November, 18 2022

⚖️ Biden Admin Looks to the Court

The Biden administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow his student debt relief plan to proceed after it was blocked by a lower court.

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🍿 No Beer Here

Qatar changed its mind about selling beer at the World Cup. The country has decided to ban all beer sales at or around the stadiums just two days before play begins.

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💻 Hundreds of Employees Leave Twitter

At 5 p.m. last night, hundreds of Twitter of employees decided not to sign up for \"Twitter 2.0\" opting instead to leave Twitter and take Elon Musk up on his offer of three months severance.

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⚖️ Saudi Prince Gets Immunity

The Biden administration announced that the State Department determined that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is immune from a lawsuit over the murder of the journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

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🍿 Ticketmaster's Eras Fiasco Sparks Antitrust Probe

The Justice Department has launched an antitrust probe into Ticketmaster-Live Nation after prices for tickets to Taylor Swift's upcoming \"Eras\" tour skyrocketed into the thousands, fans could not buy tickets thanks to long waits, and Ticketmaster canceled the public sale of tickets.

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⚖️ Merrick Garland Names Special Counsel

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed war crimes prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel for the investigation into Trump's mishandling of classified documents kept at Mar-a-Lago and investigations into Trump's administration's attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.

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⚖️ Hakeem Jeffries Launches Bid

Representative Hakeem Jeffries announced his candidacy for the House Democratic leader. If Jeffries, 52, succeeds Nancy Pelosi, he will be the first Black leader of the House Democrats.

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💻 MLB Cuts Ties With FTX

The Major League Baseball Association is the latest organization to cut ties with the cryptocurrency exchange FTX after the company imploded with spectacular force.

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💻 Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced

The founder of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding investors and endangering patients with her nonexistent blood-testing technology.

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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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