November 15, 20240 Comments

Carjacking suspect in Beverly Hills crashes into building near Rodeo Drive holiday lights show

4 injured after carjacking suspect crashes near Rodeo Drive holiday lights show 4 injured after carjacking suspect crashes near Rodeo Drive holiday lights show 02:08 The Beverly Hills Police Department responded to the Rodeo Drive area after an SUV crashed into a building near the city’s holiday light show Thursday night.  Detectives said 22-year-old Pittsburgh resident James Portul allegedly carjacked a woman’s black BMW X3 at around 7:05 p.m. in

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November 15, 20240 Comments

Here’s my no. 1 piece of career advice for young people

Dr. Geetha Murali, CEO of Room to Read. Courtesy of Dr. Geetha Murali. For Dr. Geetha Murali, the topic of education is a deeply personal one. As the CEO of Room to Read, a leading non-profit organization with the mission to create a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality, she is acutely aware that the power of education could break cycles of poverty and inequality around the world. “We’ve

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November 15, 20240 Comments

Trump led the charge to ban TikTok. Now he says he’ll save it | Technology

As United States President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, TikTok could be in line for a reprieve from the very leader who led the charge to ban the embattled video-sharing platform. Under a law signed by US President Joe Biden in April, ByteDance, the Chinese owner of the wildly popular app, was given nine months to divest its stake in the company or face a ban

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November 15, 20240 Comments

City to get ‘bonuses early’ and PM ‘backs thought police’

A number of the papers cover Rachel Reeves’s first Mansion House speech, an annual address to the City of London by the sitting chancellor, which she delivered on Thursday evening. The Financial Times says Reeves urged City regulators to allow financial service providers to take greater risks, saying that rules introduced after the 2008 crash had “gone too far” and were harming growth. The paper says the comments were part

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November 15, 20240 Comments

Moment MP leads haka to disrupt New Zealand parliament

Parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Māori MPs performed a haka to disrupt a vote on a controversial bill that has ignited protests across New Zealand. The bill proposes to change the way in which the Treaty of Waitangi – a 184-year-old treaty between the British Crown and Māori people – is interpreted. Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke ripped up a copy of the bill as she stood to lead

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November 14, 20240 Comments

Former NFL player Antwoine Williams charged in Capitol riot

A former professional American football player has been charged in connection with the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. Antwoine Williams is facing felony charges of civil disorder and assaulting, resisting or impeding police, along with several lesser misdemeanour charges. He was charged on 7 November, in what is reportedly the first Capitol riot-related case filed since Donald Trump won the presidential election. Mr Williams, a defensive

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November 14, 20240 Comments

LSU student arrested over alleged death threat vs. governor who wanted live tiger at game

11/13: CBS Evening News 19:46 Baton Rouge, La. — An LSU student has been arrested after, prosecutors say, he made an online threat to kill Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, who advocated for bringing a live tiger onto the field as part of a recent college football game. Landry, a Republican, helped revive the school’s tradition of wheeling a caged Bengal tiger into the stadium before kickoff for the first time in

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