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Dozens of Commonwealth leaders descend on Antigua at time of global political turbulence
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Leaders representing nearly a third of the world’s population are meeting on the tiny Caribbean island of Antigua this week to strengthen ties during a time of global political upheaval. New deals and pledges are expected to emerge from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which is held every two years. The…
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Judge slams Trump’s ‘weaponization’ as he kills DOJ’s Hunter Biden case
U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui threw out the case against two former FBI officials accused of lying about the Hunter Biden investigations, calling it “weaponization” of federal law enforcement. Faruqui ruled at a court hearing Monday that prosecutors had not shown enough evidence that the two officials, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, knowingly made false…
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Evil mom gets huge sentence for letting husband rape daughter, 11, then forcing her to give birth in ‘deplorable’ home
A depraved mom who let her husband rape her 11-year-old daughter — then forced her to give birth to his baby in their feces-filled Oklahoma home — has been sentenced to seven life sentences to be served consecutively. Cherie Walker, 34, will die behind bars after being sentenced Friday for six counts of child neglect…
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Why Bill Belichick, 74, and Jordon Hudson, 25, ‘took a step back’ from age-gap romance: report
Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson reportedly “took a step back” from their age-gap romanceso he could focus on his “first love”: football. A source told the Daily Mail on Sunday that “rather than let things get more complicated or allow resentment to build,” Belichick, 74, and Hudson, 25, “mutually agreed” that breaking up “was the…
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Chargers’ lost season really could become the NFL’s first 0-17 humiliation
Prediction columns are silly. If you want to guarantee something won’t happen, go ahead and predict — as Bill Plaschke did — that the Rams are going to go undefeated. See, what happened was that his crystal ball was misfiring. Kind of like Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert has this season, throwing an interception in every…
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DEA registers medical marijuana dispensaries, potentially unlocking tax breaks
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has for the first time issued registrations to medical marijuana dispensaries, a bureaucratic maneuver under President Donald Trump’s historic rescheduling of the drug that could pave the way for the businesses to receive tax benefits long denied the industry. The agency issued the registrations Friday to more than 900 state-licensed…
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E. Jean Carroll hits Trump with new Supreme Court plea: Do not ‘bail out this president’
Writer E. Jean Carroll again asked the Supreme Court to reject President Donald Trump’s appeal of her $83.3 million defamation verdict, urging the justices not to “bail out this President.” The justices previously turned down Trump’s appeal in her separate sexual abuse case in June, and Carroll’s lawyers told them in a brief filed Friday…
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Investors Are Getting Palpably Nervous About the AI Industry’s Financial Situation
For years now, some of the biggest players in the AI space have been investing in smaller startups — which in turn use the same exact money to purchase services from the same large companies. Investors have watched this circular financing with quiet but growing trepidation. After all, as the Wall Street Journal points out,…
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Cyberattacks hit supermarket freezers across Europe, threatening fresh and frozen food
Supermarkets in Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg and Estonia were hit Monday by problems with freezers and fridges that apparently were caused by cyberattacks, forcing some to dispose of ruined food. The problems follow a case last month in which attackers remotely took control of refrigeration systems in hundreds of supermarkets and independent stores across France, sending…
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‘What does that mean?’ Trump drops baffling rationale to disqualify midterm challenge
President Donald Trump shared a wild rationale Monday for his administration’s preemptive legal challenge to the results of the highly contested Senate race in Alaska — one that assumes voters don’t know the meaning of the word “incumbent.” At the direction of Trump, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit last month in an effort to…