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It’s Presidents’ Day, and America’s 45th is having a real one. Donald Trump spent the morning of the Monday holiday railing against the nearly half-billion-dollar court judgment levied against him for fraud in New York state, and grotesquely comparing himself to the Russian political dissident Alexei Navalny, who died last week in an Russian arctic penal colony. Trump started shitposting not long after dawn on his Truth Social network. Stinging from his massive court defeat, Trump seemed determined to keep…

Fantasy 4X Strategy title Age of Wonders 4 is set to get its next content pack, Primary Fury. Triumph Studios and Paradox Interactive revealed today that Age of Wonders 4: Primary Fury will get the primal beast-themed pack on February 27 across all platforms. The content pack adds a handful of new features and content to the popular 4X title with a focus on a new Primal Culture system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjKM3Ok21I Channel your Primal Culture The new Primal Culture system allows players to channel an…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeStephen Colbert put on his best Benoit Blanc to poke fun at Republican politician Kevin McCarthy.McCarthy has just made history by losing his fourth, fifth, and sixth consecutive votes for Speaker of the House.“It has been a day of uncut Peruvian blue-flake schadenfreude watching the GOP stab each other in the throat,” Colbert – an outspoken liberal Democrat – began in his 3 January…

Elon Musk ‘s stated plan to find someone to succeed him as Twitter Inc.’s chief executive officer has set the billionaire up with the thorny task of identifying a candidate for a job he has said isn’t desirable.Running Twitter would be a tall order under any circumstances. It was a consistently money-losing business before Mr. Musk acquired it in October, and is now in the middle of broad tumult in its industry. Meanwhile, many advertisers, Twitter’s main source of revenue, have stopped…

New Jersey on Tuesday threw its weight behind a growing effort by local governments to hold oil and gas companies financially accountable for allegedly lying to consumers about the fossil fuel industry’s role in accelerating climate change. The Garden State’s lawsuit—one of two dozen climate liability cases filed by cities, states and counties nationwide—comes as the Supreme Court weighs two industry petitions that seek to quash the liability cases. It also comes almost exactly 10 years after Superstorm Sandy made…

Elon Musk on Tuesday likened himself to the rapper Eminem in seeking to throw out his 2018 agreement with the top US securities regulator requiring the Tesla chief executive to obtain preapproval for his tweets.In a filing in federal court in Manhattan, Musk also renewed his effort to quash a US Securities and Exchange Commission subpoena for details on whether he and Tesla are complying with their disclosure requirements under the 2018 consent decree.The SEC is investigating Musk's tweet on November 6, 2021, asking his…

The Biden administration is invoking the Defense Production Act to increase production of baby formula and launching a program that would use commercial aircraft to pick up overseas formula that meets U.S. standards, the White House said Wednesday.Under the Korean War-era national security mobilization law, President Biden is requiring suppliers to prioritize giving resources to U.S. formula manufactures. A new program called Operation Fly Formula would also direct the Defense Department to use its contracts with…

The Abbott manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan, on May 13, 2022.Jeff Kowalsky | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden on Wednesday invoked the Defense Production Act to increase baby formula manufacturing to ease a nationwide shortage caused by the closure of a key plant in Michigan. Biden is requiring suppliers of ingredients used in baby formula to direct those goods to key manufacturers before any other customers. The president has also directed the Health and Human Services Department and Department of…