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Brittney Griner has released her first statement since being released from a Russian penal colony in a prisoner swap for convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout. The WNBA star thanked the Biden Administration, and said she knows the White House is ‘committed’ to bringing home former US Marine Paul Whelan, who remains incarcerated in Russia.’It feels so good to be home!’ Griner wrote on Instagram. ‘The last 10 months have been a battle at every turn. I dug deep to keep my faith and it was the love from so many of you that helped keep me going. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone for your help.’Griner, who had played professionally in Russia since 2014, was returning to the country in February when she was stopped

December 16, 2022

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A huge aquarium exploded inside a German hotel today, unleashing a ‘tsunami’ of water which caused ‘unbelievable maritime damage’ at a major tourist attraction.The 82ft-high tank, located in the foyer of the Radisson Blu hotel in central Berlin, burst at around 5.50 am, killing all of the 1,500 tropical fish housed in the aquarium.The explosion at the AquaDom aquarium unleashed a million liters of water into the lobby and cut off electricity in the hotel. Two people were injured from glass shards and received treatment at the hospital.There was speculation freezing temperatures overnight caused a crack in the glass tank, which then exploded under the weight of the water

December 16, 2022

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As Lionel Messi approaches his second and likely last World Cup final, the stakes could hardly be higher. The same goes for Argentina after more than 30 years of disappointment since it last won soccer’s ultimate prize. For Messi, victory against France at Lusail Stadium on Sunday is a chance to finally get his hands on the one major trophy that has eluded him in his storied career. In doing so, he would push ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo, who has also never won a World Cup, in the long-running rivalry between the two greatest players of their generation. While 37-year-old Ronaldo exited the tournament at the quarterfinals stage, benched by Portugal and in tears in the likely

December 16, 2022

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Russia fired a barrage of missiles at Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities on Friday, in the latest attack targeting the country’s critical infrastructure. The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, said explosions hit three districts of the capital, urging residents to remain in shelters. Emergency services were at the scene of a strike on a residential building in the city of Kryviy Rih, central Ukraine, said the deputy head of the president’s office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko. “The building is damaged and people may be trapped under the rubble,” he said. The campaign targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure began in October after Gen. Sergei Surovikin was put in charge of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

December 16, 2022

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Florida’s insurance commissioner submitted his letter of resignation Thursday, a day after the Legislature made major changes to the state’s troubled property insurance market.“I am so proud of the work the Office has been able to accomplish during my tenure,” David Altmaier wrote in a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis. “I remain committed throughout the remainder of my tenure — and after — to continue the momentum we have established to make Florida the best place in the union to live, work, and prosper.”Altmaier, 40, did not say whether he was leaving for another opportunity. His last day is Dec. 28.“Since the Governor took office, Commissioner Altmaier has been instrumental

December 16, 2022

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A landslide Friday at a tourist campground in Malaysia left 16 people dead and authorities said 17 others were feared buried at the site on an organic farm outside the capital of Kuala Lumpur. An estimated 94 Malaysians were believed to have been at the campsite in Batang Kali in central Selangor state, around 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Kuala Lumpur, when the incident occurred, said district police chief Suffian Abdullah. He said the death toll has risen to 16, including a five-year-old boy. Seven people have been hospitalized with injuries and rescuers were searching for the estimated 17 missing people, he said. Another 53 people were rescued without

December 16, 2022

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The Senate on Thursday voted to approve the annual defense policy bill, sending the $858 billion legislation to President Biden for his signature, though it remains unclear how many of the new initiatives it contains will be funded.The bill, which passed by a vote of 83 to 11, directs how federal dollars can be spent on the Pentagon, the U.S. military, and related programs. This year, it includes an expansion of funds for helping Ukraine fight off a protracted Russian invasion, a new program to supply Taiwan with unprecedented levels of security assistance, a pay raise for service members, and measures to address rising costs due to inflation.But with the two parties

December 16, 2022

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Judges in Peru have ruled that former president Pedro Castillo be held in preventive detention for 18 months pending trial on charges of rebellion and conspiracy for his attempt to shutter congress and rule by decree, as the death toll from a week of violent protests sparked by his ousting rose to at least 15.A judicial panel in the supreme court ordered the extended period of pre-trial detention for Castillo as prosecutors continued an investigation into criminal charges against him. The decision did not touch on the merits of accusations faced by Castillo but the panel cited the risk of flight by the deposed president.Protesters gathered outside the jail where he was detained,

December 16, 2022

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Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez took to Twitter Thursday night to say she sympathized with Elon Musk’s desire to prevent himself from being doxed — but still branded his ban on nine journalists ‘proto-fascism.’Her comments come after Musk suspended the accounts of at least nine journalists who he said tweeted links to an account that tracks the movements of his private jet, an action he likened to posting ‘assassination coordinates.’The congresswoman said ‘I get feeling unsafe,’ noting that she has also experienced similar threats to her safety, and added that she felt the billionaire was ‘descending into abuse of power to try to protect himself.

December 16, 2022

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Jake Tapper’s 15-year-old daughter revealed that she nearly died last year due to a ruptured appendix, with her illness going misdiagnosed for several days as her skin started turning green. Alice Paul Tapper, writing an op-ed for her father’s employers at CNN, is relaying her experience of a surprisingly common issue. She wrote that around Thanksgiving of last year, she was hospitalized with stomach pains but doctors immediately told her that it wasn’t appendicitis, a condition in which the appendix becomes inflamed and filled with fluid, causing serious pain. Alice said the doctors ruled out appendicitis because she said her pain was experienced

December 16, 2022

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Twitter on Thursday evening suddenly suspended several high-profile journalists who cover the platform and Elon Musk, one of the richest people in the world, who acquired the company just a few months ago.Hours after the suspensions took hold; Musk faced off with one of the journalists he suspended in a Twitter Space audio discussion before an audience of more than 30,000 listeners. The suspended journalist, along with several others, found a backdoor way onto the platform through the website’s audio function.“You doxx, you get suspended. End of story. That’s it,” Musk said, explaining his latest policy to the group, before he left minutes

December 16, 2022

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Turmoil at the Washington Post has intensified after a contentious town hall meeting on Wednesday in which the newspaper’s publisher, Fred Ryan, astounded staffers by announcing substantial job cuts to come, then quit the meeting, refusing to answer questions.“This is embarrassing, this is embarrassing,” one staffer was heard saying as Ryan made his hasty exit, according to video footage posted on social media. Ryan dropped his “bombshell announcing more layoffs”, as the newspaper’s Guild union described it, at the end of a meeting intended for the discussion of future editorial plans. Instead, it descended into a tetchy confrontation between the,

December 15, 2022

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The National Archives on Thursday released 11,000 unredacted documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, offering historians and conspiracy hunters a fresh trove of details. It came soon after President Joe Biden issued an executive order authorizing their publication while keeping thousands more documents from public view. ‘Pursuant to my direction, agencies have undertaken a comprehensive effort to review the full set of almost 16,000 records that had previously been released in redacted form and determined that more than 70 percent of those records may now be released in full,’ said Biden.’This

December 15, 2022

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Nearly a dozen Florida schools are ditching policies that violate Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new rules for LGBTQ issues in classrooms, officials said Wednesday. Board of Education Senior Chancellor Jacob Oliva sent letters in November to 10 districts warning that their guidelines didn’t line up with the Parental Rights Bill. Among other provisions, the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law requires that schools tell parents if their kids change genders or switch the bathrooms or locker rooms they use. That provision contradicted policy at districts where student approval was necessary to reveal gender identity changes to parents. Speaking at a board of

December 15, 2022

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The D.C. Bar’s disciplinary counsel recommended Thursday that Rudy Giuliani be disbarred after a hearing panel tentatively determined he likely violated at least one professional conduct rule in his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania.The panel said its determination was preliminary and nonbinding, and because of that, it declined to specify what rule Giuliani, who contested the election results as former President Donald Trump’s lawyer, had likely violated. It will release a final decision in several weeks, after hearing recommendations related to what discipline Giuliani should receive, assuming the preliminary and nonbinding

December 15, 2022

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As many as 250,000 people die every year because they are misdiagnosed in the emergency room with doctors failing to identify serious medical conditions like stroke, sepsis, and pneumonia, according to a new analysis from the federal government.The study, released Thursday by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, estimates roughly 7.4 million people are inaccurately diagnosed of the 130 million annual visits to hospital emergency departments in the United States. Some 370,000 patients may suffer serious harm as a result.Researchers from Johns Hopkins University, under a contract with the agency, analyzed data

December 15, 2022

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Miami authorities have suspended a firefighter who said he had no regrets after video captured him punching a handcuffed patient who he said spat at him in October, officials said.“If he never knew the consequence of spitting in a grown man’s face, then consider my actions public education and this video a PSA,” Robert Webster told NBC Miami on Tuesday. Webster, who was a lieutenant with the Miami Department of Fire-Rescue, told the station he is not remorseful for attacking a handcuffed patient on Oct. 15 in the emergency room at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Webster could not be immediately reached by NBC News for comment

December 15, 2022

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Apple just rolled out iOS 16.2, a software update that includes a key new feature called Advanced Data Protection for iCloud. That means you can finally enable end-to-end encryption for your iCloud backups so no one but you—not even Apple—can access your iCloud data.The fact that iCloud backups haven’t offered the option of end-to-end encryption until now has long been a point of controversy. iCloud backups of the Messages app were of particular concern because Apple could still hand over certain types of data within the backups to law enforcement. In particular, although conversations in Messages (along with other more personal data

December 15, 2022

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The three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker is to be deported from the UK after being freed from jail. The 55-year-old German, who has lived in the UK since 2012, was released on Thursday after serving eight months of a two-and-a-half-year sentence. The six-time grand slam champion was jailed in April for hiding £2.5m of assets and loans to avoid paying his debts. Becker was expected to serve half of his sentence behind bars but was recently approved for a fast-track scheme in which foreign citizens are deported if certain conditions are met. The Home Office removed 1,136 foreign national offenders under its early removal

December 15, 2022

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The first openly transgender woman set to be executed in the U.S. is asking Missouri’s governor for mercy, citing mental health issues. Lawyers for Amber McLaughlin, now 49, on Monday, asked Republican Gov. Mike Parson to spare her.McLaughlin was convicted of killing 45-year-old Beverly Guenther on Nov. 20, 2003. Guenther was raped and stabbed to death in St. Louis County. There is no known case of an openly transgender inmate being executed in the U.S. before, according to the anti-execution Death Penalty Information Center.“It’s wrong when anyone’s executed regardless, but I hope that this is a first that doesn’t occur,

December 15, 2022

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The U.S. government sued Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and the state Wednesday over the placement of shipping containers as a barrier on the border with Mexico, saying it is trespassing on federal lands.The complaint filed in U.S. District Court comes three weeks before the Republican governor steps aside for Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs, who has said she opposes the construction.Ducey told U.S. officials earlier this week that Arizona is ready to help remove the containers, which he says were placed as a temporary barrier. But he wants the U.S. government to say when it will fill any remaining gaps in the permanent border wall as it announced

December 15, 2022

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An Iranian soccer player will be hanged, punishment of protesting against the death of Mahsa Amini.Amir Nasr-Azadani, 26, was arrested in November in connection to the murders of a police colonel and two volunteer militia members, according to Iran Wire.Nasr-Azadani has also been accused of “waging war against God.”Amini died suddenly in mid-September while in custody after being arrested for allegedly improperly wearing a hijab. Witnesses have said Amini was beaten by Guidance Patrol, but the Iranian government has said she suffered a heart attack. The International Federation of Professional Footballers (FIFPRO) said they were

December 15, 2022

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The launch of ChatGPT has prompted some to speculate that AI chatbots could soon take over from traditional search engines. But executives at Google say the technology is still too immature to put in front of users, with problems including chatbots’ bias, toxicity, and their propensity for simply making information up.According to a report from CNBC, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Google’s head of AI Jeff Dean addressed the rise of ChatGPT in a recent all-hands meeting. One employee asked if the launch of the bot — built by OpenAI, a company with deep ties to Google rival Microsoft represented a “missed opportunity” for the search giant

December 15, 2022

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A former Twitter employee found guilty of spying on users on behalf of the Saudi royal family has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Ahmad Abouammo, a dual U.S.-Lebanese citizen who helped oversee media partnerships for Twitter in the Middle East and North Africa, was part of a scheme to acquire the personal information of users, including phone numbers and birth dates, for a Saudi government agent. He was sentenced Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The Justice Department has said it believes that another former Twitter employee accused of accessing user accounts and a man accused

December 15, 2022

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Peru’s new government a declared 30-day national emergency on Wednesday amid violent protests following the ouster of President Pedro Castillo.”The National Police with the support of the Armed Forces will ensure the control throughout the national territory of personal property and, above all, strategic infrastructure and the safety and well-being of all Peruvians,” Defense Minister Luis Otarola Peñaranda announced.Peru’s new president, Dina Boluarte, pleaded for calm as demonstrations continue against her and the Congress that ousted her predecessor. Answering demands for immediate elections, she suggested they could be held a year

December 15, 2022

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s new show, a broadside at the British royal family, broke a Netflix record, according to the streaming giant. Netflix Inc. said Tuesday that the show, “Harry & Meghan,” was watched more than any other documentary on the platform in its premiere week. The company described the show as a documentary series, although the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had sway over the story lines, including one that highlighted the royal family’s ties to slavery. The show logged nearly 81.6 million viewing hours in the days after it premiered on Dec. 8, Netflix said. More than 28 million households tuned in to the first three

December 15, 2022

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The Senate passed by unanimous consent a bill that would ban federal employees from downloading or using the social-media app TikTok on government devices, in the face of mounting national-security concerns. The legislation would still have to pass the House and be signed by the president to become law. A similar bill passed the Senate in a previous Congress but never moved forward in the House. U.S. officials and lawmakers from both parties have raised concerns about the app’s owner, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd. In just five years, the application, which allows users to post short videos with music, has exploded into a pop-culture phenomenon

December 15, 2022

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Russia warned the U.S. that if it sends Patriot missile systems to Ukraine it will consider the move a provocation that could lead to unpredictable consequences. The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send a Patriot missile system to Ukraine; three defense officials told NBC News earlier this week. The surface-to-air defense system would help Ukraine repel Russian aerial attacks. The Russian embassy in Washington said in a statement on Telegram Wednesday that sending the Patriot missile system would be considered “provocative.”In his nightly address Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces were

December 15, 2022

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Twitter owner Elon Musk’s boosting of far-right memes and grievances has injected new energy into the jumbled set of conspiracy theories known as QAnon, a fringe movement that Twitter and other social networks once banned as too extreme.The billionaire has spread bogus theories about the violent attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband to his 120 million followers, and he called for the criminal prosecution of infectious disease expert Anthony S. Fauci. He has thrown around baseless accusations about adults sexualizing children, helping stir up an angry online mob against Yoel Roth, a former Twitter safety executive Musk praised

December 15, 2022

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Elon Musk posted a video of a ‘crazy’ man believed to have stalked the car his child was traveling in – before blocking the vehicle’s path and climbing on top of its hood. The Twitter CEO said that his two-year-old son X Æ A-Xii, known as X, was followed by a balaclava-clad stalker in Los Angeles on Tuesday night – and he is now trying to hunt down the man. In the short video, the suspect was seen wearing a black hood and driving a white Hyundai – before picking up his phone to record the encounter himself.The video believed to be filmed by Musk’s driver then panned towards the car’s license plate.

December 15, 2022

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France is heading back to the World Cup Final and aiming to do something that hasn’t been done in 60 years – repeat as World Cup champions. France is making a return trip after defeating Morocco 2-0 in the semifinal. It didn’t take long for France to silence the Morocco crowd at Al Bayt Stadium. In the 5th minute, the Moroccan defense let a ball scoot by to French forward Antoine Griezmann who passed it to Kylian Mbappé. Defenders swarmed him but he still managed a shot, deflecting it to Theo Hernandez. He elevated and sent the ball with a soaring left-footed scissor kick beyond keeper Yassine “Bono” Bounou to score 1-0. It It was

December 14, 2022

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The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by half a percentage point Wednesday and signaled plans to keep raising them more in 2023, capping off one of the most aggressive years in the central bank’s history and marking a new phase in its fight against inflation.But even though the economy is much different now from what it was a year ago, the Fed enters 2023 with as much uncertainty as it had last December. How much pain is ahead for families and businesses remains to be seen.“I don’t think anyone knows whether we’re going to have a recession or not,” Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell said at a news conference. “And if we do, whether it’s

December 14, 2022

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French police raided the headquarters of Emmanuel Macron‘s political party, prosecutors said Wednesday, as part of two probes into possible ties between consulting firms and France’s presidential campaigns in 2017 and 2022. France’s national prosecutors said police also searched the Paris offices of consulting giant McKinsey & Co. as well the headquarters of an association dedicated to funding Renaissance, Mr. Macron’s party. The prosecutors are investigating whether presidential campaigns properly accounted for any role consulting firms played in their activities. Another investigation is exploring whether campaigns concealed

December 14, 2022

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@ElonJet, the account tracking the movements of Elon Musk’s personal jet, has been suspended from Twitter. Musk said in November that the account was a “direct personal safety risk” but that he would not ban it as part of his “commitment to free speech.”It’s not clear what changed in the month since that tweet. Posts from @ElonJet are published to Instagram and Facebook, too, and neither show the account doing anything out of the ordinary in the past few days. The account’s last posts were yesterday, showing Musk’s jet landing in Los Angeles after a 48-minute flight. The ban comes less than a week after the account’s creator Jack Sweeney

December 14, 2022

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Stephen “tWitch” Boss, known as the DJ on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” has died, The Post has confirmed. He was 40. The “So You Think You Can Dance” contestant and “Magic Mix XXL” actor died by suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot, TMZ reported.“It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to share my husband Stephen has left us,” Boss’ wife Allison Holker, 34, confirmed in a statement to People. “Stephen lit up every room he stepped into. He valued family, friends and community above all else, and leading with love and light was everything to him. He was the backbone of our family, the best husband and father, and an inspiration to his

December 14, 2022

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged eight social media influencers with securities fraud, saying Wednesday they were part of a $100 million scheme to use social media platforms Twitter and Discord to manipulate the price of certain stocks. Though the influencers are not household names, they had accrued more than two million followers across various social media platforms, where they routinely posted photos of their wealth including of exotic sports cars, according to an SEC complaint filed Tuesday. Discord is a private chatroom and messaging platform that is popular with gaming influencers and, more recently,

December 14, 2022

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Evan Edwards and his son, Josh, 30, were taken into custody five months after an NBC News report raised questions over why they hadn’t been charged in the alleged scam, which federal prosecutors first identified in court papers in December 2020. It wasn’t immediately clear if the family had hired an attorney. The case dates back to April 2020 when Josh Edwards applied for a $6 million Paycheck Protection Program loan to cover payroll, rent, and utilities for his family’s ministry. In the loan application, he claimed that the organization, ASLAN International Ministry, had 486 employees and a monthly payroll of $2.7 million, according to a federal forfeiture

December 14, 2022

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The launch of ChatGPT has prompted some to speculate that AI chatbots could soon take over from traditional search engines. But executives at Google say the technology is still too immature to put in front of users, with problems including chatbots’ bias, toxicity, and their propensity for simply making information up.According to a report from CNBC, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Google’s head of AI Jeff Dean addressed the rise of ChatGPT in a recent all-hands meeting. One employee asked if the launch of the bot — built by OpenAI, a company with deep ties to Google rival Microsoft — represented a “missed opportunity” for the

December 14, 2022

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An autopsy has revealed that American soccer sportswriter Grant Wahl died of an ascending aortic aneurysm. His wife, Céline Gounder, revealed the cause of death during an appearance Wednesday on CBS Mornings. His body and belongings were flown back to New York City on Monday, where an autopsy was performed at the NYC medical examiner’s office. In a statement, Gounder said, “No amount of CPR or shocks would have saved him. His death was unrelated to COVID. His death was unrelated to vaccination status. There was nothing nefarious about his death.”Wahl was covering Friday’s Argentina-Netherlands quarterfinal match

December 14, 2022

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Apple’s latest iOS 16.2 update is now rolling out and includes a number of new and improved features for iPhone users. iPhone 14 Pro owners will benefit from improved always-on display settings, which let users turn off the mode’s wallpaper and notifications if they’re distracting. Other new features include end-to-end iCloud encryption, the Apple Music Sing karaoke mode, and much more. End-to-end iCloud encryption is being branded as Advanced Data Protection in iOS 16.2 which means data like Notes, iCloud backups, and Photos are now protected with end-to-end encryption. The protection covers 23 “data categories” now, upfrom 14,

December 14, 2022

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At the height of its corporate power, the cryptocurrency exchange FTX convened a group of athletes and celebrities for a charity event in March at the Miami Heat’s N.B.A. arena. Local high school students competed for more than $1 million in prizes, pitching “Shark Tank”-style business ideas to a panel of judges that included David Ortiz, the former Boston Red Sox slugger, and Kevin O’Leary, an actual “Shark Tank” host.But the event’s organizer was a figure better known in academic circles — Joseph Bankman, a longtime tax professor at Stanford Law School and the father of Sam Bankman-Fried, the now-disgraced founder of FTX.Wearing a

December 14, 2022

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U.S. officials are moving to expand a program creating a legal process for – Venezuelan migrants seeking asylum to also include – Nicaraguans, Cubans, and Haitians, surge in Nicaraguan migrants that has begun to overwhelm parts of the border in recent days. The humanitarian program would allow migrants from those countries to apply from abroad to fly to the U.S., according to internal government documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal and two officials familiar with the plans. The new program, the administration plans to argue, would give migrants from those countries an alternative path into the U.S. so they don’t attempt to

December 14, 2022

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Twitter has been skipping rent payments on its San Francisco headquarters and putting up office supplies for auction under new CEO Elon Musk as the social media company looks to strengthen its financial position, reports said. Twitter hasn’t paid rent on its San Francisco location or any of its global offices for weeks, three people close to the company told the New York Times. Musk and his advisors are hoping to renegotiate the terms of lease agreements due to their smaller worker force after mass layoffs, the paper said. The move was just one of the cost-cutting measures by Musk after he paid $44 billion for the social media company in

December 14, 2022

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that he is forming a new state committee to counter policy recommendations from federal health agencies — a decision that medical professionals said will further politicize medicine in the Sunshine State. At a news conference in South Florida, DeSantis also said he is requesting a statewide grand jury investigation into alleged “crimes and wrongdoing” related to the coronavirus vaccine. He provided few details on what specifically he wants a panel to probe, but in a press release, his office noted side effects like myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation, that have been observed in rare cases.

December 14, 2022

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The sudden arrest of disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried ensnarled Washington on Tuesday, as Democrats and Republicans began to sort through the political wreckage and looked to distance themselves from one of their chief benefactors 2022 election. For years, Bankman-Fried had been a darling in the eyes of the nation’s political class: The crypto mogul had maintained a visible presence in the halls of the Capitol, a generous campaign checkbook, and a close relationship with the regulators who oversaw his company.But lawmakers came to find that Bankman-Fried presided over a deeply troubled enterprise, one whose flaws had

December 14, 2022

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Lionel Messi is again on the one stage that’s marred his famed career. He’s again one step away from the only feat that’s eluded him. One step away from where his country has impatiently waited to return. One step away from his rightful place in Argentinian lore. He left no doubt getting back, powering Argentina’s dominant 3-0 win over Croatia to advance to the World Cup final. They will face the winner of France and Morocco’s semifinal clash on Wednesday. In what is almost assuredly his fifth-and-final World Cup, Messi smashed a penalty into the top right corner in the 34th minute to give La Albiceleste a 1-0 lead. He provided the game’s finishing

December 13, 2022

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A Bahamian judge is allowing Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents to leave the court in the middle of his arraignment hearing to retrieve anti-depressants, Adderall and Zyrtec. Bankman-Fried is accused of one of the ‘biggest financial frauds in American history – defrauding investors out of $ 1.8 billion by convincing them his trading platform FTX was safe to use. He is begging for mercy – asking for $250,000 cash bond – and claiming he can’t be thrown in jail because he is depressed and follows a vegan diet. Bankman-Fried faces 155 years in prison on eight counts of money laundering and fraud, and US prosecutors are preparing to charge some of his

December 13, 2022

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Apple to let users install alternative app stores on iOS, according to a report from Bloomberg. The shift would be a remarkable change from the company, which has famously only allowed iPhone and iPad users to download apps from the App Store. The plans are reportedly being spurred on by the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which is meant to enact “rules for digital gatekeepers to ensure open markets” when its restrictions become a requirement in 2024, according to a press release. The law means that Apple will not only have to allow third-party app stores but sideloading as well, where users can install software downloaded from the

December 13, 2022

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Hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin has sued the IRS and the Treasury Department over the “unlawful disclosure” of his tax information, escalating the battle in Washington over leaked tax filings of super-wealthy people including Warren Buffett and Jeff Bezos. In a complaint filed Tuesday in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, Griffin, founder, and CEO of Citadel accuses the IRS of violating its “legal obligations to safeguard and protect his information from unauthorized disclosure,” and willfully and intentionally failing to “establish appropriate administrative, technical or physical safeguards” over its record system. The claims stem from

December 13, 2022

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Peru’s ousted President Pedro Castillo told Peruvians Tuesday that he is being “unjustly and arbitrarily detained” and thanked his supporters for their “effort and fight” since he was taken into custody last week. Castillo spoke during a hearing to determine whether he will remain jailed for three years while authorities build a rebellion case against him. Castillo was detained Wednesday after he was ousted by lawmakers when he sought to dissolve Congress ahead of an impeachment vote.“I will never renounce or abandon this popular cause that has brought me here,” Castillo said. Then, in an apparent reference to the violent protests

December 13, 2022

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A new bill from a bipartisan group of lawmakers, if passed, would ban TikTok in the U.S. after years of broad concern across the Trump and Biden administrations about potential Chinese government influence on the company. Social media stocks like Meta and Snap were positive Tuesday when the news broke. Meta shares were up more than 6% and Snap was up more than 3% as of late morning.TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has raised fears in the U.S. that Chinese government officials could gain access to U.S. user data under Chinese law that could compel the company to hand over information. TikTok has insisted U.S.

December 13, 2022

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Fox Corp chairperson Rupert Murdoch is set to be questioned under oath on Tuesday in a defamation lawsuit over his network’s coverage of unfounded vote-rigging claims during the 2020 US presidential election. Election technology company Dominion Voting Systems is seeking $1.6bn in damages from Fox News Network, which it alleges spread false claims that its machines were used to rig the 2020 election against Republican incumbent Donald Trump and in favor of the Democratic victor Joe Biden. Fox has argued that it had a right to report on Trump’s claims of vote manipulation and that Dominion’s lawsuit would stifle press

December 13, 2022

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About twelve hours after we learned authorities in the Bahamas have arrested FTX co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed the first of multiple sets of charges he’ll face. Those were quickly followed by another civil lawsuit filed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and, finally, criminal charges filed by the US attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.The criminal charges were filed last Friday and unsealed today; they include eight counts that cover allegations of wire fraud against customers and those who lent money to his firms,

December 13, 2022

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Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach has died aged 61, the school announced Tuesday morning. Leach passed away Monday night at the University of Mississippi Medical Center following complications from a heart condition. A statement from his family read: ‘Mike was giving was a giving and attentive husband, father, and grandfather. ‘Thank you for sharing in the joy of our beloved husband and father’s life.’ Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum said: ‘Coach Mike Leach cast a tremendous shadow not just over Mississippi State University, but over the entire college football landscape. ‘His innovative ‘Air Raid’ offense

December 13, 2022

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