Bucky Irving ranked among ESPN’s top 10 running backs in 2023

AFP
Musk met Iran UN ambassador on defusing tension under Trump: NYT
Elon Musk, the tech billionaire closely allied with US President-elect Donald Trump, met Iran's ambassador to the United Nations in a bid to defuse tensions between Tehran and Washington, The New York Times reported Thursday.Iran's ambassador also urged Musk in their meeting to seek US sanctions exemptions and conduct business in Tehran, the Times said, citing an Iranian Foreign Ministry official.
Reuters
Australia eyes US climate policy shift for green energy boost
Any move by the Trump administration to change U.S. climate policy could benefit Australia's ambitions to attract greater investment to its critical minerals and green energy industry, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday. Australia has rich deposits of copper, vanadium, cobalt and lithium used in electric vehicle batteries. It is competing for global investment to build its clean energy sector, including critical minerals processing.
NBC News
The FBI says it stopped a possible terrorist attack in Houston
Federal law enforcement officials said Thursday that they stopped a Texas man from carrying out a possible terrorist attack in Houston.
CBS News
Video shows police smash sunroof, saving man from car submerged in pool
The driver told Phoenix police he ended up in the pool after he accidentally stepped on the gas too hard.
NBC News
Senators want details of Matt Gaetz ethics probe before his confirmation vote for attorney general
Republican senators want details of the Ethics Committee investigation into Matt Gaetz after Trump selected him to run the Justice Department as attorney general.
TODAY
Who are Elon Musk's 12 children?
Elon Musk, who has three children with singer Grimes, is the father of eight other kids, including two sets of twins and one set of triplets.
AFP
Trump names vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. to head health dept
Donald Trump on Thursday tapped anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his secretary of health in the latest provocative nomination from the incoming Republican president.The nomination will meet serious opposition, given Kennedy's history of promoting medical conspiracy theories -- including the disproven claim that childhood vaccines cause autism -- and saying that the Covid-19 vaccine was deadly.
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Seattle man faces 5 assault charges in random sidewalk stabbings
A 37-year-old Seattle man was charged Thursday with five counts of assault in the random stabbings of five people in broad daylight last week, according to prosecutors. Roland Jerome Lee is accused of stabbing five people as they stood on the sidewalk in a roughly four-block area in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. Four of the victims were taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition and one victim was treated at the scene and released.
AFP
Sri Lanka president's party headed for landslide: early results
New Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's party was set for a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, initial results showed Friday.With more than half the ballots in Thursday's parliamentary elections counted, Dissanayake's National People's Power (NPP) coalition party had taken an unassailable lead with 63 percent of votes, Election Commission results showed.
CBS News
"Human … Please die:" Chatbot responds with threatening message
In an online conversation about aging adults, Google's Gemini AI chatbot responded with a threatening message, telling the user to "please die."
USA TODAY
Donald Trump picks former GOP Rep. Doug Collins for secretary of veterans affairs
Former Georgia U.S. Rep. Doug Collins is Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Veterans Affairs.
CNN
Trump picks his criminal defense attorneys Todd Blanche and John Sauer for key Justice Department posts
President-elect Donald Trump is turning to his personal criminal defense team to fill out top roles at the US Justice Department in his second term.
NBC News
Every uncalled congressional race left in the 2024 election
With votes still being counted, here's a look at the key races that remain uncalled by the NBC News Decision Desk (read more on how those races are called on NBCNews.com).
AFP
Panic strikes Port-au-Prince as residents flee gang violence
A wave of fear swept through Port-au-Prince Thursday as hundreds of families attempted to flee parts of the Haitian capital after a neighborhood had been taken over by gangs, an AFP journalist saw.The unrest comes after the US Federal Aviation Administration on Monday cancelled all commercial flights to Port-au-Prince from the United States due to the recent streak of violence, a move condemned by the Haitian government. str-gma/mdz/jgc/md
Associated Press
In an AP interview, the next Los Angeles DA says he'll go after low-level nonviolent crimes
The incoming district attorney for Los Angeles County, Nathan Hochman, said in an interview with The Associated Press that his first task upon taking office is to eliminate the “pro-criminal blanket policies” of one of California’s most high-profile progressive prosecutors, George Gascón.
USA TODAY
No alien evidence in latest UFO reports, but some 'particularly interesting' cases, Pentagon says
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) said Thursday it received 757 reports of UAP in a 13-month span.
Reuters
US man sentenced to 5 years over laundering crypto stolen from Bitfinex hack
A New York technology entrepreneur was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty last year to laundering funds stolen from Bitfinex one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, with the help of his wife. Ilya Lichtenstein, 35, hacked into Bitfinex's network in 2016, using advanced hacking tools and techniques, and stole about 120,000 bitcoin, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement. He and his wife Heather Morgan, who used the hip-hop alias "Razzklekhan" to promote her music, were arrested in February 2022.
Associated Press
Judge hears case over Montana rule blocking trans residents from changing sex on birth certificate
A state judge in Montana heard arguments Thursday over policies that block transgender people from changing the sex designation on their birth certificates and driver’s licenses. District Court Judge Mike Menahan did not immediately issue a ruling on the request for a preliminary injunction to block those prohibitions while the case moves through the courts. “We're here today challenging what amounts to the latest manifestation of these defendants' (the state's) singular obsession with singling out transgender Montanans for unequal treatment and discrimination,” said Alex Rate, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana.
USA TODAY
RFK Jr. posted he'll bankrupt 'packaged food companies?' No, that's satire | Fact check
The purported post from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a fabrication. No such post appears on Kennedy's X account.
Associated Press
Attorneys say accused shooter in 2022 July 4th parade shooting denied lawyer during police interview
The man accused of killing seven people at a 2022 Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago was denied his constitutional right to legal representation while being interrogated by police hours after the shooting, defense attorneys alleged Thursday in court. Authorities have said Robert Crimo III confessed to the shooting that also left dozens injured. The nearly three-hour hearing offered a glimpse of the evidence expected at the trial, including police testimony, photographs and video footage of statements Crimo made to police.

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