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US's top phone carrier stung by instant backlash over price hikes https://t.co/2tKrOpB3TD — Daily Mail (@DailyMail) April 23, 2025 The nation’s largest wireless provider is bleeding subscribers after jacking up prices and scaling back on deals. Verizon lost 289,000 monthly subscribers in the first three months of the year, the company admitted on Tuesday. It’s …
The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship (a spy ship), USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967, during the Six-Day War. The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two marines, and …
In 16th century Japan, the Daimyo feudal lords, like their Medieval European counterparts, battled to secure control of the realm. Today, in the current US presidential race, a similar conflict has emerged, over an increasingly feudalised landscape. The discord among the American elites is far more pronounced now than in 2016 or 2020. This time, …
