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What to know about Brazil’s election.
Ahead of Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, ex-President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva said that President Jair Bolsonaro has been there for four years. “I intend to vote for Lula because Bolsonaro has been there for four years,” he added. Bolsonro, who is the current president of Brazil, had said that Amazon rainforest should be…
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The Biden is trying to shore up support in blue states where the election appears to be slipping away.
US President Joe Biden has said that the American economy will not do more damage than it has done in the past under his administration. “Nothing will create more chaos…or do more damage to our economy than we have,” he added during a briefing with reporters in the Oval Office. The President made the comments…
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Apple Watch, Wear OS 3, and hybrid Watches are some of the best watches on the market.
Apple’s new fitness watch, the Apple Watch Ultra, has a compass app that shows the direction and distance of all your waypoints so that you can navigate back to them. In addition to the compass, there’s an international orange action button on the opposite side which can be customised to start and stop workouts or…
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What can be in a carry-on bag?
If you want to avoid checked luggage fees, you can often get away with travelling with only a carry-on bag. Hard-shelled spinner bags are one of the styles of carry-on luggage. Hard-shelled spinner bags are one of the styles of carry- on luggage. Alcoholic beverages are allowed in carry-on luggage as long as they’re less…
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A Silicon Valley gold Rush is caused by the New Creative Streak of the Artificial Intelligence.
OpenAI has released the latest version of its AI-powered tool DALL-E which allows anyone to generate images by typing in a few words. The company said that it has also strengthened the ways it rebuffs users who try to make its AI create “sexual, violent and other content”. It added that it will no longer…
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There are microplastics everywhere, and here’s what you can do about it.
A report has said that plastic recycling doesn’t work and more plastic-making facilities continue to come online. “Remember that when you’re making plastic, there’s the greenhouse gas emissions…but these facilities also emit massive amounts of air toxins and particulates,” it added. Consumers should reduce the amount of plastic they use at the source and turn…
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Ye took to social media after his account was restricted because of antisemitic posts.
Adidas has announced that it is ending its partnership with Kanye West after the rapper made anti-Semitic comments. Earlier this month, Ye was suspended by Twitter after he tweeted, “I don’t want to die for people of colour.” Adidas said that Ye had violated its values of diversity and inclusion. Earlier this month, Adidas launched…
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Iran protests cause solidarity rallies in the US and Europe.
Thousands of Iranians on Sunday protested in Berlin against the government’s actions in Iran. The protest was called by the Iranian Women’s Life Freedom Collective, an group that has been working for women’s rights in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. This comes after clashes between protesters and police erupted in several parts of the…
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The trial opened the case that led to the #MeToo movement in Australia.
Former parliamentary aide Brittany Higgins, accused of raping her colleague Higgin Michelle Arrow in Australia’s Parliament House in 2019, has said she lied when she claimed to be sexually assaulted by Arrow. Higgins, who works in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), added she only told Arrow she was raped when they met to split a…
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Here is how it happened.
Twitter’s attorneys said that Tesla CEO Musk and his financial adviser destroyed evidence about why he wanted to pull out of the deal, and asked the judge to sanction Musk. At Tuesday’s hearing, Twitter’s attorneys said Musk and his financial adviser destroyed evidence about why Musk wanted to yank out of the deal. A judge…
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The Fed might have changed markets forever.
Former Goldman Sachs economist Nomi Prins said that the decade of free-flowing money from the Federal Reserve to banks has created “two economies”. Wealthy Americans and corporations benefitted directly from years of low rates, which kept money flowing into businesses and stocks high while Main Street suffered from decelerating wages and little support, she added.…
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I Bonds offers the final chance to lock in a 10% return on savings.
The US Treasury’s web site temporarily crashed earlier this week because of great demand for US Series I savings bonds, a senior government official told CNBC. The site had gone from an average number of concurrent visitors of a few thousand to being one of the most visited website in the federal government, the official…
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The inflation measure from the Fed is still Stubbornly High.
The US Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge remained elevated in new data released on Thursday, further evidence that the central bank is contending with a stubborn problem as it tries to control the worst inflation in four decades. The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge remained elevated in new data released on Friday. The price of gas…
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There were five lessons from the Michigan governor debate tonight.
Democratic US Governor Gretchen Whitmer has said that voters “cannot trust” her challenger Tudor Dixon to respect the outcome of the state referendum on abortion rights, because Dixon hasn’t accepted the outcome of the 2020 election. Whitmer said 35,000 people in Michigan died during COVID-19 pandemic. Dixon didn’t fulfil her promise, citing a report by…
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The partnership with West was terminated by Adidas.
Adidas has dropped Kanye West as a brand ambassador after the rapper’s remarks on Jews and anti-Semitism. The German sports goods maker said, “Adidas is deeply disturbed by the unacceptable comments made by Kanye West.” “We can’t afford to be complicit in such behaviour,” Adidas added. West has been associated with Adidas since 2013 when…
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China is now led by ‘action men’, what does that mean for Taiwan?
Four of the top six officers of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) have reached the normal retirement age of 68 and are being replaced as President Xi Jinping heads into his third term, according to US’ Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs. The appointment of General He Weidong as one of two CMC…
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South Korea says that North Korea has fired two missiles.
North Korea may conduct a nuclear test at any time, a US official said. However, he added that North Korea would keep conducting missiles tests until the current round of “modernisation” is done. North Korea has tested 26 ballistic missiles this year, more than any other country, according to a CNN count.
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They were hit by the storm a month ago, but FEMA has done nothing thus far.
Over 500 people have been rescued from floodwaters in Florida, the hardest-hit state by Hurricane Ian, according to the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM). Over 300 people had been rescued in Charlotte and Lee counties, it added. Hurricane Ian made landfall as a Category 1 storm on October 6 and has left over 40…
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The Texas Republican is a good example of his party’s stance on abortion.
Zach Nunn, the Republican running against Cindy Axne in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, touted in an advertisement how “most Iowans support common sense limits on abortion” but that his opponent ” votes for the most extreme abortion laws in the world.” Axne has been running ads targeting Nunn for raising his hand during a Republican…
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Concerns about rising costs and access to abortion are top voter concerns in New Hampshire.
During a debate in the US, Democratic Senator Hassan Bolduc said his Republican opponent Nikki Haley’s views on abortion “cost women their lives in some cases”. “I signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying Trump won the election, and damn it, I stand by [it],” he added. Bolduc’s remarks came during the…
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The GOP should never have placed a bet on Herschel Walker.
Georgia Secretary of StateBrad Raffensperger has called the ruling a win for elections officials. The requests come from a variety of sources, including a pillow salesman and purveyor of conspiracy theories about the 2020 vote, and local supporters have sent him digital recreations of the ballot choices of every voter, commonly called cast vote records,…
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Do you want to destroy it, make it better, or export it?
Adidas has said it will release additional information about the financial implications of dissolving its partnership with Kanye West in its upcoming earnings report. Adidas signed West’s brand away from Nike in the middle of the last century. This comes after Ye had said that Adidas can’t “drop him because he doesn’t like them” and…
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Right now, the best online sales are Chewy, Coway and Crest.
CNN has released its list of best online gifts for women for the holiday season. It includes Dyson’s airwrap, Essential $75, and Sheets the Best of the Year. “If your wife’s favourite room is the kitchen, she’s always looking to try new recipes for the family, consider gifting her a cooking class by Sur La…
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How much will the Supreme Court change the world?
How can Harvard defend “affirmative action” for poor students of colour while aggressively engaging in affirmative action for affluent whites? This comes after a group alleged that Harvard University’s admissions policies have systematically disadvantaged Asian-American applicants. In the lead case, a group called Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) alleged that Harvard’s admissions policies count race…