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A business owner is behind bars for allegedly kidnapping and viciously beating a man suspected of stealing a box of vape pens from his convenience store in Kentucky.  Kaushalkumar Patel, 40, was arrested on Thursday after he and several others allegedly carried out the deranged plot on Oct. 6, 2024, after spotting the customer leaving his E-Z Super Food Mart in Louisville without paying, multiple outlets reported.  Police said the accused shoplifter fled from the store as Patel and others chased him down in a van and pepper sprayed him in the face. Kaushalkumar Patel, 40, was arrested on Thursday…

Paul Graham, a computer scientist and writer, has supported Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg after he accused former COO Sheryl Sandberg of ‘culture’ and ‘inclusivity’ policies at Facebook.Graham was responding to a post on X that criticised Zuckerberg, claiming he could make his own decisions in the company.“Come on bruh…. You were the CEO with super voting shares — own your decisions,” the X user wrote.While replying to the post, Graham mentioned how new founders have to take the help of ‘C-level’ employees to learn how things work in the system.“You don’t have to invent sinister explanations for this. It’s very…

The possibility of the U.S. outlawing TikTok kept influencers and users in anxious limbo during the four-plus years that lawmakers and judges debated the fate of the video-sharing app. Now, the moment its fans dreaded is here, but uncertainty over TikTok’s future lingers. On Friday, the Supreme Court upheld a federal law that bans the immensely popular, trend-setting social media platform starting Sunday unless its China-based parent company, ByteDance Ltd., sells to an approved buyer. The unanimous decision ended a legal battle that pitted national security concerns against free speech rights. TikTok, ByteDance and some of the devoted users who…

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Elon Musk is riding high in Washington. After boosting Donld Trump through extreme sycophancy, turning Twitter into the red-pilled X, and dousing the once-and-future president with $239 million in campaign contributions, Musk earned himself a starring role in Trump’s second administration. But he didn’t want to be a secretary of anything; rather, he wanted DOGE. The Department of Government Efficiency, named after Musk’s favorite meme of a Shiba Inu and its shitcoin cryptocurrency Dogecoin, will be led by Musk…

Rams rookie linebacker Jared Verse recently bashed the Philadelphia Eagles fan base, which later ignited a heated reply from Eagles running back Saquon Barkley. Barkley opined that maybe something of that nature will get Eagles fans fired up for the upcoming playoff match.Saquon Barkley warns Jared Verse’s remarks could fuel hostility from Eagles fans.Saif Ali Khan Health UpdateRunning back Saquon Barkley doubts that Los Angeles Rams edge rusher Jared Verse did himself any good by proclaiming he “hates Eagles fans” before Sunday’s divisional playoff game at Lincoln Financial Field.”Probably not the smartest thing to say when you’re coming to Philadelphia,”…

U.S. President Joe Biden called the Equal Rights Amendment “the law of the land,” on Friday, backing an effort to enshrine the change into the U.S. Constitution even though it long ago failed to secure the approval of enough states to become an amendment. President Joe Biden tweeted on Friday, “The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.” (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque) “Today, I affirmed the Equal Rights Amendment to have cleared all the necessary hurdles to be added to the U.S. Constitution now,” Biden said. “The…

The Israeli government has formally approved the ceasefire deal in Gaza and the release of some hostages, soon halting the conflict that has been raging for 15 months.  The Israeli Cabinet vot… This article was originally published by a thehill.com . Read the Original article here. .

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Kansas City metro TikTok creators, like Rebecca Munoz, an artist-illustrator with 13,000 followers, and Juliet Bodley, who is Jamaican-born, and celebrates her Caribbean heritage on the app. This article was originally published by a fox4kc.com . Read the Original article here. .