The Daily Populous

Just when you think Elon Musk has realized spouting off racist nonsense and giving Nazi-like fascist salutes is bad for business, he goes back to the well for more.

This time, Musk amplified a bizarre claim from an anonymous social media account that described women as meek objects “built to be traded to another tribe (or captured).”.

Elon Musk reposted this misogynistic and dehumanizing take on X earlier this week. »

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was sentenced Friday to 12 years of house arrest for witness tampering and bribery in a historic case that gripped the South American nation and tarnished the conservative strongman's legacy.

He faced up to 12 years in prison after being convicted Monday.

His attorney had asked the court to allow Uribe to remain free while he appeals the verdict. »

Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) conducted a joint operation with local partisans to blow up a bus carrying five Chechen soldiers from the Russian-backed Akhmat unit in occupied Melitopol, HUR reported on Aug. 2.

As a result of a successful joint operation between intelligence officers and partisans, a minibus carrying five Akhmat soldiers exploded on the outskirts of Melitopol, HUR said.

0:00 / 1× Video footage purporting to show the explosion of a minibus carrying five Chechen soldiers in Russian-occupied Melitopol published by HUR on Aug. 2, 2025. »

Cold Nordic countries are being seared by “truly unprecedented” heat, as hot weather strengthened and lengthened by carbon pollution continues to roast northern Europe.

“Truly unprecedented heatwave still in full swing with maximum today about 32-33C,” said Mika Rantanen, a climate scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, in a social media post on Thursday.

“Even the Arctic regions … have seen three weeks above 25C, and may rival tomorrow their August heat records.”. »