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Latest Epstein emails cast further doubt on Andrew's claim of cutting ties
- Messages sent months after former prince said he ended relations and also appear to confirm Virginia Giuffre photo Newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails have cast further doubt on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's account of when he cut ties with the child sex offender and his denials about meeting his accuser Virginia Giuffre. In March 2011, four months after he later claimed to have ended his relationship with ...

Source: theguardian.com
Flight reductions frozen at 6% as air traffic controller callouts see 'rapid decline'
- The flight reduction freeze will be in place until the FAA determines it is safe to return to normal operations, despite the government reopening The Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an emergency order Wednesday evening freezing flight reductions at 6% amid a "rapid decline" in air traffic controller callouts. Flight reductions were initially implemented as ...

Source: foxbusiness.com
US  
Opinion| Cents and sensibility
- President Trump announced in February that the United States would stop minting pennies, and the last one left the mint in Philadelphia on Wednesday , presumably on a one-way trip to someone's sock drawer. First produced in 1793, pennies have been a living link to an earlier era in American history — the one in which one cent meant something — and so their end provoked a certain amount of numismatic ...

Source: bostonglobe.com
TECHNOLOGY  
Will The Steam Machine Be Your Next Gaming PC... Or Console?
- When you think of gaming PCs, you almost inevitably think of Windows-based hardware. However, Valve is hoping to change that mindset with the unveiling of the Steam Machine. It might even change your mind about what a games console is. , Valve is making a fresh assault on the gaming hardware market with the Steam Machine, a new Steam Controller and the Steam Frame – a VR headset. Steam Machine Specs Valve ...

Source: forbes.com
US  
Ex-Newsom chief of staff charged for skimming Becerra campaign funds
- Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A political consultant and former chief of staff for California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been indicted on accusations of skimming campaign funds from former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra . Federal prosecutors said Dana Williamson, 53, of Carmichael, Calif., was arrested Wednesday morning. A 23-count federal indictment was then unsealed, charging her with a slew of conspiracy, ...

Source: upi.com
US   POLITICS  
18 Trump voters explain why a slice of his base is unhappy with his economic performance
- Billy Edmonson voted for President Donald Trump in 2024 because of his stances on border security, gun rights and the economy. One year after casting his ballot, Edmonson is finding it difficult to make ends meet. "Everything's already so expensive. ... That's the worst thing about his presidency so far, is he promised things coming down and prices are not coming down. I make more money than I've ever made in my ...

Source: news.yahoo.com
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AI Hype vs. Business Reality: The Race to Meaningful Implementation
- Netcall explores how organisations can bridge the gap between AI hype and real-world impact – highlighting where AI is already delivering value, the common roadblocks to adoption, and the strategic steps needed to deploy it safely, effectively, and at scale. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most talked-about technologies to date. It's dominating headlines, boardroom discussions and vendor roadmaps. ...

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US  
Starbucks workers kick off 65-store US strike on company's busy Red Cup Day
- More than 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers plan to strike at 65 U.S. stores Thursday to protest a lack of progress in labor negotiations with the company. The strike was intended to disrupt Starbucks' Red Cup Day , which is typically one of the company's busiest days of the year. Since 2018, Starbucks has given out free, reusable cups on that day to customers who buy a holiday drink. Starbucks Workers United , the ...

Source: apnews.com
WORLD   POLITICS  
Israeli president condemns 'shocking' settler attacks in occupied West Bank
- Israeli President Isaac Herzog and army chief Eyal Zamir have condemned burgeoning Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in a rare public rebuke of what has become a daily cycle of violence often backed by the Israeli military. Herzog on Wednesday described the attacks as "shocking and serious," adding a rare and powerful voice to what has been heavily muted criticism by top Israeli ...

Source: aljazeera.com
WORLD  
At UN climate summit, Gavin Newsom labels Trump "an invasive species"
- At UN Climate Summit, Gavin Newsom Labels Trump "An Invasive Species" California's governor is top US politician at the talks, which the administration abandoned. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. This story was originally published by   the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the  Climate Desk  collaboration. California's governor,  Gavin Newsom , ...

Source: motherjones.com
WORLD  
Turkey temporarily grounds C-130 planes after crash kills 20 military personnel
- ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has temporarily grounded its C-130 military cargo planes as a precaution, the Defense Ministry announced Thursday, following a crash in Georgia that claimed the lives of all 20 military personnel on board. The cargo plane was flying from Ganja, Azerbaijan to Turkey when it crashed in Georgia's Sighnaghi municipality, close to the Azerbaijani border, on Tuesday. The cause of the ...

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State football playoffs preview: 1st round features 5 regular-season rematches
- Rematch will be the word of the day Friday for 10 Orlando area teams opening this year's FHSAA football playoffs . Five of the 19 games feature opponents who played each other in the regular season. Four of the rematches are Class 7A games, with Lake Mary (7-3) hosting Hagerty (6-4), Seminole (5-5) traveling to Spruce Creek (8-2), Winter Park (6-4) playing at Boone (9-1) and Lake Nona (7-3)  going to St. Cloud ...

Source: orlandosentinel.com
I've tried many AI smart glasses in 2025 (including Meta Display) - these are the only ones I'd wear all day
- The best feature of the latest Even Realities glasses might be their limitations. Follow ZDNET:  Add us as a preferred source  on Google. Even Realities unveiled its new smart glasses with several surprises and key upgrades to advance the product. The biggest surprise was that not only did the company unveil the Even G2 Display Smart Glasses but it also announced the Even R1 Smart Ring that doubles as a ...

Source: zdnet.com
WORLD   POLITICS  
Oversupply of oil could create glut of 4m barrels a day, says energy watchdog
- Warning comes as scenario in which global demand continues to grow until 2050 is included in IEA outlook report The world is producing more oil than it needs and by next year there could be a glut of 4m excess barrels a day entering the market, according to the global energy watchdog. The International Energy Agency said the surplus in 2026 was likely to be larger than previously forecast, despite a decision from ...

Source: theguardian.com
Deter Seagulls Effectively: Shouting Makes Them Stop Stealing Food
- Seagulls don't respect you until you speak up, according to science You won't find us endorsing aggression towards animals very often, however, scientists have discovered that raising your voice to seagulls – especially if you're male – will make them think twice about stealing your food. It's simply science. University of Exeter researchers, who sound like they've had some battles with seagulls in ...

Source: newatlas.com
MEDICINE   SCIENCE  
All lupus cases may be linked to a common virus, study finds
- One of the most common viruses in the world could be the cause of lupus, an autoimmune disease with wide-ranging symptoms, according to a study published Wednesday. Until now, lupus was somewhat mysterious: No single root cause of the disease had been found, and there is no designated treatment for it. The research, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine , suggests that Epstein-Barr virus — ...

Source: aol.com
WORLD   US   POLITICS  
Trump formally requests pardon in Israeli legal system for Benjamin Netanyahu
- Trump's letter represents a once-unusual insertion of the White House in Israeli domestic politics ( JTA ) — President Donald Trump has made official a suggestion that he first issued on the floor of Israel's parliament: that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be pardoned preemptively for his alleged crimes. Trump made the case in a letter to Israeli President Isaac Herzog that Herzog's office released ...

Source: forward.com
WORLD   US   BUSINESS   POLITICS  
Trump says he has an 'obligation' to sue the BBC over edited Jan. 6 speech
- LONDON — President Donald Trump has said he has an obligation to proceed with his threatened $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC for editing a speech he made before his supporters' violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the presidential election result. The BBC's top executive, Director-General Tim Davie, and its news CEO, Deborah Turness, resigned Sunday amid a growing scandal ...

Source: nbcnews.com
US   POLITICS  
Trump Signs Bill To Recriminalize Hemp THC Products, Years After Approving Their Legalization
- President Donald Trump has signed a spending bill that includes provisions to ban most consumable hemp products. . The House of Representatives followed suit on Wednesday, voting 222-209 to pass the bill. Tucked inside the legislation is a controversial section to recriminalize hemp products containing THC that have proliferated since the crop was legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill that Trump signed during his ...

Source: marijuanamoment.net
WORLD   SCIENCE  
Fossil fuel emissions will hit record this year, despite renewables
- Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise to an all-time high this year, with increases expected to accelerate in the United States and European Union but slow in China and India, according to a report published Wednesday evening. At this rate, the authors said, it will take the world four years to pass the 1.5-degree threshold that experts have agreed would constitute catastrophic warming. ...

Source: bostonglobe.com
US  
How Google Is Fighting To End Text Message Scams
- . Scam texts have been a nuisance for a long time, but they've become increasingly common in recent years. Whether it's a fake text about a missed toll road payment or an alert about a package delivered to the wrong address, scammers are constantly preying on unsuspecting users with clever phishing attempts. designed to bring down a company responsible for a large volume of texting scams. Specifically, Google said ...

Source: bgr.com
US   POLITICS  
Economists Call BS on 'Crazy' Trump Tariff Dividend Promise
- As poll numbers on his handling of the US economy have continued to sink in recent weeks, President Donald Trump has floated sending Americans a $2,000 check that he has claimed will be funded with revenue collected from his tariffs on imported products. However, economist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) on Tuesday crunched some numbers and found that Trump's proposed tariff ...

Source: commondreams.org
POLITICS  
New State Dept Policy Allows Rejection of Visa Apps Over Common Health Issues
- A new State Department policy seeks to limit immigrants from entering the United States based on whether they have certain underlying medical conditions, including common ailments like diabetes, obesity, and mental health issues. The U.S. visa process has always allowed for denial of entry based on health concerns, but has typically focused on people with notable communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis, or who ...

Source: truthout.org
DIGITAL  
OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1's eight new personalities
- New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming. On Wednesday, OpenAI released GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking, two updated versions of its flagship AI models now available in ChatGPT. The company is wrapping the models in the language of anthropomorphism, claiming that they're warmer, more conversational, and better at following instructions. The release ...

Source: arstechnica.com
US   HEALTH   MEDICINE  
ByHeart Expands Recall of Infant Formula Nationwide as 15 Patients Get Impacted by Botulism Outbreak
- ByHeart infant formula made headlines after two of its lots were recalled over an infant botulism outbreak . Now, the recall is expanded after more cases were reported. This time, all batches of ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula cans and Anywhere Pack are being recalled from across the nation. The company confirmed the expansion after tests by the California Department of Public Health found contaminated ...

Source: greenmatters.com
POLITICS  
Judge signals hundreds of people detained in Chicago immigration crackdown could be released on bond
- By SOPHIA TAREEN CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of people who have been arrested and detained in the Chicago area during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown could soon be released on bond while they await immigration hearings, a federal judge signaled Wednesday. During a hearing in Chicago, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings said he would order the full release of 13 detained individuals based on a ...

Source: orlandosentinel.com
US   MARKETS  
Trump's 50-Year Mortgage: Lower Payments, Higher Lifetime Cost
- The 50-year Mortgage Idea Being Floated a picture of himself with FDR proposing that he wants lenders (perhaps first Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) to offer 50-year mortgages, which would lower the required monthly payment on new loans. This is a classic (and legitimate) political strategy called "floating a balloon." Why A 50-Year Mortgage Idea Balloon Will Pop The idea of a 50-year mortgage was aired publicly before ...

Source: forbes.com
Kim Kardashian's Skims worth $5B after raising fresh cash to expand retail empire: report
- Kim Kardashian's Skims is now worth a whopping $5 billion as the fast-growing lingerie firm raises cash to expand its retail footprint worldwide. The underwear and shapewear company raised $225 million in its latest fundraising round – hiking its valuation up from $4 billion just two years ago, according to the New York Times . The apparel firm – founded by Kardashian and Jens Grede in 2019 – is ...

Source: nypost.com
DIGITAL   BUSINESS  
Apple Launches New Digital ID Feature For Apple Wallet
- using information from their passport. Apple writes that the new Digital ID can be used at TSA checkpoints at more than 250 airports for verification purposes. The feature provides users with a more convenient way to travel. What's more, it also enables users to create a Digital ID even if they don't have a state ID or a driver's license that complies with REAL ID requirements. "Since introducing the ability to add ...

Source: bgr.com
US  
Lawmakers warn Democratic governors that states are sharing drivers' data with ICE
- Topics More from TechCrunch A group of Democratic lawmakers have sent letters to several state governors, including in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Wisconsin, warning that their states are inadvertently sharing drivers' data with federal immigration authorities. The letter first reported by Reuters , told governors that their states are providing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other ...

Source: techcrunch.com
Ex-NFL star Antonio Brown gets bail and GPS monitor in Miami attempted murder case
- Former NFL star wide receiver Antonio Brown will be released on $25,000 bail and must wear a GPS ankle monitor on an attempted murder charge in Florida, a judge ordered Wednesday. Brown, 37, has pleaded not guilty to the second-degree attempted murder charge, which carries a potential 15-year prison sentence and a fine up to $10,000 if he is convicted. His lawyer, Mark Eiglarsh, said Brown would return to his home ...

Source: theguardian.com
Kansas county apologizes over raid on a small-town newspaper, agrees to pay over $3 million
- A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper  in August 2023 that sparked an outcry over press freedom. Marion County sheriff's officers were involved in the raid on the Marion County Record and helped draft search warrants used by Marion city police to enter the newspaper's offices, the publisher's home and the ...

Source: cbsnews.com
DIGITAL   BUSINESS   TECHNOLOGY  
Google Finally Introduces Its Own Version Of Apple's Private Cloud Compute
- Private Cloud Compute is one of the things that stood out when Apple unveiled its initial Apple Intelligence vision at WWDC 2024. Apple devised a private cloud computing platform for AI tasks that can't be performed on the iPhone, iPad, or Mac. The data exchanged between the user and is secure and private. Nobody can see it, not even Apple. When Apple unveiled its secure AI cloud platform, none of its competitors ...

Source: bgr.com
US   POLITICS  
White House says the October jobs report may never be released
- White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that key inflation and jobs data for October will "likely never" be released due to the government shutdown. Speaking at a news briefing, Leavitt sought to blame Democrats for the more than 40 day government shutdown, which she said "may have permanently damaged the federal statistical system with October [consumer price index] and jobs reports likely ...

Source: washingtonpost.com