Abercrombie’s Mike Jeffries and associates lured dozens of young men into sex acts from 2008-2015, says indictment.Mike Jeffries, former chief executive of the US clothing company Abercrombie & Fitch, has been arrested for alleged sex trafficking and interstate prosecution following weeks of speculation over allegations of professional misconduct. Law enforcement officials announced the arrest of Jeffries in a press conference Tuesday, alleging the fashion executive oversaw a years-long enterprise that lured and exploited young men looking for a break in the fashion world. Jeffries’ romantic partner, Matthew Smith, and associate James Jacobsen were also arrested for their alleged role in…
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Parris Campbell‘s time with the Eagles has proven to be short-lived. The veteran receiver is being released, Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports reports.Campbell had a forgettable one-year stint with the Giants last year, and he made an intra-NFC East move to Philadelphia in the hopes of landing a depth role. That effort proved unsuccessful, though, and he was let go ahead of roster cutdowns. The 27-year-old did not originally intend to remain with the Eagles, but he had a change of heart and signed to the practice squad. In the end, Campbell wound up making four appearances with Philadelphia. He recorded…
The Chief Technology Officer of Sam’s Club is reportedly resigning over the company’s return-to-office policy.Walmart Inc., which owns Sam’s Club, implemented a strict RTO policy this summer requiring most employees, especially executives, to relocate to Walmart’s Bentonville, Arkansas, corporate headquarters. Some employees were given the option to move to other large offices, including Hoboken, New Jersey.Related: Walmart to Lay Off Hundreds of Employees, Relocate Remote Workers Back to the OfficeBloomberg reports that Cheryl Ainoa, chief technology officer of Sam’s Club, is departing the company after nearly five years rather than move to Arkansas citing “personal reasons.”Despite Ainoa’s high-profile departure, Walmart’s…
Will AI give us a rose-tinted view of ourselves?Huber & Starke/Getty Images Many people are scared that artificial intelligences may one day rise up and kill humanity, but after losing hours playing around with a digital ego-booster, I’m instead beginning to worry about the machines being a bit too nice to us. This all began with a recommendation from journalist Max Read, in his excellent newsletter Read Max, to check out Google’s NotebookLM tool. Launched last year, Google bills NotebookLM as an AI-powered research assistant, allowing you to upload documents and have the AI sift through them for… Source link
The meteorite struck Earth when it was still in its early years, a water world with only a few continents sticking out of the sea.In their fieldwork, Drabon said, they were looking for spherule particles or tiny fragments of rock left behind by the impact of the meteorite.The team collected 220 pounds of rock and took them back to the lab for analysis.The giant meteorite caused a tsunami to sweep across the planet, the scientists found. Heat from the impact caused the topmost layer of the ocean to boil off, while also heating the atmosphere.They found rock evidence showing that…
Getty ImagesThere were riots across England in the summer, including in SunderlandThere was a “clear connection” between the violent disorder in England and Northern Ireland in the summer and posts on social media and messaging apps, Ofcom has concluded.The government had asked the media regulator to consider how illegal content and disinformation spread during the unrest.In an open letter setting out its findings, Ofcom boss Dame Melanie Dawes said such content spread “widely and quickly” online following the stabbings in Southport, in July, which preceded the disorder.She added most online services took “rapid action”, but said the responses of some…
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaigned on a promise to connect Americans to high-speed internet. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act set aside $42.5 billion to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. “What we’re doing is, as I said, not unlike what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did when he brought electricity to nearly every American home and farm in our nation. Today Kamala and I are making an equally historic investment to connect everyone in America to high speed internet, and affordable high speed internet, by 2030,” Biden stated. To date, no one has been connected to the internet…
Credit: Screenshot: Pirate Wires X A preliminary report by the House Task Force on the attempted assassination attempt of Donald Trump provides new detail about the lack of coordination between the Secret Service and state and local law enforcement officers that contributed to Trump nearly being killed and the murder of rally-goer Corey Comperatore. The report, released early Monday, also asserts that a local law enforcement officer said he fired at shooter Thomas Crooks before the Secret Service counter sniper fired the shot that killed him, and that this first shot may have caused Crooks to stop shooting. But House…
AJ McLean of The Backstreet Boys is honoring Liam Payne as “a light” in his life following the tragic passing of the former One Direction star, specifically reminiscing about their time together while collaborating on a new Netflix series.The 46-year-old spoke about Liam’s death at LAX, revealing how the two forged a friendship while working on “Building the Band,” a music competition show that allows singers to create the next big pop group.AJ McLean shared that they recently wrapped filming the series, during which time he, Liam Payne, Nicole Scherzinger, and Kelly Rowland worked closely together for six weeks.Article continues…
BERLIN: German police busted a pizzeria in the western city of Düsseldorf that also delivered a side order of cocaine when customers asked for item number 40 on the menu. “That was one of the best-selling pizzas,” criminal director Michael Graf von Moltke told reporters in Düsseldorf. He said police were first tipped off by suspicious food inspectors in March. When drug squad officers began observing the restaurant they soon discovered why pizza number 40 was so popular, Moltke told reporters on Monday, German news agency dpa reported. When police buzzed the apartment of the pizzeria manager, the 36-year-old allegedly…