September, 23 2022

⚡️ Dow Drops Again

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by over 600 points today, falling below 30000 for the first time since June amid fears of an imminent global recession.

🍿 Celtics Speak Out

The Boston Celtics have suspended coach Ime Udoka for the entire 2022-23 season for violating team policies by having a relationship with a Celtic staff member.

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⚡️ Tropical Depression Nine Intensifies

Tropical Depression Nine is on a path through the Caribbean and headed for Florida. The tropical depression may intensify into a hurricane as it approaches Florida. Heavy rain is the main risk associated right now as it approaches the northwestern Caribbean.

⚖️ GOP Reveals Plan for the House

House Minority Leader, Representative Kevin McCarthy rolled out the GOP's 'Commitment to America,' which is a legislative plan for the party if they take the House in the November midterms.

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🍿 Hilary Mantel Passes Away

The prolific British novelist, Hilary Mantel, passed away today at 70. She is best known for the Wolf Hall Trilogy, which follows Thomas Cromwell during his tenure as Henry VIII’s chief fixer and enforcer. Her witty, vibrant writing style brought history to life for readers, and she will be remembered for bringing characters to light for 21st-century readers.

💻 Tesla Countersues

After a judge refused to toss out a racial bias suit filed against Tesla, the electric vehicle maker filed a countersuit against the California agency behind the suit.

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💻 Controversial Real-Time Monitoring Begins in San Francisco

Police in San Francisco, CA, can now watch private security camera feeds in real-time after the city board approved the measure, which the ACLU opposed.

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⚖️ Yet Another Special Master Hiccup

An appeals court dealt former president Donald Trump's legal team a significant blow, ruling that the DOJ can resume reviewing the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago and rejecting Trump's argument that he declassified the documents, saying that even if he had, the documents still belong to the government.

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⚖️ Chaos at Russian Border

After Putin announced earlier this week that he was activating reservists to fight in Ukraine, the borders between Russia and Georgia, Finland, Kazakhstan, and Belarus have been jammed with cars of men fleeing the country to avoid being drafted. Plane tickets sold out due to the high volume of people trying to leave the country. A large number of Russia's fled to Turkey, because Russians are permitted to fly into the country without a Visa.

⚖️ Referendum Votes in Occupied Ukraine

Russian soldiers went door to door in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, demanding that residents vote on whether they wanted to be annexed by Russia. Ukraine and the West have denounced the votes as a sham.

💻 Google's Unfamiliar Territory

At an all-hands meeting, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai told employees to get on board with cost-cutting measures after he was asked about the company's new policy of \"nickle and diming\" the employee entertaining, travel, and swag budget. Pichai encouraged the employees griping about lower budgets for the \"fun\" stuff to consider the company's position in the worsening macroeconomic climate.

⚖️ Biden Promises to Codify Roe

At a Democratic National Committee event, President Biden told voters that if they elect two more Senate Democrats, he will fight to codify the right to abortion. Biden told the crowd, \"I promise you, we're going to codify Roe and once again make Roe the law of the land.\" The two Democrat votes would help Senate Democrats overcome the threat of a Republican filibuster to pass the necessary legislation to codify Roe-era protections.

⚖️ New Autopsy Results Released

Stephen Cina, an Adams County, Colorado coroner, released an amended autopsy report today. The amended autopsy lists Elijah McClain's cause of death as an overdose of ketamine, which was administered by officers who forcibly restrained McClain in a chokehold as he was walking home from a convenience store in 2019.

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The producers of the film "Rust" named Bianca Cline as its cinematographer. The documentary will cover the death of the film's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during production when a prop gun held by lead actor and producer Alec Baldwin misfired with a live round.
Entertainment
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Rust Documentary Is Moving Full Speed Ahead

The producers of the film "Rust" named Bianca Cline as its cinematographer. The documentary will cover the death of the film's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during production when a prop gun held by lead actor and producer Alec Baldwin misfired with a live round.
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Green light for Rust documentary

  • The producers of the film “Rust” announced that they had found a cinematographer to continue the production of the film after it was halted when the former cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed in an on-set accident.
  • The producers announced in October that the film would be completed in Hutchins’ honor and that a documentary would be made about the completion of the film.
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Meta is reportedly planning a new round of layoffs that are expected to happen sometime in March.
Technology
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Meta May Be Planning Further Layoffs

Meta is reportedly planning a new round of layoffs that are expected to happen sometime in March.
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Here we go again

  • Meta is preparing for a new round of job cuts that are expected to take place in March and will affect an unknown number of people.
  • In November, Meta laid off about 13% of its workforce.
  • Meta is one of the few tech companies to expand on earlier layoffs from 2022, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised that 2023 will be a year of "efficiency."
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January inflation was higher than expected, sparking fears that the Federal Reserve may enact further interest rate hikes.
January inflation was higher than expected, sparking fears that the Federal Reserve may enact further interest rate hikes.
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Higher than expected

  • Consumer prices rose 0.5% in January, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index, which was higher than experts expected.
  • The Federal Reserve may issue a more aggressive hike in the coming months to slow inflation.
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