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Billionaire says he will relocate headquarters of SpaceX and X to Texas over parental notification law.Elon Musk has said he will move SpaceX and X out of California over a law that bans schools from forcing teachers to notify parents when their child changes their gender identity. Musk said on Tuesday that he would relocate the companies’ headquarters to Texas after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the first-of-its-kind law barring policies that require educators to disclose when a student asks to use a different name or pronouns. “This is the final straw,” Musk said on X. “Because of this law…

Washington, DC – After the Israeli military bombed a school housing displaced people in central Gaza on Tuesday, a young man stood at the chaotic scene with a rocket fragment in his hand. “This is an Israeli American missile,” he said. “We were stepping on corpses. I cannot describe the cruelty of what is happening,” the man said in a video verified by Al Jazeera after the attack in the Nuseirat area, which killed 17 civilians and injured dozens. Such mass-casualty attacks have been a near-daily reality for Palestinians in Gaza for the past nine months. Officials and everyday people in…

Washington, DC – Eight gunshots have transformed the United States election, casting an already unprecedented race into further uncertainty. On Sunday, a day after the attack at candidate Donald Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally, details have continued to emerge, as have early indications of how the violent act would affect US political discourse, campaigning and voter attitudes in the days leading up to the November 5 poll. But for Rina Shah, a US political strategist, one thing was clear in the immediate wake of the attack: “No matter what, everything changes from here on out.” That will be particularly on display,…

Antony Loewenstein is a leading Jewish voice criticising Israel’s attacks on Gaza, but some have branded him a traitor.Jewish journalist Antony Loewenstein is a leading voice among Australian Jews speaking out against Israel’s military attacks in Gaza. But he has been called a traitor by many in the Jewish community. “I’ve been called a self-hating Jew, a traitor and worse,” says the best-selling author. “I am so angry with what’s happening in Gaza that I will not stay silent.” Loewenstein is outraged by the rising death toll in Gaza and rejects any suggestion the Israeli military campaign is necessary to…

Former TV personality Carlos Watson has been convicted in a federal financial conspiracy case about Ozy Media, an ambitious startup that collapsed after another executive impersonated a YouTube executive to hype the company’s success. Watson, 53, had been free on bail but was taken into custody to await sentencing after the verdict was announced on Tuesday. Brooklyn-based United States Attorney Breon Peace said the verdict held Watson accountable for “brazen crimes” that were meant to keep cash-strapped Ozy afloat but ultimately sank it. “The jury found that Watson was a con man who told lie upon lie upon lie to deceive…

At least 23 Palestinians were killed and 73 others wounded in an attack on Al-Razi school, Gaza authorities say.Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids in southern and central Gaza, including one that struck an Israeli-designated “safe zone” crowded with thousands of displaced people, Palestinian health officials said. An air raid on Tuesday hit a main street lined with market stalls outside the southern city of Khan Younis in al-Mawasi, at the heart of the zone that is packed with shelters for displaced people. Officials at Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital said 17 people were killed. At least…

At least eight bodies have been found, but reports indicate there may be more as anger over the discovery grows.Police in Kenya have promised a “transparent” investigation into the discovery of eight mutilated female bodies that were found dumped in an abandoned quarry in Mukuru, a collection of slums south of the capital Nairobi. “The entire national police service and I understand the deep concern and distress the tragedy brings to the families, residents of Kware and fellow Kenyans,” acting Police Chief Douglas Kanja said in an address to journalists on Sunday. “We are committed to conducting transparent, thorough and…

NewsFeedGaza’s government media office says at least 23 people were killed and 73 more injured in an attack on a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp sheltering displaced people. UNRWA says 70 percent of its schools in Gaza have been bombed during the war.Published On 16 Jul 202416 Jul 2024 Source link

When Sean O’Brien, the leader of the Teamsters union in the United States, took to the stage at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Monday evening, some scratched their heads: what was the leader of a union with 1.3 million members hoping to accomplish with his speech to the Republican Party, traditionally hostile to organised labour? In his unprecedented address at the gathering of what has historically been the US’s pro-business party, the labour boss made clear that his union was not wedded to the Democrats, a party it has endorsed in every election since 1996. “We are not beholden…

Tens of thousands of Muslims across the globe on Tuesday observed Ashura, an annual commemoration mourning the seventh-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein. Ashura is marked on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, by all Muslims. It is a particularly important period of mourning for Shia Muslims, as it marks the anniversary of the seventh-century Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq, when Hussein was killed. To mourn his death in the year 680, Shia worshippers, wearing black, cry and beat their chests in unison. Some also flagellate themselves with swords and knife-edged…