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Associated Press Judge OKs Weinstein’s extradition for California rape case A New York judge on Tuesday approved disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s extradition to California, where he faces additional sexual assault charges, ending a legal fight prolonged by the COVID-19 pandemic, the defense’s concerns about Weinstein’s failing health and a squabble over paperwork. Judge Kenneth Case said there was no reason to delay Weinstein’s transfer any longer, denying his lawyer’s request to keep… Source link

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin denied ordering a hit on political rival Alexei Navalny, but in an exclusive interview with NBC News he did not guarantee that the jailed Kremlin critic, who survived being poisoned with a nerve agent, would get out of prison alive. “Look, such decisions in this country are not made by the president,” Putin said. That was one of several striking moments in Putin’s first interview in three years with a U.S. news organization, days ahead of his meeting… Source link

LONDON — Google agreed to pay roughly $270 million in fines and change some of its business practices as part of a settlement announced on Monday with French antitrust regulators who had accused the company of abusing its dominance of the online advertising market. The agreement was one of the first times an antitrust regulator had taken direct aim at Google’s online advertising infrastructure, a platform that scores of websites worldwide rely on to sell ads. The fine is a pittance… Source link

Google has agreed to pay roughly $270 million in fines and change some business practices as part of a settlement announced on Monday with French antitrust regulators who had accused the company of abusing its dominance of the online advertising market. The French competition authority said the agreement was the first time an antitrust regulator had taken direct aim at Google’s online advertising infrastructure, a platform that scores of websites worldwide rely on to sell ads. The… Source link

Russian tennis player Yana Sizikova has been arrested on match-fixing charges at the French Open.  Paris prosecutors told the Associated Press that an international tennis player was arrested Thursday on charges of “sports bribery and organized fraud” for acts suspected to have occurred last September. Sizikova’s lawyer Frederic Belot confirmed to AP that she was the player arrested.  Sizikova denies the charges and intends to sue for defamation. She was “extremely shocked,” according to… Source link

Marcell Ozuna was arrested in Georgia on Saturday on multiple domestic violence charges. (Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Atlanta Braves star Marcell Ozuna was arrested on Saturday after an alleged domestic violence incident in Georgia, the team confirmed.  Ozuna, according to police records, was arrested in Sandy Springs — a northern suburb of Atlanta — on aggravated assault strangulation and misdemeanor battery-family violence charges. According to the police report,… Source link

Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Justin Layne was arrested on multiple charges near his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, Willoughby Hill Police said via multiple outlets. Layne, 23, faces charges of speeding, driving with a suspended license and improper handling of a firearm.  The third-year cornerback was pulled over at around 3 a.m. for speeding on Interstate 90 about 15 miles from the city, Melinda Roeder at KDKA Radio reported. Willoughby Hill Police Chief Matthew A. Naegele said… Source link

Ariel Young (Tiffany Verhulst via GoFundMe) When it came to raising Ariel Young, the challenge was almost always the same — containing her, corralling her. She was 5 years old and full of life, a free spirit always looking to run and play. Big smiles. Bigger energy. Ariel was joy; personified. She was en route, all who knew her agreed, to one heck of a life. Today she can’t walk. She can’t talk. She is fed via a gastrostomy tube that connects into her stomach. When her mother, Felicia… Source link

Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG, +1.26% Google is reducing the commission it charges developers that sell digital goods and services through its Play store, a move that comes amid increased regulatory scrutiny of the power tech giants wield through their app marketplaces. The company behind the world’s largest operating system, Android, said Tuesday that it would reduce service fee it collects from 30% to 15% on the first $1 million developers earn from its app… Source link

A man using a mobile phone walks past Google offices in New York in 2018. Photo: Mark Lennihan/Associated Press … Source link