Confessions of an overnight tech millionaire.

From Wall Street avengers to little Hitlers, Wonder Showzen’s “Beat Kids” segment played off the discomfort of little kids in tiny trench coats asking adults some very tough questions.

Jeff Jansen said modern pastors were "neutered" and "effeminate," boasting that his church's ushers all toted guns and were instructed to "kill."

"He who controls the spice controls the universe." The world's principal supplier of semiconductors - the spice of OUR global empire - is now Taiwan. Thanks a lot, Intel. Thanks a lot, Bob Swan. Thanks a lot, Jack Welch. Thanks a lot, all you Wall Street wizards of financialization. Taiwan is now Arrakis. And we WILL fight over it.

He deserves to have a rat free home Instead he got a message about rent being due.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal apprehension is investigating after a Brooklyn Center police officer fatally shot a driver during a traffic stopSunday afternoon ...

Anew feature-length documentary set to debut next week on French TV alleges that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman pressured the Louvre to lie about the authenticity of a painting he had purchased in order to spare him the public humiliation of having spent $450 million on a fake. “The Savior for Sale,” by French filmmaker Antoine Vitkine, delves into the murky controversy surrounding the Salvator Mundi, or “Savior of the World,” a portrait of Jesus Christ that has been dubbed the “male Mona Lisa.” The painting made art world history in 2017 when nearly 1,000 art collectors, dealers and onlookers packed into a room at Rockefeller Center in New York as the venerable Christie’s auction house sold the painting for a record $450 million, making it the world’s most expensive painting. The vast public interest — 120,000 art fans watched the auction via a Facebok live stream — and extravagant winning bid reflected the extreme rarity of authenticated works by Leonardo da Vinci. Despite the Italian master’s enormous fame and influence, there are fewer than 20 paintings in existence judged to be from his own hand — and all of them part of museum collections. Christie’s called the painting “the greatest artistic rediscovery of the last 100 years.” Questions over the Salvator Mundi’s authenticity began to percolate when the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum unexpectedly canceled the painting’s planned unveiling in September 2018. The painting has not been seen in public since. The whereabouts of the work remained a mystery until, in 2019, the art industry news service Artnet reported that the 500-year-old painting was being kept on Mohammed bin Salman’s 440-foot superyacht, Serene. A new documentary alleges that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman refused to lend the "Salvatore Mundi" to the Louvre unless the museum said it was a true work by Leonardo da Vinci. (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Then came an enlightening bombshell: A scientific analysis by three experts at the Louvre in Paris concluded that the painting was produced in Leonardo’s workshop but not by the Renaissance master himself. The Louvre historians had intended to publish their findings but were prevented from doing so when the painting’s owner declined to loan it for the blockbuster Leonardo exhibition in 2019. (The museum is restricted from publicly commenting on privately owned paintings that it has not exhibited.) A string of art historians also weighed in. In his book The Last Leonardo, art critic Ben Lewis also concluded that the painting more than likely came out of Leonardo’s studio and then touched up by the master. The Guardian quoted Dr. Carmen Bambach, an art historian and curator of Italian and Spanish works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saying that Christie’s had wrongly included her among scholars who had attributed the painting to Leonardo da Vinci. In her view, the Salvator Mundi was primarily the work of an assistant, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, with only “small retouchings” by Leonardo himself. And Matthew Landrus, an Oxford art historian, speculated publicly that the painting was largely produced by another of Leonardo’s assistants, Bernardino Luini. Holy Wow: How did 'Salvator Mundi' go from a $1,175 find to a $127.5 million treasure in two years? TOLGA AKMEN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Vitkine’s documentary traces the history of the painting, beginning with its purchase in poor condition for $1,175 by a New York art dealer in 2005. The painting was restored in the United States, authenticated as a genuine Leonardo by several art experts at the British National Gallery, then sold to a Russian oligarch for $127.5 million two years later. The film also reveals what was going on behind the scenes at the Louvre after the Christie’s auction. The film reportedly features several senior officials from President Emmanuel Macron's government, appearing under pseudonyms, who allege that the crown prince’s offer to lend the painting to the Louvre for the 2019 exhibition had strings attached. The prince’s conditions were that the Louvre must exhibit the Salvator Mundi alongside the Mona Lisa and present it as “a 100%” Leonardo da Vinci.  Ultimately, President Emmanuel Macron rejected Saudi demands and the French museum never exhibited the painting. The incident has reportedly caused a minor diplomatic riff between France and Saudi Arabia. Antoine Vitkine’s film “Savior For Sale” will be broadcast in France on channel France 5 on April 13.

Neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists planned rallies in dozens of cities Sunday but hardly anyone showed up.

French lawmakers voted late on Saturday to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours, as the government seeks to lower carbon emissions even as the air travel industry reels from the global pandemic.

Two new genetic studies have shed light on just how often our ancestors got frisky with Neanderthals. Scientists analyzed the genomes of 45,000-year-old human remains found in caves in Czechia and Bulgaria, including the oldest known genome of a modern human, and found that they all had relatively…

The CCRB, the city’s watchdog agency charged with investigating civilian complaints against cops, exonerated NYPD Det. Lawrence Avvenire, who was accused of abuse of authority for his role in the December 2017 raid.

Experts called it a “huge explosion” that generated pyroclastic flows down the volcano’s south and southwest flanks.

Daniel Goleman’s pop-psychology blockbuster, now twenty-five years old, turned self-control into a corporate management tool.

The managing director of Thiel Capital finally posted a paper describing his 'theory of everything' and promoted it on Joe Rogan's podcast, raising the ire of critics.

Investigators said that Michael Reinoehl probably opened fire before officers killed him last year. But some key evidence raises questions about that conclusion.

Threats of legal action made by the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and an online petition circulating among Cambodians led the website to take down the story PHNOM PENH--An article published at VICE—a news website covering politics, social issues and culture—has sparked outrage among Cambodians who viewed as morally unacceptable and contemptuous to the victims of the Khmer Rouge regime to have retouched their portraits taken before they were tortured and executed. This article also led the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts (MCFA) on April 11 to threaten legal action if VICE did not immediately remove the article and photos from its website. Within hours of the ministry issuing its warning, VICE on April 11 had taken the article off its site. In an interview with Irish artist Matt Loughrey posted on VICE on April 9 and entitled “These People Were Arrested by the Khmer Rouge and Never Seen Again,” Loughrey explained that he had altered photos of prisoners of the regime’s extermination camp Tuol Sleng to revitalize their history. The photos posted with his interview had not only been colorized but had also been digitally altered to add smiles on the faces of the victims of the camp known as S-21 during the Pol Pot regime. “MCFA does not accept this kind of manipulation and considers this work of Matt Loughrey to seriously affect the dignity of the victims, the reality of Cambodia’s history, and in violation of the rights of the Museum as the lawful owners and custodians of these photographs,” the ministry had stated in its announcement, adding that the ministry had never been in communication with Loughrey.

The law is part of growing evidence the Black Lives Matter movement is changing policing.

An analysis of mask mandates in German towns found that they may have reduced covid-19 infections by about forty-five per cent. Another study examined U.S. states with mask mandates, and found that the daily growth of infections was two per cent lower in states where a mask mandate had been in place for a few weeks. By April, 2020, the W.H.O., the Centers for Disease Control, and other groups decided that there was enough evidence, and recommended face coverings. The C.D.C. now firmly concludes that “experimental and epidemiological data support community masking to reduce the spread of sars-CoV-2.” Yet Tegnell remained unsatisfied. In April, 2020, he wrote a letter to the European Center for Disease Control urging against a mask recommendation, saying, “The argument for and evidence for an effect of face covering to limit the spread from asymptomatic persons is not clear. . . . The arguments against are at least as convincing.”

West Virginia senator Joe Manchin’s opposition to increasing the corporate tax rate benefits the legal services industry that bankrolled his election bids. It’s simple — Democrats need to pick between pro-working-class legislation and the business interests they’re aligned with.

When local councilors adopted a resolution two years ago declaring their small town in southeastern Poland “free of LGBT,” the mayor didn’t see much harm in what appeared to be a symbolic and legally pointless gesture. Today, he’s scrambling to contain the damage. The May 2019 decision has become a costly embarrassment for the town of Krasnik. It has jeopardized millions of dollars in foreign funding and, Mayor Wojciech Wilk said, turned “our town into a synonym for homophobia,” which he insisted was not accurate.