Google Ireland and Google France have agreed to pay a €1.1 million ($1.34 million) fine after a probe found that the company’s hotel rankings could be misleading for consumers. According to a statement issued on Monday by France’s finance ministry and fraud watchdog, Google has amended its hotel rankings practices since September 2019. The American search engine is accused of having created... 

Police in Switzerland have arrested a 19-year-old Afghan migrant suspected in a vicious acid attack upon a young woman in Neuchâtel, according to reports. The 24-year-old victim, a beauty contest model, was walking through the parking garage of her apartment building before 8 a.m. on Thursday when a hooded suspect armed with caustic chemicals ambushed her, authorities said in a statement. A neighbor... 

Prosecutors say a West Side man and two accomplices went on a violent crime spree Tuesday, killing a man seemingly at random on the street, carjacking a woman, and robbing three Dunkin’ locations before police caught up with them. Investigators strongly suspect the crew is connected to a weeks-long pattern of similar crimes across the city and suburbs, including an armed carjacking outside Willis... 

Social media users are recoiling at Bill Gates’ call for a global disease alert system, questioning why a tech billionaire with no medical expertise or elected office is plotting what they fear could become a platform for tyranny. The Microsoft co-founder, who ranks as the world’s third-richest person, took to Twitter on Monday to make his pitch for a new system that he said would help... 

With anyone sharing ‘conspiracy theories’ facing ever-harsher penalties online, we are ignoring their cause: governments so intent on keeping their secrets, not to protect their people, but to protect themselves. The DC Circuit has ruled that the CIA is under no obligation to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests pertaining to its involvement with insurgent militias in Syria,... 

German police have arrested a 15-year-old girl suspected of fatally stabbing an elderly woman during a robbery at a train station in Ravensburg on Tuesday. The teen suspect was already well-known to police, having been arrested multiple times previously and serving a recent prison term for robbery. The 62-year-old victim was on her way home from work when she was attacked at the Ravensburg train station. The... 

A mother-of-five who set her hair with Gorilla Glue spray has arrived in Los Angeles to meet with a plastic surgeon who claims he can fully remove the adhesive after revealing she was told by doctors that she may have permanent scalp damage. Tessica Brown, 40, from Violet, Louisiana, opened up about the ‘extreme’ headaches she has been suffering from and her failed attempts to remove the... 

U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order Thursday that denies state and local governments any authority to reject the drop-off of refugees into their towns and communities. In essence, former President Donald Trump’s policy (Executive Order 13888 of September 2019) gave state and local governments a say in whether they have the capacity to provide refugees a pathway to become self-sufficient... 

A man has been accused of fatally shooting six people, including five children and one man, inside a Muskogee, Oklahoma, home. Police arrested Jarron Deajon Pridgeon, 25, and charged him with first-degree murder for allegedly firing his weapon at six victims, including five young children nine years of age and younger. The adult victim, Javarion Lee, 24, is allegedly Pridgeon’s younger brother. Raven... 

Joe Biden is to allow at least 25,000 migrants seeking asylum, but forced to wait in Mexico under Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program, into the United States while their immigration cases go through the legal system. The asylum seekers will be tested for Covid-19 before they enter the US and will start coming across a few hundred at a time starting next week, according a spokeswoman for the International... 

Joe Biden has issued a presidential memorandum threatening “financial sanctions” on African countries for failing to embrace the LGBTQI+ agenda. The memorandum directs federal agencies to “conduct and expand efforts to combat discrimination, homophobia, transphobia, and intolerance on the basis of LGBTQI+ status or conduct”, with an annual report detailing the status of LGBTQI+ rights in countries... 

Facebook has patted itself on the back for nuking almost all “hate speech” that supposedly violated its rules. But not only was most content deleted before anyone could flag it, users weren’t even allowed to appeal most deletions. Unveiling its Community Standards Enforcement Report for the fourth quarter of 2020 on Thursday, Facebook bragged that its expanded use of artificial intelligence... 

Israel’s ministry for military affairs has formed a secret unit tasked with concealing sensitive historical documents, with a special focus on censoring chilling revelations related to the expulsion of Palestine’s original inhabitants, according to a report: Malmab, also known as the military affairs ministry’s department for “defense establishment security”, has been conducting the operation... 

BBC World News has been banned from the Chinese airwaves, Beijing’s state-controlled TV network announced. The tit-for-tat move comes after the UK media regulator, Ofcom, revoked the broadcast license of the Chinese CGTN network. China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) announced the ban on Thursday, stating that the BBC’s reports “violated the requirements that news should... 

Come on man, Joe Biden used to say during the debates with Trump but now seriously, come on man! He had the entire Capitol Hill perimeter surrounded with a huge wall with barbed wire, now where the hell did you ever see that? Not even North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is surrounded with barb wired walls. What this means is that this is an evil parasitic entity which took over America and it knows that...