The Assad family, which has ruled Syria for 53 years, saw their regime crumble in just 12 days. The crucial factor behind this swift downfall? The loss of the people's trust and support.Britney Spears didn’t move to Mexico— despite the video of Spears saying she did, a source told The Hollywood Reporter . The singer originally told fans that she moved to Mexico to escape the “incredibly cruel” paparazzi. “It really kind of hurts my feelings that the paparazzi make my face look like I’m wearing like a white Jason mask, and it doesn’t even look like me,” Spears said on Tuesday. “They’ve always been incredibly cruel to me, the paparazzi and pictures and the way they’ve illustrated me to be in some of it. 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Two hikers reportedly stumbled upon a woman tied to a tree and crying in Monterey County, California, on Wednesday. According to SF Gate , she was walking a trail in Pebble Beach around 7:30 that morning when she noticed a “suspicious male” behind her, holding a gun. The man did not take anything from her or assault her or injure her, just left her tied up for two hours before the passersby found her. With the help of another hiker, he untied the woman and called the police. The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office subsequently launched a search for the suspect, described as being in his 30s with a neck tattoo involving the letter Z. SFGate reports that while authorities haven’t identified anyone matching that description yet, they say there is “no active threat to the community.” Confusing celebrity update: Paris Jackson, daughter of late musician Michael Jackson , is engaged to Justin Long. 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Penny’s attorneys argued that the former Marine was justified in putting Neely in a chokehold because witnesses say he told passengers, “Somebody’s going to die today,” and that he was ready to go to jail. Prosecutors argue that no witnesses testified that Neely brandished a weapon or touched anybody, and that Penny kept Neely in the chokehold long after other passengers left the train. The jury has been deliberating since Tuesday. The jury could also convict him of the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. If the jury can’t reach a verdict then Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley would issue an “Allen” charge, which urges them to reach a unanimous verdict. Penny faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted on the manslaughter charge, or up to four years if convicted of a lesser count. Donald Trump on Friday fired off an unequivocal message of support for his defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth in the wake of several damaging reports about the Fox News star’s alleged behavior. “Pete Hegseth is doing very well. His support is strong and deep, much more so than the Fake News would have you believe,” the president-elect wrote on Truth Social. “He was a great student—Princeton/Harvard educated—with a Military state of mind. He will be a fantastic, high energy, Secretary of Defense Defense, one who leads with charisma and skill. Pete is a WINNER, and there is nothing that can be done to change that!!!” Trump’s post came the morning after Hegseth spent the day meeting with senators whose votes he’ll need to be confirmed as the next Pentagon chief. Speaking to reporters Thursday, Hegseth insisted he’d had a “ great week ”—despite multiple bombshell reports emerging in recent days about his alleged drunken antics, which he denies, along with rumors that Trump is considering replacing him with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as his nominee for defense secretary. “As long as Donald Trump wants me in this fight, I’m going to be standing right here in this fight,” Hegseth said. A top Romanian court alleged Friday that Russia conducted an elaborate TikTok psy op to get a pro-Putin political newcomer elected president. The European Union member state’s Constitutional Court made the unprecedented decision to annul the results after the first round of its election votes, with Sunday’s second round of voting canceled, too. A raft of now-released intelligence reports allege that front-runner Calin Georgescu soared into the lead backed by 25,000 TikTok accounts based in Moscow. The Euro skeptic and anti-NATO Georgescu, who has professed his admiration of Romania’s fascist past, was a relative nobody before the election and was polling at around 5 percent. The U.S. State Department said earlier this week that it was concerned by the Romanian Supreme Council of National Defense’s “report of Russian involvement in malign cyber activity designed to influence the integrity of the Romanian electoral process.” A trio of climbers who disappeared on Aoraki/Mount Cook, the highest mountain in New Zealand, are presumed dead. The BBC reports that Aoraki Area Commander Inspector Vicki Walker made the announcement on Friday, five days after the men went missing. Although investigators have not yet located their bodies, during drone scans of the area, they did spot personal belongings and footprints in the snow on a ridge. Police believe the men fell while trying to cross. 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The film, set to be released on Dec. 25, stars Chalamet as a young Dylan. “Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me,” Dylan posted on X . Though Dylan didn’t share if he’s seen the film yet, he did recommend the book the biopic is based off of. “The film’s taken from Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric – a book that came out in 2015. It’s a fantastic retelling of events from the early ‘60s that led up to the fiasco at Newport,” he added. “After you’ve seen the movie read the book.” Dylan also gave a nod to the film’s title, A Complete Unknown , which references lyrics from Dylan’s 1965 song “Like a Rolling Stone.” “What a title!” he wrote. The slain UnitedHealthcare CEO had a criminal record for drunk driving and was secretly separated from his wife for years before he was shot dead in Manhattan on Wednesday, according to public records. Minnesota court filings show that in 2017 Brian Thompson was arrested and convicted on charges of fourth-degree driving while impaired, for which he received probation. In addition to legal troubles, the executive, who was gunned down in what NYPD has labeled a “premeditated, pre-planned, targeted attack,” also seems to have faced recent marital issues. Based on property records, voter registration forms, and reports from neighbors, Brian and Paulette Thompson had lived in different homes less than a mile apart in Maple Grove, Minnesota, for the past several years, The Wall Street Journal reported . In 2018, Thompson bought a five-bedroom second house for around $1 million, while his wife’s residence remained in another house nearby, also worth about $1 million, based on Zillow listings and public records. Paulette Thompson told MSNBC her husband had received threats related to his company’s “lack of coverage” and said in a statement to a local Fox affiliate in Minnesota that his killing had left her and their two sons “shattered.” About 12 hours after his killing, someone made a bomb threat at his Minnesota home, but authorities did not find any evidence of explosives, TMZ reported . UnitedHealthcare and the Hennepin County District Court did not immediately respond to a Daily Beast inquiry about Thompson’s DUI.Overall, Zhejiang's victory over Guangzhou was a team effort, with each player stepping up and making key contributions to secure the win. The combination of individual brilliance from players like Wu Qian and collective effort from the team as a whole proved to be a winning formula for Zhejiang.President-elect Donald Trump tapped David Sacks to be his new man on artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto. Here’s what we know. US President-elect Donald Trump has picked his new head of artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto: David Sacks. Sacks will guide policy for Trump’s second term on both issues, which Trump described as “two areas critical to the future of American competitiveness,” on his social media platform, Truth Social. Among other things, Sacks will “safeguard free speech online” and steer the US away from “Big Tech bias and censorship,” Trump wrote. Sacks’ mandate will also include a legal framework for the US crypto industry so that it has the “clarity it has been asking for,” the president-elect added. The AI and crypto czar will also lead what Trump is calling the Presidential Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, a that works with each administration to advise the President on science and technology. “[Sacks] has the knowledge, business experience, intelligence, and pragmatism to MAKE AMERICA GREAT in these two critical technologies,” Trump wrote. Straight after finishing his law degree at the University of Chicago in 1998, Sacks worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company but after a year to join e-commerce startup Confinity, along with Peter Thiel, an ally of Vice President-elect JD Vance. Sacks was the head of product at Confinity’s PayPal, where he built the company’s key teams before the company went public in the early 2000s. The company was eventually bought by eBay for $1.5 billion, according to media at the time. Trump noted in his description of Sacks that he’s part of the “PayPal Mafia,” a of early founders of the company that have gone on to grow some of the biggest tech ventures in Silicon Valley. Sacks moved on to a career in Hollywood after PayPal was acquired, by financing and producing the political satire Thank You For Smoking, which was for two Golden Globes in 2007 including ‘Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical.’ But Sacks didn’t leave Silicon Valley behind completely. In 2008, Sacks Yammer, a social networking platform between companies. Yammer was eventually acquired by Microsoft in 2012 for $1.2 billion as part of its package of , according to a TechCrunch report at the time. By 2017, Sacks had co-founded Craft Ventures in San Francisco, where he has invested in over 20 unicorn companies like Airbnb, Eventbrite, Meta (Facebook), Lyft, Postmates, Reddit, Slack and SpaceX, according to his biography on his venture’s . Sacks also hosts the “All-In ,” alongside Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, and David Friedberg where they talk about technology, economy, politics and social issues. The South African-American tech entrepreneur and film producer was born to a Jewish family in Cape Town and moved to the United States at five years old, according to a 2012 Los Angeles Times profile of .
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If truckloads of Alberta Sheriffs passing their time driving around in the vicinity of Coutts or Del Bonita have probable cause to believe a passing pickup is carrying a load of fentanyl, for example, they would be within their rights to pull the vehicle over and take a peek in the cargo bed. After all, we have criminal laws in Canada about that kind of thing. If the driver and passengers of the pickup are not Canadian citizens, the situation might be murkier, but only slightly. But if the occupants of the pickup intend to present themselves properly to U.S. officials at the border, the Smith’s promised squad of border Sheriffs have no business harassing them. And if they do not, well, that’s not our problem! Indeed, that is why our neighbour’s government has its own United States Border Patrol with a budget of $5.4 billion US in 2022 and which, by all accounts, is quite capable of doing its job properly, at least along the long border with Canada. If large numbers of Canadians are sneaking into Montana to improperly spend their Loonies buying cheap garments made in American Samoa at the Target store in Great Falls, the two national governments presumably know what number to call to discuss what to do about it. There is in fact, notwithstanding Smith’s unseemly rush to defend Trump’s crude fantasies, not much of a problem on the Americans’ northern border – at least going in a southerly direction. Yes, it is well understood that a significant number of American truckers – indeed, almost all of them – illegally bring firearms into Canada whenever they cross the line to carry fresh vegetables from California or Arizona to Canadian grocery shelves. But this is largely winked at by Canadian authorities because they understand the truckers need firearms for protection back home in the Benighted States and are unlikely to discharge them at passers-by in the short time they are north of the border. As for illegal migrants, we Canadians are the ones who should be preparing to harden the border to prevent an unmanageable flow of refugees from the United States, including many U.S. citizens, who are bound to try to cross into Canada if Trump keeps some of his non-tariff promises. In the unlikely event Trump is actually able to impose his 25-per-cent tariff on All Things Canadian, then searching trucks originating in the United States and impounding their drivers’ firearms would seem like a perfectly reasonable and constitutionally defensible activity for the Canada Border Services Agency to engage in. But as was noted in this space yesterday, Trump’s fairy tale about an influx of illegal border-crossers from Canada or shipments of dangerous illegal drugs manufactured in Canada is performative, intended to justify his use of the 1974 U.S. Trade Act to impose tariffs on an emergency basis without the assent of the U.S. Congress. Even so, such tariffs would be restricted to 15 per cent, for 150 days, without Congressional approval. Smith knows this, too, of course, and she is gaslighting when she claims Trump has a sound point, as she did again today when she published a whiny official statement about Trudeau’s meeting with Trump to discuss tariffs (embarrassingly spelled “tarif” in the notice emailed to media), which she used as an excuse to complain about the federal emissions cap the UCP persists in calling a production cap. Premier Smith’s repeated defence of Trump is based more in her sympathy with the president-elect’s MAGA worldview than any honest belief his complaints about the U.S.-Canadian border are justified, which they clearly are not. Evidence? Well, the UCP and its federal Conservative allies certainly never hesitated to attack policies of recent Democratic U.S. presidents like Barack Obama or Joe Biden with whom they disagreed, or to ignore them if they could. It is becoming increasingly clear from her words and deeds that this premier and close advisors like Chief of Staff Rob Anderson, one of the authors of the “Free Alberta Strategy,” despise Canada, distrust Canadians, and wish Alberta could be remade in the image of the United States. So this nonsense about creating an Alberta border patrol is intended above all to poke a stick in Ottawa’s eye, open another front in the UCP’s taxpayer supported campaign against the Liberal Government, and create incursions into federal jurisdiction to see if anyone will push back – which the preoccupied Trudeau Government never seems to do. That’s a pity. Support rabble today! We’re so glad you stopped by! Thanks for consuming rabble content this year. rabble.ca is 100% reader and donor funded, so as an avid reader of our content, we hope you will consider gifting rabble with a donation during our summer fundraiser today. 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Syracuse Orange (4-2) at #7 Tennessee Volunteers (7-0) SEC/ACC Men’s Challenge matchup at a glance When: Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. ET Where: Food City Center, Knoxville, Tenn. TV channel: ESPN Live streams: FuboTV (free trial) | SlingTV (low intro rate) | DirecTV Stream (free trial) A young Syracuse team faces its biggest test of the season with a road contest against the Volunteers to turn the page on an up-and-down November. Last time out, the Orange got 23 points from freshman forward Donnie Freeman and 19 off the bench from fellow rookie Elijah Moore in an 82-72 win over Cornell at JMA Wireless Dome last Wednesday night. Tennessee is a perfect 7-0 this season, the highlight of which was a ranked win over No. 13 Baylor on Nov. 22. The Vols were last in action last Wednesday night in a 78-35 win over UT Martin where Tennessee held the visiting Skyhawks to just 12-of-53 shooting. 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