World Bank Sees Economy Shrinking 3 Percent This Year

Through his partnership with Doodles, Pharrell is taking over McCafe cups this holiday season to drop digital collectibles. Starting November 18, all McCafe drinks across the U. S. will be delivered in a festive cup adorned with cartoony Doodles characters—an encompassing NFT media brand anointed by Pharrell Williams. Williams is seemingly everywhere these days.

That probe effectively ended when Matt Gaetz resigned from Congress. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, was once embroiled in a sex trafficking investigation by the Justice Department he’s been tapped to lead, and has been under scrutiny by the House Ethics Committee over allegations including sexual misconduct.

By DAVE COLLINS The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax, the families announced Thursday. “The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the death of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for,” Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed in the 2012 shooting in Connecticut, said in a statement provided by his lawyers. The sale price was not immediately disclosed. Jones confirmed The Onion’s acquisition of Infowars in a social media video Thursday and said he planned to file legal challenges to stop it.

In an unexpected turn, Green Dragon, one of the largest dispensary chains in Colorado, will keep its stores and grow facility open. The retailer’s parent company, California-based Eaze, got an infusion of $10 million from its owner, Jim Clark, to remain operating, it announced Tuesday. Clark, the billionaire founder of the defunct tech firm Netscape, foreclosed on the company’s assets in August for $54 million. “We’ve just been working with the new ownership group to assess what we’re doing in the future,” said Cory Azzalino, Eaze’s CEO.

Now that Americans have cast their votes, and the 2024 election is behind us, it remains imperative to reflect on the core values that define our nation: freedom, leadership, and democracy. Over the past year, these principles have been challenged by the ongoing captivity of American citizens held hostage in Gaza.