According to our research, musicians get about $0.0032 per stream on Spotify. Meaning, they need around 312,500 streams to earn $1000. Meanwhile, Ek has built a fortune worth $7.3 billion.

Many celebrities use these accounts to avoid constant scrutiny, but the accusations against Musk suggest a more self-serving purpose. Critics have called the situation "beyond pathetic," accusing Musk of self-promotion, while others mocked his apparent need to defend himself anonymously.

The biological interaction experiments showed that mucus-producing intestinal cells had the highest uptake of micro and nanoplastics, with the particles even entering the cell nucleus that houses the genetic material.

A blatant attempt to shield the church’s assets in the ongoing bankruptcy case. The money, they say, should be available to victims as compensation for the abuse they endured by various East Bay priests, many of whom never faced jail time for their crimes.

“A foster family came and picked out the cheapest coffin. When the flowers were laid, they just came up and threw them like a dog. And when it was time to leave, the foster family said: ‘Thank God, he died. Less problems’, – says one of the friends of the deceased.

Trump also promised to end transgender rights across the board on his first day in office, saying that it will be official policy that “there are only two genders, male and female.” He also said he would sign an executive order to “end child sexual mutilation.”

Alvelo grabbed the phone, smashed it, and "began striking her multiple times with the knife," according to the affidavit. The man who had the gun then yelled it was time to go, stopping the assault, it said.

General Psychopathology factor points because of exposure arising from leaded gasoline, reflecting a 0.13-standard-deviation increase in overall liability to mental illness in the population and an estimated 151 million excess mental disorders attributable to lead exposure.

The mutations seen in the patient are rare but have been reported in some cases in other countries and most often during severe infections. One of the mutations was also seen in another severe case from British Columbia, Canada.

"They banged and banged and banged, until they finally made their way through the man's door and with not even making it completely through the door, they shot him. I mean it was just that quick."

They were labouring for long hours, in excess of what is permitted by Brazilian law, sometimes for seven days a week straight, while being kept in what authorities described as degrading conditions in their accommodation, among other labour violations.

ISW points out that Putin responded on 26 December to a journalist's request for comment on the Trump team's proposal to delay Ukraine's NATO membership for 10 to 20 years. The Kremlin leader said it did not matter whether Ukraine joined NATO "today, tomorrow or in 10 years".

“What we really need to chalk all of this up to is Trump laying the groundwork for future negotiations,” Lincicome said. “This is for better or worse a lot of what we’re going to see for the next four years.”

That is forcing the city to write off those expenses as uncollectable and to reevaluate policies for future campaign visits. Grand Rapids is not alone. In October, NBC News reported the Trump campaign owed more than $750,000 to four cities and a county across the country.

"Every Russian massive strike takes time to prepare. It is never a spontaneous decision. It is a conscious choice not only of targets but also of time and date," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Musk uses populist and personal language to try to deny AfD’s extremist bent, and the essay expands on his post on his social media platform, X, on which he last week claimed that “only the AfD can save Germany”.

Prosecutors said that staff was ordered to inject some of the men "a prescription-grade erection-inducing substance for the purpose of causing the men to engage in sex acts in which they were otherwise physically incapable or unwilling."

He and his DOGE co-head Vivek Ramaswamy seemed to turn against the idea of “making America great again.”After plenty of pushback against the DOGE heads' takes, some X users reported losing their blue checks, including MAGA figurehead Laura Loomer.

A grand jury has indicted Adams on federal corruption charges alleging he took bribes from the Turkish government. He's pleaded not guilty. "Frankly, I submit that he was trying to detract from those issues by making a spectacle of Mr. Mangione," Friedman Agnifilo said at Monday's hearing.

He said he was "quite upset" to see the collision with the wall, saying there should not have been any solid structures in the area, to allow for emergency landings. "Most of the passengers died because of this obstruction, which is devastating," he said.

That increase comes on top of a 12% increase in 2023, which HUD blamed on soaring rents and the end of pandemic assistance. The 2023 increase also was driven by people experiencing homelessness for the first time.

The damaged aircraft was not allowed to land at any Russian airports despite the pilots’ requests for an emergency landing, and it was ordered to fly across the Caspian Sea towards Aktau in Kazakhstan. According to data, the plane’s GPS navigation systems were jammed throughout the flight path.

Garland’s four-year tenure has been characterized by a hesitancy to pursue high-profile cases against alleged criminals who are top Republicans, it taking him more than a year and a half to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021.

“They were monitoring all Nato naval ships and aircraft,” Lloyd’s List was told. “They had all details on them. They were just matching their frequencies. “Russians, Turkish, Indian radio officers were operating it.”

The committee said it also received testimony that at a 2017 party, Gaetz twice had sex with "Victim A," who was 17 years old at the time and had just completed her junior year in high school.

"Trump has dropped all pretense and is charging ahead hand in hand with the right-wing industry players shaping an agenda he denied for the whole campaign."

The House’s “resistance” to Trump and the GOP in the House will be led by people of all ages who don’t seem particularly interested in that project, despite having spent the entire election cycle warning that Trump’s Republican Party represents a second coming of fascism.

More than 100,000 people were tortured and killed in the state-run “machinery of death,” Stephen Rapp, former U.S. war crimes ambassador at large, told Reuters on Tuesday after visiting two mass grave sites in the towns of Qutayfah and Najha near Damascus.

The increased attention around AI has raised concerns about how it will affect careers and the workplace. A 2023 report by McKinsey & Company estimated that 12 million American workers will have to change occupations by 2030 as AI technology develops.

Oz’s 2022 tax disclosure by Accountable.US revealed that the Trump ally owned up to $26 million stake in Sharecare, a digital health company co-founded by Oz that operates CareLinx, the “exclusive in-home care supplemental benefit program” used by 1.5 million Medicare Advantage enrollees.

"If your package is delayed during the holidays, you can blame Amazon's insatiable greed," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien in a statement. "We gave Amazon a clear deadline to come to the table and do right by our members. They ignored it."

Trump’s own businesses sought to hire more foreign guest workers this year than any other year on record, according to a CNN review of government labor data. Companies linked to some of Trump’s top political backers and administration picks also have been given the green light to use guest workers.

Their bill spiked by $5,956.92. The culprit? A charge for "Data Pay Per Use," which costs $2 per MB of data used. The customer used about 3GB of data that month (3,000MB), costing them a staggering $6,194, according to screenshots of the bill.

The reality is that a "small number of incredibly wealthy billionaires own and control much of the global economy. Period. End of discussion. And increasingly they own and control our government through a corrupt campaign finance system."

After the respondents were informed of RFK Jr.’s past statements, their approval of his nomination dropped to 39 percent, a swing from a 3-point margin of approval to a 13-point margin of disapproval.

According to analysis from AP VoteCast, Vice President Kamala Harris won the youth vote, capturing around 51% of voters aged 18 to 29. While Trump's performance among young voters improved from 2020, his claim of a 34-point lead is not supported by any credible data.

“Never before has there been so much concentration of ownership, sector after sector, power of Wall Street,” he continued. “And never before in American history — and we better talk about this — have the people on top had so much political power.

Rumours soon circulated that during the dinner, Trump joked that, if the proposed tariffs meant Canada's economy couldn't survive, then maybe the country should become America's 51st state.

They joined a party that has already raged for a month, as a cohort of influential Silicon Valley billionaires, led by Elon Musk, began running parts of Mr. Trump’s transition after endorsing him in the campaign.

This break with tradition stems from the Trump team forgoing federal funding and the ethics and transparency requirements that come with it.

“We make decisions about communications based on the record, based on the facts, and based on the law,” she said. “And not based on the whims coming out of the White House or the grievances of the president.”

Meng previously served a three-year prison sentence for fraud in 2019. After his release, he embarked on a career as a blogger, but his videos often included vulgar content, particularly involving the harassment of women, according to reports.

While the secret police station did perform some basic services, such as helping Chinese citizens renew their Chinese driving licenses, it also served a more “sinister” function, including to help the Chinese government locate a pro-democracy activist of Chinese descent living in California.

During riots across the UK in August, he posted online that “civil war is inevitable”, drawing criticism from a Downing Street spokesman, who said there was “no justification for comments like that”.

Despite the known risks, plastic in general remains a little-regulated substance, largely because of the petrochemical and plastic industry’s lobbying power.

The architect of Project 2025, is a Christian nationalist who believes the federal government's job is to impose a "biblical worldview" by fiat, which means sidestepping the House, whose members face biennial accountability with voters.

It's not hyperbole to call this a government of billionaires. Whether it acts as a government for billionaires — as Democrats argue is inevitable — could test and potentially tarnish Trump's populist legacy.

The inability to secure critical telecommunications infrastructure leaves individuals and businesses vulnerable to surveillance. Unencrypted communications can be intercepted and analyzed in real-time, posing risks to privacy, security, and even national safety.

Meddling by billionaire owners will only further erode public trust in media. It sends the message that news outlets serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful rather than the public. And in an era of rampant misinformation, it will drive more people to retreat into confirmation bias bubbles."

"Given the existential stakes for our democracy that I believe Trump’s second term poses, and the evidence that Soon-Shiong is currying favor with the President-elect, they are repugnant and dangerous."