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Donald Trump's hush money trial resumes on Friday. It will be the third week of testimony in the case involving Donald Trump's former White House aide Madeleine Westerhout. On Thursday, jurors heard almost two days of testimony from porn star Stormy Daniels who was paid $130,000 to keep quiet about her claims of a one-night stand with Trump a decade earlier. The defense asked for a mistrial but the judge rejected the request. Mr. Trump denies ever having sex with Daniels.
Biden has threatened to stop providing military aid to Israel if it launches a major military operation in Rafah. John Kirby, the National Security Council spokesman said that Biden is not anti-Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to fight Hamas with his fingernails as he dismissed US President Joe Biden's warning that he would not provide arms for a major ground invasion of Rafah on Thursday night. Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza’s southernmost city this week, seizing control of its vital border crossing with neighboring Egypt.
Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress conviction was upheld by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday. The Donald Trump ally was sentenced to four months in prison, but his jail term was delayed pending the outcome of his appeal. He has seven days to appeal to the full bench of the circuit court and he can also ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case. Steve Bannon refused to testify before the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
The U.N. General Assembly on Friday approved the Arab and Palestinian sponsored resolution by a vote of 143-9 with 25 abstentions. The United States vetoed a widely backed council resolution on April 18 that would have paved the way for full UN membership for Palestine. The assembly adopted a resolution on Friday with 143 votes in favour and nine against, including the US and Israel. It does not give the Palestinians fullUN membership, but recognises them as qualified to join. A majority of the Security Council members supported the move.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the Defense Forces of Ukraine successfully halted the Russian offensive in the Kharkiv region on Friday morning. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reports that at 5 a.m. Russian troops tried to breach AFU defens, but they were repelled. There is fighting in the border area of Kharkov Oblast, according to Ukrainska Pravda sources. Governor Oleh Syniehubov said Russia struck the city of Vovchansk.
NOAA has issued its first severe geomagnetic storm watch since 2005. Northern Lights could be visible as far south as Alabama or northern California on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Several solar eruptions are expected to hit Earth by late May 10 or early May 11. The aurora borealis could also be visible over much of the northern half of the U.S. There may be a window in Michigan where you have a chance to see them but there will be light pollution.
There is heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants on the outskirts of the southern Gaza city of Rafah. More than 110,000 people have been forced to flee north because of the fighting. The World Food Program will run out of food for distribution in southern Gaza by Saturday. Most international aid groups serving Gaza are based there. Israel has vowed to launch a Rafah military operation regardless of whether there is a cease-fire with Hamas. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that Israeli forces haven't launched an anticipated ground invasion on Rafah yet.
Roger Fortson, 23, was shot and killed by a deputy from the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office on May 3 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. The airman got his legally owned gun after hearing knocking on his door and not hearing who was there. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is calling for transparency in the investigation into Roger’s death and the immediate release of body cam video to the family. He is also representing the family of Roger Fortson.
More than 30 people were arrested after police moved in and dismantled a tent encampment on UPenn's campus Friday morning. The show of force came less than 24-hours after Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro called for the encampment to be shut down. About 33 protesters were arrested "without incident" and cited for defiant trespassing. University increased security in other areas of campus and declined to ask police for help in quelling the demonstration. Van Pelt Library’s main entrance has been made inaccessible to students.
Shenandoah County's school board voted 5-1 to reinstate the Confederate military leader names of two public schools. Mountain View High School will be called Stonewall Jackson High School, and Honey Run Elementary as Ashby Lee Elementary. The previous board removed the names in 2020 in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. In May, the board held a public hearing and approved changing the names back to their original names. It might be the first such action taken anywhere in the U.S.
Severe storms and large hail hit parts of Central Texas Thursday night, causing severe damage and power outages. Hail larger than the size of baseballs came down in San Marcos and Johnson City. The biggest hailstones fell from Johnson City through much of Hays County where many homes and businesses had their windows blown out. Grayson, Fannin, Lamar, and Delta counties mostly suffered wind damage. Hood County officials said there were a lot of battered roofs and broken windshields but no major damage. There is a severe thunderstorm watch in place for more than a dozen counties until midnight Friday.
Indonesia strongly condemns the burning of the UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem by Israeli extremists on Thursday night (9/5). The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that the violence was unacceptable because it involved the headquarters of a humanitarian agency. Jordan denounced the attack by a group of settlers on the headquarters on Wednesday. Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general of UNRwa, has decided to shut down the compound due to the threatening security risk faced by the staff members. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell condemned the attack.
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The U.N. General Assembly approved the Arab and Palestinian-sponsored resolution by a vote of 143-9 with 25 abstentions. The United States was among the nine countries voting against it, along with Israel. On Friday, May 10, the General Assembly will hold a vote on Palestine’s bid to become a full member of the United Nations. Australia leans towards supporting a resolution extending Palestinians' rights as United Nations observer. Penny Wong says Australia is still negotiating over the UN vote.
Boeing plane carrying 85 people catches fire and skids off the runway in Senegal, injuring 10. TransAir flight operated by TransAirako with 79 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew was headed to Bamégal when it caught fire. The emergency landing brought the aircraft to a halt and 11 people were injured. There are live streams on ABC4 Live — Traffic, Weather, Events and Video Center, Fox31 Live — On-Demand Video and ABC4 Replay Stream.
The U.S. military has completed construction on the floating pier off Gaza’s coast, but weather conditions make it unsafe to put the temporary dock in place. A shipment of humanitarian aid left a port in Cyprus on Thursday morning and was on its way to the newly built ramp. The relief is desperately needed as people in Gaza are on the brink of famine. Israel sent tanks to seize Gaza's nearby Rafah crossing with Egypt, shutting down a vital border entry point needed to get assistance into the battered enclave.
John Kirby is the National Security Council spokesman. Joe Biden suspended the delivery of some large bombs to Israel as it prepared to enter Rafah, the city on the Gaza-Egypt border believed to be the last redoubt of a major Hamas force. The president also said he would not approve future transfers of offensive weapons to Israel should it invade Rafah. US has been reluctant to restrict military aid to Israel in any way despite federal law requiring that it do so when foreign military commit gross human rights violations. This week, US officials announced they paused a shipment of thousands of bombs and threatened to withhold further arms supplies.
U.S. National Security Council warns Israel against expanding its limited operation in Rafah into an all-out assault on the city. It would strengthen Hamas' hands at the negotiating table, according to John Kirby. About 1.4 million people have been sheltering in Gaza's Rafah since the outbreak of the war seven months ago. More than 47,500 people are estimated to have left their shelters there on Wednesday alone. The World Food Programme's main warehouse is now inaccessible and supplies of food will last only one to three days.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia has begun a new wave of counteroffensive actions in the Kharkiv border region. Russian strikes on the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Kharkov killed three people and wounded at least a dozen, officials said Sunday. Ukraine repelled an armoured attack by Russian forces trying to break through the border into the northeastern part of the country on Friday. The attacks have been repulsed, but battles of varying intensity continue.
India's top court gave temporary bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case on Friday, allowing him to campaign in the ongoing general elections. The Supreme Court said Kejriwal would be out on bail until June 1, the last day of the nationwide seven-phase vote and return to pre-trial detention on June 2. India began voting on April 19 and elections for more than half of the 543 seats in parliament have now been completed following the third phase of the vote on May 7. Enforcement Directorate is likely to file a chargesheet against Kejriwal on Friday.
Hundreds of volunteers have set up a makeshift dog shelter in an abandoned, roofless warehouse in the city of Canoas, one of the hardest hit by floods in southern Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state. They treat and feed sick, hungry or injured dogs hoping to reunite them with their owners. Every hour between 20 and 30 dogs arrive, many injured after having been run over or nearly drowned. More than 110 people have died, almost 150 are missing and more than 300,000 people have been displaced by the floods. There is no official tally for the number of animals that have died or are made homeless.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias killed at least thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands as refugees in El Geneina, the capital city of Sudan's West Darfur state between April 2023 and November 2023. The RSF has been accused of ethnic cleansing and committing crimes against humanity since the war broke out. HRW calls for an arms embargo on Sudan and a mission with a robust police force to Darfur to protect civilians. A Human Rights Watch report published Wednesday details one of the worst atrocities of the year-long Sudanese civil war – the massacre of civilians trying to flee an ethnic rampage in Darfur last summer.
Opal Sandy was born deaf due to auditory neuropathy, a condition that disrupts nerve impulses travelling from the inner ear to the brain. She took part in a groundbreaking gene therapy trial at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge and her parents were amazed when she could hear for the first time after 16 minutes. Giovanni Piceres comforted his former co-star Rose Ellis as she shared a heart-wrenching Instagram post about Opal's development.
The Biden administration is due to deliver a formal verdict this week on whether the airstrikes on Gaza and restrictions on delivery of aid have violated international and U.S. laws designed to spare civilians from the worst horrors of war. A decision against close ally Israel would add to pressure on President Joe Biden to curb the flow of weapons and money to Israel’s military. The Democratic administration took one of the first steps in that direction in recent days, when it paused a shipment of 3,500 bombs out of concern over Israel's threatened offensive on Rafah. If the State Department were to find that Israel violated international humanitarian law, the US may have to stop sending foreign aid.
This evening, Israeli residents set fire twice to the perimeter of the UNRWA headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem. It is the second attack on the compound in less than a week. Staff from the Unrwa and other UN agencies were present at the compound. The area also has petrol and diesel stations for a fleet of UN cars. There were no casualties but the fire caused extensive damage to the outdoor areas. This comes after two months of “Israeli extremists” staging protests outside the building.
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Gross Domestic Product grew by 0.6% in the first quarter of the year, following a technical recession in the second half of 2023. Economists and the Bank of England had forecast the economy would expand by just 0.4%. The services sector is booming with widespread growth across the sector providing the largest contribution to output. European markets were higher on Friday as positive momentum continued into the end of the week. All major bourses were in the green, with the Stoxx 600, Germany's Dax, France's CAC 40 and the U.K.'s FTSE 100 hitting record highs.
Target is limiting the number of stores that will sell LGBTQ-themed merchandise for Pride Month in June following a boycott from right-wing activists last year. This year, Target will sell only Pride-themed “adult apparel” and home goods “in select stores, based on historical sales performance” About half of its 2,000 stores will sell the Pride collection. The assortment will also be sold on Target’s website. A Target spokesperson said it's committed to supporting the LGBTQ community during Pride Month.
Novavax and Sanofi have signed a deal worth up to $1.2 billion. Novavax will receive an upfront payment of $500 million as well as $700 million in development, regulatory and launch milestone payments. The French drugmaker will take over booking sales of the COVID-19 vaccine next year. Sanofi has taken a sub-5% equity stake in Novovax for $70 million. It's a major turnaround for Maryland-based biotech that lost out in the flu vaccine race last year.
The FDA has delayed the approval of Moderna's vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus to the end of May due to "administrative constraints" at the agency. Investors are watching the upcoming approval closely as Moderna tries to rebound from the rapid decline of its Covid business last year. If cleared, the RSV shot would become the company's second product to launch in the U.S. after its once-blockbuster Covid vaccine. It would also be the third RSV vaccine to enter the market after shots from Pfizer and GSK.
Since April 16, Utilities (XLU) have led the charge, rising nearly 12%, accounting for all of the sector's gains year to date. Consumer Staples (XLP) stocks have risen almost 5%, while the S&P 500 is up about 2.7%. Wall Street strategists said the two sectors are likely catching up after a dismal performance to start 2024. Three of the top 10 best performers in the index so far this year are utilities: Vistra, Constellation Energy and NRG Energy.
Zeekr priced its initial public offering at $21 a share Thursday. The company will sell 21 million American depository shares to raise $441 million when it begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday under the ticker ZK. Zeekr is backed by Chinese-based automotive group Geely, which also owns Volvo Cars and the UK’s Lotus. It was formed in 2021 to tap into growing Chinese demand for premium models of electric vehicles.
Lucid Motors is going to report its quarterly earnings this evening. Lucid delivered more vehicles in the first quarter of 2024 than the previous quarter and has enough cash on hand to survive another year. Rivian, Lucid and Fisker all appear to be in various stages of emergency. The rise of electric cars has tempted many people to start their own car companies. Tesla's announcement of cutting 10% of its global workforce shook the electric vehicle (EV) market and EV stocks. There's a shakeout coming to the electric car market.
Clinical operations were disrupted at Ascension St. Vincent hospital in Jacksonville, Florida after "a cyber security event" Wednesday. The healthcare system has 140 hospitals and 40 senior facilities across 19 states. Access to some systems was interrupted as a result of the attack. About two weeks ago, UnitedHealth was subject to a cyberattack. In Wichita, officials are investigating a cyber security incident at Ascension Via Christi. It's unclear how many people are affected by the Ascension hospital cyberattack or if any sensitive information was compromised.
Two people who bought the bread in Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, complained to the company about finding a rodent in the bread. Production of the bread was halted at a Tokyo factory and 104,000 packages were recalled. Pasco Shikishima Corp. apologized and promised compensation. It is based in Nagoya city, central Japan, and also makes rolls, bagels and muffins. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits jumped to its highest level in eight months last week.
Consumer sentiment plunged to the lowest level in six months as price increases reaccelerated, according to the latest University of Michigan survey of consumers. Economists polled by FactSet were expecting consumer expectations to fall to just 76.9%. However, the latest reading is still better than last May, when inflation was running at 4%, versus the latest 3.5%. The gold market is holding onto solid ahead of the weekend as U.S. consumers worry about the health of the economy and stubbornly elevated inflation pressures.
The main indexes didn't make any big moves on Monday. Uber shares fell 5.7% after the company reported an unexpected loss and bookings miss. Lyft shares surged 7.1% after its higher-than-anticipated results. Reddit's revenue soars in Q1 results. Palantir Technologies Inc. surged over 6% ahead of its Q1 earnings. The S&P 500 rose by 0.4%, Nasdaq 100 by 1.4%. Small caps outperformed large caps.
Planet Fitness is raising the cost of its basic membership plan for the first time in 26 years. The new no-frills membership for new customers will cost $15 per month, up from the $10 it had been priced at since 1998. Current members who joined at $10 per month will continue to pay that amount until their membership expires. It will take some time for the benefit of the price change to expand the company's store level margins. This shift follows many months of price testing in different markets across the nation.
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Apple's new ad for its new iPad Pro on X has been slammed as distasteful. The company apologizes and cancels plans to air the advert on TV. It features a pile of media devices and art-making tools being squashed into a thin film by an inexorably descending metal plate. Hugh Grant wrote on X that the ad flattens the whole of human creativity to convince consumers to buy another iPad Pro. Apple spent the last few years shelling out for tech companies that can't make anything anymore.
Apple announced new iPad Pro with M4 chip and a new 13-inch iPad Air with M2 chip at its 'Let Loose' event. New iPad Pro is bigger, faster, thinner and lighter than the previous model. It has an OLED display for the first time on an iPad. The M4 promises 50% faster CPU performance than Apple's M2 processor and four times faster in GPU performance. Microsoft is expected to announce new Surface PCs powered by Snapdragon X Elite processors soon.
Microsoft will launch its own mobile game store for iPhones in July. It will be a web-based service instead of an app. The store will launch with Microsoft's own first-party titles and then open to other publishers. Candy Crush Saga will be one of the games available on the store. Microsoft completed its $68.7 billion merger with Activision Blizzard last year, which made it the owner of Candy Crush developer and all-round mobile powerhouse King. Xbox boss Phil Spencer said the store could launch as early as 2024 provided the Activision Blizzard acquisition was approved.
According to Reuters, OpenAI is planning to launch a Google-style search engine powered by artificial intelligence on Monday, May 13. The date is just one day before the Google I/O 2024 show and suggests that OpenAI wants to upstage Google's search business. The product would be an extension of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and include citations in its responses. According to Bloomberg, it will be partly powered by Microsoft Bing. It could also serve as a competitor to AI search engine startup Perplexity.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson confirms that the company is considering putting ads in AAA games. The gaming industry is expected to grow to $583 billion by 2030. In-game ads are a natural progression of advertising. EA plans to be “very thoughtful” about those ad experiences, though it's unclear what that might mean. It's not the first time EA has tried this strategy and it hasn't worked very well for them so far. They have already had problems with it in the past.
Starting on June 10, Nintendo Switch users will no longer be able to post screenshots and videos to X (formally Twitter) from the system's album. This also includes the end of sending friend requests to social media users via the Friend Suggestions feature. The changes will impact games like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Splatoon 3, and Splatoon 2. It comes as Nintendo discontinues support for the social media platform 'X', which was formerly known as Twitter. Microsoft could be charged around $42,000 a month to use its API.
Air became trapped inside Nolan Arbaugh's skull during the operation, a condition known as pneumocephalus that can cause seizures, brain abscess and death if untreated. Some of the 64 threads that attach the chip to the brain retracted, resulting in a decrease in the number of effective nodes. The company modified an algorithm to be more sensitive to neural population signals so it improved the performance of the device. Noland Arbaugh has been in possession of the first Link brain implant for just over 100 days.
Motorola has launched the Moto G Stylus 5G (2024) for $399.99 in Scarlet Wave and Caramel Latte colorways. The phone features a new 6.7-inch pOLED display, upgrading from the LCD present on the previous generation. It also gets a new stylus with reduced latency and a larger contact area. Motorola is aiming to become one of the top three smartphone manufacturers in the world by 2026. Google launched the Pixel 8 this week and Motorola just announced a new Moto G ZDNet.
Smart ring maker Oura is launching two new features focused on heart health, the company announced on Friday. The first claims to help users get an idea of their cardiovascular age while the second aims to estimate their cardio capacity. This month, the health tech company will roll out Cardiovascular Age and Cardio Capacity with tracking features for its ring users. It does this by using the optical blood sensor (technically called a photoplethysmograph) inside the ring to measure estimated arterial stiffness. As you age fat, cholesterol, and other substances build up inside arteries.
Microsoft announced the closure of three game studios this week: Arkane Austin, Alpha Dog Games, and Tango Gameworks. Hi-Fi Rush was created by TangoGameworks. The company has been struggling since the launch of Xbox One. It's important to keep in mind that focus on growth. Investors want to make money on their investment. Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard last October for $75 billion. In January, Microsoft laid off over 1,900 staff from the Xbox division.
As part of its Let Loose hardware event, Apple unveiled the new iPad Pro M4 and Pencil Pro. The new Pencil has a squeeze sensor with haptic feedback and a gyroscope for new twisting "barrel roll" gestures. The Magic Keyboard for the 11-inch iPad Pro is $299, while the 13-inch model is $349. It's now available in two colors to complement the new iPad Pro models. A new version of the Magic Keyboard will be released next week.
Nintendo released its Q2 2024 earnings report on Tuesday, May 7th. Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed that the Switch 2 will be announced within nine months of March 31st 2025. New leaks give us an early idea of the Nintendo Switch 2’s specifications, size, and launch timeline. It could feature 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage. The release date is planned for March 2025. Moore's Law Is Dead and The Phawx talk about how Nintendo might tackle its next console generation.
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