French authorities are investigating the death of a man during a live video stream on the Kick live streaming platform, where he had regularly been shown enduring violence and humiliations. Prosecutors ordered an autopsy and opened an investigation into the death of the 46-year-old man in the village of Contes, north of Nice, on Monday. Clara Chappaz, junior minister for AI and digital technology, said Raphael Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove, had regularly featured in videos on Kick, where he was physically assaulted or humiliated by co-streamers as viewers watched live. “The death of Jean Pormanove and the violence he...

A longtime adviser to New York City Mayor Eric Adams who resigned from his administration while under FBI scrutiny gave a reporter a potato chip bag filled with cash Wednesday following a campaign event, a gift her lawyer later insisted wasn’t an attempted bribe. The local news site The City reported the episode hours after one of its reporters said Winnie Greco had pressed a bag of potato chips into her hands containing a red envelope with a $100 bill and several $20 bills. The reporter, Katie Honan, had scrutinized Greco’s conduct in the past as a major fundraiser for Adams in the Chinese...

 Brazil’s federal police said messages found on the telephone of former President Jair Bolsonaro showed he once wanted to flee to Argentina and request political asylum, according to documents seen Wednesday by The Associated Press. Bolsonaro is currently awaiting a Supreme Court ruling about an alleged coup attempt and learned Wednesday he might face another case as police formally accused him and one of his sons, Eduardo Bolsonaro, of obstruction of justice in connection with his trial. The 170-page report said Bolsonaro had drafted a request for political asylum from Argentine President Javier Milei’s government dated Feb. 10, 2024. He saved the document two...

Fire On US Warship Off Japan Injures 2 Sailors Before Being Extinguished  A fire broke out Wednesday on the USS New Orleans warship off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, leaving two sailors with minor injuries. The fire on the amphibious transport dock ship has been extinguished and its cause is under investigation, the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet said in a statement. The fire on the 684-foot-long vessel lasted almost 12 hours, igniting as the USS New Orleans was in water near White Beach Naval Facility in Okinawa. Sailors on the ship got help fighting the fire from the crew of the USS San...

Vice President JD Vance: “President Trump’s administration is cleaning up DC and making America safe again. “We do not have to allow our cities to be taken over by violence. We can bring law and order to our communities, you’ve just got to have the political willpower to do it.” “In just the past 9 days, we’ve seen a 35% reduction in violent crime and a 50% reduction in robberies because of President Trump’s leadership. “Glad I could stop by Union Station and thank the countless National Guardsmen busting their asses to clean up our nation’s capital.”

President Xi Jinping visited Lhasa for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region, accompanied by Wang Huning, Li Ganjie, Cai Qi and He Lifeng. Xi Jinping has previously visited Tibet (the U-Tsang region) on three occasions, each coinciding with a different stage of his political career — from provincial leadership to the presidency. This visit marks his fourth. The Chinese president joined around 20,000 local officials and people from all ethnic groups and all walks of life in the celebration.