to Olshan Realty’s weekly luxury report. A total of 37 contracts were signed on properties priced $4 million and up. Whether it’s refining your business model, mastering new technologies, or discovering strategies to capitalize on the next market surge, Inman Connect New York will prepare you to take bold steps forward. The Next Chapter is about to begin. Be part of it. Join us and thousands of real estate leaders Jan. 22-24, 2025. A penthouse owned by a Russian billionaire and a new development condo in…

Dollar stores are facing challenges in the modern U.S. economy.Dollar stores companies were some best performing stocks in the S&P 500 during the Great Recession, said Piper Sandler managing director Peter Keith. But over the past couple of years, dollar stores have not seen the same success.Shares of Dollar Tree — which owns its namesake brand and Family Dollar — and Dollar General have both fallen roughly 50% this year.The companies are dealing with a complex mix of both economic and self-inflicted problems. Lower income Americans, who comprise about 60% of Dollar General sales, are under more pressure to stretch their dollars…

The European Union and US President Joe Biden are taking unprecedented steps to bolster Ukrainian and European defences following Donald Trump’s November 5 presidential election victory and North Korea’s involvement in the Ukraine war with troops. Trump has expressed scepticism about supplying military aid to Ukraine and keeping the United States engaged in NATO. North Korea has sent 11,000 troops to fight in Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukraine has staged a counter-invasion since August. The EU will be informing member states they may divert up to 372 billion euros ($392bn) in Brussels subsidies to military purposes, the Financial Times reported…