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Twitter’s former Deputy General Counsel James Baker, who was fired Tuesday by new CEO Elon Musk for “suppression” of information, has a long history of facing allegations of anti-Trump, pro-Democratic bias in the public and private sectors.Substack journalist Matt Taibbi, whose “Twitter Files” released on Friday revealed new details about the company’s suppression of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 presidential election, shared an article on Sunday about Baker’s connections to FBI controversies involving the Trump-Russia probe. The article, from New York Post opinion writer Jonathan Turley, said Baker was “at the center of the Twitter…

CNN  —  A grand jury indicted two men – one of whom is Jewish and a descendant of a Holocaust survivor – in connection with an online threat last month to attack a synagogue in New York City. Christopher Brown and Matthew Mahrer were both indicted on charges of conspiracy and weapons possession. Brown also was charged with a felony count of making terroristic threats as a hate crime, and possession of a weapon as a crime of terrorism, among other charges. Mahrer, who previously made bail, appeared on Wednesday in Supreme Court in New York, with family members present.…

A Massachusetts man fatally shot his fiancée’s father and wounded her mother and sister, then turned the gun on himself, after expressing he was “unhappy” that they were living with him, prosecutors said. Police received a 911 call just after 3 a.m. Wednesday in Fall River, Massachusetts, from a woman saying her fiancé had just shot members of her family, then himself, at their home in the 500 block of Bank Street, a statement from the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said. First responders found four shooting victims.The shooting suspect was identified as Christopher Jean Baptiste, 25. He was rushed to Saint…

Russian and Belarusian athletes are not yet guaranteed the chance to take part in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, according to International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.Bach has declared that there is no date set for the IOC to make their decision, meaning they could miss out on the Olympic Games in France.There are currently around 100,000 athletes who are training to earn a spot in the Olympic Games, and around 10,000 will be successful in their bid to qualify in the next year and a half.Olympic Games 2024The Olympic and Paralympic Phryges – The mascots of the Paris 2024…

Lensa AI image.Sofia PittYou may have noticed a new trend taking over your Instagram feed. Your friends are turning themselves into digital art with the help of an artificial intelligence-generated app called Lensa.Lensa AI is currently the top free app in Apple App Store, though you’ll have to pay to use the AI artwork feature.Lensa first launched as a photo editing tool in 2018, but last month the company released a new feature called “Magic Avatars.” These AI-generated digital self-portraits turn you into works of art in a variety of themes, from pop, to fairy princesses, to anime.Lensa avatar of…

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 06: Apple CEO Tim Cook looks at a display of brand new redesigned MacBook Air laptop during the WWDC22 at Apple Park on June 06, 2022 in Cupertino, California. Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off the annual WWDC22 developer conference. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesApple announced on Wednesday that it plans to allow users to encrypt additional kinds of iCloud data on its servers, including full backups, photos and notes.The feature, called Advanced Data Protection, will prevent Apple from seeing the contents of some of the most sensitive…

The list of Russian individuals and entities sanctioned by the European Union could grow by about 200 while exports of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles to Russia and Iran are to be prohibited under a new raft of sanctions proposed by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Russia’s armed forces, military officers, legislators, ministers, governors, political parties and judges are featured on the Commission’s proposed ninth package of sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine.So far, the bloc has blacklisted 1,241 individuals and 118 entities.”This list covers key figures in Russia’s brutal and deliberate missile strikes against civilians,…

Kenny Smith and Shaquille O’Neal have a long-running joke on their TNT halftime show that when the former Houston Rockets guard would run to the big video board, the Hall of Famer would try to beat him there.On Tuesday, during the halftime report for the game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers, O’Neal tried to beat Smith to the video board again. This time, Smith gave O’Neal a little bit of a shove and sent the former Los Angeles Lakers star into a Christmas tree on the set. O’Neal lay in the tree for a moment while the…

Football star Granit Xhaka’s dad hit out at a TV journalist after she slammed the Arsenal star for a “disgraceful” gesture at the World Cup. Before his Swiss team was eliminated by Portugal on Wednesday morning in devastating fashion, Xhaka was in the middle of a furor surrounding his involvement in the heated clashes between his team and Serbian rivals in their Group G match on Saturday. The fiery Swiss captain was in the thick of it and it was his gesture towards the Serbian bench that prompted the most explosive spotfire near the end of the match where tempers threatened to boil over.…

Confronted by The Post Wednesday, embattled New York Attorney General Letitia James spoke out for the first time about the sexual harassment scandal engulfing her office. James denied to a Post reporter that she hid sexual harassment complaints against her chief of staff to win re-election — claiming that she was “protecting the rights” of his accusers. And the powerful AG  — under fire for burying the case despite having led the sexual harassment probe that forced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo from office last year — insisted that concealing her investigation of longtime aide Ibrahim Khan was “by no means” tied…