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The attack came as a unit of troops set out to search for a New Zealand pilot captured by Papuan separatists in February. The ‘Morning Star’ flag used by the Papuan independence movement. Credit: Flickr / AK Rockefeller Advertisement Indonesia’s military has confirmed that three soldiers missing after a weekend ambush by separatist fighters in a remote area of ​​Papua have been found dead. On 15 April, fighters from the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement, opened fire on a group of...

Just a day after Elon Musk and David Sachs hosted Ron DeSantis for a special and devastating Following the president’s announcement, the governor of Florida signed a bill to shield Musk’s SpaceX from liability if workers are killed after his rocket explodes (something Musk apparently wants to do with everything from Tesla cars to up to rocketships, up to presidential campaigns is very adept at doing). spaceflight entity liability bill Expands legal immunity that shields private space companies, such as Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, from legal liability...

Everyone likes free money. Everyone also wants to retire comfortably. So as employers increase the amount of free money put into employees’ retirement accounts, it’s not surprising that employees are taking full advantage of it. Employer 401(k) contributions recently hit a record high, with the average employer kicking in 4.8%, according to a new report. loyalty report Analyzing your corporate retirement accounts. And what’s more, a significant portion of the American workforce is doing the legwork necessary to get the most out of this perk — including Gen Z, a...

This story contains spoilers through the ninth episode of Succession Season 4. Roman Roy was ready. He had written his eulogy for his father—a great man, he would say, great despite and because of it all—on hot-pink index cards. He had practiced the speech in front of a mirror. He had “pre-grieved,” he kept telling people, and so could be trusted to fulfill, one last time, the core duty of the family business: to love in a way that moves markets. But Roman failed. His grief overcame him; trying to...

Piers Morgan told reporters to hack into Alistair Campbell’s bank account in the hope of finding questionable transactions, it has been claimed in the High Court. Morgan, then editor of the Daily Mirror, reportedly asked reporter Gary Jones in 1999 to obtain details of Campbell’s mortgage payments. Campbell, who was then director of communications for Downing Street, said he believed the newspaper’s editor was “two-faced”. He said Morgan pretended to be a friend while secretly authorizing Jones – now editor of the Daily Express – to target his bank accounts....

Hemet, California – It happened in a matter of seconds. Security video shows 18-month-old Cole Petit getting out of his life preserver. He then went to the family pool in Winchester, California and slid under the surface of the water. “Like a bag of bricks, straight down,” his father, Zachary Pettit, told CBS News. Petit was just feet away, applying sunblock to his daughter. He dived for his son and rescued him from the water. “I think I acted in a way that any normal parent would have reacted,” Pettit...

Back In a letter to UNESCO on the occasion of the “Internet for Trust” conference, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva advocated international regulation of social media. In the document, Lula says that attacks on democracy cannot be tolerated, and that social media regulation must be implemented with transparency, in collaboration with the government, experts and civil society. According to Lula, the attacks by extremists in Brasilia on 8 January were the result of a misinformation campaign on social media. As a strategy to accelerate regulations in Brazil, the federal...

SUpriya Chakraborty proposed to Abhay Dange in April 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Chakraborty was recovering from a high fever after testing positive for the virus, and being with his partner of nearly 10 years made one thing abundantly clear: “Abhay was the one,” he tells TIME. So Chakraborty, 32, and Dange, 35, made an important and potentially life-threatening decision to marry in December 2021 in a big Indian ceremony outside Hyderabad. The two men are now lead petitioners in a landmark case that will decide the fate...

family of tyre nicholswho died one after the other brutal beating The officers and the city of Memphis were sued Wednesday by five Memphis police officers, blaming them for his death and accusing the officers of allowing a special unit’s aggressive tactics to go unchecked despite warning signs. One on Memphis Police Director Cereline “CJ” Davis in the trial crime-suppression unit called scorpion To target repeat violent offenders in high crime areas. The lawsuit claims that the Scorpion Unit used “extreme threats, humiliation and violence” and “disproportionately focused on and...

Activists to expand the Supreme Court rally outside the Supreme Court on June 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Demand Justice Fight Disinformation: Sign up for free Mother Jones Deli Newsletter and follow the news that matters. protest movement The right-leaning Supreme Court has come a long way since 2018, when a small but dogged group of progressive lawyers began pressing to expand the nine-member court. In Democratic circles, the idea has gained traction, especially in the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning abortion rights, and...