money Eli Manning makes Twitter debut, gets immediately roasted
Eli Manning makes Twitter debut, gets immediately roasted by Tom Brady.
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Eli Manning makes Twitter debut, gets immediately roasted by Tom Brady.
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The popular social media app will likely go dark for its 170 million American users on Jan. 19 after months of fighting the federal government’s demand that it separate from its China-based parent company, ByteDance.
The European Union and Mexico reignited a stalled upgrade to their free trade deal on Friday, just days before the return to office of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who has threatened both sides with tariffs. The two parties are seeking to update their trade accord from 2000, which only covers industrial goods, by adding services, government procurement, investment and farm produce. It will also allow Mexican companies to bid for government contracts in Europe and EU companies for those in Mexico, including at state level.
France's president said Friday that Paris will soon host an aid conference to help rebuild Lebanon after the Israel-Hezbollah war last year, as he visited Beirut in a show of support for Lebanon's new leaders."As soon as the president (Aoun) comes to Paris in a few weeks' time, we will organise around him an international reconstruction conference to drum up funding," Macron said.
The International Monetary Fund expects the world economy to grow a little faster and inflation to keep falling this year. The Washington-based lending agency expects the world economy to grow 3.3% this year and next, up from 3.2% in 2024. The growth is steady but unimpressive: From 2000 to 2019, the world economy grew faster – an average of 3.7% a year.
Medicare released its next target list of 15 drugs to negotiate prices of, including Novo Nordisk's blockbuster GLP-1 drugs.
As Syria begins recovering from 50 years of autocratic rule by the Assad family, an international envoy says Christians and other religious groups expect their rights and freedoms to be preserved under a new constitutional settlement. Salina Shambos, a senior Cypriot diplomat and the newly appointed special envoy for religious freedom and protection of minorities in the Middle East, said on Friday that religious leaders in Syria expressed a “strong sense of patriotism” and are now “free to hope” that their country will be more inclusive and a respected member of the international community. Many Syrian Christians, who made up 10% of the population before Syria’s civil war began in 2011, either fled the country or supported ousted president Bashar Assad out of fear of Islamist insurgents.
A suspension for Elon Musk-owned social network X in the European Union could be more difficult than some politicians have suggested and at worst only temporary, experts told AFP. Former European Commissioner Thierry Breton brought suspending X into play last week, suggesting in a TV interview that it would be "possible" to suspend the platform across the 27-nation bloc.Its maximum penalty is rather a temporary suspension that can be ordered by a judge.
President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, inserting himself into a long-running legal battle over gender equality. "It is long past time to recognize the will of the American people," Biden said in a statement. “In keeping with my oath and duty to Constitution and country, I affirm what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: the 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday said US tech billionaire Elon Musk is threatening European democracy with his attacks on political leaders and support for the far right.Scholz on Friday said he was not criticising the fact that "a billionaire from another country is speaking his mind in a global world".
The US ambassador to the UN has considerable power and influence over US international affairs.
Over 400 endangered sea turtles have washed ashore on India's east coast near the city of Chennai in the last two weeks in an event not witnessed in over two decades. In a typical year, the city's coastline can expect between 100 to 200 adult turtle deaths, said Shravan Krishnan, a volunteer with Chennai-based Students Sea Turtles Conservation Network.
Exiled Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin said Friday that Russian authorities had interrogated his parents and searched their home, as Moscow cracks down on any remaining public dissent left in the country."They searched my parents' home yesterday," Yashin wrote on social media, calling pressure on the families of dissenters "disgusting".
Investors are appraising Trump policies' likely impact on stocks on the last trading day before the inauguration.
Colombia on Friday suspended for second time in less than a year peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, after blaming the rebel group of the violence that has been affecting a northeastern region of the country in recent days. "The dialogue process with this group is suspended, the ELN has no will for peace,” President Gustavo Petro said on his X account. The ELN has been fighting with ex-rebels of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrilla group, or FARC, on a region close to the border between Colombia and Venezuela known as Catatumbo.
Mozambique’s former finance minister is set to be sentenced Friday in a New York court on wire fraud and money laundering charges stemming from the infamous “ tuna bond ” scandal that triggered a financial crisis in the impoverished African nation. Manuel Chang, 69, was convicted last year of accepting payoffs to put his homeland secretly on the hook for about $2 billion in loans from major overseas banks. Chang, who was Mozambique’s top finance official from 2005 to 2015, faces up to 20 years in prison.
Researchers newly identified a “supergiant” sea bug species off the coast of south-central Vietnam, but scientists worry about its vulnerability to overfishing.
Companies transporting their products around the world are not ready to return to the Red Sea trade route in the wake of a Gaza ceasefire deal because of uncertainty over whether Yemen's Houthis will continue to attack shipping, industry executives said. The leader of Yemen's Houthis said on Thursday that the Iran-aligned group would monitor the implementation of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas aimed at ending the war in Gaza and continue its attacks on vessels or Israel if it is breached. The Houthi militia has carried out more than 100 attacks on ships since November 2023 and has sunk two vessels, seized another and killed at least four seafarers in what they say is solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
Donald Trump and his allies are promising a 'blizzard' of activity on Jan. 20, with perhaps 100 executive actions to be signed within hours of Trump's swearing in.
Vistra Corp's 3000-megawatt Moss Landing energy storage facility went up in flames on Thursday, in a blaze that is expected to remain contained to the building. "There are no active fire suppression efforts going on, as the best approach, according to fire staff, is to allow the building and batteries to burn," according to a Monterey Sheriff official. Both Vistra and the county official said that all site personnel had been evacuated and no injuries were reported.
A Southwest Airlines pilot suspected of being drunk was removed from the cockpit and arrested just before takeoff Wednesday at a Georgia airport, according to airline officials and authorities in the state.