Early on the morning of Oct. 2, 2018, a Gulfstream jet carrying a team of Saudi assassins on its way to Istanbul made a quick stopover in Cairo. The purpose: to pick up a lethal dose of “illegal” narcotics that was injected a few hours later into the left arm of Jamal Khashoggi, killing the Washington Post columnist within a matter of minutes, according to notes that summarize secret Saudi interrogations of the murderers. What the drugs were — and who provided them in the middle of the… Source link
Read More »Google to work with UK regulators on its big ad-tracking shakeup
The UK’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), will collaborate with Google as it attempts to rework online ad targeting, the regulator and Google have announced. It comes as Google is attempting to phase out the use of third-party cookies for tracking and targeting users with ads and instead use a new set of technologies it’s calling Privacy Sandbox. In its announcement, Google said this is the first time regulators and technology companies have worked… Source link
Read More »‘Too Big to Fail’ May Not Apply in China Anymore: Goldman
(Bloomberg) — The size and type of defaults that have occurred in China in recent times indicate that the notion of “too big to fail” may no longer apply to the nation’s borrowers, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. There has been a noticeable up-tick in defaults by Chinese state-owned enterprises since late 2019 and some of the borrowers that have failed to repay debt recently such as China Fortune Land Development Co. have had large amounts of outstanding bonds, analysts including… Source link
Read More »South Dakota rocked again as a wind turbine plant shuts its doors
John F. Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, said only months ago that those losing fossil fuel jobs in coal and hydraulic fracturing will find they have a better choice in jobs in either the solar industry or as wind turbine technicians. That was then. Now, a wind blade manufacturing plant located in Aberdeen, South Dakota has announced it is shutting its doors permanently in less than two months. The disappearance of Molded Fiber Glass will displace over three hundred workers… Source link
Read More »Jason Heyward shrugs off COVID vaccination questions
The Chicago Cubs still haven’t hit the 85 percent vaccination threshold, and may never if their president of baseball operations is to be believed. Jason Heyward doesn’t think that’s a problem, or at least not as much of a problem as what’s happening in the Wrigley Field stands. Speaking with the Chicago Tribune’s Phil Thompson, Heyward said he still hasn’t received the COVID-19 vaccine, but pointed to the protocols around MLB’s fans as ballparks move to 100 percent capacity: “There’s… Source link
Read More »Experts reveal horrific cost of Covid drop
New Covid-19 cases are declining across the United States, even in some states with vaccine-hesitant populations, but experts say the nation paid for the situation “with deaths”. But almost all states bucking that trend have lower-than-average vaccination rates, and experts warn that relief from the pandemic could be fleeting in regions where few people get inoculated. Case totals nationally have declined in a week from a seven-day average of nearly 21,000 on May 29 to 14,315 on Saturday,… Source link
Read More »Chris Paul, Suns complete sweep of Nuggets
No team was better against quality competition than the Phoenix Suns during the regular season. So far, that’s holding true in the playoffs, as well. The Suns completed a sweep of the Denver Nuggets on Sunday with a 125-118 win, advancing to their first Western Conference finals since 2010. They will face the winner of the series between the Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Clippers, in which the the Jazz currently lead 2-1. Leading the Suns once again was Chris Paul, who scored a season-high 37… Source link
Read More »Mall Owner Washington Prime Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
(Bloomberg) — Washington Prime Group Inc., a real estate investment trust that operates enclosed malls and strip centers across the U.S., filed for bankruptcy after the Covid-19 pandemic curtailed in-person shopping. The Chapter 11 filing in Houston will allow Washington Prime to continue operating while it seeks to implement a restructuring agreement that it reached with certain creditors, according to a board resolution filed with the bankruptcy petition. The company, which estimated its… Source link
Read More »Kevin Durant, Steve Nash up against desperate Bucks
Anything is bound to happen in Milwaukee, from cringeworthy ankle sprains to fire alarms breaking out 15 minutes after a game. What’s been unexpectedly birthed after Sunday afternoon is a playoff series. Sure, the Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks have been at this for about a week already, but the results appeared clear before the ball of Kyrie Irving’s right ankle basically touched the hardwood at Fiserv Forum: The Nets were superior and on the verge of sending the Bucks to a summer of… Source link
Read More »Nikola Jokic ejected for Cameron Payne hit
Even in a sweep, Nikola Jokic‘s MVP season ended earlier than expected. With his team down 3-0 in the Western Conference semifinals, the Denver Nuggets star was ejected from Game 4 for a flagrant 2 foul. Jokic received the foul for a hard blow to the face of Suns guard Cameron Payne, which was deemed to have “wind-up, impact and follow-through.” It would prove to be Jokic’s final play of the season: NBA replay center head Jason Phillips told the TNT broadcast that Jokic’s hit met the criteria… Source link
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