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Former 'Jackass' star Bam Margera pleads guilty in family altercation, gets six months probationWEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Former “Jackass” star Bam Margera will receive six months' probation after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct over an altercation at his suburban Philadelphia home on Wednesday. The guilty plea ends a misdemeanor assault case that began with a “scary and unpredictable” incident during a two-week trip home last year. Defense attorney William Brennan said Margera is now clean, sober and productive. He said Margera pleaded guilty to two summary charges. Jess Margera, who called her brother “a good guy when he wasn't…

(TNS) A bipartisan bill to help the struggling media industry by requiring Google and Facebook to pay news companies whose articles appear on their platforms faced its first test Tuesday night when it passed the state Senate Judiciary Committee on a 9-2 vote.If approved by the Senate and signed into law, Google and Facebook would be forced to agree to pay a negotiated lump sum annual fee to the news organization fund or enter into arbitration or mediation to negotiate a cut of their digital advertising revenues.”News organizations are downsizing and closing at an alarming rate,” Rep. Buffy Wicks, an…

These travel savings will come in time for last-minute summer vacations.viaJune 26, 2024 12:53pm ET• 5 min readAmazon Prime Day is fast approaching, and apart from hot beauty products and trending kitchen gadgets, the e-commerce giant is also introducing travel discounts just in time for last-minute summer holidays.Amazon partnered with a variety of travel companies, including Southwest Airlines, Viator, Turo, and Carnival, to quickly offer Prime members discounts on travel packages, car rentals, and cruises.In this undated stock photo, two friends jump off a cliff into the ocean. Stock Photo/Getty ImagesIn a similar move, retail rival Walmart partnered with Expedia…

Gates countered that the additional demand from electric vehicles, heat pumps and green steel manufacturing all “far outweigh the current phenomenal demand for data centers.”In a wide-ranging interview, Gates also discussed the potential for carbon capture to help the world reach net zero, saying removing emissions from the atmosphere is a limited solution because of its cost. Photo: BloombergBloomberg Siobhan Wagner and John Fuller Billionaire climate change tech investor Bill Gates has said that AI will “pay for itself” in terms of associated greenhouse gas emissions because it will help drive the energy transition. Click here to connect with us…

Former New York Times reporter Howard Blum is the author of “When Night Breaks: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders,” out this week.Even the house where the murders took place has disappeared. The three-story house on King Road in Moscow, Idaho, has been demolished. Just a stone's throw from the University of Idaho campus, it was the site of the brutal murders of four students, Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Gonsalves, Zana Kernodle and Madison Mogen, by a knife-wielding intruder in the pre-dawn darkness of November 13, 2022. But nearly a year later, bulldozers arrived at the university's command. “It's a…

You're reading Jennifer Rubin's exclusive newsletter. Sign up to get it delivered to your inbox.This week we'll be answering your questions, looking at some great pieces of journalism, and highlighting some of the Supreme Court's decisions.A reader asks: The Supreme Court's term is nearing the end. Presumably the cases it has in the courts have already been decided. If so, is there any reason for the court to release its decisions piecemeal (only a few per day)?A: In theory, the courts should release them once their cases are decided, but I am skeptical that the immunity cases have not been…

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Former 'Jackass' star Bam Margera pleads guilty in family altercation, gets six months probationWEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Former “Jackass” star Bam Margera will receive six months' probation after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct over an altercation at his suburban Philadelphia home on Wednesday. The guilty plea ends a misdemeanor assault case that began with a “scary and unpredictable” incident during a two-week trip home last year. Defense attorney William Brennan said Margera is now clean, sober and productive. He said Margera pleaded guilty to two summary charges. Jess Margera, who called her brother “a good guy when he wasn't…

According to a recent article by Channel News Asia, although Singapore is known for its cleanliness and strict food safety regulations, outbreaks of gastroenteritis continue to occur in the country's eateries. From street food vendors to fine dining restaurants, no industry seems immune to these incidents, highlighting the ongoing challenges in maintaining food hygiene standards. Recent statistics from the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) paint a mixed picture: since 2019, the number of major gastroenteritis outbreaks has fluctuated between 44 and 60 cases per year (excluding the pandemic-affected 2020), but the incidence of food poisoning per 100,000 population has remained relatively…

(TNS) — Although unemployment is at an all-time low, the tech industry talent shortage persists. According to an HCA survey, 92% of tech industry leaders are struggling to find skilled talent, and nearly 6 in 10 expect a lack of applicants with the necessary skill sets to support critical initiatives to be a major hiring challenge.The talent shortage has led to only 65 of every 100 open positions being filled, Gaper said. But despite this apparent talent shortage, young Americans aren't flocking to college to get the training they need to fill the gap. That's because the tech talent gap…