Jeremy Clarkson fires back at Netflix's claim that his new show cost Amazon $250 million

Netflix's claim that his new show, "The Grand Tour," cost Amazon a whopping $250 million.

"Amazon spent far less than Netflix would have you believe,"Clarkson told CNN. "It's nowhere near as expensive as people have been saying."

Netflix content boss Ted Sarandos recently told The Telegraph that "The Grand Tour," starring Clarkson and the "Top Gear" team, cost Amazon "about a quarter of a billion dollars." The Financial Times had previously reported that Amazon had paid $250 million for three seasons of the show.

Clarkson disputes that number. While he wouldn't reveal how much the show actually cost, he said he knew the figure and it wasn't close to $250 million.

The first episode of the show's 12-episode first season dropped on November 18.

Black Teen Shot Dead In West Virginia

A 15-year-old black boy was shot dead by a 62-year-old white man in West Virginia’s capital Charleston after the two bumped into each other at a local store and were involved in an altercation, according to reports Wednesday.

The incident happened after the teen James Means went to sit on friend’s porch following the altercation with William Pulliam, who walked past the two boys. Pulliam and Means had a confrontation again after which the man shot the teen twice in the abdomen, Means’ friend Clayton Ferguson told police.

“The way I look at it, that’s another piece of trash off the street,” Pulliam told police, according to a criminal complaint filed by Charleston Detective C.C. Lioi.

A 6-year-old boy was behind the Thanksgiving surprise outside Hillary Clinton's home

A 6-year-old boy named Liam was behind the effort to surprise Hillary Clinton on Thanksgiving Day with a series of colorful signs posted near her Chappaqua, New York, home, his mother told Politico.

On Thursday, Clinton tweeted an image of the signs featuring messages such as "Thank-you, Hillary," "You are loved," and "An American hero."

"I was greeted by this heartwarming display on the corner of my street today," Clinton wrote. "Thank you to all of you who did this. Happy Thanksgiving."

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It was one of her first tweets since conceding the election to Donald Trump earlier this month.

Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say

The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation.

Russia’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery — including thousands of botnets, teams of paid human “trolls,” and networks of websites and social-media accounts — echoed and amplified right-wing sites across the Internet as they portrayed Clinton as a criminal hiding potentially fatal health problems and preparing to hand control of the nation to a shadowy cabal of global financiers. The effort also sought to heighten the appearance of international tensions and promote fear of looming hostilities with nuclear-armed Russia.

Two teams of independent researchers found that the Russians exploited American-made technology platforms to attack U.S. democracy at a particularly vulnerable moment, as an insurgent candidate harnessed a wide range of grievances to claim the White House. The sophistication of the Russian tactics may complicate efforts by Facebook and Google to crack down on “fake news,” as they have vowed to do after widespread complaints about the problem.

Trump and the white power problem

I’ve written a lot of pretty rough things about Donald Trump over the last 18 months. I’ve called him an entertainer and an emotional extremist, a guy with a black hole at his center. I’ve likened him to P.T. Barnum and a dime-store psychic.

Not once, though, have I suggested that Trump is, personally, a racist or an anti-Semite, which are labels people throw around too often these days. He’s always struck me as an opportunist more than anything else — an act in search of an audience, which he just happened to find in some of the darkest corners of the American psyche.

I figured that if a loud chunk of conservative voters had been anxiously agitating for someone to champion, say, antipoverty programs instead of a wall, Trump would have jumped on that horse just as quickly. Whatever his flaws, I didn’t take him for a devoted bigot.

It’s only now, after another staggering week in our fast unraveling society, that I find myself asking a question I really never imagined asking.

Does the president-elect of the United States feel some genuine kinship with the white nationalists he’s managed to embolden? Or does he just think it’s not a big deal if a bunch of crazy guys go around saluting him like Nazis?

Embattled Syrians from east and west Aleppo play football match amongst the devastation in 'bid for reconciliation'

A friendly football match has been held between the eastern and western neighbourhoods of the divided Syrian city of Aleppo, it has been reported.

The match was said to have been organised by the government in a bid towards reconciliation after rebel forces in the besieged east turned down an invitation to participate.

Ex-residents of opposition-controlled territories who now live in the western side of town formed the "east" team - with no one leaving besieged areas to take part, The Independent reported.

Robbers attack football icon, Luis Figo's house, make away with €500,000 worth of jewellery's

Former Barcelona and Real Madrid player Luis Figo's Madrid mansion was attacked on Wednesday night while the footballer wasn't around and the robbers made away with jewellery worth €500,000 according to reports in the Spanish media. According to top Spanish magazine, AS, who reported the story;