Measles spreading locally as cases spark exposure alert
Measles spreading locally as cases spark exposure alert
Measles is spreading locally within Australia after two people caught the highly contagious viral infection without travelling overseas.
Two people likely acquired measles in metropolitan Melbourne as they had no history of overseas travel or known contact with other cases.
“This means there is now local transmission of measles in the community,” Victorian Chief Health Officer Tarun Weeramanthri said in a health alert.
The cases were infectious when visiting 19 locations across greater Bendigo and metropolitan Melbourne.
They include the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Bendigo Hospital emergency departments, a Keilor East swimming pool, supermarkets in Epsom and Bendigo, a beautician in Aberfeldie and Timezone at Highpoint Shopping Centre in Maribyrnong.
Those who attended a listed exposure site at specified times have been advised to monitor for symptoms.
These can include a fever, cough, sore or red eyes, runny nose, and feeling generally unwell, followed by a red bumpy rash.
Symptoms can develop up to 18 days after exposure with people warned to be vigilant as initial symptoms may be similar to COVID-19 or the flu.
People are potentially infectious from 24 hours before experiencing symptoms until four days after the rash appears.
The virus can spread through airborne droplets or contact with nose or throat secretions and contaminated surfaces and objects, lasting for up to two hours in the environment.
Eight measles cases have been identified in Victoria so far in 2025 after at least 15 were reported in the state last year.
Reported measles cases in Australia fell from just over 280 in 2019 to 38 between 2020 to 2022, including none in 2021, amid COVID-19 international travel restrictions.
As Australia reopened to the world, reported national cases rebounded to 26 in 2023 and 57 in 2024.
Anyone born during or since 1966 who doesn’t have documented evidence of receiving two doses of a measles-containing vaccine is at risk of contracting the disease.
Unvaccinated infants are at particularly high risk, and pregnant women and people with a weakened immune system are more susceptible to suffering serious complications.
All Australians are eligible to receive the free measles-mumps-rubella vaccine if born during or after 1966.
People are urged get the vaccine before travelling overseas, especially those planning to fly to South and South-East Asia countries including Vietnam.
Outbreaks of measles have been reported in Asia, Africa, Europe and the ***, the Middle East and the US.
An outbreak in West Texas has led to the first US death from the illness in a decade.
US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, who denied he was anti-vaccination in his Senate confirmation hearings, said 124 people had contracted the disease in the outbreak and 20 of those were quarantined in hospital.
“There have been four measles outbreaks this year,” he said during a meeting of President Donald Trump’s cabinet at the White House.
“In this country last year (there were) over 16.
“So it’s not unusual. We have measles outbreaks every year.”
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What is Federated Identity Management (FIM)? How Does It Work?
What is Federated Identity Management (FIM)? How Does It Work?
What is federated identity management (FIM)?
Federated identity management (FIM) is an arrangement between multiple enterprises or domains that enables their users to use the same identification data (digital identity) to access all their networks. These partners are also known as trust domains. A trust domain can be an organization, a business unit, a smaller subsidiary of a larger organization, etc.
FIM is a system of single login, multiple access. For FIM to work effectively, all involved partners must have a sense of mutual trust. Each trust domain maintains its own identity management. However, all domains are interlinked through a third-party service that stores users’ access credentials and provides the trust mechanism needed for FIM to work. This third service is known as the identity provider or identity broker.
This provider brokers access control among multiple service providers. The FIM arrangement is made between two — or even more — identity brokers across organizations.
FIM links users’ identities across multiple security domains. When two domains are federated, users only need to authenticate themselves to one domain. That’s because a second security domain — and part of the FIM system — trusts that the user’s home domain authenticated the user and enables them to have unfettered access.
Examples of FIM systems include OpenID and Open Authorization, as well as Shibboleth, which is based on the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards’ Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML).
How does federated identity management work?
FIM works because the FIM partners send each other Authorization messages. These messages can be transmitted using SAML or a similar Extensible Markup Language standard. Both enable users to log on once to access multiple affiliated but separate websites or networks.
Users’ credentials are provided to and stored with their identity provider, which is their home domain. Then, when logging in to a service such as a software-as-a-service application, they don’t have to provide credentials to the service provider. Rather, the service provider trusts the identity provider to validate these credentials and grant them access.
What are common federated identity management use cases?
FIM is useful when administering applications that need access to resources in multiple security domains.
Here are some common FIM use cases:
new users added to the system after a merger or acquisition;
external vendors or distributors that require access to the organization’s resources;
users from commercial identity providers;
users with credentials from a public organization;
citizens using credentials from a national identity provider; and
access to social websites, like Gmail, Facebook, Google, etc.
What is the difference between SSO and FIM?
Single sign-on (SSO) is an important component of FIM, but it is not the same as FIM.
Implementing single sign-on doesn’t necessarily require federated identity management, but the latter does rely heavily on SSO technologies for authentication among domains.
SSO enables users to use a single set of credentials to access multiple systems within a single organization. It is token-based, meaning that users are identified by a token rather than a password.
FIM enables users to access systems across federated organizations. They can use the same credentials to access the applications, programs and networks of all members within the federated group. It provides single-step access to multiple systems across different organizations. Unlike SSO, FIM users don’t provide credentials directly to a web application, but to the FIM system itself.
Organizations that implement SSO do not necessarily use FIM. However, FIM relies heavily on SSO technologies to authenticate users across domains.
What are benefits and drawbacks of federated identity management?
When organizations work together on a project, FIM enables participants to access and share resources across all domains. FIM also simplifies the process of authenticating and authorizing users of the systems within the federation.
At the same time, administrators in each organization still control access levels in their own domains. They can set permissions and access levels across different systems in different security domains for a user based on a single username. This reduces their work and simplifies identity and access management.
Federated identity management has its benefits and drawbacks.
Administrators can also avoid common issues that crop up when balancing multi-domain access, such as developing a specific system to make it easy to access the resources of an external organization. The consolidation approach of FIM helps organizations save money and maintain control.
FIM also eliminates the barriers that often prevent users from easily and securely accessing the resources they need. It delivers convenience so they can securely access systems in different domains without having to remember multiple credentials or log in multiple times. Consequently, the user can save time, minimize access friction and increase productivity.
FIM also simplifies data management, privacy and compliance, and it reduces storage costs.
One drawback of FIM is the upfront costs that organizations incur to modify existing systems and applications. This can be a substantial financial burden for smaller organizations.
Another challenge is that participating federation members must create policies that adhere to the security requirements of all members. This negotiation can be a complicated, time-consuming undertaking when each enterprise sets different requirements and rules.
Finally, a participating organization can be a member of more than one federation, so its policies should reflect the rules and requirements of each federation. As the company joins additional federations, this can become complicated and require a huge time commitment that many enterprises may not be prepared for.
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Trump says he is likely to accept *** deal on Chagos Islands
Trump says he is likely to accept *** deal on Chagos Islands
By Elizabeth Piper
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was inclined to back a deal between Britain and Mauritius over the future of a U.S.-*** military base in the Chagos Islands, in a boost for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Trump signaled his backing for the deal as he met Starmer at the White House for their first in-person talks since the Republican leader upended U.S. policy on a number of areas, from Ukraine to global trade.
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Britain struck the agreement in October to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control under a 99-year lease of the military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
The deal, yet to be finalized with a formal treaty, had the backing of former U.S. President Joe Biden but has been mired in uncertainty since Trump’s re-election. Britain had said it would give the Trump administration chance to review the deal before finalizing it.
Sitting beside Starmer in the Oval Office, Trump told reporters the two leaders would discuss the deal at their meeting on Thursday but that he was likely to accept it.
“We’re going to have some discussions about that very soon, and I have a feeling it’s going to work out very well,” Trump said in response to a question about the deal, noting that it contained a “very long, powerful” lease over Diego Garcia.
“I think we’ll be inclined to go along with your country,” he told Starmer. “It’s a little early, we have to be given the details, but it doesn’t sound bad.”
Trump’s remarks will be welcomed by Starmer, who has faced political pressure at home over the cost of the deal and the loss of British sovereignty over the islands.
The deal had come under further uncertainty in recent weeks with Mauritius’ new prime minister questioning the details of the agreement and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio raising concerns over China’s influence in the region.
When Mauritius became independent from Britain in the 1960s, London retained control of the Chagos Islands and forcibly displaced up to 2,000 people to make way for the Diego Garcia base.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Piper; Writing by Sachin Ravikumar; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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No big new revelations expected in Justice Department’s release of Jeffrey Epstein files – The Associated Press
No big new revelations expected in Justice Department’s release of Jeffrey Epstein files – The Associated Press
No big new revelations expected in Justice Department’s release of Jeffrey Epstein files The Associated PressTrump’s DOJ Could Release Jeffrey Epstein Files Today—What To Know As ‘Phase 1’ Binders Spotted ForbesAnna Paulina Luna outraged after Epstein documents handed to conservative influencers KATUAG Pam Bondi Releases ‘The Epstein Files’ TIMETrump DOJ feeds Jeffrey Epstein documents to underwhelmed conservative influencers: ‘You should feel frustrated’ New York Post
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Dive into the Horizon Realms on April 25
Dive into the Horizon Realms on April 25
IGN: “The OG Xbox podcaster Danny Peña from Gamertag Radio joins us to discuss one of Xbox’s “core four” franchises, Forza, heading to PlayStation 5 in the form of Forza Horizon 5. What does it mean for Xbox? And is any franchise “safe”? Plus: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is out and awesome (and successful), we show some love to one of the newest games on Xbox Game Pass that you might not be familiar with, and more!”
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Katy Perry will head to space on Blue Origin all-women flight
Katy Perry will head to space on Blue Origin all-women flight
Pop star Katy Perry will blast off into space as part of an upcoming all-women flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepherd rocket.
The Firework singer will be joined by Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos’s fiancee Lauren Sanchez, CBS presenter Gayle King, former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn.
Blue Origin said this is the first all-women space flight to take place since the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova’s solo mission in 1963.
There is no specific date for the launch, but Blue Origin said it would take place this spring.
Katy Perry is scheduled to be on her Lifetimes Tour from 23 April until 11 November, so this trip is expected to take place before that.
“If you had told me I’d be part of the first all-female crew in space, I would have believed you. Nothing was beyond my imagination as a child,” Perry said in a statement cited by Newsweek.
The NS-31 mission will be the 11th human spaceflight for the New Shepherd rocket and the 31st in its history. So far, the programme has launched 52 people into space.
A trip on the New Shepard typically lasts about 11 minutes, according to Blue Origin. It is fully autonomous – which means there are no pilots – and takes the passengers past the Karman line, internationally recognised as the edge of space.
Blue Origin credited Lauren Sanchez for bringing the mission together, saying in its press release that she is “honored to lead a team of explorers on a mission that will challenge their perspectives of Earth, empower them to share their own stories, and create lasting impact that will inspire generations to come”.
Sanchez first announced her plan to fly with an all-women crew on a Blue Origin rocket in 2023 in an interview with Vogue, saying they were “paving the way for women”.
This is the latest group of celebrities to embark on a flight to space.
Bezos himself flew on the company’s first manned mission in 2021. Good Morning America’s co-host Michael Strahan and Star Trek actor William Shatner have also been blasted into space on one of Bezos’s rockets.
Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic, made a trip aboard his company’s VSS Unity spacecraft in July 2021. SpaceX founder Elon Musk, however, is yet to make a trip.
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Donald Trump welcomes Sir Keir Starmer to the White House
Donald Trump welcomes Sir Keir Starmer to the White House
US President Donald Trump has welcomed *** Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to the White House, commencing a highly anticipated meeting between the two leaders.
Sir Keir’s visit comes days after France’s Emmanuel Macron visited the US, for talks on Ukraine and defence.
On Friday, Ukraine’s President Zelensky will arrive in Washington DC to sign what Trump calls a “very big agreement” on minerals.
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Uncovering America’s Hidden Legacy of ****** Cowboys
Uncovering America’s Hidden Legacy of ****** Cowboys
When most people think of cowboys, they envision rugged, gun-toting figures depicted in Hollywood Westerns. But the truth is far more complex—and much richer in history. Many of the men responsible for settling the Old West in the late 1800s were people of color, with historians estimating that one in four cowboys was ******.
CBN News traveled to Texas to uncover the untold stories of ****** people in the horse industry.
Cowboy’s Legacy, Beyond Hollywood
The image of the cowboy has long been dominated by the portrayal of white men on horseback, braving the harsh conditions of the frontier. However, a more historically accurate version of the past is shared by Larry Callies, a lifelong Texas cowboy and owner of the ****** Cowboy Museum in Rosenberg, Texas.
Callies’ passion for sharing this history came from his personal faith journey. A former country western singer whose career was cut short by vocal dysphonia, Callies felt God’s calling to open the museum in 2017—even though he had lost his voice. With unwavering faith, Callies stepped forward to reveal the hidden contributions of ****** cowboys to the American frontier.
“I didn’t want to open this museum,” Callies says. “But God asked me to. He told me to step out in faith.”
The museum highlights the stories of legendary ****** cowboys like Nat Love, George Pendleton, Isom Dart, and Bass Reeves—men whose names were once forgotten in mainstream narratives of the Wild West.
A Personal Connection to History
For Callies, this project became even more meaningful as he discovered a deeper connection to his own family’s past. He learned his relatives were part of what became the longest cattle drive ever recorded.
“Every time I come into the museum, I just have to say, ‘Thank you, God, for showing me this,'” Callies reflected.
Keeping the Legacy Alive: The Bill Pickett Rodeo
Since 1984, the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo has provided a stage for ****** cowboys and cowgirls. The rodeo was born from the vision of Lu Vason, who, after attending the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo in Wyoming, realized there was a glaring absence of people who looked like him in the competitive arena.
In response, Vason founded the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo, named after one of the most prominent African American cowboys in history. This rodeo would become a place where ****** athletes could showcase their talents and take center stage in the world of rodeo.
“When Lou started the rodeo, everybody told him he was crazy,” says Valeria Howard Cunningham, who took over as CEO of the rodeo after Vason’s passing in 2015. She shared that in the early days, companies “didn’t believe we could bring in sponsors or attract an audience, so we had to prove ourselves.”
Today, Cunningham continues her late husband’s work, breaking barriers as a ****** woman leading a rodeo traditionally dominated by white men.
The Next Generation of Cowboys
As the Bill Pickett Rodeo continues to grow, it is also nurturing a new generation of cowboys. Among them is a family from Natchez, Mississippi, including two sets of twins who are continuing the tradition of competing in rodeos.
“We are the original cowboys,” says James Berry, a first-generation cowboy. He is passionate about passing down his love for horses and the sport to his grandsons.
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God of War composer Bear McCreary reveals E3 reveal was the "greatest night of my creative life"
God of War composer Bear McCreary reveals E3 reveal was the "greatest night of my creative life"
Bear McCreary, the composer behind Godzilla, God of War and more, reveals the reveal of the PlayStation game was the “greatest moment” of his life.
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West Aussies ditching formal funerals in favour of unconventional memorials like ‘living wakes’
West Aussies ditching formal funerals in favour of unconventional memorials like ‘living wakes’
West Australians are ditching traditional funerals for more personalised memorials, including ‘living wakes’ where the terminally ill can attend their own celebration.
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Investors should avoid Tesla and Moderna, one financial advisor says
Investors should avoid Tesla and Moderna, one financial advisor says
The tough run in Tesla and Moderna shares so far this year isn’t ending anytime soon, according to Courtney Garcia, senior wealth advisor at Payne Capital Management Garcia appeared on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” on Thursday to give her hot takes on some of the market’s biggest movers. Here is what she said during “Three-Stock Lunch.” Tesla Garcia said she would stay on the sidelines with Tesla, citing the electric vehicle maker’s sky-high valuation and a stiffer auto market. According to the financial advisor, the assumption that Tesla will benefit from CEO Elon Musk’s close relationship with President Donald Trump and from its lower-priced EV expected later this year is not enough to bolster a bull case for the stock. Autos remain Tesla’s core business and the industry is slowing, and also facing price cuts in regions like China with competitive EV markets, she said. “My biggest problem with Tesla is just the valuation. It trades[at] over 105 times earnings, which is not only expensive to the overall market, but that’s even more expensive than its own historical average,” Garcia continued. “Whether I find another place to add my money or I wait for a better entry point, I would not jump in with two feet in Tesla right now.” Tesla shares are down 42% from their all-time high in December, hurt by a slowdown in sales. The stock is down about 30% so far in 2025, erasing its election-related euphoria. Moderna Vaccine maker Moderna is another sell for Garcia as the stock continues to garner pushback. The advisor noted Moderna’s main source of revenue is from its Covid vaccine, and that bets on the company’s mRNA pipeline have not yet been profitable. “I think there could be some long-term opportunity with other uses of mRNA, but in the meantime, again, I’d stay on the sidelines here,” she told CNBC. “It’s way too concentrated in Covid vaccines, which I don’t think there’s a huge opportunity [for] in the short term.” Moderna shares slid 7.5 Thursday after reports that federal health officials under the Trump administration are re-evaluating the company’s $590 million contract to help develop a bird-flu vaccine, which was awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services in January during the Biden administration. The stock is down 25% this year as sales of its vaccine have fallen amid a drop in Covid-related demand. Shares have slumped 68% over the past year. Ebay Garcia thinks e-commerce platform Ebay is a stock to buy, even after the company’s quarterly report disappointed Wall Street. Shares of Ebay tumbed 8.2% on Thursday after the company forecast first-quarter revenue below analyst estimates, citing consumers scaling back discretionary spending. The stock is up 2.5% year to date, and has soared 43% over the past 12 months. Despite the latest downbeat sentiment, Garcia is bullish on Ebay’s future growth opportunities. “This is a company that has, I think, really been showing that they’re willing to innovate,” Garcia said, making the stock worth buying in the short term. Garcia mentioned Ebay’s recent partnerships with Facebook Marketplace and OpenAI and its success with collectibles and luxury goods as growth catalysts that will have a more lasting impact than one quarter’s disappointing forward guidance, which she partly blamed on fee changes for eBay’s *** sellers.
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Synopsys forecasts AI growth despite China’s macro headwinds: CEO
Synopsys forecasts AI growth despite China’s macro headwinds: CEO
Software company Synopsys (SNPS) continues to show strong performance, with a beat on first quarter fiscal year earnings and a reaffirmed outlook for double-digit revenue growth. The company’s focus remains on its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven reinvention of computing, particularly in design activities.
Synopsys CEO and President Sassine Ghazi joins Market Domination hosts Josh Lipton and Julie Hyman to discuss how the AI revolution is impacting industries.
“Like any disruptive technology — and AI is absolutely one of the mega trends that will drive a completely different change in many end market applications workflows — it started with big investments in data centers and infrastructure build-out,” Ghazi says.
While AI and high-performance computing remain robust, smart technology in other sectors like automotive and industrial face challenges, with recovery expected by late 2025. Ghazi also addresses ongoing headwinds in China.
“What we communicated actually yesterday, as we’re reaffirming the guidance for the year, is these headwinds are going to continue, and the deceleration will continue to below corporate average due to two factors,” he explains. These factors Ghazi notes are the cumulative effect of restrictions slowing down chip activities, particularly for high-end chips in China, and the ongoing macroeconomic challenges within China itself.
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Monster Hunter Wilds – Best Items To Craft Early
Monster Hunter Wilds – Best Items To Craft Early
All journeys begin with a single step, and this concept rings true in Monster Hunter Wilds. When you first start out, you only have weak, low-rank gear. However, you’ll slowly but surely acquire the materials that you need as you progress. Here’s our guide to help you determine the best items to craft in Monster Hunter Wilds, at least for the first few hours of your adventure.
The best early-game items to craft in Monster Hunter Wilds
Monster Hunter Wilds, similar to its predecessors, is all about hunting down beasts, gathering their materials, making better gear, and hunting down even stronger beasts. This process is oft-repeated throughout the campaign and the endgame, which is why it’s also important to determine how you’ll go about progression early on. For this particular guide, we opted to focus on craftable weapons, armor, and consumables that we feel are viable for those who are just starting out.
Weapon option: Bone Tree -> Quematrice Tree and Lala Barina Tree
Before you decide to smash gigantic creatures in the head, we encourage you to take a look at our best weapons guide. We’ve detailed the ideal armaments that you can use depending on your preferred role or playstyle. Also, be sure to try out some moves and combos at the Training Area.
In any case, our recommendation for the best early-game item to craft in Monster Hunter Wilds is none other than the first option from the Bone Tree. This only requires 500x Zenny and 2x Mystery Bone, and there are plenty of these in the Windward Plains.
The Bone-type variant has slightly higher attack compared to the default Hope variant. From there, you can forge upgraded versions. Depending on the weapon category, the Bone Tree might lead to the Quematrice or Lala Barina options, or not at all, but these armaments are still good to have:
Quematrice variant (fire element/burning status): Requires 3x Quematrice Scale, 2x Quematrice Igniter, and 1x Quematrice Crest.
Lala Barina variant (thunder element/paralysis status): Requires 3x Lala Barina Shell, 2x Lala Barina Mucus, and 1x Lala Barina Claw.
The Quematrice is encountered very early in the game in the Windward Plains biome. The creature’s materials also let you create a fire elemental weapon. You can then wield this a bit later once you’re facing the Lala Barina in the Scarlet Forest biome, as they’re weak against fire.
The initial Bone variant, as well as the Quematrice and Lala Barina options, are good to have early in the campaign.
Armor option: Lala Barina and Piragill
Speaking of the Lala Barina, this spider-flower hybrid rewards materials for a thunder/paralysis weapon. Moreover, some items can be used to craft a few pieces of the Lala Barina set. Also, while you’re exploring the Scarlet Forest, you might encounter a Piragill, which has a single gear piece that you can make.
Barina Headgear: Requires 2x Lala Barina Floret and 1x Lala Barina Mucus.
Barina Mail: Requires 2x Lala Barina Floret, 2x Lala Barina Shell, and 1x Lala Barina Stinger.
Barina Vambraces: Requires 2x Lala Barina Shell and 1x Lala Barina Claw.
Barina Coil: Requires 1x Lala Barina Mucus, 1x Lala Barina Claw, and 1x Lala Barina Stinger.
Piragill Greaves: Requires 1x Piragill Fin and 1x Malachite Ore.
The reason why we suggest grabbing these items is because of the Uth Duna, a boss found in the Scarlet Forest biome. If you’re playing solo and rely primarily on AI companions/SOS Flare, then this encounter might be tough since only Olivia and your Palico are there to back you up. The two other companions can’t be summoned at all. However, if you have the additional water resistance from the aforementioned gear, then you should be able to survive the Uth Duna’s attacks for longer periods.
Farm the Lala Barina for materials, but watch out when they focus on your character.
Consumables: Mega Potion and Traps
Lastly, let’s talk about the best items to craft among consumables. Ideally, you should have a lot of Potions early on so you can heal up. Oh, and you don’t really need to craft Potions using Herbs–just buy them from the Provisioner NPC at your base.
Next, while exploring, be on the lookout for Honey. You can craft Mega Potion–use 1x Potion and 1x Honey–which heals an even ******* amount.
Always have a bunch of Mega Potions with you when you set out on a quest.
Since we’re on the subject of crafting consumables, don’t forget about traps as well. You need a Trap Tool and other materials in case you want to ensnare monsters instead of killing them outright. You can learn more in our traps/capture mechanics guide.
That does it for our guide on the best early-game items to craft in Monster Hunter Wilds. Get ready for a grand (and grindy) trek across multiple regions.
Need more tips as you continue fighting deadly creatures and venture into lands unknown? We’ve got you covered in our Monster Hunter Wilds guides hub.
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******** envoy unapologetic, plays down navy drill worry
******** envoy unapologetic, plays down navy drill worry
China has nothing to apologise or be sorry for after its navy conducted a training drill near Australia as it did so within international law, its envoy says.
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Elon Musk makes baseless claim about large number of dead people on government payroll
Elon Musk makes baseless claim about large number of dead people on government payroll
Elon Musk suggested Wednesday that a number of federal employees who did not respond to an email requesting a summary of their achievements from the previous week could be “dead” or “not real people,” but offered no facts to back it up.
“We think there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead, which is probably why they can’t respond, and — and some people who are not real people,” Musk said.
President Trump echoed Musk’s claims moments later to reporters ahead of a cabinet meeting.
“Maybe we’re paying people that don’t exist,” he said.
There is no evidence that the federal payroll includes scores of dead or non-existent people. The White House declined to provide evidence for the claim to CBS News.
Federal laws mandate audits and verification processes to maintain accurate employment records, and the lower rate of response to the email is no doubt due to multiple agencies instructing staff to not reply.
At least half of all federal employees have not responded to the email, which was sent by the Office of Personnel Management on Saturday and came with a deadline of 11:59 p.m. Monday. The heads of numerous agencies, including the Justice Department, the FBI, the State Department, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, told employees to ignore the email.
The personnel office allowed agencies to decide how they wanted to handle the email, despite Musk warning that those who did not respond would lose their jobs.
CBS News has not received responses for requests for information about Musk’s claims from the Office of Personnel Management or the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE.
How the federal government keeps track of its workers
Federal employees must verify their identity and employment authorization by filling out an I-9 before being hired and often have their fingerprints taken. Federal law requires that agencies keep “complete and accurate records” of the hours their employees work and establish work schedules.
While there are occasional instances of fraud, the Government Accountability Office found in 2020 that cases are rare. Between fiscal years 2015 to 2019, agency inspectors general substantiated only 100 allegations of employee time and attendance misconduct or fraud out of a federal workforce of around 2.1 million employees (the GAO report did not include postal workers). The report did not mention any instances of dead or fictitious employees getting paid.
The report noted several checks and balances in place to prevent and detect fraud, including the use of timesheets, badge in-out data, video surveillance, network login information and government-issued routers, GAOs report said.
Pattern of false claims about dead people
Previously, Musk and Mr. Trump had falsely claimed that tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old were collecting Social Security payments.
But acting Social Security Administration commissioner Lee Dudek said people who are listed as over 100 years old in the Social Security system are “not necessarily receiving benefits.” Instead, those individuals “are people in our records with a Social Security number who do not have a date of death associated with their record,” Dudek said.
Unless you qualify for survivor benefits, collecting Social Security payments for a deceased person is ********. While there have been documented instances of payments to deceased beneficiaries, they do not occur near the scale the Trump administration suggested.
In total, improper payments at the agency — including all accidental overpayments and underpayments — accounted for just under 1% of the $8.6 trillion in total payments from 2015 to 2022, according to a 2024 audit.
Mr. Trump also has a long history of making false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election by people who cast ballots in the name of dead people — claims which have been repeatedly debunked.
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Laura Doan is a fact checker for CBS News Confirmed. She covers misinformation, AI and social media.
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Tesla Fires a Manager Who Criticized Elon Musk on Social Media
Tesla Fires a Manager Who Criticized Elon Musk on Social Media
Tesla became the latest part of Elon Musk’s business empire to make it clear that criticism of the chief executive is unacceptable by firing a manager last month after he objected to a post on social media by Mr. Musk that referred to Nazi leaders.
Jared Ottmann, a manager and engineer who worked with Tesla’s battery suppliers, said he had been fired because he criticized Mr. Musk for a post on X that used the names of Nazis like Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring in a series of wordplay.
“Stop Göring your enemies,” Mr. Musk wrote on Jan. 23, adding, “Bet you did Nazi that coming.” He punctuated the post with a laughing-while-crying emoji.
Mr. Ottmann said on LinkedIn in late January that he was offended that Mr. Musk had referred “as a joke” to Nazis who were responsible for genocide.
“Starting in 2022 and especially the last week I’ve raised the issue internally multiple times, with managers, HR, legal compliance, investor relations,” Mr. Ottmann wrote, referring to behavior by Mr. Musk that he found objectionable. “And while overwhelmingly people offer personal support, Tesla as a company has remained silent.”
Tesla did not reply to a request for comment.
Mr. Musk’s companies, which include SpaceX and X, have a history of punishing dissent. In 2022, SpaceX, which makes rockets, fired nine employees who had called on the company to distance itself from social media comments by Mr. Musk, including one in which he mocked ******* harassment accusations against him. Some of those employees later filed unfair-labor-practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board.
Mr. Ottmann’s critical remarks, and Tesla’s reaction, are the latest indication of the disruption caused by Mr. Musk’s right-wing politics. He has supported a far-right party in Germany whose members have been fined by the government for using Nazi slogans. Mr. Musk’s role in the Trump administration as leader of the Department of Government Efficiency has also made him a polarizing figure.
Signs of dissent at Tesla have not been isolated to Mr. Ottmann. Last month during a meeting at Tesla’s offices in Palo Alto, Calif., employees vented their frustrations about Mr. Musk’s political activities, leading a manager to say he was also discouraged by the chief executive’s behavior.
Mr. Ottmann confirmed Thursday that he had been fired. He declined to comment further, referring questions to Jana Moser, a lawyer in Santa Monica, Calif. Ms. Moser did not reply to a request for comment.
This fall, a SpaceX employee was fired after writing on an internal message board that he hoped Mr. Musk would stop wearing company apparel during his campaign appearances for Mr. Trump, three people familiar with incident said. During an October rally in Butler, Pa., for example, Mr. Musk wore an “Occupy Mars” T-shirt — which SpaceX sells in its company store — as he jumped up and down onstage.
The employee wrote that it wouldn’t be appropriate for workers to wear political clothing to the office and, therefore, that company apparel should not be worn at campaign events. A few days after his post, the company revoked the employee’s access to internal systems, though it later reinstated the employee after determining there was no violation of company policies, the people said.
The employee resigned weeks later. SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mr. Musk has also fired workers at X who criticized him. In the wake of his $44 billion takeover of the company, then called Twitter, in 2022, several employees posted critiques of the billionaire on the platform. Mr. Musk argued with some of them online, and they were later fired.
The firings are at odds with Mr. Musk’s often-stated goal to defend free speech. He has offered to fund lawsuits against employers who fire workers because of things they posted on X. In 2024, he funded a suit for a former worker at the payments company Block after she was fired for inflammatory posts she made on a pseudonymous X account.
Investors in Tesla, the only publicly traded company that Mr. Musk runs, are also worried that his political activities are alienating some buyers and that he is spending too much time in Washington and not enough time addressing slumping car sales. Shares of the company have declined about 40 percent from a high set on Dec. 17.
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AG Pam Bondi Releases ‘The Epstein Files’
AG Pam Bondi Releases ‘The Epstein Files’
Political commentator Rogan O’Handley, a.k.a. DC Draino, and other unidentified people carrying binders bearing the seal of the U.S. Justice Department reading “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” walk out of the West Wing of the White House on Feb. 27, 2025. Credit – Jim Watson — AFP / GettyImages
A group of conservative influencers left the White House on Thursday afternoon, all holding white binders emblazoned with the Department of Justice seal. Some of them held up the binders to the cameras, which showed that they were labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1.”
The unusual scene came just hours after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was confirmed earlier this month, vowed to release a cache of documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Bondi had promised that the files would include flight logs and the names of individuals involved, but she had cautioned that some information could not be disclosed due to the need to protect more than 250 victims.
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A review of the released documents found that they included heavy redactions and mostly information that had been previously reported. While the binders appeared to be marked “declassified,” questions remained as to whether they had ever been classified in the first place. The limited scope of the release drew criticism from some Republicans, including Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who leads a House GOP task force on government transparency.
“I nor the task force were given or reviewed the Epstein documents being released today … A NY Post story just revealed that the documents will simply be Epstein’s phonebook,” Luna tweeted. “THIS IS NOT WHAT WE OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASKED FOR and a complete disappointment. GET US THE INFORMATION WE ASKED FOR!”
Among those carrying the binders outside the White House was political commentator Rogan O’Handley, known online as DC Draino, along with Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik, podcaster Liz Wheeler, and Jack Posobiec, among others.
Bondi discussed the release of the documents in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, offering a glimpse of what might be included—though she stopped short of confirming whether new revelations would emerge from the files, beyond what the public already knew. Epstein’s dark history, marked by his abuse of underage girls, has been extensively documented over the years, with multiple lawsuits, criminal dockets, and public disclosures laying bare the extent of his crimes.
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In January 2024, a court unsealed a large batch of documents from the lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s victims. The materials released at that time, including police reports and victim testimonies, had already been publicly circulated.Epstein’s predatory behavior spanned more than a decade, with allegations dating back to the 1990s. He was accused of abusing hundreds of children, some as young as 14, in a sprawling operation allegedly involving high-profile individuals, including politicians, celebrities, and royalty. Epstein’s death in 2019, ruled a suicide while in a Manhattan jail awaiting trial, only fueled conspiracy theories and renewed calls for transparency.
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Terminator 2D NO FATE Announced
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Experience the events of ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ brought to life through glorious pixel artwork and action-packed arcade gameplay! Play as Sarah Connor and the T-800 through a variety of thrilling missions as they take on the T-1000 and try to put a stop to Skynet’s plans before the human race is annihilated. Lead the Resistance as John Connor in the future, fighting on the front lines as mankind’s only hope in the War Against the Machines. In this unique story blending iconic scenes from ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ with original scenarios and multiple endings, humanity’s fate is yours to decide.
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With Trump, Alliances Come With Strings Attached
With Trump, Alliances Come With Strings Attached
After World War I, Germany, which had invaded Belgium, had to fork over billions to cover the damages the war had caused.
The end of World War II saw Japan, after invading the Philippines, forced to pay reparations.
But as President Trump tries to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he has flipped traditional U.S. foreign policy upside down in demanding that the invaded, not the invader, pay up.
On Friday, Mr. Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are set to sign a deal enabling the United States to share in the country’s mineral wealth, a move Mr. Trump has portrayed as payback for the aid American taxpayers have supplied the war-torn nation. Mr. Trump insisted that the United States would not be providing security guarantees to Ukraine in return.
The deal may prove beneficial in some regards to Ukraine, because becoming more economically intertwined with the United States could provide its own signal of protection. But it underscores Mr. Trump’s impulse to squeeze even America’s traditional allies as he applies his transactional approach to foreign policy.
“By definition, allies and partners tend to be dependent on us for part or most of their security, and they tend to be economically involved with us,” said Richard N. Haass, the former president of the Council on Foreign Relations and an adviser for former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. “And what the Trump administration has done is turn that into a liability.”
The United States has traditionally aided its allies under the premise that doing so helped create a more orderly world. Mr. Haass pointed to America’s involvement in producing arms for the allied countries in World War II, the Marshall Plan and the defeat of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
“By setting up a world where we demonstrated that aggression didn’t pay, there would be less aggression,” he said.
But Mr. Trump has indicated he has little use for traditional U.S. alliances, and tends to evaluate relationships based on whether other countries are contributing economically to the United States.
Mr. Trump began his second term with economic hardball toward America’s neighbors to the north and south, threatening to impose new tariffs. Mr. Trump said on Thursday that tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico would go into effect on Tuesday “as scheduled,” and that China would face an additional 10 percent tariff.
“We’ve been treated very unfairly by many, many countries, including our friends — friend and foe,” Mr. Trump said at a news conference on Thursday.
He has mocked Canada as the 51st state and called its prime minister a “governor.” Mr. Trump has also repeatedly expressed interest in annexing Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal and fundamentally remaking the U.S. relationship with Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
But it is Mr. Trump’s upending of America’s relationship with Russia and Ukraine that has prompted the most concern in recent weeks. After years of a U.S. strategy to isolate Moscow, Mr. Trump had a phone call with President Vladimir V. Putin and began talks with Russia about ending the war — initially without Ukraine’s participation.
Now Mr. Trump is close to signing a deal to share in the profits from Ukraine’s natural resources. A draft of the agreement, obtained by The New York Times, contained only vague references to protecting Ukraine. It says the United States “supports Ukraine’s effort to obtain security guarantees needed to establish lasting peace.”
“It’s ****** stuff,” said Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. “Zelensky, who is known for his courage, should give Donald Trump the big middle finger and remind him that the one time that NATO Article 5 was exercised, it was on behalf of the United States of America, and neither Britain nor France, nor Germany, nor Belgium, said, ‘Yeah, we’ll help you after 9/11 so long as you give us some of that oil you’ve got.”
Mr. Trump said on Thursday that, under the deal, the United States would be “digging and taking the rare earth, which we need in our country very badly.” But he expressed doubts that Ukraine actually had the precious minerals America wanted.
“You dig and maybe things aren’t there like you think they’re there, but we’ll be spending a lot of time there,” he said. “It’ll be great for Ukraine. It’s like a huge economic development project. So it’ll be good for both countries.”
Republicans on Capitol Hill, even some who have spoken out against Russian aggression, have argued in favor of Mr. Trump’s moves, portraying the president as negotiating hard to get the best deal for America. The minerals agreement has gone through several iterations and its latest version, which was reviewed by The Times, contained more favorable terms to Ukraine than previous drafts.
“He is a great deal-maker, as everyone will have to acknowledge whether they like it or not,” Speaker Mike Johnson said at his weekly news conference.
Meghan L. O’Sullivan, the director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School, said the long-term costs of a transactional foreign policy were not immediately noticeable.
She was a special assistant to President George W. Bush and the deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan. During that time, she noted, the United States rejected any suggestion that it should take control of those countries’ resources and withdrew from Iraq’s largest oil fields.
Transactional deals might feel like short-term wins for America, she said, but if the United States withdraws from its traditional role deterring aggression, it will “translate into a more dire economic situation, and globally, a less peaceful, less secure world, and this won’t be good for American prosperity.”
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Alien: Rogue Incursion Review – Blue Horizon – XR Source
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Alien: Rogue Incursion is now available for Meta Quest in addition to PSVR 2 and PC VR; this 131 XR review dives into this new edition.
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Michelle Trachtenberg’s Cause of Death Undetermined as Family Declines Autopsy – Variety
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The Remastered "Blade & Soul NEO" Is Out Now on PC
The Remastered "Blade & Soul NEO" Is Out Now on PC
The classic MMORPG is back; Blade & Soul NEO, the remastered version of Blade & Soul, is out on PC.
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