World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab
steps back from executive post
Posted By: Hermoine, 5/21/2024 10:33:13 AM
World Economic Forum founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab will be stepping back from his role running the global gathering since he founded it in 1971. Schwab announced his intentions in an email to staff on Tuesday that was shared with Semafor by a person connected to the organization.(snip) Schwab has not named his successor, but said that over the last year, the group’s executive board, “under the leadership of President Børge Brende, has taken full executive responsibility.” Brende is a former Norwegian conservative leader.
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World Economic Forum founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab will be stepping back from his role running the global gathering since he founded it in 1971.
Schwab announced his intentions in an email to staff on Tuesday that was shared with Semafor by a person connected to the organization.(snip) Schwab has not named his successor, but said that over the last year, the group’s executive board, “under the leadership of President Børge Brende, has taken full executive responsibility.”
Brende is a former Norwegian conservative leader.
Judge orders Catherine Herridge to reveal
sources for stories on FBI, Chinese American scientist 21 replies
sources for stories on FBI, Chinese American scientist 21 replies
A federal judge ordered CBS News senior correspondent Catherine Herridge to reveal her sources for a series of stories about the FBI's investigation of a Chinese American scientist back when she worked for Fox News.
The order last week from U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington D.C. comes after scientist Yanping Chen filed a lawsuit against the FBI, claiming that the agency violated the privacy act by improperly leaking information about her.
While working at Fox News in 2017, Herridge used a confidential source or sources to obtain material about the federal counterintelligence probe of Chen.
The House is holding a hearing Wednesday featuring multiple aerial experts, including UFO whistleblower David Grusch, a former Afghanistan combat officer and intelligence veteran. Americans for Safe Aerospace Executive Director Ryan Graves and Rt. Commander David Fravor, who led the Navy's Black Aces Squadron, are also expected to testify before the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs House (snip) Grusch told The Debrief last month that he informed Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General that the federal government has fully and partially intact vehicles from non-human origins.
A primary suspect in the unsolved disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway during a trip to the Dutch Caribbean Island of Aruba in 2005 will be extradited to the United States from Peru.
The suspect, Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot, has never been charged in Holloway's death, and he is being extradited to the U.S. on extortion and wire fraud charges. However, Holloway's family hopes that the extradition will in so way bring justice, or at least closure, to the teen's disappearance.
The government of Peru said Wednesday that van der Sloot will be sent to the U.S.
Tucker Carlson confessed to his producer that he 'hated Trump passionately', according to files unsealed by a judge on Tuesday as part of the Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit.
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On Tuesday, Carlson's private messages were among a trove of emails and other communications unsealed by the judge.
Idaho murder victims' roommate heard crying,
saw man in mask morning of killings: court docs 8 replies
saw man in mask morning of killings: court docs 8 replies
One of the Idaho murder victims' surviving roommates heard crying then opened her door and saw a man wearing a black mask, according to a newly unsealed filing that paints a vivid account of the massacre. The roommate, identified only as D.M., awoke at 4 a.m. Nov. 13 by what she thought was the sound Kaylee Goncalves playing with her dog, Murphy, on the third floor. A short time later, she heard what she thought was Goncalves saying "there's someone here," the document says. D.M. opened her door and heard crying coming from Xana Kernodle's room and a male voice saying "it's OK, I'm going to help you." CORRECTION*
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LA Democrat mayoral candidate Rep. Bass
says no longer feels [safe] after burglary,
guns taken 13 replies
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Los Angeles Democrat mayoral candidate Rep. Karen Bass says she no longer feels safe in the city after her home was burglarized and two guns were taken.
"I came home one evening to see my house in disarray, and it was very traumatizing,” she told Fox 11 Los Angeles on Thursday. "My safety was shattered." (snip)"I had guns for personal safety, as do many other people," Bass also said. "I think that gun control is extremely important, but I have never believed that people, if they wanted to have guns, should not have them..."
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Chilean Officials Discover 21-Year-Old
U.S. Naval Academy Midshipman Deceased
Body In Lagoon 9 replies
U.S. Naval Academy Midshipman Deceased
Body In Lagoon 9 replies
United States Naval Academy announced on Monday that Chilean authorities found the body of 21-year-old Texas native Luke Gabriel Bird, Midshipman Second Class, in a lagoon of the Salto El Agua waterfall in the Valparaíso Region of Chile.
“We are incredibly saddened by the tragic loss of Midshipman Luke Bird this weekend,” Vice Adm. Sean Buck, 63rd Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy, said in a statement. “My wife, Joanne, and I and the entire Naval Academy community offer our sincerest condolences to Luke’s family, friends, and fellow midshipmen during this difficult time. I encourage all of our Naval Academy family to offer support to one another as we navigate the grieving process.”
Chief Justice John Roberts issued a concurring judgment in the Supreme Court ruling Friday morning that revokes a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.
Roberts explicitly sided with his conservative colleagues in their majority opinion to uphold Mississippi's ban on abortions following 15 weeks of pregnancy.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made a campaign promise to black farmers that will give them $5 billion in reparations should he win the 2024 presidential election.
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Biden to sell off 1M barrels of gasoline
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The Harvard Crimson reported:
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I imagine that the word "former" in this sentence means just that...."Brende is a former Norwegian conservative leader." I didn't know Norway had any conservatives left.