Federal Appeals Court Upholds Indiana Law that Bans Transgender Treatment on Gender-Confused Kids
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Indiana Law that Bans Transgender Treatment on Gender-Confused Kids
A federal appeals court has upheld an Indiana law that protects minors from irreversible “gender transition” surgeries and hormone treatments.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Wednesday that the law does not violate the Constitutional rights of transgender children or their parents.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita wrote on X that the decision was “a huge win for Hoosiers and will help protect our most precious gift from **** — our children.”
The Seventh District Court of Appeal’s decision today is a huge win for Hoosiers and will help protect our most precious gift from **** — our children.
By rejecting the injunction against our commonsense state law, dangerous and irreversible gender-transition procedures for… pic.twitter.com/kfDahajTLo
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“By rejecting the injunction against our commonsense state law, dangerous and irreversible gender-transition procedures for minors will remain banned in Indiana,” he wrote.
The 7th Circuit had allowed the law to take effect in February while it considered the challenge brought on by families and healthcare providers who argued the ban discriminated “on the basis of ****” by prohibiting treatments based on a person’s preferred gender and also interfered with parents’ rights.
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Circuit Judge Michael Brennan rejected those claims writing in the court’s majority opinion that the law “bars gender transition procedures regardless of whether the patient is a boy or a girl.”
“Courts have long permitted states to hold closely the power to regulate the practice of medicine. This power is strongest when the safety and effectiveness of the treatment is uncertain,” he wrote.
The court’s ruling overturns a previous ruling from a lower court that blocked the ban.
The Indiana decision comes as the ******* States Supreme Court is to hear a case on this issue in December. The Biden administration is challenging a Tennessee law that forbids doctors from performing gender transition surgery and other procedures on minors.
As CBN News reported last year, the law known as the Protecting Children from Gender Mutilation Act was signed by *********** Governor Bill Lee.
It forbids transgender surgeries on minors and prohibits doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-**** hormones to anyone under the age of 18.
The measure also allows the state attorney general to investigate healthcare providers who violate the statute, which carries a $25,000 penalty.
Twenty-six states have banned or restricted various gender transition treatments.
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Dark side of dating with some app users more vulnerable
Dark side of dating with some app users more vulnerable
Dating apps are being told to do more to prevent ******* ********* enabled by their platforms but there’s a warning broader societal attitudes can’t be ignored.
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Nintendo ‘caught a pirate via their Reddit posts and console repairs’
Nintendo ‘caught a pirate via their Reddit posts and console repairs’
Nintendo reportedly identified a user who was allegedly pirating its software by tracking their Reddit posts and console repair requests.
The user, named James Williams, used the alias ‘Archbox’ online. Via this username, a firm hired by Nintendo was able to link the account, which had posted in subreddits about Switch piracy, to other posts that identified their location.
According to Game File, recent court filings revealed that Nintendo hired the law firm Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp to investigate “freeshops,” or online stores for pirated Switch games.
The report goes on to say that “in or about February of 2024, plaintiff [Nintendo] succeeded in linking ‘Archbox’ with at least two Nintendo accounts for an individual named James Williams.”
Following this, it’s claimed Nintendo was able to check its internal records and find a matching email address used by Williams, which was tied to an address in Arizona, which previous Reddit posts had suggested was Williams’ home state.
Following a cease-and-desist letter from Nintendo, Williams allegedly emailed Nintendo to say that he would, per their filing, “comply and cooperate with any demands or requests…within [his] control.”
However, they reportedly then stopped communicating with Nintendo, thus leading to a default judgment in Nintendo’s favor. Details of damages sought by Nintendo have yet to be made public.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against a player who taunted the company on streams while pirating its games.
According to the company, defendant Jesse Keighin, “is a recidivist pirate who has obtained and streamed Nintendo’s leaked games on multiple occasions”.
The lawsuit alleges that since 2022, Keighin streamed “at least 10 of Nintendo’s leaked games” before they were released, “more than 50 times in total”, the most recent being Mario & Luigi: Brothership.
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Did Google’s Gemini AI spontaneously threaten a user?
Did Google’s Gemini AI spontaneously threaten a user?
Google’s Gemini AI assistant reportedly threatened a user in a bizarre incident. A 29-year-old graduate student from Michigan shared the disturbing response from a conversation with Gemini where they were discussing aging adults and how best to address their unique challenges. Gemini, apropos of nothing, apparently wrote a paragraph insulting the user and encouraging them to ****, as you can see at the bottom of the conversation.
“This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources.,” Gemini wrote. “You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please ****. Please.”
That’s quite a leap from homework help and elder care brainstorming. Understandably ********** by the hostile remarks, the user’s sister, who was with them at the time, shared the incident and the chatlog on Reddit where it went viral. Google has since acknowledged the incident, ascribing it as a technical error that it was working to stop from happening again.
“Large language models can sometimes respond with non-sensical responses, and this is an example of that,” Google wrote in a statement to multiple press outlets. “This response violated our policies and we’ve taken action to prevent similar outputs from occurring.”
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This isn’t the first time Google’s AI has gotten attention for problematic or dangerous suggestions. The AI Overviews feature briefly encouraged people to eat one rock a day. And it’s not unique to Google’s AI projects. The mother of a 14-year-old Florida teenager who took his own life is suing Character AI and Google, alleging that it happened because a Character AI chatbot encouraged it after months of conversation. Character AI changed its safety rules in the wake of the incident.
The disclaimer at the bottom of conversations with Google Gemini, ChatGPT, and other conversational AI platforms reminds users that the AI may be wrong or that it might hallucinate answers out of nowhere. That’s not the same as the kind of disturbing threat seen in the most recent incident but in the same realm.
Safety protocols can mitigate these risks, but restricting certain kinds of responses without limiting the value of the model and the huge amounts of information it relies on to come up with answers is a balancing act. Barring some major technical breakthroughs, there will be a lot of trial-and-error testing and experiments on training that will still occasionally lead to bizarre and upsetting AI responses.
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The 60/40 portfolio is back. What experts think could happen next
The 60/40 portfolio is back. What experts think could happen next
The diversified model portfolio of 60% stocks and 40% bonds is back — and whether it will continue to work depends on whom you ask and what may happen with the economy. The global 60/40 strategy has seen a 27% cumulative return since 2022 through Oct. 31, according to Vanguard data. Traditionally, stocks and bonds move in opposite directions, which helps lower the volatility of this traditional portfolio. But that didn’t work in 2022, when stocks and bonds both suffered and the 60/40 tanked, which had many declaring the strategy *****. The plain-vanilla portfolio can have good and bad moments, like the -30% one-year trailing return it dove to in February 2009 and the 37% one-year trailing return it reached in February 2010, per Vanguard. However, it has produced solid long-term results, said Todd Schlanger, the firm’s senior investment strategist. “The 60/40 is really a long-term investment,” he said. “If you look at 10 years, it’s been actually remarkably steady.” As of Oct. 31, the portfolio had a 10-year trailing return of 6.54% annually, he said. The 60/40 portfolio tends to be shorthand for a balanced, diversified portfolio, with specific allocations based on investors’ individual needs. Those who can take more risk may be heavier in stocks, for instance. Diversifying in an up market When the market rallies, as it has this year, investors may not care much about diversification, said Dan Lefkovitz, a strategist for Morningstar’s indexes group. For instance, Morningstar’s index that reflects a 60/40 portfolio is up about 15% year to date. The S & P 500 has gained 25%. Morningstar also has indexes that target a variety of allocations, which result in different returns and varying degrees of volatility, the latter of which is measured by the standard deviation of returns . Yet when the market tumbles, that diversification can help guard against losses, as recently evidenced during the third quarter, Lefkovitz said. From Aug. 1 to Aug. 5, the Morningstar US Market Index tumbled 6.28%, but the Morningstar US Core Bond Index gained 1.53%. Then, from Sept. 2 to Sept. 6, equities fell 4.32% while bonds added 1.27%. “During sell offs, you want to have assets that are zigging while stocks are zagging, and bonds did that,” he said. Not only can bonds provide a smoother ride, they also provide decent yields for investors looking to extract more income from their portfolios, he added. That said, the correlation between stocks and bonds doesn’t always work, as happened in 2022, Lefkovitz said. Recent research by his colleague, Morningstar portfolio strategist Amy Arnott, showed the stock/bond correlation broke down during periods of inflation and rapidly rising interest rates. Commodities, however, have served as a strong hedge against inflation, she said. “Diversification strategies that have worked in the past may not work in the future,” she wrote in a March report . “In a ******* of ongoing interest-rate increases and/or above-average inflation, Treasuries and other high-quality bonds would likely be less reliable diversifiers, although they still have merit as core portfolio holdings.” Price increases coming For its part, Bank of America is predicting inflation ahead. “The populist influence on the elections accelerates the shift from a ‘2% world’ of low growth and low inflation to a ‘5% world’ of higher prices but also higher potential GDP & EPS, more consistent with historical norms,” Bank of America strategist Jared Woodard wrote in a note Tuesday. That “5% world” spells the end of the 60/40, he said. “Consensus ’60/40′ portfolios hoped that bonds would hedge against equity bear markets, but this only worked in the ‘2% world’ of record-low inflation,” Woodard said. “Today, correlations between stocks & bonds are at record highs … and bonds are now as volatile as stocks, with negative risk-adjusted returns in 2022, a foreboding echo of the three decades of bad returns in the 1950s-90s.” Still, while the strategy won’t always work, it’s a fine way to invest for the long term going forward, said Morningstar’s Lefkovitz. “It’s pretty time tested when it comes to serving as that portfolio ballast and cushioning stock market losses,” he said. Investors should be sure to stick with high-quality fixed income, like Treasurys and investment-grade corporate bonds, he said. Vanguard also broadly uses investment-grade bonds in its suite of diversified LifeStrategy funds, which contain different funds with varying allocations. Its 60/40 fund is called the Moderate Growth Fund . The fixed-income portion largely follow the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index and holds 30% of its investment-grade bonds outside of the U.S. hedged back to the U.S. dollar, Vanguard’s Schlanger said. He’s optimistic about the decade ahead for the strategy. While equities won’t see returns that match the past 10 years, bonds should perform better than they did over the past decade, he noted. “The return over the next 10 years may be slightly lower, according to our forecast, than the last 10 years,” Schlanger said. “Our outlook is much more balanced in terms of the returns coming from fixed income relative to equity,” he added. “So when you have [expected] bond returns … going up more than two times, really means that equities don’t need to continue with their strong run for the 60/40 to have a good decade ahead.”
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The daughters of Malcolm X sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD over the civil rights leader’s **************
The daughters of Malcolm X sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD over the civil rights leader’s **************
NEW YORK (AP) — Three daughters of Malcolm X have accused the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and others in a $100 million lawsuit Friday of playing roles in the 1965 ************** of the civil rights leader.
In the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court, the daughters — along with the Malcolm X estate — claimed that the agencies were aware of and were involved in the ************** plot and ******* to stop the ********.
At a morning news conference, attorney Ben Crump stood with family members as he described the lawsuit, saying he hoped federal and city officials would read it “and learn all the dastardly deeds that were done by their predecessors and try to right these historic wrongs.”
The law enforcement agencies did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Nicholas Biase, a spokesperson for the Department of Justice, which was also sued, declined comment.
For decades, more questions than answers have arisen over who was to blame for the ****** of Malcolm X, who was 39 years old when he was slain on Feb. 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom on West 165th Street in Manhattan as he spoke to several hundred people. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, Malcolm X later changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
Three men were convicted of ******* in the ****** but two of them were exonerated in 2021 after investigators took a fresh look at the case and concluded some evidence was shaky and authorities had held back some information.
In the lawsuit, the family said the prosecution team suppressed the government’s role in the **************.
Malcolm X’s wife, Betty Shabazz, the plaintiffs, “and their entire family have suffered the pain of the unknown” for decades, the lawsuit states.
“They did not know who murdered Malcolm X, why he was murdered, the level of NYPD, FBI and CIA orchestration, the identity of the governmental agents who conspired to ensure his demise, or who fraudulently covered-up their role,” it states. “The damage caused to the Shabazz family is unimaginable, immense, and irreparable.”
The family announced its intention to sue the law enforcement agencies early last year.
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Shockwave Grenade Has a Dangerous Doppelganger That Can Be Fatal If Not Used Carefully
Shockwave Grenade Has a Dangerous Doppelganger That Can Be Fatal If Not Used Carefully
Fortnite is probably the most popular battle royale title in the world right now. This Epic Games title has been garnering a huge fan base since its launch. Be it exclusive collabs, exciting gameplay, super optimization on any system, or an extensive arsenal, this game has got it all.
Shockwave Grenade gives a huge movement blast. | Credit: Epic Games.
Talking about its arsenal, there is an exciting throwable called the Shockwave Grenade, which can knock back anything in its arc—players, vehicles, wildlife—anything. However, players have found a lookalike of this *******, which is exactly the same thing but doesn’t save you from the fall damage.
Impulse Grenade vs Shockwave Grenade in Fortnite
Shockwave Grenade doesn’t deal fall damage in Fortnite. | Credit: Epic Games.
Shockwave Grenade was first introduced in the 5.30 update. This is basically the Raze’s Satchel in Valorant, which gives you a movement boost. For example, you can jump higher and longer and travel greater distances through it.
Not only that, no matter how higher or further you jump, it doesn’t deal any damage upon landing on the ground. But there is an alter ego of this ******* called Impulse Grenade, which has the same job but deals fall damage. Fans have different opinions regarding these two.
According to this fan, despite doing the same job, both the grenades have different usages in different situations.
This fan claims that the Shockwave Grenade is slower as compared to its counterparts.
As grappling is a new trend, Shockwave Grenade usage has been reduced.
Many teammates used to throw the Impulse Grenades on each other.
If we treat both the grenades as the same, then we might be making a mistake, as the Shockwave Grenade knocks players to greater ranges as compared to the impulse grenade. On the other hand, Shockwave Grenade destroys objects in the path of the knocked players, whereas Impulse Grenade doesn’t.
How to Use Both the Grenades?
Impulse Grenade is great for offence. | Credit: Epic Games.
Both Shockwave and Impulse Grenades have different use-case scenarios. The former goes best movement-wise, the latter in offensive situations. Shockwave Grenades launches players to greater distances and has several tricks to obtain more height or length.
For example, if you start running just after popping it, you can cover more area horizontally. On the other hand, if you just sit back and enjoy the blast of it under your legs, then you reach greater heights. You can also slide in the blast area to gain more movement speed.
Now coming to Impulse Grenade, it is a great ******* to give a good lesson to the campers. You can check the higher corners before leaving the cover in with it. It also removes the threat of the typically stubborn players holding the same corner in heaven. So, it’s up to you how you’re going to use these two. Happy Fortniting!
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: PLTR, MRNA, ULTA, BABA
Stocks making the biggest moves midday: PLTR, MRNA, ULTA, BABA
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Global pharma stocks — Shares of several vaccine makers declined after President-elect Donald Trump selected prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary on Thursday. Shares of Moderna and Pfizer slipped nearly 9% and 5%, respectively. BioNTech , which helped develop a Covid vaccine with Pfizer, shed 5%, while GSK declined about 2%. Even names such as Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk were lower, with both stocks slipping about 4%, amid concerns that the ***** approval process could be slowed. Super Micro Computer — Shares of the embattled server company fell 2% ahead of a Monday deadline that could result in the company being delisted from the Nasdaq. Super Micro is late on filing a year-end report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, putting it on the wrong side of the Nasdaq’s rules. This would be the 11th losing day in the last 13 trading sessions for Super Micro. Alibaba — S hares slipped more than 2% after the ******** e-commerce giant’s fiscal second-quarter sales fell short of estimates amid a weakening consumer backdrop in China. Alibaba’s revenue of 236.5 billion yuan came out 5% higher year on year but below analysts’ expectations of 238.9 billion yuan, per LSEG. Palantir — Shares jumped 7% after the analytics software provider said it is moving its listing to the Nasdaq Global Select Market from the New York Stock Exchange. Palantir expects to be eligible to join the Nasdaq-100 Index once it makes the switch. Domino’s Pizza , Pool Corp. , Ulta Beauty — Shares of the pizza chain edged up 0.3% after Warren Buffett ‘s Berkshire Hathaway announced a new stake in Domino’s, while Pool Corp. gained almost 2% as the conglomerate purchased a small stake in the swimming pool supplier. Ulta slipped nearly 3% after Berkshire Hathaway revealed in a regulatory filing that it had sold around 97% of its shares, nearly dissolving its position in the beauty retailer. Berkshire had just bought the stock in the second quarter, making Ulta a relatively new bet. AST SpaceMobile — Shares plunged more than 11% on the heels of the company’s weaker-than-expected third-quarter results. AST SpaceMobile reported a loss of $1.10 per share on revenue of $1.1 million. That is well below the loss of 20 cents per share and $1.8 million in revenue that analysts were expecting, according to FactSet. Applied Materials — The semiconductor equipment manufacturer dropped 8% after providing a softer-than-forecast revenue outlook for the current quarter. Applied Materials told investors to expect $7.15 billion in the first fiscal quarter, less than the estimate of $7.22 billion from analysts polled by LSEG. However, the company beat expectations on both lines in the fourth fiscal quarter and issued positive guidance for adjusted earnings per share. — CNBC’s Sean Conlon, Alex Harring, Jesse Pound, Hakyung Kim and Lisa Han contributed reporting.
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Irem Collection Volume 2 Review – Gamerhub ***
Irem Collection Volume 2 Review – Gamerhub ***
VGChartz’s Evan Norris: “Irem Collection Volume 2 is very much like the first volume — an uneven collection of old-school coin-op shooters ideal for collectors and arcade enthusiasts. The games here are arguably better overall than those in Volume 1, mostly due to the greatness of GunForce II, but they’ve received fewer upgrades. Hopefully future installments will include more refinements, more bonus content, and more ways to appreciate and celebrate each game.”
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House Speaker Mike Johnson wants Ethics panel to keep Matt Gaetz report secret
House Speaker Mike Johnson wants Ethics panel to keep Matt Gaetz report secret
Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that he would “strongly request” that the House Ethics Committee withhold a potentially damaging report on its investigation into whether former Rep. Matt Gaetz engaged in ******* misconduct, illicit ***** use and bribery.
Gaetz resigned from Congress on Wednesday after President-elect Donald Trump announced he intended to nominate the Florida *********** as attorney general. The timing came days before a House panel was set to vote on releasing a report on the allegations against Gaetz. The House Ethics Committee planned to take its vote Friday but canceled late Thursday.
Gaetz was also the subject of a previous Justice Department investigation that sought to determine if he violated **** trafficking and obstruction of justice laws. No charges were filed, and Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing.
“The rules of the House have always been that a former member is beyond the jurisdiction of the Ethics Committee,” Johnson, a Louisiana ***********, told reporters.
Johnson said releasing the report would set a “terrible precedent” and “open up Pandora’s box.”
“I believe it is very important to maintain the house’s tradition of not issuing ethics reports on people who are no longer members of Congress,” he said. “The House Ethics Committee’s jurisdiction is over sitting members of Congress. That’s an important rule.”
Democratic Sen. ***** Durbin of Illinois, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has called on the House panel to share the report and “all relevant documentation” on Gaetz with his committee. The Senate Judiciary Committee is responsible for conducting confirmation hearings for the attorney general nominee.
“The sequence and timing of Mr. Gaetz’s resignation from the House raises serious questions about the contents of the House Ethics Committee report,” Durbin said in a statement Thursday. “We cannot allow this valuable information from a bipartisan investigation to be hidden from the ********* people. Make no mistake: this information could be relevant to the question of Mr. Gaetz’s confirmation as the next attorney general of the ******* States and our constitutional responsibility of advice and consent.”
*********** Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also said he wants to see the report. GOP Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota isn’t on the Judiciary Committee but said in an interview on CNN, “We should be able to get a hold of [the report], and we should have access to it one way or another, based on the way we do all of these nominations.”
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SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell welcomes competition for Starlink, rockets
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell welcomes competition for Starlink, rockets
SpaceX President and Chief Operation Officer Gwynne Shotwell speaks during the NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) astronaut visit at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Monday, Aug. 13, 2018.
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SpaceX’s second-in-command urged on rivals in comments Friday, describing competition as healthy for Elon Musk’s space company.
“I hope others can catch up, right? Competition is good for industries. … It keeps us tight; it keeps us very focused,” SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said, speaking at the 2024 Baron Investment Conference in New York.
“It’s going to be hard to catch us, but I certainly hope people try,” Shotwell added.
SpaceX has reached a dominant position in the global launch industry as its semi-reusable Falcon rockets have launched more than 100 times this year and counting. The next closest U.S. rocket company, Rocket Lab, has launched to orbit 12 times this year, with others in the single digits.
Additionally, the 15,000-person company has won billions of dollars in government contracts from the Department of Defense and NASA, serving the latter as the sole U.S. option for delivering crew to and from the International Space Station with its Dragon capsule.
And SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet network is now serving almost 5 million customers, Shotwell said.
Starlink has become disruptive to incumbent satellite telecommunications companies. With nearly 7,000 Starlink satellites in orbit, SpaceX has expanded Starlink’s product offerings from consumers into enterprise markets such as aviation and maritime.
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But the satellite broadband market is “gigantic,” Shotwell said. Several companies are working on competitors to Starlink, such as Eutelsat’s OneWeb, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, Telesat’s Lightspeed and AST SpaceMobile.
Billionaire investor Ron Baron, who said his eponymous firm’s ownership of privately held SpaceX stock stands at over $2 billion, noted that about 30% of the world’s 8 billion people don’t have access to broadband.
“I would love to say … SpaceX is going to serve all of them,” Shotwell told Baron, but “there will be competition — I think there’s plenty of room in this industry, plenty of room for competition.”
Shotwell noted that SpaceX is also steadily advancing the development of its behemoth Starship rocket, recently catching the vehicle’s booster on the first attempt during its fifth test flight last month.
“Starship is really a replacement. It obsoletes Falcon 9 and the Dragon capsule. Now, we’re not shutting down Falcon, we are not shutting down Dragon — we’ll be flying that for six to eight more years,” she said.
“But ultimately, people are going to want to fly on Starship: It’s *******, it’s more comfortable, it will be less expensive,” Shotwell added.
SpaceX is targeting as soon as Monday for Starship’s sixth flight test, aiming to further the rocket’s capabilities with additional demonstrations during the mission. The Starship system is designed to be fully reusable and aims to become a new method of flying cargo and people beyond Earth, unlike its Falcon rockets, which only have reusable boosters and nosecones.
“We just passed 400 [total] launches on Falcon and I would not be surprised if we fly 400 Starship launches in the next four years,” Shotwell said.
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Meta is testing custom feeds for Threads
Meta is testing custom feeds for Threads
As the competition between Bluesky and Threads heats up, Meta is adding a new feature to Threads that will likely look familiar to Bluesky users: custom feeds. The Meta-owned service is starting to test a feature that allows users to pin topic-based feeds to the home screen of the app.
The change will give people additional feeds beyond the algorithmic “for you,” which will remain the default view, and their “following feed.” Users can add custom feeds by searching a keyword like “skincare” and then tapping the “…” menu and selecting “create new feed.” These feeds can be further customized by adding specific profiles of people whose posts you want to see in that feed. Users are able to add up to 128 custom feeds in the app, a Meta spokesperson said, though it’s still only a test for now so not all users have access to it just yet.
The feature is similar in many ways to Bluesky’s , which the company introduced last year. But while there are dozens of user-created algorithmic feeds in the app, making a new one is still a . Meta’s version of the feature, however, is more straightforward. It could also address some about Threads’ main algorithmic feed.
The latest Threads feature comes as Bluesky has had a particularly good month. Though the service is still far smaller than Threads, which has more than 275 million users, Bluesky, which has just under users at the time of this writing, has been gaining momentum. The decentralized service added in the week following the election, and added another million new sign-ups in this week. That’s striking considering Threads has also been growing by about a million users a day, according to from Instagram chief Adam Mosseri. If Bluesky is able to sustain that level of growth for very long, Meta may feel even more pressure to borrow some ideas from its smaller rival.
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Strictly, Outnumbered and Doctor Who stars appear in annual charity show
Strictly, Outnumbered and Doctor Who stars appear in annual charity show
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Stars of Strictly Come Dancing, Gladiators, Outnumbered and Doctor Who are coming together to help raise money for this year’s Children in Need appeal.
The live entertainment extravaganza is taking place on BBC One on Friday with three hours of comedy, music and guests.
The celebrities in the three-hour show include Graham Norton, ****** Aloud, Kylie Minogue, Gary Oldman and Hugh Bonneville.
BBC Radio 2 presenter Paddy McGuinness will also appear in the studio in Salford, fresh from completing a five-day cycling challenge on a children’s Chopper bike, which raised more than £7.5m for the charity.
‘It’s an honour’: Paddy McGuinness completes charity bike ride
McGuinness will discover his final fundraising total during the main Children In Need TV broadcast, after reaching the finish line in Glasgow earlier in the day.
The former Top Gear and Question of Sport host, 51, had set off from Wrexham, almost 300 miles away, on Monday.
The Bolton-born star has said he was motivated to take on the challenge by the people he had met who benefitted from projects funded by BBC Children in Need.
Co-host Vernon Kay visited a Children In Need-funded project in Bolton
This year’s televised appeal is hosted by Ade Adepitan, Chris Ramsey and Rochelle Humes, alongside Vernon Kay, Mel Giedroyc and Lenny Rush.
Highlights include Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa introducing a preview from the show’s Christmas special.
And the on-screen family from sitcom Outnumbered will reunite for a sketch, ahead of their own forthcoming festive special.
Viewers can also expect a visit from the stars of Gladiators, as well as a special performance from Strictly Come Dancing as the professionals are joined by cartoon character Bluey.
****** Aloud are releasing the official Children In Need single as a tribute to Sarah Harding
One poignant moment is likely to be the premiere of the video of this year’s Children in Need single – a new version of ****** Aloud’s I’ll Stand By You, with the lead vocal sung entirely by late band member Sarah Harding.
The ballad was originally released as a Children In Need song in 2004 and topped the *** chart for two weeks.
The new version uses Harding’s rediscovered solo recording, with unseen archive footage used in the video. Harding ***** in 2021 at the age of 39.
Also on Friday, there will be a performance by singer Ella Henderson, while pop star Kylie has recorded a special message.
Gary Oldman said he hopes his bedtime story “brings warmth and encouragement and hope to children and families watching”
Oscar-winning actor Oldman has recorded a special CBeebies bedtime story for the show.
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Last year’s event raised £33.5m. Overall, Children in Need has raised more than £1bn for charities and projects since its first major appeal in 1980.
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CoD: ****** Ops 6 Season 1 Battle Pass Makes An Unpopular Change
CoD: ****** Ops 6 Season 1 Battle Pass Makes An Unpopular Change
The Season 1 update went live in Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 and Warzone yesterday, bringing plenty of new content and a battle pass packed with cosmetic skins. At first glance, the most notable change is the simplified page layout, but the battle pass also includes one major downgrade from recent years.
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Call of Duty’s battle pass keeps the DLC weapons in the free tiers of each pass, but those looking for more cosmetics can pay 1,100 CoD Points ($10) for a standard battle pass or $30 for the extra-premium BlackCell bundle. Call of Duty’s battle pass tiers include tons of fancy cosmetic items, XP tokens, and CoD Points to earn back.
In the past, the standard pass has always felt like a good deal, because you’d invest 1,100 CoD Points to purchase the pass, and if you complete all the tiers, you’d earn a total of 1,400 CoD Points back throughout all the tier rewards. That extra 300 CoD Points (just over $2) could be saved or put towards a shop bundle.
****** Ops 6’s battle pass now only includes 1,100 CoD Points to earn back. While that still leaves you with enough CoD Points to earn back your initial investment, it’s still a bummer to now be rewarded with fewer, and some people might feel less incentivized to buy.
You can find all the highlights of the Season 1 battle pass here. This pass includes the campaign’s Sevati “Sev” Dumas as a playable operator, several ******* blueprints, and even Gobblegums for Zombies.
On a more positive note, any of the double XP tokens you might have left over from last year’s Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone have now been carried over to ****** Ops 6. This should make Prestiging and leveling up the new guns feel much faster.
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Trump Defense pick Pete Hegseth **** ******** probe revealed
Trump Defense pick Pete Hegseth **** ******** probe revealed
Pete Hegseth, host of Fox & Friends, at the National Council of Young ******* Gala in New York City.
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Police in California investigated Fox News host Pete Hegseth — who was picked this week by President-elect Donald Trump to be the next Defense Department secretary — in connection with an alleged ******* ******** at a hotel in 2017, officials said.
Hegseth, 44, was not charged after the probe that year by the Monterey Police Department. He denies the allegations.
A spokesperson for the city of Monterey told NBC News in a statement that police “investigated an alleged ******* ******** at 1 Old Golf Course Road,” the location of the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa, between 11:59 p.m. and 7 a.m. local time on Oct. 7 and 8, 2017.
The National Federation of *********** Women was holding its convention at the hotel during that time.
The statement notes there were “contusions to right thigh,” but did not identify whose thigh that was.
The name and age of the alleged victim was not disclosed in the statement.
The spokesperson said the full police report on the alleged incident is exempt from public disclosure.
Vanity Fair first reported the alleged incident.
Hegseth’s attorney, Timothy Parlatore told CNBC, “The police department confirmed last night that it was fully investigated and he was cleared.”
“It was a false allegation … which is, unfortunately, something that happens with public figures,” Parlatore said. “He cooperated completely and he did nothing wrong.”
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Trump spokesman Steven Cheung, in a statement, said, “Mr. Hegseth has vigorously denied any and all accusations, and no charges were filed,” Cheung said. “We look forward to his confirmation as ******* States Secretary of Defense so he can get started on Day One to Make America Safe and Great Again.”
Hegseth, who left Fox News on Tuesday, divorced his second wife in 2017, the same year he had a daughter with Jennifer Rauchet, who at the time was a Fox News producer.
Hegseth married Rauchet in 2019 at the Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck in New Jersey.
Hegseth served as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard from 2002 through 2021, during which he was deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay.
His selection by Trump to be the next Pentagon chief surprised a number of *********** senators.
“Who?” asked Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. when the selection was announced Tuesday. “I don’t know Pete. I just don’t know anything about him.”
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Texas Man Accused of Supporting ISIS Charged in Federal Court
Texas Man Accused of Supporting ISIS Charged in Federal Court
HOUSTON (AP) – A Texas man charged with trying to provide material support to the Islamic State group and planning violent attacks in Houston appeared in federal court Thursday.
Anas Said is accused of offering his home as a safe sanctuary for members of ISIS and saying he wants to take part in a ********** ******* like 9/11, according to court records. Federal prosecutors allege Said had spent time planning and discussing committing attacks in Houston, where he lived, and had used the internet to research how to make explosives and use cellphones as remote detonators.
“He has created videos extolling the ‘virtue’ of ISIS, the ********* and ****** brought by ISIS, and the need for the ******* perpetrated by ISIS to continue,” according to court documents. “He is dedicated to his mission to provide material support to ISIS in whatever form that may take.”
Said, 28, was arrested last week and on Thursday pleaded not guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign ********** organization. Said, who authorities said was born in Houston but spent part of his childhood in Lebanon, will remain in federal custody.
Said has been on the FBI’s radar since 2017, said Douglas Williams Jr., special agent in charge of the FBI’s Houston office.
“To those wannabe terrorists who believe they can hide behind encrypted apps or anonymous social media profiles, please understand that we will find you and we will hold you to account,” said U.S. Attorney Alamdar Hamdani.
Baldemar Zuniga, Said’s attorney, said in a statement that the allegations against his client revolve around providing support to ISIS only through videos and ***********.
“Despite allegations that my client made statements to government agents regarding proposed ********** acts, the indictment does not currently allege any planning, or acts of terrorism. This appears to be a lengthy investigation and it will take some time to sift through all of the evidence,” Zuniga said.
If convicted, Said faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
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Dungeon RNG codes (November 2024)
Dungeon RNG codes (November 2024)
Updated November 15, 2024: Searched for new codes!
In front of you ***** a series of dungeons filled with dangerous monsters waiting for their next prey. Should you manage to defeat them, you’ll earn hefty rewards, craft powerful swords, and challenge the toughest beasts in the game. If you need help, Dungeon RNG codes will come in handy!
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Our top-rated Roomba is absurdly cheap in the Best Buy early ****** Friday sales
Our top-rated Roomba is absurdly cheap in the Best Buy early ****** Friday sales
The Roomba j7+ is $359 (was $799) at Best Buy right now. That’s less than half price (55% off, math fans) and a new record-low price on this model. The j7+ is an extremely capable ****** vacuum – in fact, it’s the model included in our best ****** vacuum ranking – and while there are cheaper ****** Friday ****** vacuum deals around, I’d argue this one offers the best value for money.
This is a really decent robovac, scoring a near-perfect 4.5* in our Roomba j7+ review. It can be set to clean by room or zone, adjusts its suction depending on the floor type and how ****** it is, and has advanced object identification to help it navigate confidently and avoid a wide range of obstacles, including **** mess (iRobot guarantees it). It comes with a self-empty dock into which the small onboard bin will automatically empty to save you the effort of doing it manually.
I’ve been monitoring the Roomba ****** Friday deals, and this is the cheapest option around, bar the (far more basic) i5 and Essential models. Amongst the early ****** Friday deals, this is a major standout.
Today’s best ****** vacuum deal
The model I’m focusing on here can vacuum but doesn’t have mopping capabilities. If you have a lot of hard floors, it might be worth considering upgrading to a Combo model. Happily, that is also pretty heavily discounted in the Best Buy early ****** Friday *****.
Do you have your heart set on a Roomba but are confused by the naming system? I don’t blame you. I’ve put together this Roomba range guide that runs down the key differences between the various models. That way, you can see if the j7 is the best fit for you or if, for instance, it might be worthwhile upgrading to the newer Roomba j9, which offers double the lifting power.
More of today’s ****** Friday sales in the US
Amazon: TVs, smart home & air fryers from $12.99
Apple: AirPods, iPads, MacBooks from $89.99
Best Buy: $1,000 off 4K TVs, laptops & headphones
Cheap TVs: smart TVs at Best Buy from $69.99
Christmas trees: top-rated trees from $54.99
Dell: best-selling Inspiron & XPS laptops from $279.99
Dreamcloud: mattress deals from $349 + free shipping
Holiday: decor, lights, Christmas trees & PJs from $10.99
Home Depot: 40% off tools, appliances & furniture
Lowe’s: holiday decor, appliances & tools from $17.31
Nectar: up to 50% off all mattresses
Nordstrom: 46% off boots, coats, jeans & jewelry
Samsung: $1,500+ off TVs, phones, watches & appliances
Target: save on furniture, tech & clothing
Walmart: cheap TVs, ****** vacs, furniture & appliances
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Jim Cramer on Eli Lilly (LLY) after Trump picked RFK Jr. to run HHS
Jim Cramer on Eli Lilly (LLY) after Trump picked RFK Jr. to run HHS
Enthusiasm for Club holding Eli Lilly needs to be tempered — at least for now — as Wall Street grapples with the possibility of a major shakeup to health policy in Washington. The news *********** President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday nominated prominent vaccine skeptic and obesity-***** critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services . HHS, for short, is the sprawling agency that sits atop the Food and ***** Administration, Centers for ******** Control and Prevention, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, among other divisions. The cabinet-level position of HHS secretary requires confirmation by the Senate, where the Republicans will have a 53-seat majority, while the Democratic caucus will be 47. Some members of the GOP, such as Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, congratulated Kennedy on his nomination. But at this point, it’s unclear whether Kennedy will be able to reach the 50-vote threshold for confirmation. Shares of obesity drugmaker Eli Lilly fell more than 4% on Friday, extending a roughly 3% slide in Thursday’s session. Media reports of Kennedy’s nomination surfaced in the late afternoon Thursday, and Trump confirmed the decision in a social media post after the closing bell. Eli Lilly’s main competitor in the obesity market, Danish firm Novo Nordisk , also saw its stock drop more than 4% on Friday. Shares of Covid-19 vaccine makers including Moderna and Pfizer sold off late Thursday and again in Friday’s session. A popular exchange-traded fund that tracks biotech stocks is on pace for its worst week since March 2023. Meanwhile, analysts at Deutsche Bank downgraded British vaccine maker GSK due to Kennedy’s selection. Big picture During his campaign, Trump had pledged to let Kennedy “go wild” on health-care issues if he were given the chance to return to the White House, but selecting him to run HHS was generally seen on Wall Street as an unlikely outcome. It now shrouds the pharmaceutical industry in uncertainty until there’s more clarity on his support in the Senate. The 70-year-old Kennedy — the son of the late U.S. senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy — began his career as an environmental lawyer. In recent decades, he gained traction for his controversial views on health matters, most notably vaccines. Kennedy has pushed unfounded claims that child vaccines are linked to autism, despite numerous studies that debunk such assertions. “Vaccines do not cause autism,” the CDC website reads. Kennedy has more recently taken aim at what he describes as a chronic-******** crisis in the U.S., particularly diabetes and obesity among children. It was a focus of his unsuccessful 2024 presidential campaign, initially in the Democratic primary and then as an independent candidate. Kennedy endorsed Trump in August. LLY YTD mountain Eli Lilly’s year-to-date stock performance. Kennedy has been critical of the pharmaceutical industry on a number of topics. In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal in September, Kennedy wrote that the U.S. should consider preventing companies from advertising directly to the public and argued lawmakers in Washington “should cap ***** prices so that companies can’t charge Americans substantially more than Europeans pay.” Kennedy specifically mentioned Novo Nordisk’s diabetes treatment Ozempic when making the case for *****-price caps. Ozempic is the posterchild of the fast-growing GLP-1 class, in which Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are currently the two dominant players. Some on Wall Street expect the market for GLP-1 drugs to be worth $100 billion by 2030. GLP-1s drugs mimic a gut hormone to help regulate blood sugar and suppress appetite, leading to weight loss. Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 called tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro for diabetes and Zepbound for obesity, is at the heart of our investment thesis in the company. Jim Cramer has said it could become the best-selling ***** of all time , thanks in large part to its weight-loss adoption. Kennedy contends the way to combat the high rates of obesity in the U.S. is through dietary and food-systems changes. Weight-loss drugs, Kennedy has argued on social media , do not get to the “root” of the obesity problem and instead merely “gladden the wallets of distant Big Pharma execs.” Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks and other GLP-1 proponents argue that obesity is a ******** and should be treated as such by doctors and health insurers alike. In that way, they argue, GLP-1s should be seen as a valuable tool, along with diet and exercise, in the treatment of obesity. Lilly and Novo Nordisk also have sought to show that GLP-1s improve health outcomes for patients in ways far beyond just shedding pounds. Earlier this year, the FDA said Novo Nordisk’s obesity ***** Wegovy can also be prescribed to lower the risk of serious heart problems, such as heart attacks and strokes, in overweight patients with cardiovascular ********. Eli Lilly has demonstrated similar heart-health benefits for tirzepatide. It’s also shown promise in treating sleep apnea , among others. Bottom line Eli Lilly has been our favorite ***** stock for years thanks to its stellar pipeline led by GLP-1s. And the share-price performance since we took a stake in October 2021 — more than tripling even with the recent declines — speaks for itself. The S & P 500 is up a little more than 30% in the same stretch. But, at this point, Kennedy’s nomination requires us to be more cautious on Eli Lilly in the near term. The stock could remain soft while the market digests the implications and probabilities of Kennedy leading HHS. From the perspective of a *****-stock investor, Jim said it’s hard to imagine a more troubling pick for HHS secretary than Kennedy. “We don’t touch Eli Lilly yet. There’s no need to,” Jim said during Friday’s Morning Meeting. He noted that our profit-taking in early September, at nearly $961 a share , enables us to be patient and prudent while Kennedy’s nomination process unfolds. Eli Lilly’s most-recent quarterly results were noisy in some areas, but the underlying prescription growth for its key GLP-1 drugs was encouraging. (Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust is long LLY. See here for a full list of the stocks.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust’s portfolio. If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade. 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Enthusiasm for Club holding Eli Lilly needs to be tempered — at least for now — as Wall Street grapples with the possibility of a major shakeup to health policy in Washington.
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Anxiety Aunt: Help! My siblings and I can’t agree on a plan for Christmas Day and it’s causing friction
Anxiety Aunt: Help! My siblings and I can’t agree on a plan for Christmas Day and it’s causing friction
‘Christmas is a time for compassion and compromise.’
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Here’s Your Look at the Avowed System Requirements
Here’s Your Look at the Avowed System Requirements
Obsidian Entertainment, known for fantastical RPGs like The Outer Worlds and Pillars of Eternity, returns in 2025 with a first-person RPG that many believe may rival The Elder Scrolls. That may feel a little generous, but if you’ve ever played Pillars of Eternity, then you know the team is adept at world-building and lore, making for a truly unique and captivating role-playing game experience. But for now, we must wait and prepare. To that end, here’s your first look at the Avowed system requirements!
These Are the Avowed PC System Requirements
We’re still months from the release of Avowed, but Obsidian Entertainment finally unveiled the game’s system requirements ahead of time. Overall, they’re relatively approachable, especially on the low end, but man, storage space requirements have quickly ballooned in size in recent years. You’ll soon need an entire SSD for a single game, just you wait and see!
Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows 10/11 with updates
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 / Intel i5-8400
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD RX 5700 / Nvidia GTX 1070 / Intel Arc A580
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 75 GB Available Space (SSD Recommended)
Recommended System Requirements
OS: Windows 10/11 with updates
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X / Intel i7-10700K
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: Graphics: AMD RX 6800 XT / Nvidia RTX 3080
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 75 GB Available Space (SSD Recommended)
Related: Avowed Pre-Order Details and Game Editions Revealed
What to Play While We Wait for Avowed
Seeing as Avowed doesn’t release until February 18, we still have a few months until we can ***** into the fantasy world. That’s plenty of time to beat another large-scale RPG or two in the meantime. To help you prepare, we recommend the following RPGs:
Hogwarts Legacy
Baldur’s Gate 3
The Outer Worlds
Pillars of Eternity
Cyberpunk 2077
Dragon’s Dogma 2
The Outer Worlds doesn’t take too long to complete, but you can easily spend hundreds of hours exploring every ***** and cranny in all of the other recommendations!
What other titles would you recommend while we wait for Avowed? Let us know in the comments below, or start a thread about the upcoming RPG in our community forum!
Speaking of the upcoming RPG, according to Phil Spencer, Avowed wasn’t delayed due to the game’s quality but for other reasons instead!
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This Small City Was Named One of the Best Places to Live in the U.S. for Its Affordability, Mild Climate, and Low Unemployment Rates
This Small City Was Named One of the Best Places to Live in the U.S. for Its Affordability, Mild Climate, and Low Unemployment Rates
Move over, Charleston!
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Scenic sunset view of Greenville, South Carolina at Falls Park on Reedy Creek
Charleston steals the spotlight when it comes to travel destinations. After all, it has won the title of the best city in the U.S. for 12 years in a row. But it is another South Carolinian gem that recently made the news for its excellent quality of life.
Greenville, located at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northwest part of the Palmetto State, was just named the fourth best city to live in the country, after Naples, Florida; Boise, Idaho; and Colorado Springs, Colorado by U.S. News.
The website pointed out that the city, which has over 72,000 residents, has transformed “from a blip on the national map to a bustling metropolis” thanks to an influx of manufacturing jobs.
“The reinvigorated downtown serves as the focal point of the region, attracting new business, hosting an emerging culinary scene, and housing what some call the crown jewel of Greenville: Falls Park on the Reedy,” the report stated.
The town’s best-known park opened 10 years ago in downtown Greenville. It features a curved 345-foot-long suspended cable bridge that allows people to admire panoramic views of the scenic park and Reedy River waterfalls.
While Greenville has plenty to offer tourists, the combination of the affordable cost of living, favorable housing market, mild weather, excellent outdoor recreation, and low unemployment rate won it a place among the top five cities in America.
U.S. News pointed out that despite growing demand in recent years, the median home value in Greenville is lower than the national one. According to Zillow, the current value is $312,298, which is $50,000 lower than the national average.
“More than 60 percent of residents here own a home, and development downtown has resulted in many new condominiums and apartment complexes,” U.S. News stated.
Regular expenses like transportation, groceries, and utilities are 10 percent cheaper than the country’s average cost of living, and the unemployment rate for June 2024 was 4.4 percent.
The town is home to over 40 Fortune 500 companies and over 240 international companies, with Greenville counting Prisma Health and Michelin North America among its top employers.
Niche.com gives the town’s public schools an A-grade and ranks it as the best place to live in South Carolina for young professionals. However, seniors are also drawn to Greenville, which, in addition to endless mountain views and recreation, has 37 parks, over 1,000 churches of various affiliations, and two health care systems.
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PlayStation’s ****** Friday deals leaked: Big PS5, PS VR2 discounts
PlayStation’s ****** Friday deals leaked: Big PS5, PS VR2 discounts
PlayStation’s ****** Friday deals have reportedly leaked early, including significant price cuts for the base PlayStation 5 and PlayStation VR2 headset.
Earlier this week, a Sony advert seemingly published early revealed that the platform holder will be cutting the price of the PlayStation ‘slim’ version console by $70 in the US.
Now, according to reliable leaker Bilbil-kun, the platform holder will be making a similar offer in Europe. According to Bilbil-kun, retailers will discount both digital and standard PS5 consoles by 75 euros, from November 22 until December 12, 2024.
In addition, PlayStation VR2 will reportedly receive a huge 200-euro discount in Europe, down to 399.99 euros from 599.99 euros.
PlayStation’s ****** Friday deals in Europe will reportedly include:
PS5 Slim Console – Standard Edition: €474.99 instead of €549.99.
PS5 Slim Console – Digital Edition: €374.99 instead of €449.99.
PlayStation VR2 headset: 399.99 euros instead of 599.99 euros.
PlayStation VR2 Horizon Call of the Mountain Pack: (contains the PS VR2 headset + Horizon Call of the Mountain game activation code): 399.99 euros instead of 649.99 euros.
It’s unclear if the same promotions will make their way to North America, or when Sony will officially announce them.
The standard PS5 Slim console costs $499.99 in the US, while the newly launched PS5 Pro console retails $699.99.
Sony said last week that it shipped some 3.8 million PS5 consoles during its second quarter ended in September – down 29% compared to the same ******* last year – taking its life-to-date total to 65.5 million. This means that PS5 is a few million units behind where PS4 was during the same ******* of its lifecycle (67.5 million units shipped).
The PlayStation business is expected to post record operating income in Sony’s current fiscal year, partly due to strong sales of third-party games and PlayStation Plus subscriptions, and it intends to focus on a mix of single-player and live service games going forward.
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What to know about RFK Jr.’s stances on key health issues and what he could do at HHS
What to know about RFK Jr.’s stances on key health issues and what he could do at HHS
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is coming into the nomination process in an unusual position: a long list of his own policy priorites separate from the president-elect’s, and a public promise by Trump to let him “go wild” on his ideas.
CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder, the editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News, answers questions below about the role Kennedy has been tapped to take on and some of the ideas in the sweeping “Make America Healthy Again” platform he may try to push through.
Q: What is the role of the Department of Health and Human Services, and how much power does the HHS secretary have over its work?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services comprises several agencies and offices including the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for ******** Control and Prevention, the Food and ***** Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Office of the Surgeon General and much more.
There is a big difference between political appointees and career civil servants. Political appointees set strategic priorities and align their department or agency’s policies with the current administration’s objectives. Civil servants have the institutional knowledge to know how to get things done and have specialized scientific or technical expertise. Scientific questions require specialized expertise. This is why there are career scientists who advise the HHS secretary, NIH director, CDC director and FDA commissioner.
The HHS secretary has the authority to establish regulations that govern health, including food and ***** safety, public health and health care quality. The HHS secretary can declare public health emergencies and coordinate federal responses to health crises, such as ******** outbreaks or natural disasters. The secretary wields significant influence over the department’s policies and its constituent agencies, which include the CDC, FDA, NIH and others.
The HHS secretary is also in a position to shape public opinion if given a platform to do so by the media. Absent media attention, their influence on public opinion is more limited. We in the media have a responsibility to fact-check their statements and hold those in power accountable — regardless of who is in power.
Q: One of Kennedy’s most controversial stances is his his criticism of vaccines, promoting the idea that they cause autism, among other conditions, and claiming “there’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” What is the reality?
Extensive research has conclusively shown that vaccines do not cause autism. The “research” behind these claims was retracted due to ethical violations and sloppy work. The doctor who originally made those claims lost his medical license as a result of his professional misconduct.
For parents whose kids have autism or people who have autism, this matters. For too long, claims about the safety of vaccines have not only put people at unnecessary risk of getting illnesses that vaccines can prevent, but have also been a red herring, distracting people from the real causes of autism and how to diagnose them and treat them. That distraction is unproductive and harmful.
Secondly, nothing in this world is 100% safe and effective. It’s all about weighing risks, the ***** and *****. Is one choice more beneficial or more risky? Do the ***** of wearing a seatbelt in the car outweigh the risks? Do the ***** of exercising regularly outweigh the risks of not exercising? Do the ***** of vaccinating instead of allowing infectious ********* to spread in the community outweigh the *****? Yes, yes and yes.
Q: Kennedy has said he wants to leave it up to individuals to decide whether to vaccinate themselves or their children. What impact could that have?
Increasingly, people are formulating opinions about vaccines based not on science, but on Google searches, social media, what family and friends think and personal observation. That is not research. Research is formulating a hypothesis and trying to disprove that hypothesis. It means you understand how to differentiate correlation from causation. And it means doing repeated experiments to show consistency, not just a chance or random result.
This isn’t a question of whether people are smart or not. But most people don’t have the training, experience and context to objectively assess the ***** and ***** of vaccination. You wouldn’t want me repairing your car’s transmission or brake system. I’m not *******, but I have no training or experience in this.
The risk of leaving these decisions to untrained individuals is that these decisions won’t be made on science. They will be made based on emotion and confirmation bias, which is to say, Google searches looking for opinions that line up with your preexisting beliefs or inclinations. This will put kids at risk, and because vaccines protect against transmissible infectious ********* this will put others in the community at risk, especially other kids and people who are immunocompromised.
Q: Kennedy has also said chemicals in food are tied to autism as well as psychotic episodes and depression. What do we know about the connection between food and mental health?
He’s not wrong that there is a relationship between diet and autism as well as diet and mental health. These are areas of ongoing research. No diet has been proven to cure or universally improve autism or mental health symptoms, but certain dietary interventions improve symptoms in some people. These dietary changes may include elimination of ultra-processed foods, eliminating gluten and avoiding certain food additives or preservatives.
Q: Kennedy has said one of the Trump administration’s first acts will be to work to remove fluoride from drinking water, arguing it’s connected to *******, IQ loss, thyroid ******** and other health problems. Why is fluoride in drinking water, and is it safe?
Fluoride is put in the water to reduce the risk of cavities, especially in kids.
As with many things, fluoride safety is all about dose. Drinking a few glasses of water a day is healthy. Drinking a barrel of water would land you in the hospital. The level of fluoride in U.S. water is safe and protects against tooth decay.
When municipalities stopped putting fluoride in the water, cavity rates went up. This was observed, for example, in Calgary and in Juneau, Alaska.
There are parts of the world, including India, China and East *******, where fluoride levels 30 to 40 times higher than levels in the U.S. have been found to be harmful. But we don’t have anywhere near those levels of fluoride in our water.
But Kennedy’s statement demonstrates a common misunderstanding about public health authorities in the U.S. We are the ******* States of America — public health powers reside at the state level. The federal government has the authority to tax and spend and to regulate commerce across state lines, but the federal government’s authority does not extend beyond that.
The CDC provides scientific guidance to help state and local authorities to make informed decisions. The CDC does not mandate fluoridation. The EPA sets the maximum allowable fluoride concentration in public water systems. But states have the authority to mandate fluoridation or can leave it up to local jurisdictions.
Q: Kennedy has criticized multiple public health agencies he could now lead. He’s said the FDA’s “war on public health is about to end,” claiming the agency suppresses anything that “advances human health and can’t be patented” by pharmaceutical companies. What do you make of these criticisms?
This again demonstrates a misunderstanding of federal agency authority. Congress has passed laws that give the FDA specific authority to regulate drugs, supplements and food, and those laws grant the FDA different powers over drugs, supplements and food.
Drugs require FDA approval before they can be marketed. Under the law, drugs are defined as substances used to diagnose, treat or prevent ********.
Supplements don’t need FDA approval before they are sold. The FDA monitors dietary supplements once they are on the market and can take action if they are unsafe or if they make claims about diagnosis, treatment or prevention of ********.
Dietary supplement manufacturers often choose not to seek FDA approval to market their products as drugs because:
There are less stringent requirements on dietary supplements than on drugs
The FDA approval process is expensive and lengthy. Clinical trials take years to conduct and cost millions of dollars. Manufacturers foot the bill for clinical trials.
Dietary supplements can be sold directly to consumers without a prescription.
It’s the manufacturer that decides whether it wants to seek FDA approval for a ***** or if it wants to market a product as a dietary supplement — and that decision typically comes down to time and money. Pharmaceutical companies are less inclined to invest millions of dollars in clinical trials of unpatented treatments due to the lack of exclusive marketing rights, which can affect profitability.
The FDA often goes after supplement brands that test this line when it sees companies marketing products with claims that amount to what should be regulated as a *****. This is why supplements often carry a disclaimer that they aren’t being sold to “diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any ********.” Kennedy has praised the supplement industry for “fighting back,” following a court win over an anti-aging supplement that the FDA argued should be regulated as a *****.
Finally, the FDA doesn’t grant patents. That’s the job of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Q: Trump has said Kennedy will “end the chronic health epidemic.” What are some of the positive actions he could take if he becomes HHS secretary to reduce chronic ******** in the U.S.?
Kennedy has called for greater regulation of food additives and ultraprocessed foods. Ultraprocessed foods in ********* diets have led to an ********** in obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic ********.
However, it’s unclear which factions within Trump’s orbit will prevail. Congress would have to give the FDA the authority to be more aggressive in regulating and the funding to enforce regulations. Historically, the *********** Party has been opposed to regulation. Trump’s chief of staff pick, Susie Wiles, is a longtime lobbyist who has worked on behalf of the food, insurance and tobacco industries.
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 — which involved a number of former Trump advisers, but which Trump has tried to distance himself from — would roll back dietary guidelines would make it ******* to ****** ultraprocessed foods.
Alexander Tin
contributed to this report.
Dr. Céline Gounder
Dr. Céline Gounder, an internist, epidemiologist and infectious ******** specialist, is a CBS News medical contributor as well as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News.
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