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Charges could be filed once the investigation is wrapped up and detectives will present the case to the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, the department said in its statement. 

Hey, Bragg: How about getting serious and creative in investing, charging and criminally prosecuting the career agitators encouraging chaos across the city?

Una rara condición llamada trastorno de percepción persistente de alucinógenos ha desconcertado a los investigadores y ha generado alarmas a medida que los psicodélicos se vuelven populares.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily BeastLast spring, pro-Trump cable channel Newsmax was riding a massive ratings surge after Fox News abruptly fired far-right primetime star Tucker Carlson, prompting disgruntled MAGA viewers to dump the conservative cable giant in protest.A year after transparently exploiting right-wing discontent over Fox’s removal of Carlson to gain a short-term boost in the cable news marketplace—which even saw the network occasionally surpass CNN in primetime—Newsmax is now experiencing a complete reversal of fortune.Despite a news cycle filled with high-profile events like Donald Trump’s hush money trial and the tumultuous pro-Palestine protests on college campuses, Newsmax’s primetime viewership has plummeted to its lowest levels of 2024. The decline is staggering, with a drop of over 60 percent in certain categories compared to the same period last year, as reported by Nielsen.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The Pirates announced Wednesday that Skenes will join their MLB roster and make his big league debut against the Cubs on Saturday.

The Eastern Conference is the Rangers’ to win after going up 2-0 on the Hurricanes. 

Read CNN's Fast Facts about the life of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

The DA's office charged two people — Bibi Rehana Khan, 54, of Mount Vernon; and Aaron Khan, 40, of the Bronx — and Rehana's Cosmetics with three counts of criminal possession of stolen property.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/TwitterA former New York City urologist is facing life behind bars after a federal jury found him guilty on Wednesday of sexually abusing eight patients, including six who were minors at the time.“Darius A. Paduch leveraged his position of trust as a medical doctor for his own perverse gratification,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement issued after the unanimous verdict. “For years, patients seeking needed medical care, many of them children, left his office as victims.”A lawyer for Paduch told Newsday that they “definitely” planned to appeal, and declined to comment further.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Reuters/Kirby LeeThe embattled ex-interpreter for Shohei Ohtani is expected to plead guilty to bank fraud and false tax return charges next week, accepting blame for the bombshell scandal that saw him accused him of stealing millions from baseball’s biggest star. Those in Ohtani’s camp accused Ippei Mizuhara, once spotted smiling alongside Ohtani nearly daily, of using the stolen funds to place thousands of illegal bets on everything from college soccer to the NFL. Mizuhara, who prosecutors said was Ohtani’s “de facto manager” in addition to translating Japanese and English, is expected to officially enter a guilty plea guilty on May 14 during a scheduled arraignment, the Department of Justice announced. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Jerry Seinfeld has toasted up a fantasia on the corporate battle that produced the Pop-Tart. Here’s what’s true and where the story’s been sweetened.

A bill being pushed by Manhattan state Sen. Liz Krueger and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal offers rent control for the rich -- under the pretense of protecting middle-class New Yorkers.

A disgraced Manhattan urologist was convicted Wednesday for sexually assaulting patients, including boys, under the guise of medical treatment.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is expected survived a vote over his ouster, an effort led by GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Follow here for the latest live news updates.

In going toe-to-toe with the Hurricanes in the opening set at the Garden, these Blueshirts have demonstrated that they have the right stuff for the playoffs.

Republican lawmakers react on the steps of Capitol Hill after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called up a resolution to remove Republican Speaker Mike Johnson on the House floor, a move that starts the clock to force a vote over ousting the Louisiana Republican from his leadership post.

Here is a nonexhaustive list of objects Apple recently pulverized with a menacing hydraulic crusher: a trumpet, a piano, a turntable, a sculpted bust, lots and lots of paint, video-game controllers.These are all shown being demolished in the company’s new iPad commercial, a minute-long spot titled “Crush!” The items are arranged on a platform beneath a slowly descending enormous metal block, then trash-compactored out of existence in a violent symphony of crunching. Once the destruction is complete, the press lifts back up to reveal that the items have been replaced by a slender, shimmering iPad.The notion behind the commercial is fairly obvious. Apple wants to show you that the bulk of human ingenuity and history can be compressed into an iPad, and thereby wants you to believe that the device is a desirable entry point to both the consumption of culture and the creation of it. (The ad is for the latest “Pro” model of the iPad, the price of which starts at $999 and goes as high as $2,299, depending on its configuration.) Most important, it wants you to know that the iPad is powerful and quite thin.But good lord, Apple, read the room. In its swing for spectacle, the ad lacks so much self-awareness, it’s cringey, even depressing. This is May 2024: Humanity is in the early stages of a standoff with generative AI, which offers methods through which visual art, writing, music, and computer code can be created by a machine in seconds with the simplest of prompts. Apple is reportedly building its own large language model for its devices, and its CEO, Tim Cook, explicitly invoked AI in his comments about the new tablet: The iPad Pro features, he said, an “outrageously powerful chip for AI.” Most of us are still in the sizing-up phase for generative AI, staring warily at a technology that’s been hyped as world-changing and job-disrupting (even, some proponents argue, potentially civilization-ending), and been foisted on the public in a very short period of time. It’s a weird, exhausting, exciting, even tense moment. Enter: THE CRUSHER.Apple is very good at defining the zeitgeist as it relates to how humans use technology to interact with the world. Announced with a Super Bowl commercial in 1984, the Macintosh ushered in the era of personal computing by presenting streamlined hardware and a pleasant graphical interface; iTunes and the iPod augured a world of limitless media; and the iPhone delivered on its promise to fit the entire universe in our pocket. There is about a 0 percent chance that the company did not understand the optics of releasing this ad at this moment. Apple is among the most sophisticated and moneyed corporations in all the world. (The company did not respond to a request for comment.)But this time, it’s hard to like what the company is showing us. People are angry. One commenter on X called the ad “heartbreaking.” Three reasons could explain why. First: Although watching things explode might be fun, it’s less fun when a multitrillion-dollar tech corporation is the one destroying tools, instruments, and other objects of human expression and creativity. Second, of course, is that this is a moment of great technological upheaval and angst, especially among artists, as tech companies build models trained off of creative work with an ultimate goal of simulating those very peoples’ skilled output. It is easy to be offended at the ad’s implication, and it is easy to be aghast at the idea that AI will wipe out human creativity with cheap synthetic waste.[Read: These 183,000 books are fueling the biggest fight in publishing and tech]The third-order annoyance is in the genre. Apple has, essentially, aped a popular format of “crushing” videos on TikTok, wherein hydraulic presses are employed to obliterate everyday objects for the pleasure of idle scrollers. Arguably the company thought that copying this specific motif would be fun, but something is grim about Apple trying to draft off a viral-video format to sell units. It’s unclear whether some of the ad might have been created with CGI, but Apple could easily round up tens of thousands of dollars of expensive equipment and destroy it all on a whim. However small, the ad is a symbol of the company’s dominance.The ad remains, in some sense, great marketing. Everyone is talking about the iPad, a mainstay in Apple’s lineup that nonetheless gets far less attention than the iPhone. But this sudden interest offers room for a genuine appraisal of the device 14 years after its release. The iPad was one of Steve Jobs’s final products, one he believed could become as popular and perhaps as transformative as cars. That vision hasn’t panned out. The iPad hasn’t killed books, televisions, or even the iPhone. The commercial hails the new Pro model as “the most powerful iPad ever,” but its bravado is mostly unearned. The iPad is, potentially, a creative tool. It’s also an expensive luxury device whose cheaper iterations, at least, are vessels for letting your kid watch Cocomelon so they don’t melt down in public, reading self-help books on a plane, or opting for more pixels and better resolution whilst consuming content on the toilet.In the day and a half since the ad was released, people have only gotten angrier. Cook’s tweet featuring the commercial has been viewed more than 29 million times, and the unhappy responses are piling up. Odds are, people aren’t really furious at Apple on behalf of the trumpeters—they’re mad because the ad says something about the balance of power. Apple is a great technology company, but it is a legendary marketer. Its ads, slickly produced keynotes, and even its retail stores succeed because they offer a vision of the company’s products as tools that give us, the consumers, power. The fundamental flaw of Apple’s commercial is that it is a display of force that reminds us of this sleight of hand. We are not the powerful entity in this relationship. The creative potential we feel when we pick up one of their shiny devices is actually on loan. At the end of the day, it belongs to Apple, the destroyer.

One man got the answer of a lifetime from his now fiancée when he took the plunge — both literally and figuratively — and proposed to the new bride-to-be while scuba diving in Fiji.

Rivals Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are coming together to offer a new streaming bundle that includes Disney+, Hulu and Max.

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GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was met with boos after she called up a resolution to remove Republican Speaker Mike Johnson on the House floor.

Rory McIlroy confirmed this week that he will not be returning as a member of the PGA Tour Player Board after receiving pushback from some members.

Lloyd Austin admits Hamas or others could attack US troops running the pier being built for Gaza, but says that’s not a breach of Biden’s vow not to put US boots on the ground there, notes Jim Geraghty.

La policía desalojó un campamento propalestino en la Universidad George Washington el miércoles y arrestó a manifestantes, horas después de que decenas marcharon hacia la casa de la presidenta de la institución mientras funcionarios de la ciudad se preparan para comparecer ante el Congreso sobre la respuesta a las manifestaciones.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's attempt to force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson failed on Wednesday.

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene officially triggered a vote on her motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Wall Street's lull stretched into a second day, as U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed close in a quiet Wednesday.

Este par de artistas latinas son la primeras figuras que anuncia la producción de estos premios que se celebrarán en el mes de junio

Ippei Mizuhara will plead guilty to charges of felony bank fraud and after authorities learned that he embezzled nearly $17 million from Shohei Ohtani.

The action provides the legal basis for a president — a future President Donald Trump, say, — to finally end all US funding to the world body.

This stoner music and comedy extravaganza featured Rogen riffing and spliffing with comics, rappers, special guests for Netflix is a Joke Festival.

The House Speaker announced a new bill on Wednesday that would enact changes to the federal voter registration process.

The professional wrestling legend joined "The MJ Morning Show" on Q105 in Tampa on Wednesday and explained what happened.

Four flight attendants used their security clearance to smuggle illegal drug proceeds through JFK airport and to traffickers in the Dominican Republic, federal investigators said Wednesday.

The Georgia congresswoman shot back at the heckling, saying, "This is the uniparty, for the American people watching."

“Hope you’re having a phenomenal start to your day. I’m sensing a big grin on your face for some reason today. I hope you’re full of positivity and smiles."

Remembered for his exuberant personality, former Lakers and Clippers guard Darius Morris has died at 33. His father and brother were convicted of fraud in February.

Justice Department accuses Hyundai Capital America of failing to obtain court orders before repossessing service members' cars.

The wife of an ex-Biden DOJ official, who is targeting former President Trump, donated thousands of dollars to President Biden’s 2020 campaign.

The "Kardashians" star got candid about how her years-long fitness journey helped her slim down after welcoming her daughter in 2018.

Some legal experts say there is little to no chance the case will go to trial before the November election in light of a Georgia Appeals Court decision.

The film continues this damn dirty science-fiction franchise's reign as one of the best out there.

One day after making several demands of Johnson (R-La.), the Georgia congresswoman surprised colleagues by triggering the resolution to oust him that she had filed on April 22.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) officially filed her motion Monday to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as leader of the House, starting a two-day clock for lawmakers to decide his fate.

Uber, Lyft and Reddit were among the day's biggest movers.

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The move marked a reversal from a day earlier, when Greene appeared to retreat from her threat to trigger a vote to remove Johnson as speaker.