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Lamborghini driver Alejandro Rentas charged after fiery NYC wreck that killed passenger: NYPD
A Lamborghini driver who crashed his luxury ride in a wild chase with cops through Upper Manhattan last month has been charged with manslaughter for the fiery wreck that killed his passenger, authorities said.
Rentas – whose exact relationship to Rodriguez was unclear Thursday – was driving the sporty luxury SUV when he ran a red light shortly after 10 p.m., according to police sources.
NYPD officers put their lights on to pull Rentas over, but he took off, cops said.
US Preparing for Strikes Against Iran-backed Militia That Keeps Attacking Cargo Ships in the Red Sea: Report
AU.S.-led coalition was reported Thursday to be preparing strikes on the Iran-backed Houthi militant group that has been disrupting commercial shipping with missile and drone attacks in the Red Sea.
Western diplomats have told maritime executives that the strikes would likely target missile and drone launch sites, radars and weapons in Yemen, where the group is based, according to the Wall Street Journal.
British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak briefed his cabinet late on Thursday that the strikes would come “imminently” on Thursday night or early Friday, according to a tweet from the Times of London’s political editor.
California’s New Budget Cuts $2.9 Billion in Climate Funding, Maintains Global Lead
Newsom said the state was advancing a multi-year commitment to tackling climate change, worth $48.3 billion. That number was down on the $54 billion announced in 2022.
The budget was cut back as part of efforts to close a $37.9 billion budget deficit.
“$48.3 billion is a world-leading figure that exceeds [that of] many nations,” Newsom’s senior climate advisor Lauren Sanchez told the Los Angeles Times.
The cash is being used for a variety of programs, including subsidies for electric vehicles, defenses against coastal erosion and flooding, and securing water supplies.
However, some of these schemes will be reduced or delayed due to the cuts proposed.
“Such signal, much wow”: Starlink’s first texts via “cellphone towers in space”
SpaceX is showing off the first text messages sent between T-Mobile phones via one of Starlink’s low Earth orbit satellites. “On Monday, January 8, the Starlink team successfully sent and received our first text messages using T-Mobile network spectrum through one of our new Direct to Cell satellites launched six days prior,” a Starlink update said.
SpaceX posted a photo of the two iPhones that exchanged the texts, which included messages such as “Such signal” and “Much wow.” The process that allowed those texts to be sent was pretty complicated, Starlink said.
T-Mobile said last week that field testing of Starlink satellites with the T-Mobile network will begin soon but did not announce a start date for actual service.
Biden Judicial Nominee Who Could Not Answer Basic Questions on the Constitution Withdraws from Consideration
Joe Biden nominated Washington State Judge Charnelle Bjelkengren to the federal bench last September, a lifetime position, touting her diversity and boasting she was “extraordinarily qualified, experienced, and devoted to the rule of law and our Constitution.”
Bjelkengren, however, embarrassed herself under questioning by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing when she could not answer basic questions that go to the heart of being a federal judge.
According to Reuters, Bjelkengren has now withdrawn her nomination and asked the White House not to resubmit her name for consideration after her nomination expired at the end of 2023.
Matt Gaetz DROPS FACTS about Biden Taking BRIBES from China
Shutdown Looms as Speaker Johnson May Back Out of Government Funding Deal With Democrats
Reps. Ralph Norman, R-S.C. and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said the speaker was considering killing his deal with Democrats amid overwhelming conservative backlash to the arrangement.
A source familiar with the conversations also confirmed to The Messenger that Johnson had gotten wobbly in his support of a deal that was the first step in trying to keep the government open.
“There’s going to be a new deal drawn up and that’s what we’re in the process of doing,” Greene told reporters as she left Johnson’s office on Thursday afternoon.
When asked if Johnson was revising the top line deal, Norman said: “That’s what they’re discussing … that’s what’s in play. We’re talking about it.”
IDF Chief affirms troops ready for war with Hezbollah; ICJ Holds First Hearing TV7 Israel News 11.01
1) Israel rejects a Qatari proposal that would end the war – absent the destruction of Hamas.
2) Germany asserts the need to expand UNIFIL’s access to all parts of Southern Lebanon.
3) The International Court of Justice holds a first hearing of two in South Africa’s case against Israel over allegations of genocide.
Israel Daily News – War Day 97, January 11, 2024
Day 97 of the war in Gaza and the IDF is pressing ahead while Israel defends itself in the International Court in Hague, while a mass prayer is held at the Western Wall for the return of the hostages. And much more.
Hertz is selling 20,000 used EVs due to high repair costs
After announcing big plans to purchase tens of thousands of EVs from Tesla and then Polestar, it’s now liquidating a third of that fleet, the company told investors.
After Hertz went bankrupt during the early days of the pandemic, its big EV ambitions began in 2021, when the company revealed it wanted more than 20 percent of its rental fleet to be electric by 2022.
Currently, the company has over 700 EVs for sale, including 35 Chevrolet Bolts, four Kia EV6s, a single BMW i3 and Nissan Leaf, and then 673 Teslas—552 Model 3s and another 121 Model Ys.
Real America with Dan Ball: Breaking Down Ties Between Silicon Valley Bank & Democrats
WOAH! Hunter STORMS Out Of Congress After HEATED Clash – Stay Free #282
Today, we will be looking at the world’s explosive events, such as Hunter Biden walking out on Congress, the latest GOP debates, and Trump’s recent town hall appearance on Fox News. PLUS, much more like….
In our Here’s The News segment, we ask if January 6th was a stain on democracy—an event of such magnitude that legacy newsreaders are drawn to tears by merely talking about it and so dangerous that the DOJ is targeting Americans who were around the Capitol on J6 but did not enter the sacred building.
But how sacred is a building that also sees stock trading, which shows that “Congress blew the market out of the water”? In fact, is our entire system corrupt from top to bottom?
Trump’s Town Hall Triumph + The Biden/Fani Connection + Who Hid the National Guard? | Sen. Lee
Charlie explains how the Trump of Wednesday night is the one we need if we are going to win in 2024: Forward-looking, blunt, and brave.
Sen. Mike Lee reacts of the House’s bad spending deal, and Garret Ziegler discusses how he discovered the ties between the Biden White House and Fani Willis’s corrupt Fulton County witch hunt.
Neil McCabe explores whether Mark Milley is to blame for the missing National Guard on J6.
Actor paid to pose as crypto CEO “deeply sorry” about $1.3 billion scam
An actor who was hired to pretend to be the highly qualified CEO of a shady, collapsed cryptocurrency hedge fund called HyperVerse has apologized after a YouTuber unmasked his real identity last week.
An Englishman currently living in Thailand, Stephen Harrison confirmed to The Guardian that HyperVerse hired him to pose as CEO Steven Reece Lewis.
Harrison told The Guardian that he was “deeply sorry” to HyperVerse investors—who lost a reported $1.3 billion after buying into a cryptocurrency-mining operation that promised “double or triple returns,” but did not exist, Court Watch reported.
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