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The FTC wants to block the merger of Microsoft withActivision.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said that the US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) lawsuit to block Microsoft’s $5 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard won’t be a “huge mistake”. He added that the FTC’s allegation that Microsoft made some popular game titles exclusive to it didn’t align with the facts. He said, “We believe we’ll…
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A US citizen was sentenced for causing the death of a British teenager.
Anne Sacoolas, the 45-year-old US woman accused of killing 19-year-old British motorcyclist Harry Dunn in a traffic accident near a US military base, pleaded guilty on Thursday. Britain’s attempt to extradite SaCoolas to face charges of causing death by dangerous driving was declined by US authorities. SaCoolas has been ordered to be disqualified from driving…
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The disease is spreading very fast, overwhelming children’s hospitals.
Hospitals across the US are struggling to care for the influx of children due to the coronavirus pandemic, with some reporting an increase in the number of people coming in with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The number of coronavirus cases in US has exceeded 20 lakh, according to Johns Hopkins University tracker. The virus has…
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Parents should know about the symptoms and treatment of respiratory syncytialvirus in children.
US President Donald Trump on Monday said, “I’m confident that we’ve got to do everything that we can to stop coronavirus from spreading to the American people. I’m confident that…we’ve got to do everything that we can to protect our people.” He added, “I believe we can do it even if it takes longer to…
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Ex-regulator Bair said that the FTX crash shares some parallels with what happened to Ponzi schemer Madoff.
US cryptocurrency exchange FTX’s CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has resigned after the company’s collapse. Several former FTX employees have claimed they didn’t recognise that the exchange transferred funds to his hedge fund Alameda Research to cover its losses, the New York Times reported. Bankman-Fried held a meeting with several executives in Nassau to determine how much…
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The White House is working on a system to track the number of overdoses.
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy’s head Rahul Gupta has said that “tens of thousands” of additional lives could be saved in the US if there was more real-time data on opiate overdoses that don’t end in death. “This is a treasure trove of data… can help us identify areas most at…
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The Quiet Insurrection was missed.
Former United States President Donald Trump has claimed that he won the 2020 presidential election despite all the evidence to the contrary. “This is very different than what happened in the 2016 election,” Trump tweeted. In January 2020, Trump had claimed that he won the presidential election despite all the evidence to the contrary.
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Politics explain the modern world in the World Cup.
During an interview with German newspaper Bild, US President Donald Trump said he won’t boycott the World Cup due to the human rights situation in Qatar. “We’ve been there, done that. There’s no need for us to do that,” he added. Trump had criticised Qatar after it was awarded the World Cup last year and…
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People are moving into danger zones.
The air pollution in the US over the last two weeks has been “the worst period I’ve ever experienced”, Perry Hystad, a researcher at Oregon State University in Corvallis, said. “It was the worst two-week period I’ve ever experienced for air pollution anywhere, including India, China and Bangladesh,” added Hystad, who studies health impacts of…
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How FTX left a hole in the corporate overlord.
US-based cryptocurrency startup FTX’s CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has said he’s “piecing together” what has happened at FTX. In a tweet on Friday, he said his priority would be “radical transparency” or “giving as close to on-chain transparency as it can: so that people know exactly what’s happening on it”. The startup was founded by Bankman-Fried…
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Tuesday’s vote is in a special category.
Former US President Barack Obama has criticised President Donald Trump’s administration over its stances on abortion and same-sex marriage, saying it’s a threat to the rights of women and children. In an op-ed by the Washington Post, he wrote, “We all understand inflation is temporary…but losing our democracy could be permanent.” He added, “The former…
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US gas prices are lower than they were a year ago.
Oil prices have slumped to their lowest level in more than six months after Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, said it will cut offshore production by two million barrels a day. This follows Russia’s decision to cut its production by 1 million barrels a day. The announcement has lifted prices if Russia decides…
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A gyaelectronvolt emission from a merger.
We present the results of our analysis of the panchromatic afterglow of GW170817, a neutron star merger. In this paper, we show that the panchromatic afterglow of GW170817 is the full uniform data set, modelling, comparison with previous results, and implications. An off-axis structured jet remains supported by the decline in the X-Ray through radio…
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A kilo nova following a burst of high-energy particles.
A study of the electromagnetic counterpart of binary neutron star mergers LIGO/Virgo GW170817 and GRB 1701718A and GRB 211211A has been conducted. The electromagnetic counterpart reflects the observations of GRB 211211A and LIGO/Virgo GW170817. A study of the spectral evolution of GRB X-ray tails has been conducted. In addition, a study of the shape of…
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As China looks to grow in the Mid east, there is a Chinese president visiting Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said his visit to the US is an opportunity to cement his place as the Prime Minister of a country seen as a regional anchor and heavyweight. The Crown Prince said that the relationship between the two countries deteriorated because of criticism of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record.
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The Harris County officials want federal intervention in the state’s plans to send observers for the election.
Three Texas state lawmakers have recommended using the audit of the 2020 presidential election in Harris County to disrupt the election processes in the largest county in Texas. The lawmakers accused Harris County officials of ” election improprieties” that resulted in delayed polling site openings, paper ballot shortages and staffing issues on Election Day. State…
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Putin’s dream is going towards a very bad end.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country is ready to use its nuclear weapons to defend its territory if a potential threat arises. “In case of a potential threat to…territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our people, they will certainly make use of all weapon systems available to them,”…
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The British royals are getting ready for the Harry documentary.
Prince Harry has said he learned from his mother that the pain and suffering of women marrying into the royal family is something he has never seen before. “Like how did we end up here?” he added. Talking about Meghan Markle’s engagement, Harry said, “I said the difference here is the race element…sometimes…you’re part of…
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The weather is getting worse as a result of climate change.
A new report by the University of Vermont Gund Institute for Environment has said that many extreme weather events, including heatwaves, heavy precipitation, drought and floods are becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change. It added that “the effects of climate change are felt most strongly by communities that are already overburdened, including…
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Police say four University of Idaho students were found dead.
Four men who went missing last week have been found dead in an Oklahoma river, police said. Police discovered the bodies of the four men when they were called to investigate an unconscious person just before noon on Monday. They are believed to be the four students from US’ University of Idaho who were stabbed…
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There could be more than one thing that could rock American democracy.
US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had said if a state legislature had been very, very generous to minority voters in their redistricting, the court would be making the same argument. This comes after North Carolina’s Supreme Court had thrown out the state’s congressional district map which was drawn in favour of Republicans. Thomas also…
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New rules feel like the world has changed, says China’s zero- Covid.
A video shows a woman in surgical-mask shouting abuse at the hazmat-suited workers below in a video that’s going viral on social media platform Weibo. The woman was protesting against the lockdown in China’s Foshan city. She was seen shouting abuse at the hazmat-suited workers below in a video that has gone viral on social…
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State media reported the first known protest-related execution in Iran.
The death toll reported by Amnesty does not include any children killed during protests in October, including a 7-year-old boy who died in his mother’s arms on Sunday after security forces fired into a crowd of protesters, according to a report by Oslo-based Kurdish rights group Hengaw. Iran state television broadcasted live feeds of commemorations…
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The city of San Francisco has been changed by its killer robot plan.
After San Francisco voted to arm police robots with lethal fire arms, a city supervisor said, “Despite my…deep concerns with… policy, I voted for it after additional guardrails were added.” “I don’t think making state violence more remote, distanced and less human is a step forward,” he added. A protest took place outdoors of San…
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There are many children’s hospitals overwhelmed by the high levels of the respiratory syncytial virus.
Children’s Hospital Colorado has seen an early uptick in RSV hospitalisations and is starting to see the first few flu cases of the season, said Dr Kevin Messacar, an Infectious Disease Specialist and Associate Professor at University of Colorado School of Medicine. RSV, or respiratory syncytialvirus, is a common respiratory infection that typically causes mild,…