The Toronto Zoo is taking measures to protect its gorillas from potential negative influences of online movies and videos. The zoo has recently erected signs around the gorilla refuge, urging visitors not to share recordings or images of the gorillas. According to the zoo, certain recordings can be “upsetting” to the animals and may have an impact on their relationships and behavior within their family units. Hollie Ross, the zoo’s behavioral husbandry supervisor, emphasized the importance of allowing the gorillas to behave naturally. The goal is to enable visitors to witness the gorillas in their authentic state and connect with…
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The Star-Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States of America, is a powerful and cherished symbol of patriotism, resilience, and unity. It is a musical composition that stirs emotions and evokes a deep sense of pride among Americans. The history of this iconic anthem is as rich and vibrant as the nation it represents. The origins of The Star-Spangled Banner can be traced back to the War of 1812 between the United States and the British Empire. On September 13, 1814, during the Battle of Baltimore, the American forces successfully defended Fort McHenry against a relentless British naval…
Are you a hater of rats? Are you a “bloodthirsty” New Yorker with great communication and “a general aura of badassery”? You could become the city’s rat czar. This week, Mayor Eric Adams’ office advertised a position to lead the city’s long-running rat fight. “Director of rodent mitigation,” the official job title, became “rat czar” quickly. And it comes with a good salary ranging from $120,000–$170,000. “The ideal candidate is highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty, determined to look at all solutions from various angles, including improving operational efficiency, data collection, technology innovation, trash management, and wholesale slaughter,” states the ad. The work…
A county in Arizona is being sued because its election officials have refused to certify the election’s results on November 8. The complainant, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Katie Hobbs, pronounced the winner against Republican competitor Kari Lake, adding a new dimension to the case. Hobbs announced the lawsuit on Monday through Twitter. “Cochise County had a statutory duty to certify the results of the 2022 General Election by today. My office has filed a lawsuit to ensure all voters have their votes [count].” Lake has not accepted Hobbs’s election victory, and her campaign account expressed displeasure with the strategy. In response…
Recently, the city of Woburn, Massachusetts, has been fighting a brutal enemy: a group of five turkeys that have been bothering people so much that some are afraid to leave their homes. Meaghan Tolson, who lives in Woburn, told The Guardian, “Some days it’s frustrating. I’ll be like, ‘Oh my God, there’s an Amazon package,’ and I can’t go get it because the turkeys are there.” Tolson says that the turkey gang consists of four females and a rough male. Tolson has given him the name “Kevin” and given the women the names “Monica,” “Ester,” “Patricia,” and “Gladys.” He says…
At a “show and tell” event on Wednesday, Elon Musk said that his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, could put one of its devices in someone’s head in the next six months. This means that it won’t happen this year. He also said that he would get the device put in his head at some point in the future. During the presentation, Musk said that the company had sent the Food and Drug Administration, which is in charge of medical devices in the US, most of the paperwork needed for a human clinical trial. Musk had said before that he hoped…
Following a board vote on Tuesday, San Francisco’s politically Democratic supervisors allowed police to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency scenarios. SFPD will have access to seven robots built to neutralize and dispose of bombs and offer video reconnaissance for operators, according to city supervisor Rafael Mandelman. None of the robots will be equipped with weapons, but according to Mandelman, in dire circumstances, they might be commanded to use lethal force. He stated on Twitter that under this policy, SFPD is authorized to employ these robots to use deadly force in extremely limited circumstances when the risk to members of…
In a Tuesday night interview, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attacked Disney after its CEO, Bob Iger, expressed regret that the business had been “dragged” into a dispute with the state of Florida. DeSantis made the comments when asked about Disney’s opposition to the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, which forbade schools from discussing sexual matters with young children, during an interview with Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson. Iger was heard saying that he felt sorry to see Disney pulled into that battle in a clip played by Carlson. He also is unsure of the full implications for the…
New aerial film showing the lava flow from the summit of Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, on Hawaii’s Big Island, was released by the U.S. Coast Guard on Monday. The U.S. Coast Guard Hawaii Pacific C-130 military plane used video of the lava flow’s advancement to share it with the public, noting that this is the volcano’s first eruption since 1984. The longest period of silence ever recorded for Mauna Loa came to an end with the eruption on Sunday night. According to the Hawaii Volcano Observatory, the eruption started on Sunday at at 11:30 p.m.…
A forthcoming independent British thriller will include Kevin Spacey. The actor will play for the first time in a motion picture since a $40 million civil sexual misconduct lawsuit against him was dismissed last month. In addition, it comes a week after news broke that Spacey would be charged with seven additional sex charges in his U.K. lawsuit, all of which involved the same purported victim. Spacey, 63, will play a voice-only character in the Cupsogue Pictures production “Control,” Fox News Digital revealed on Monday. This week’s filming is anticipated to be the last for the Gene Fallaize-written and -directed…
Last week, four armed men tried to steal a car from a 23-year-old woman on the South Side of Chicago. The woman, who had a permit to carry a gun, defended herself. The woman, who has not been named, was sitting in her car near 89th Street and Kenwood Avenue in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on Wednesday just after 2 a.m. when four men got out of a black sedan, according to a local CBS station. When one of the men tried to open the door of her car while holding a gun, the woman shot him in the head…
Even though earlier this month Elon Musk said that advertisers leaving Twitter would cause a “massive drop in revenue,” Musk said on Saturday that Twitter sign-ups are at an all-time high. According to slides from a recent company talk that Musk tweeted out on Saturday, there were an average of more than two million new sign-ups per day in the week that ended on November 16. This is a 66% increase over the same time last year. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596718851097755648?s=20&t=Obwa4psTU24Vx00GCTci3Q Musk said that the number of active minutes was also at an all-time high, and the number of daily active users was…
Thanksgiving is the holiday when families come together in love and fellowship, giving thanks for their many blessings while feasting to their heart’s content. Not so with the Denio family. From Fox News, a New Mexico man was arrested Thursday after allegedly killing his wife with a knife and dismembering her body. This holiday will never be the same for this family. Karlan Denio, 62, was found in bed by his family with his wife Connie’s body on the floor. This was just before the family’s Thanksgiving dinner. Then, they called the police. According to a criminal complaint that the…
If your Christmas celebrations are anything like mine, you’ll probably start singing Christmas songs this week. Or maybe you’ve been hearing “Silent Night” and “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” in your house for weeks. “Joy to the World” is a song that you are sure to hear this holiday season. But what if I told you this old favorite song isn’t a Christmas song? Technically speaking, at least. And what if I told you it was written so that it could be sung before Christmas? On Sunday, December 2, Christians worldwide will celebrate the first day of…
Readers of Twitter know that Alyssa Milano “gave back” her Tesla because we don’t know, she thinks Elon Musk has turned Twitter into a hotbed of white supremacy or something, and in place of her “EVIL” Tesla, she bought a Volkswagen to show him! Imagine how stupid someone has to be to say they “gave” a car back because of white supremacy, then buy a VOLKSWAGEN and brag about it on an evil white supremacy site, a car with a history with Hitler and the Nazis. She sent this to millions of people through Twitter. JD Rucker’s response below nails…
Bob Chapek’s time at Disney may be over, but that doesn’t mean that wokeness went away with him. The fact that Disney’s latest movie is a story-packed disaster shows that. A studio that used to make movies like “The Little Mermaid” and “Aladdin” is now making movies like “Strange World.” The movie cost $180 million to make but only made $4.2 on its first day, which was Wednesday. The Daily Wire says that the movie is expected to make just over $20 million over the five-day holiday weekend. The Daily Wire said that the animated movie pushes sexual orientation and…
Irene Cara, a legendary singer and actress of the 1980s best known for her work on the soundtracks to the movies “Flashdance” and “Fame,” has passed away. She was 63. Cara died in her Florida home, her publicist said in a statement after she was informed of her passing on Saturday morning. The representative further stated that the cause of death is currently unknown and would be made public as additional details are available. In a statement, rep Judith Moore said, “She was a beautifully gifted soul whose legacy will live forever through her music and films.” Cara’s biggest singles…
Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, stated on Friday that if Apple and Google decide to remove Twitter from their app stores, which would be extremely detrimental to the social media firm, he will begin to produce smartphones. Elon Musk responded to Liz Wheeler’s tweet, which read: “If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone.” Wheeler is a political pundit. She claimed that half the country would cheerfully get rid of the biased, nosy iPhone & Android. A dumb little smartphone should be simple, right? The man builds rockets to Mars. “I certainly…
When he stopped a 5-year-old driver who was swerving so violently, a Utah Highway Patrol trooper was in for a small surprise since he felt the driver needed medical assistance. The child didn’t stop when he flashed his lights, said Trooper Rick Morgan, but did so when he sounded his siren on Monday on Interstate 15 in Ogden. When Morgan pulled up, he assumed he would see someone in need of an ambulance or paramedics. However, Morgan claimed that when the window was rolled down, it was very obvious that a very juvenile driver was operating the vehicle. According to…
Even though the Brittney Griner story is only a year old, it already has the potential to continue for close to ten years. Griner’s recently issued nine-year sentence will seem interminable because, according to rumors, she may be forced to work in abhorrent conditions and be tortured if her task is not done in Russia’s IK-2 Mordovia. According to a recent story from OutKick, Griner will serve out her prison term for carrying cannabis in a facility notorious for its rigorous work requirements and “zero nutritional value” meals served to convicts. Additionally, a former prisoner spoke up about the mistreatment…
Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, and the nation’s top Covid doctor, had a rough farewell tour at the White House on Tuesday. When Daily Caller reporter Diana Glebova shouted a question about what he did to investigate Covid origins, Fauci bailed and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre jumped on the grenade. Watch: “Hold on one second,” KJP snapped. “We have a process here. I’m not calling out on people who yell and you’re being, you’re being, you’re being disrespectful to your colleagues and you’re being disrespectful to our guests. I will…
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been accused of misleading the public on numerous occasions, including on mask efficacy, Covid vaccines stopping the spread, and on natural immunity. But in his “final message” as the nation’s top Covid doctor, Fauci couldn’t resist one last big lie at the White House podium before leaving office. “The real world BA.4/5 that has been circulating, and we know that that is really quite good,” he said. “So we have immunological data and you have now clinical efficacy data.” “Everybody was asking the question, where’s the clinical efficacy data?” he continued. “Now, it has come out…
A third Arizona county has joined in “solidarity” with Mojave and Cochise Counties in delaying the certification of the state election. Yavapai County will hold off on certifying the election until Nov. 28, the county recorder confirmed on Twitter. https://twitter.com/YavapaiRecorder/status/1594758909566271506 “The Board is scheduled to Canvass the election on Monday, November 28, 2022,” the recorder noted. The response was to Arizona reporter Jen Fifield, who noted that she did not see a “special meeting posted yet to discuss certification.” While there were rumors that Gila County was joining the trio in delaying certification, Fifield reported that it had already certified…
After the press tour for his new Disney+ docuseries “Limitless,” Chris Hemsworth is taking “time off” from acting. The 39-year-old actor told Vanity Fair that after filming the last episode of the series, which is about death and dying, he decided to take a break from acting to spend time with his family. The “Thor” actor and his wife, Elsa Pataky, have a 10-year-old daughter named India and twin 8-year-old sons named Tristan and Sasha. “Doing an episode on death and facing your own mortality made me go, ‘Oh God, I’m not ready to go yet,’” he said. He went on,…
Nearly two years after being sworn into office, Joe Biden’s honeymoon in the mainstream media has finally come to an end. On Monday, CBS News finally got around to verifying the Hunter Biden laptop. It points to a voicemail file of Joe Biden talking to his son Hunter that convinced an independent investigator that the laptop was authentic. Watch: ; “As Republicans take control of the House Hunter Biden, the president’s son will be a target for investigations, and that means data from a laptop reported to belong to Biden could be crucial to the investigatory process,” Tony Dokoupil reported.…