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Bill Gates says he has given away billions, but has more to give
Bill Gates says he has given away billions, but has more to give
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It’s towards the end of our interview that Bill Gates reveals new numbers on how much his charitable Foundation has now spent in its efforts to combat preventable diseases and reduce poverty.
“I’ve given over 100 billion,” he says, “but I still have more to give.”
That’s dollars, just to clarify, worth about £80bn.
It’s roughly equivalent to the size of the Bulgarian economy or the cost of building the whole HS2 line.
But to put it in context, it’s also around the same as just one year of Tesla sales. (Tesla owner Elon Musk is now the richest man on the planet, a position Gates held for many years.)
The co-founder of Microsoft and his fellow philanthropist Warren Buffett are combining their billions through the Gates Foundation he originally set up with his now ex-wife Melinda.
Gates says philanthropy was instilled in him early on. His mother regularly told him “with wealth came the responsibility to give it away”.
The plan had been to unveil the $100bn figure in May, for the Foundation’s 25th anniversary. But Gates revealed it exclusively to the BBC.
He tells me, for his part, he enjoys giving his money away (and around $60 billion of his fortune has gone into the Foundation so far).
When it comes to his day-to-day lifestyle, he doesn’t actually notice the difference: “I made no personal sacrifice. I didn’t order less hamburgers or less movies.” He can also, of course, still afford his private jet and his various huge houses.
He plans to give away “the vast majority” of his fortune, but tells me he has talked “a lot” with his three children about what might be the right amount to leave them.
Will they be poor after he’s gone? I ask him. “They will not,” he replies with a quick smile, adding “in absolute, they’ll do well, in percentage terms it’s not a gigantic number”.
Gates is a maths guy and it shows. At Lakeside School in Seattle, in eighth grade, he competed in a four-state regional maths exam and did so well that, at 13, he was one of the best high school maths students of any age in the region.
Maths terminology comes second nature to him. But to translate, if you’re worth $160bn, which Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index claims he is, even leaving your children a tiny percentage of your fortune still makes them very rich.
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Bill Gates (pictured with Katie Razzall) walks around his former school in Seattle, which he remembers as “wonderful”
I’m with one of only 15 people on the planet who are centibillionaires (worth more than $100bn), according to Bloomberg. We’re in his childhood home in Seattle, a mid-century modern four-bedroom house set into a hill, and we’re meeting because he’s written a memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings, focusing on his early life.
I want to find out what shaped a challenging, obsessive child who didn’t fit the norm into one of the tech pioneers of our age.
He’s brought along his sisters, Kristi and Libby, and all three excitedly tour the home where they grew up. They haven’t been back in some years and the current owners have refurbished (fortunately, the Gates siblings seem to approve of the changes).
But it’s bringing back memories including, as they walk into the kitchen, of the now-long-gone intercom system between rooms beloved by their mother. She used it to “sing to us in the morning”, Gates tells me, to get them out of their bedrooms for breakfast.
Mary Gates also set their watches and clocks eight minutes fast so the family would work to her time. Her son often rebelled at her efforts to improve him, but now tells me “the crucible of my ambition was warmed through that relationship”.
He puts his competitive spirit down to his grandmother “Gami”, who was often with the family in this house and who taught him to outsmart the competition early on with games of cards.
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(L-R) Bill Gates, Katie Razzall, with Bill’s sisters Libby and Kristi, who along with their brother saw playing cards as a “competitive sport” thanks to their grandmother
I follow him down the wooden stairs as he heads off to find his old childhood bedroom in the basement. It’s a neat guest room now, but young Bill spent hours, even days, in here “thinking”, as his sisters put it.
At one point, his mum was so fed up with the mess that she confiscated any item of clothing she found on the floor and charged her stubborn son 25 cents to buy it back. “I started wearing fewer clothes,” he says.
By this time, he was hooked on coding and, with some tech-savvy school friends, had been given access to a local firm’s one computer in return for reporting any problems. Obsessed with learning to program in those nascent days of the tech revolution, he would sneak out at night through his bedroom window without his parents knowing to get more computer time.
“Do you think you could do it now?” I ask.
He starts unwinding the catch and opens the window. “It’s not that hard,” he says with a smile as he climbs up and out. “It’s not hard at all.”
There is a famous early clip of Gates in which a TV presenter asks him if it’s true he can jump over a chair from a standing position. He does it right there in the studio. I’m in the Gates childhood bedroom for something that feels like “a moment”. The guy’s nearly 70. But he’s still game.
Bill Gates, 69, happily recreates the time when he climbed out of his bedroom window at night to access a computer – without getting caught by his parents
He seems at ease – and it isn’t just because we’re in a familiar environment. In the memoir, he’s revealed publicly for the first time that he thinks if he were growing up today, he’d probably be diagnosed on the autism spectrum.
The only time I met him before was in 2012. He barely looked me in the eye as we did a quick interview about his goal to protect children from life-threatening diseases. There was certainly no pre-interview small talk. I wondered after our interaction whether he was on the spectrum.
The book lays it out: his ability to hyperfocus on subjects he was interested in; his obsessive nature; his lack of social awareness.
He says at elementary school he turned in a 177-page report on Delaware, having written off for brochures about the state, even sending stamped addressed envelopes to local companies asking for their annual reports. He was 11.
His sisters tell me they knew he was different. Kristi, who’s older, says she felt protective of him. “He was not a normal kid… he would sit in his room and chew pencils down to the lead,” she said.
They’re obviously close. Libby, a therapist, tells me she wasn’t surprised to hear he believes he is on the spectrum. “The surprise was more his willingness to say ‘this might be the case’,” she says.
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L-R: Kristi, who said her brother would “sit in his room and chew pencils down to the lead”, Bill and Libby in 1971
Gates says he hasn’t had a formal diagnosis and doesn’t plan to. “The positive characteristics for my career have been more beneficial than the deficits have been a problem for me,” he says.
He thinks neurodiversity is “certainly” over-represented in Silicon Valley because “learning something in great depth at a young age – that helps you in certain complex subjects”.
Elon Musk has also said he is on the spectrum, referencing Asperger’s syndrome. The Tesla, X and SpaceX billionaire is famously courting Donald Trump, as are the other modern-day tech bros, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos among other Silicon Valley attendees at Trump’s inauguration.
Gates tells me although “you can be cynical” about their motives, he too reached out to the president. They had a three-hour dinner on 27 December “because he’s making decisions about global health and how we help poor countries, which is a big focus of mine now”.
I ask Gates, himself a target of some pretty wild conspiracy theories, what he thinks of the decision taken by Zuckerberg after Trump’s election to dump fact-checking in the US on his sites. Gates tells me he’s not “that impressed” by how governments or private companies are navigating the boundaries between free speech and truth.
“I don’t personally know how you draw that line, but I’m worried that we’re not handling that as well as we should,” he says.
He also thinks children should be protected from social media, telling me there’s a “good chance” that banning under-16s, as Australia is doing, is “a smart thing”.
Gates tells me “social networking, even more than video gaming, can absorb your time and make you worry about other people approving you” so we have to be “very careful how it gets used”.
The Bill Gates origin story isn’t rags to riches. His dad was a lawyer, money wasn’t tight, although the decision to send their son to private school to try to motivate him was “a stretch, even on my father’s salary”.
If they hadn’t, we might never have heard of Bill Gates.
He first got access to an early mainframe computer via a teletype machine at the school, after the mothers held a jumble ***** to raise the money. The teachers couldn’t figure it out, but four students were on it day and night. “We got to use computers when almost nobody else did,” he says.
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Bill, seen in 1973, says he was “trying to look cool” in Lakeside School’s “Teletype Room”, where he would spend “extreme amount of time”
Much later, he would set up Microsoft with one of those school friends, Paul Allen. Another, Kent Evans, Gates’ best friend, would die tragically age 17 in a climbing accident. As we walk around Lakeside School, we pass the chapel where they held his ******** and where Gates remembers crying on the steps.
Together, they’d had big plans. When they weren’t on computers, they were reading biographies to work out what factors made people successful.
Now Gates has written his own. His philosophy? “Much of who you are was there from the start.”
The Making of Bill Gates is on BBC Two at 19:00 on Monday 3 February and on iPlayer
Source Code: My Beginnings is published on Tuesday 4 February
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France readies itself for child abuse trial of former surgeon
France readies itself for child abuse trial of former surgeon
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Court sketch of Joel Le Scouarnec at his first trial in 2020
A former surgeon who is accused of abusing hundreds of young patients, often while they were under anaesthetic, is set to go on trial this month in the largest child abuse trial in French history.
Joel Le Scouarnec, 73, is accused of assaulting or raping 299 children – the majority former patients of his – between 1989 and 2014, mostly in Brittany.
He has admitted to some charges, but not all.
The trial in Vannes, north- west France, follows a painstaking police investigation lasting several years.
It is likely to raise uncomfortable questions over whether Le Scouarnec was protected by his colleagues and the management of the hospitals that employed him, despite an FBI warning to the French authorities that he had been consulting child abuse websites, after which he was given only a suspended sentence.
A staggering number of opportunities to stop the former surgeon from having contact with children appear to have been missed or rejected.
Members of his own family also knew of Le Scouarnec’s paedophilia but failed to stop him, it is claimed.
“It was the family’s omertà which meant his abuse was allowed to continue for decades,” one lawyer involved in the case told the BBC.
Le Scouarnec, once a respected small-town surgeon, has been in jail since 2017, when he was arrested on suspicion of raping his nieces, now in their 30s, as well as a six-year-old girl and a young patient. In 2020 he was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment.
After his arrest, police searched his home and found child-sized sex dolls, more than 300,000 child abuse images, and thousands of pages of meticulously compiled diaries in which Le Scouarnec is alleged to have logged assaults he carried out on his young patients over 25 years.
He has denied assaulting or raping children, arguing that his diaries merely detailed his “fantasies”.
In several instances, however, he had also written: “I am a paedophile”.
Le Scouarnec is facing more than 100 ***** charges and more than 150 charges of ******* assault.
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Le Scouarnec’s first trial in 2020 took place the Covid-19 pandemic
Some of his former patients, who are all now adults, have said they remember the surgeon touching them under the guise of medical examinations, sometimes even when their parents or other doctors were in the room.
But because a huge number of his alleged victims were under the effect of anaesthetics when it is claimed the assaults took place, they had no recollection of the events and were shocked to be contacted by police and told their names – alongside graphic descriptions of abuse – allegedly appeared in Le Scouarnec’s diaries.
Le Scouarnec felt “all-powerful” and liked the feeling of “flirting with danger” through “calculated transgressions,” French daily Le Monde quoted the court order against the former surgeon as saying.
Some of the alleged victims have said the unsettling revelations helped them make sense of unexplained symptoms of trauma that had burdened them their whole lives.
Lawyer Francesca Satta, who represents several alleged victims, told the BBC that among her clients are “the families of two men who did remember, and who ended up taking their own lives.”
Olivia Mons of the France Victimes association spoke to many of the alleged victims and said several only had blurry recollections of events which they were never able to “find the words to explain”.
When the surgeon’s case came to light, “it provided them with the beginning of an explanation,” Ms Mons said.
But she added that most of the alleged victims were people who had no memories of being ****** or assaulted, and who were living ordinary lives before police contacted them. “Today, many of these people are understandably very shaken,” Ms Mons said.
One woman told French media that when police showed her an entry under her name in Le Scouarnec’s diary, memories instantly flooded in. “I had flashbacks of someone coming into my hospital room, lifting the bedsheets, saying he would check if everything had gone well,” she said. “He ****** me.”
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Francesca Satta, lawyer for some of Le Scouarnec’s alleged victims, said he had enjoyed the “impunity of silence” for too long
Margaux Castex, a lawyer for one of the alleged victims, told the BBC her client is “traumatised that he ever gave his trust to a medical professional, and that’s been hard to shake”.
“He wishes he had never been told what happened,” Ms Castex said.
Another woman called Marie, now a married mother in her mid-thirties, said that police came to her house and revealed that her name appeared in the diaries of a surgeon who was accused of child abuse.
“They read out what he had written about me and I wanted to read it back myself but it was impossible,” she told outlet France Bleu. “Can you imagine reading hardcore ************ and knowing that it is about you, as a child?”
Marie said she had seen mental health specialists for years because of “issues” she had with regards to men, and that doctors had wondered whether she had experienced childhood trauma.
“I have to believe that my memory protected me from that. But the [police] examination brought it all back to the surface – images, sensations, memories came back to me day by day,” she said. “Today, I feel this as if it had just happened.”
Marie added that when she was shown a photo of Le Scouarnec, “everything came back to me… I remembered his icy gaze.”
She wondered how the surgeon had been able to commit his alleged crimes unnoticed for so long.
It is a haunting question that is bound to be explored at length during the trial.
‘Institutional and judicial missteps’
The first court proceedings heard claims that several members of Le Scouarnec’s family had been aware since the mid-1980s of his disturbing behaviour towards children, but did not intervene.
His ex-wife has denied knowing what her husband – and father of their three children – allegedly did until he was arrested.
Le Scouarnec – a medical professional and a lover of opera and literature – had long been the pride of his middle-class family. He was a respected small town medical practitioner for many years, which may have afforded him a significant degree of protection in the workplace.
“A huge degree of dysfunction allowed Le Scouarnec to commit his deeds,” lawyer Frederic Benoist told the BBC.
Mr Benoist represents child protection advocacy group La Voix de L’Enfant (The Child’s Voice), which is pressing to highlight what it calls the “crucial institutional and judicial missteps” which allowed Le Scouarnec to allegedly continue abusing children for decades.
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Case files from Le Scouarnec’s first trial in 2020
In the early 2000s, an FBI alert to the French authorities that Le Scouarnec had been accessing child abuse websites only resulted in a four-month suspended sentence with no obligation to follow medical or psychological treatment.
Mr Benoist said prosecutors never shared this information with the medical authorities and there were no consequences for Le Scouarnec, who continued in his role as a surgeon, often operating on children and managing their aftercare.
When a colleague – who already harboured suspicions against Le Scouarnec – read about the charges against him in the local press in 2006, he urged the regional medical association to take action.
All but one doctor – who abstained – voted that Le Scouarnec had not violated the medical code of ethics, which states that doctors “must in all circumstances be trustworthy and act with integrity and devotion to duty”. No sanctions were imposed.
“We therefore have proof that all these colleagues knew, and none of them did anything,” Mr Benoist said. “There were many circumstances which meant he could have been stopped; he wasn’t, and the consequences are tragic.”
The BBC has approached both the regional medical association and prosecutors for comment.
Le Scouarnec was eventually arrested when the six-year-old victim told her parents that he had assaulted her. By then, he was living like a recluse in a large derelict home, surrounded by child-sized dolls.
Moment of reckoning
Ms Driguez, the nieces’ lawyer, sat opposite Le Scouarnec during the 2020 trial in the south-western town of Saintes. “His answers were cold and calculated,” she said. “He is extremely clever, but showed no empathy whatsoever.”
The trial uncovered more allegations of child abuse within Le Scouarnec’s family, Ms Driguez said, but the former surgeon never had any particular reaction and mostly looked at the floor.
At one point, the court was shown lurid videos of Le Scouarnec and his dolls. “Everyone was watching the screen but I was watching him,” Ms Driguez said. “Up to that point he had always kept his gaze down. But at that moment, he looked up, staring intently at the video. His eyes were twinkling.”
As the city of Vannes prepares to host the trial, three lecture halls in a former university building nearby have been made available to accommodate the hundreds of alleged victims, their legal representatives and families. The trial starts on 24 February and is due to last until June.
Whether the press and the public are allowed in will depend on all of the alleged victims giving up their right to a closed trial.
Many lawyers believe the trial could be a moment of reckoning for the authorities that failed to take provisions against Le Scouarnec, as well as an important moment for the victims to voice their trauma.
Ms Satta said that although many people involved in this case have no memory of what happened to them, they were still victims, adding that the former surgeon had enjoyed the “impunity of silence” for too long.
“The trial will be a moment for the victims to speak out,” Mr Benoist agreed. “It would be terrible, in my eyes, if it was held behind closed doors.”
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Ofsted offers first look at new report cards for schools
Ofsted offers first look at new report cards for schools
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Ofsted has provided a first look at its new report cards for school inspections.
The schools inspectorate for England is consulting on the new system after it scrapped single-word judgements last year.
Ofsted boss Sir Martyn Oliver said the new system – to be introduced in the autumn – would help parents to better distinguish between schools across areas like attendance, inclusion, behaviour and leadership.
But the plans have drawn strong criticism from several teaching unions, who said the proposals risked “replicating the worst aspects of the current system”.
The changes follow a major public debate around Ofsted after a coroner ruled that an inspection contributed to the death of primary school head teacher Ruth Perry in 2023.
Mrs Perry’s sister, Prof Julia Waters, said she was concerned the new system would be “a rehash of the discredited and dangerous system it is meant to replace”.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is expected to set out her plans for struggling and failing schools in a speech on Monday.
Under Ofsted’s proposals, the old one or two-word judgements, ranging across four grades from “Outstanding” to “Inadequate”, will be replaced from the 2025 autumn term by a report card describing what inspectors have found on key aspects of each school, including:
Quality of educationBehaviour and attendancePersonal developmentLeadership and management
There will be five possible grades for each area, which are also one or two words in length: “causing concern”, “attention needed”, “secure”, “strong” and “exemplary”.
The grading scales will focus on how schools support disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils, and there will be more emphasis on the local circumstances which schools operate in.
A separate part of the report card will say whether the school’s duties around safeguarding have been met.
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Using the new report cards, like this one, parents will be able to click the drop-down arrows and read more about the school’s performance in each area
The new format will be used for inspections across all settings, from early years to further education colleges, but will be tailored to the type of provider, Ofsted said.
Sir Martyn said the proposals were designed to “raise standards and improve the lives of children, particularly the most disadvantaged”.
He said the “suite of grades” would give parents “much more detail” and help identify a school’s strengths and areas for improvement.
But school leaders’ unions said the new system would add “enormous pressure” to schools, and could “worsen an already severe recruitment and retention crisis” in teaching.
Pepe Di’Iasio, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the plans would generate a “new league table based on the sum of Ofsted judgements across at least 40 points of comparison”.
It would be “bewildering for teachers and leaders, never mind the parents whose choices these reports are supposedly intended to guide”, he added.
Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the plans would “do little to reduce the enormous pressure school leaders are under”.
Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said the five-point grading scale “maintains the current blunt, reductive approach that cannot capture the complexity of school life nor provide more meaningful information to parents”.
As well as criticism over its single-word judgements, Sir Martyn has also previously said Ofsted’s inspection process should be “far more empathetic”.
Those comments came in the wake of the inquest into Ruth Perry’s death, in which the coroner said the inspection at her school had “lacked fairness, respect and sensitivity” and was at times “rude and intimidating”.
Ofsted removed its practice of issuing overall grades for a school at the start of the current academic year, bringing in a temporary system of grading individual aspects of a school’s performance, ahead of the introduction of report cards in September.
Wirral head teacher Stuart Mycroft had his school, Castleway Primary, inspected under the current system in the autumn term.
Head teacher Stuart Mycroft said his school’s recent inspection was an ’emotional rollercoaster’
He told the BBC he was not convinced that Ofsted had truly changed.
He said the inspection had left him crying in his office, despite it ultimately resulting in a “Good” judgement.
He said the inspection process had been confrontational and unpleasant.
“The impact emotionally was huge,” he said. “I was absolutely exhausted.”
Ofsted’s consultation on its new report cards will run until 22 April. It said it would be trialling the new system over the coming months.
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Lewandowski scores winner as Barcelona close on leaders
Lewandowski scores winner as Barcelona close on leaders
Robert Lewandowski has scored a second-half winner as Barcelona beat Alaves 1-0 to cut its gap to Spanish league leader Real Madrid
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FBI staff ordered to reveal their role in Jan. 6 probes by Monday
FBI staff ordered to reveal their role in Jan. 6 probes by Monday
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – FBI employees were ordered on Sunday to answer a detailed list of questions about any work they may have done on criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, stoking fear among staff about a fresh round of firings at the law enforcement agency.
“I know myself and others receiving this questionnaire have a lot of questions and concerns, which I am working hard to get answers to,” Chad Yarbrough, the assistant director of the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI headquarters, wrote in a weekend email seen by Reuters.
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The list of questions in the memo, seen by Reuters, direct employees to give their job title, any role they played in the Jan. 6 investigations and whether they helped supervise such investigations. Yarbrough told employees the answers are due by 3 p.m. ET (2000 GMT) on Monday
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove on Friday fired eight senior FBI officials from agency headquarters as well as the heads of the Miami and Washington, D.C., field offices.
Another memo written by Bove on Friday also demanded that the FBI by Tuesday at noon ET (1700 GMT) turn over to him a list of every employee who worked on Jan. 6 cases, as well as a list of those who worked on a criminal case filed last year against leaders of the militant ****** group in connection with the Gaza war.
Bove last week fired more than a dozen career Justice Department prosecutors who worked on the two now-dismissed criminal cases brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith against Trump, one involving actions taken to try to overturn the 2020 election results and the other involving classified government documents.
A FBI spokesperson declined to comment on the questionnaire.
Democrats and other critics have said Trump’s team is carrying out a purge of FBI and Justice Department officials who played roles in the criminal cases against Trump and the Jan. 6 rioters.
On Trump’s first day back in office on Jan. 20, he commuted the sentences of 14 people in connection with the Capitol attack, and pardoned the rest – including those who violently attacked law enforcement officers.
Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll, in an email to staff on Friday announcing details about the order from the Bove, said the request “encompasses thousands of employees across the country who have supported these investigative efforts.”
“I am one of those employees, as is acting Deputy Director (Robert) Kissane,” Driscoll noted.
Despite reports about other firings throughout the bureau, emails seen by Reuters from both the FBI Agents Association and from James Dennehy, the assistant FBI director in charge of the New York office, made it clear that no one else had been asked to resign.
Nevertheless, some employees on Friday started to clear out their desks amid concerns they might be next, according to the FBI Agents Association email seen by Reuters.
“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy,” Dennehy wrote on Friday, saying he gave credit to Driscoll and Kissane for “fighting for this organization.”
Dennehy added that other than the select group of people named in Bove’s memo, “NO ONE has been told they are being removed at this time.”
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FBI distributing questionnaire probing agents’ work on Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases, sources say
FBI distributing questionnaire probing agents’ work on Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases, sources say
FBI supervisors across the country have received questionnaires to distribute to certain agents in their field offices containing questions about the agents’ possible work on Jan 6. Capitol riot cases, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
A source familiar with the matter told CBS News the questionnaires are being sent to more than 1,000 FBI agents and non-agent support personnel in field offices across the country, as well as FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The questions, obtained by CBS News, ask what role the respondent may have played in any cases, such as acting as an agent, providing management support or collecting online data. The survey also asks if the respondent made any arrests, conducted interviews, participated in search warrants, testified in court or appeared before a grand jury.
The questionnaires are to be completed and submitted by supervisors by Tuesday afternoon.
The questionnaire comes days after Washington, D.C.’s top prosecutor, Acting U.S. Attorney Edward Martin, was directed to fire prosecutors who were assigned to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, according to a memo obtained by CBS News. A separate memo from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered that all FBI agents who were assigned to the Jan. 6 insurrection cases undergo review.
Bove on Friday ordered the acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll to compile a list of all current and former FBI employees who were assigned “at any time” to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack investigation for review “to determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary,” according to a memo reviewed by CBS News.
In a note to members regarding the questionnaire, the FBI Agents Association said, “We understand that this feels like agents and employees are being targeted, despite repeated assurances that ‘all FBI employees will be protected against political retribution,'” although it was not immediately clear who had provided such assurances. “Employees carrying out their duties to investigate allegations of criminal activity with integrity and within the rule of law should never be treated as those who have engaged in actual misconduct,” the note added.
James Dennehy, assistant director in charge of the New York FBI office, said in a memo to 1,200 agents and support personnel on Friday, “Today we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy.”
He noted that some may be contemplating resigning as part of the “deferred resignation” offers from the Trump administration.
“As part of what is being offered to you right now, my only ask of you is that you do the homework, gather all the information, and talk it through with your loved ones before you make an informed decision.”
He called Driscoll and acting FBI Deputy Director Robert Kissane “total warriors” and concluded the memo saying, “I mourn the forced retirements of the [executive assistant directors] and fired field office heads, all of whom are extraordinary individuals who have dedicated decades of their lives to this joint just to be robbed of their title and profession but not their dignity.”
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Kanye West and stripped-down Bianca Censori make jaw-dropping red carpet debut at Grammys 2025 – Page Six
Kanye West and stripped-down Bianca Censori make jaw-dropping red carpet debut at Grammys 2025 – Page Six
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Political parties reap thousands from betting companies
Political parties reap thousands from betting companies
Tens of millions of dollars have been funnelled to major political parties as pressure for donation reform hots up ahead of a federal election.
The federal Labor Party’s total receipts eclipsed $15 million, the federal Liberals more than $11 million, the federal Nationals $2.5 million and the federal Greens more than $4.8 million, according to 2023/24 *********** Electoral Commission (AEC) disclosures.
All have associated state branches that received a combined tens of millions of dollars more in donations.
Pratt Holdings, the company of billionaire Anthony Pratt, donated $1 million to federal Labor.
Wagering companies also donated tens of thousands of dollars to Labor as the government mulled reforming sports betting before ultimately shelving any legislation.
Sportsbet donated $88,000, Tabcorp $60,500 and peak body Responsible Wagering Australia $66,000.
Sportbet’s donation to Labor on June 26, 2024 came weeks before news leaked the government had decided to reject a recommended blanket advertising ban in favour of caps.
It also donated $60,000 to the Liberals and $15,000 to the Nationals.
Tabcorp donated tens of thousands of dollars more to Labor’s state divisions on top of more than $90,000 to the Liberals and Nationals and their associated state branches.
Climate200 – which largely finances teal independents – marked $6 million in total receipts for the same financial year, with more than $1 million received from Keldoulis Investments and a further $1 million from Marcus Catsaras.
It donated $145,000 to Zoe Daniel, $132,000 to Monique Ryan, almost $80,000 to Allegra Spender, $40,000 to Kylea Tink and about $30,000 to both Kate Chaney and Zali Steggall.
Mining giant Hancock Prospecting, headed by billionaire Gina Rinehart, donated $325,000 to the Liberal National Party of Queensland, $75,000 to the Country Liberal Party of the Northern Territory and $100,000 to the Liberals South Australia branch.
Electoral donations reform is back on the agenda as parliament resumes for perhaps the last sitting fortnight before a federal election is called.
The government and opposition haven’t yet reached a deal about appropriate donations and expenditure caps.
Under the proposed changes, the donation disclosure threshold will be reduced to $1000, from the current $16,900.
Candidates will be limited to spending $800,000 per election campaign and can only receive donations of up to $20,000 from an individual.
There will also be a cap on federal spending for non-political parties of $11 million, which covers unions and special interest groups like Climate 200, while registered political parties will have a ceiling of $90 million.
Political parties will also get more cash per vote from the AEC.
But independents have branded the proposal a major party stitch-up that props up Labor and Liberal coffers with public money by increasing the amount they receive back from the electoral commission.
The caps also make it harder for independents only running in a single seat to compete with major parties who also have access to tens of millions of dollars to spend on advertising.
The legislation is due to come back before the Senate in the coming days.
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Delaware governor tells *** things may ‘need to change’ as companies threaten to leave the state
Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer was sworn in last month.Kyle Grantham via Delaware’s Office of the Governor.
Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer says things may ‘need to change’ as companies threaten to incorporate elsewhere.
Elon Musk has led the charge to leave Delaware after a court rejected his Tesla pay package.
Delaware remains a top destination to incorporate, especially among Fortune 500 companies.
Some corporations — led in part by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk — are threatening to abandon Delaware and incorporate elsewhere.
Delaware’s newly-inaugurated Gov. Matt Meyer, however, says he intends to lure them back.
“The fact is Delaware is the best location in the world for a company to incorporate, and that’s thanks to our legal expertise dating back to 1792. But let’s be clear: If any entity leaves Delaware, we’re going to work to win them back,” Meyer told Business Insider.
Nearly 2.2 million entities — “more than ever,” Meyer said — are registered in Delaware, including two-thirds of all Fortune 500 companies, according to the state’s Division of Corporations.
Meyer said it remains a “competitive environment,” though, and that his state needed to take challenges to its corporate laws seriously.
“Any company thinking about leaving, we’re actively reaching out, we’re talking to them, we’re understanding what the issues are and understanding what ways we can do better,” he said. “And for those entities that have already made the decision to leave, we’re going to continue to work hard to earn their trust and hopefully to have them come back.”
Musk called on corporations to re-incorporate elsewhere after a Delaware court rejected his $55 billion Tesla pay package. Both Tesla and SpaceX left Delaware last year, reincorporating in Texas.
Bill Ackman, the billionaire CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, said in an X post on Saturday that he planned to move his management company out of Delaware to reincorporate in Nevada or Texas.
“Any lawyer still recommending incorporation in Delaware at this point should be sued for malpractice,” Musk posted on X in reference to Ackman’s statement. “Texas or Nevada actually respect shareholder rights.”
Meyer said that issues like the balance of shareholder and management rights need to be addressed.
“It’s really important we get it right for Elon Musk or whoever the litigants are in Delaware courts,” he said. “We’re cognizant that there may be some things that need to change. We’re going to work on them.”
Though he’s been in office for less than two weeks, Meyer said he has already met with “leading corporate legal brass” and state government leaders to chart a path forward.
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“I think within the coming weeks you’re going to see some things rolled out that will help move our state forward and bring us into 2025 and beyond to make sure we’re protecting and growing the corporate franchise,” he said.
“It certainly beats going to Vegas and rolling the dice,” he added.
A spokesperson for Delaware Courts declined to comment.
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2025 Chery Tiggo 7 Pro price and specs: SUV slides under $30,000
2025 Chery Tiggo 7 Pro price and specs: SUV slides under $30,000
Chery has slashed the cost of entry to its Tiggo 7 Pro crossover range with a new SE (Special Edition) base model.
The Tiggo 7 Pro range now opens at $29,990 drive-away for the new SE, a price that Chery says on its website is available until March 31, 2025.
The range previously opened at $36,990 drive-away, though runout pricing late in 2024 saw this reduced to $31,990 drive-away.
The Tiggo 7 Pro SE and SE+ go on ***** February 1, with vehicles arriving at dealerships on that date.
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Compared to the previous entry-level Urban, the base SE loses heated front seats, a four-way power passenger seat, a panoramic sunroof, and ambient lighting.
All these bar a power passenger seat come standard on the SE+, which at $33,990 drive-away is a whopping $8000 less than what the previous mid-range Elite was originally priced at.
Chery notes on its website this pricing is available while stocks last, and isn’t available for fleet, government or rental buyers.
Within the special edition lineup, there’s no replacement for the Ultimate which was the only Tiggo 7 Pro with all-wheel drive, 19-inch alloy wheels and ventilated front seats, among other features.
The launch of the SE and SE+ corresponds with what Chery is calling a mid-life refresh, though cosmetic changes are minimal.
The SE+ gets a new wheel design, while the blue strakes of the Tiggo 7 Pro’s front bumper now appear to be silver.
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The Chery Tiggo 7 Pro is backed by a seven-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty, with up to seven years of roadside assistance if you service within the Chery network.
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SE and SE+ service pricing isn’t available, however the model year 2024 (MY24) Urban and Elite have seven years of capped-price servicing. The first five services are capped at $280 each, with the sixth and seventh priced at $367.94 and $287.84, respectively.
Servicing is required every 12 months or 15,000km, whichever comes first.
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The Chery Tiggo 7 Pro has a five-star safety rating from ANCAP, based on testing conducted in 2023.
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Standard safety equipment includes:
Autonomous emergency brakingBlind-spot monitoringDriver attention monitoringLane-keep assistEmergency lane-keep assistAdaptive cruise controlTraffic Jam AssistIntegrated Cruise AssistRear cross-traffic assistSafe exit warningSpeed limit assistFront, front-side, curtain, front-centre and driver’s knee airbagsReversing cameraFront and rear parking sensors
The SE+ adds:
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There are just two variants within the refreshed Tiggo 7 Pro lineup.
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The Tiggo 7 Pro SE comes standard with the following equipment:
18-inch alloy wheels (machine finish)225/55 R18 tyresFull-size spareTyre pressure monitoringReflector LED headlightsAutomatic headlightsAutomatic high-beamLED tail lightsRain-sensing wipersHeated, power-adjustable exterior mirrorsProximity entry with push-button start, walk-away auto locking12.3-inch digital instrument cluster12.3-inch touchscreen infotainment systemWired and wireless Apple CarPlay, ANdroid AutoSatellite navigation8-speaker Sony sound systemLeatherette upholstery6-way power driver’s seat60:40 split/fold rear seats‘Premium’ steering wheelTilt and telescopic steering wheel adjustmentDual-zone climate controlRear air ventsFront, cargo bay LED interior lights
The Tiggo 7 Pro SE+ adds:
18-inch alloy wheels (******)Power-folding exterior mirrorsPanoramic sunroof with powered sunshadePower tailgateHeated front seats50W wireless phone chargerFrameless rear-view mirrorMulti-colour ambient lightingCargo blindRear LED interior lightColours
Lunar White is the standard paint finish, and is available with an optional ****** roof only on the SE+.
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Parent at a Texas school band competition tackles a gunman who injured 1, officials say
Parent at a Texas school band competition tackles a gunman who injured 1, officials say
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PASADENA, Texas (AP) — A parent tackled a man who opened fire during a band competition at a Houston-area high school as several others then helped disarm and detain him in a shooting that injured one person, officials said.
The man in his 80s entered Pasadena Memorial High School on Saturday evening during the competition that involved students from numerous school districts and discharged a small-caliber weapon, police said. Police said in a statement they did not yet know a motive in the shooting.
The Angleton Independent School District said the person who was injured was a percussion technical consultant for their band. Police said the man, who the district said was struck in the shoulder, was taken to a hospital and was in stable condition.
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The man who opened fire wasn’t affiliated with the competition, according to the Pasadena Independent School District. He was tackled by a parent after discharging the weapon and then school district police and “several good Samaritans” helped apprehend him, the district said.
“Within 60 seconds a suspect was disarmed and they prevented further shooting by this suspect,” Pasadena police Chief Jerry Wright said at a news conference.
The Pearland Independent School District said in a statement that some parents of the students in their district “bravely intervened, successfully subduing the individual and detaining them until law enforcement arrived.”
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Major brands Nestle, Tyson, Shell, and Colgate added to X lawsuit alleging multi-billion-dollar plot to withhold ad revenue – New York Post
Major brands Nestle, Tyson, Shell, and Colgate added to X lawsuit alleging multi-billion-dollar plot to withhold ad revenue – New York Post
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Aussie share market tanks as investors show nerves over Donald Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, China and Canada
Aussie share market tanks as investors show nerves over Donald Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, China and Canada
The Aussie share market has started the week deep in the red, plunging almost 2 per cent as investors weigh the impact of US President Donald Trump’s savage wave of tariffs imposed on Mexico, Canada and China.
The ASX200 dived 1.8 per cent in the first 30 minutes of trade, coming off last week’s record highs, to sit at 8378.10 points at 7.30am.
Not one sector was spared in the sell-off, with real estate, banking, health care, consumer and discretionary and miners taking the full brunt of Investor jitters.
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More than 23 pounds of drugs and guns seized during busts, South Carolina sheriff says
More than 23 pounds of drugs and guns seized during busts, South Carolina sheriff says
More than 23 pounds of ********** along with guns were recently seized during separate drug busts in South Carolina, according to the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office.
More than 13 pounds of ********** as well as a shotgun and a rifle were seized during a Jan. 24 search at a Millwood Farm Road home, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
“This operation took a lot of junk off the streets,” Sheriff Leroy Ravenell said in the release. “It may seem like a lot, but we’re not finished yet.”
Orangeburg residents Tyrek Hanton, 32, and Laquinton Williams, 33, were arrested and charged with trafficking ********** (more than 10 pounds), the sheriff’s office said.
Drugs and a gun were seized by the sheriff’s office.
In addition to the **********, deputies also seized a quantity of concentrated THC in small jars and THC gummies, according to the release.
The ********** was vacuum-sealed in plastic bags and discovered in a large, bright pink suitcase, the sheriff’s office said.
“I’m still trying to find a charge for that ugly thing,” Ravenell said.
Drugs and guns were seized by the sheriff’s office.
The sheriff’s office said it conducted another drug sting on Jan. 29. This raid was at a Kips Lane home, according to the release.
During that search, narcotics officers found 10 pounds of **********, a concentrated form of THC called “DAB” in glass jars, and a box of THC vape pens, the sheriff’s office said.
******* Boneparte Jr., a 38-year-old Orangeburg resident, was charged with trafficking ********** (more than 10 pounds) as well as attempt and conspiracy, arrest warrants show.
Despite Boneparte’s arrest, the sheriff said an investigation is ongoing.
If convicted on the felony trafficking charges, Boneparte, Hanton and Williams each face a maximum punishment of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, according to South Carolina law.
Ten pounds of ********** was seized by the sheriff’s office.
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Dow futures drop 500 points after Trump hits Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs: Live updates – CNBC
Dow futures drop 500 points after Trump hits Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs: Live updates – CNBC
Dow futures drop 500 points after Trump hits Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs: Live updates CNBCTrump signs tariffs on top trade partners as he enacts ‘America First’ agenda CNNFact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Imposes Tariffs on Imports from Canada, Mexico and China The White HouseTrump’s trade war among allies triggers retaliation from Canada and Mexico The Associated Press
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Georgian police arrest opposition leaders at protest
Georgian police arrest opposition leaders at protest
Georgian police have arrested opposition leader Nika Melia as anti-government demonstrators attempted to block a highway entrance to the capital Tbilisi.
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Nvidia’s Stock Just Did Something It Hasn’t Done in a Year. Here’s What History Says Happens Next.
Nvidia’s Stock Just Did Something It Hasn’t Done in a Year. Here’s What History Says Happens Next.
Over the last few days, the financial world has gone into a tizzy over a new start-up in the artificial intelligence (AI) realm. ******** company DeepSeek sent shockwaves around the world after releasing a model akin to ChatGPT.
The primary reason investors are panicking is because DeepSeek claims to have trained its model on older, less sophisticated chipware from Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). These claims have left investors scratching their heads, questioning if Nvidia’s newer architecture is worth the hefty price tag.
As a result, shares of Nvidia have gone into a days-long downward spiral. Is this a buying opportunity, or could Nvidia stock be headed much lower?
Below, I’m going to analyze some interesting trends in Nvidia’s stock and make the case for what direction I think shares could be headed.
The graph below illustrates multiple sell-offs seen in Nvidia stock in the days following DeepSeek’s arrival. Though you’d think declines of this magnitude say it all, there’s actually something pretty interesting going on in the background.
NVDA data by YCharts.
When a stock price moves, so does the value of the company. In the case of Nvidia, the company’s cratering share price has resulted in as much as $600 billion of lost market capitalization.
On the surface, this looks horrific. However, as it often is the case with investments driven by overwhelming emotions, there’s more than meets the eye.
Since Nvidia’s market cap has dropped, so, too, have its valuation multiples. As of this writing (Jan. 29), Nvidia’s forward price to earnings (P/E) multiple is 30.1.
Below, I’m going to dive into why this contraction in valuation multiples is important and what history suggests could happen next.
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In the table below, I’ve summarized Nvidia’s forward P/E as of quarter end for the last year.
Category
10/31/2023
1/31/2024
4/30/2024
7/31/2024
10/31/2024
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Forward Price to Earnings (P/E)
24.5
30.4
35.7
44.6
33.9
30.1
Data source: Yahoo! Finance.
The last time Nvidia’s forward P/E hovered around 30 was last January. This is important to note because back in January 2024, Nvidia’s market cap was $1.5 trillion — approximately half of what it is today.
Given the parity between the company’s forward P/E between now and a year ago, you might be inclined to think Nvidia stock will soar higher — as was the case throughout 2024. While such dynamics are what history suggests could happen, there is some important nuance to consider this time around.
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Since Nvidia’s current forward P/E multiple is in line with where it was a year ago despite the company’s market value doubling, this implies that Wall Street analysts are also expecting Nvidia’s earnings to double.
Looked at a different way, if Nvidia’s market cap had doubled, but the company’s earnings didn’t accelerate at a commensurate pace, then Nvidia’s forward P/E would have widened. This is a concept known as valuation expansion.
But as I pointed out in the intro, the DeepSeek storyline is calling into question what demand trends are going to look like for AI infrastructure — especially graphics processing units (GPU), which are Nvidia’s bread and butter.
Candidly, I would not be surprised to see some analysts begin haircutting their revenue and earnings projections for Nvidia. While this does not mean Nvidia should be seen as overvalued, I think investors need to let industry experts digest the DeepSeek news and refine their models accordingly.
In other words, Nvidia’s current forward P/E being nearly identical to where it was ago could be seen as a bit of coincidence, as earnings estimates are almost certainly going to change — thereby calling into question how relevant the forward P/E ratio is right now.
At a broader level, though, I’m confident Nvidia will remain a leader in the AI race as its GPUs should continue playing an important role in the technology’s development going forward. Just how much? That’s the billion-dollar question.
So while history may suggest Nvidia’s value could double this year, I’d think twice about that. In the long-run, I do think there’s still a lot of value to be recognized investing in Nvidia stock. I just don’t think shares are going to double again in 2025.
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Grammys 2025: See what Chappell Roan, Kelsea Ballerini and more stars are wearing on the red carpet – Yahoo Entertainment
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Political donations: Labor outstrips Libs as biggest political donors revealed in AEC data
Political donations: Labor outstrips Libs as biggest political donors revealed in AEC data
Political parties and candidates received a share of hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations in the last financial year, new disclosures reveal.
The figures, released by the *********** Electoral Commission, show teal backer Robert Keldoulis and his investment firm Keldoulis Investments Pty Limited were among the biggest donors of 2023-24 — giving Climate 200 a combined $1.1 million of its total $5.99 million in 2023-24.
Visy chairman Anthony Pratt was also a prolific donor, handing Labor $1 million through Pratt Holdings Pty Ltd.
Clive Palmer, a notable presence on the last few annual returns, was absent on this year’s list after his political party was de-registered.
The two major parties, meanwhile, received a share of at least $130 million in donations.
The *********** Labor Party national branch recorded more than $15m in receipts and spent more than $16m, with an additional $1.214m in discretionary benefits. The party’s state and territory branches received a combined $52.5m in receipts.
The Liberal Party of Australia received just over $11m, spent just over $10m, and received $1.183m in discretionary benefits. The party’s state and territory branches received a combined $52.4 million.
Meanwhile, the Greens recorded $4.85m in receipts, plus an extra $4.24m to the states and territories; while the National Party received $2.48m and an extra $6 million to state branches.
The release of last year’s returns comes the day before Parliament resumes, for what could be the last sitting fortnight before the election, and as Labor tries again to pass sweeping electoral reforms that would crack down on donation limits.
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'That's what a banana republic does': Trump's 'dangerous' purge of FBI & DOJ begins
'That's what a banana republic does': Trump's 'dangerous' purge of FBI & DOJ begins
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Sources: Kelly leaving Ohio St. to be Raiders' OC – ESPN
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McIlroy triumphs at Pebble Beach as Aussies fall short
McIlroy triumphs at Pebble Beach as Aussies fall short
Rory McIlroy has produced a final-round flourish to win the PGA Tour’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, holding off a batch of challengers including Australia’s Cam Davis.
McIlroy triumphed by two shots, finishing at 21 under after carding a six-under 66 in Sunday’s final round at the iconic course in California.
Davis finished tied for fifth at 17 under after shooting 69.
Fellow Australians Jason Day (12 under) tied for 13th, Min Woo Lee (11 under) tied for 17th and Adam Scott fired a stellar last round of 64 to finish tied for 22nd at 10 under.
The Australians were among a field unable to catch McIlroy, who broke clear to win his 27th PGA Tour title in grand style.
McIlroy followed his superb 65 on Saturday with a final round laced with an eagle, five birdies and a sole bogey.
The 35-year-old held a two-shot lead from Davis and others after 13 holes but then doubled that advantage with a sensational eagle at the par-5 14th.
McIlroy launched a booming 310 metre drive, used a 7-iron for his approach shot, and sank an eight-metre putt.
The former world No.1 gained further breathing space with a birdie on the next hole to be five-under in a six-hole stretch which effectively secured victory.
Northern Ireland’s McIlroy won from Ireland’s Shane Lowry (68) with American Lucas Glover (67) and England’s Justin Rose (68) joint third at 18 under.
Davis hovered within touch of the leaders for much of his round but couldn’t gain serious traction despite birdies at the 4th and 14th holes.
The Sydney-born 29-year-old ended his tournament with an incredible birdie on the 18th when he chipped from tree roots to within tap-in distance.
Day endured a topsy-turvy final round of three under: he holed a bunker shot for eagle on the 14th and made three birdies but any outside chance he had disappeared on the front nine with three bogeys, including consecutive blemishes on the 4th and 5th holes.
Lee logged two bogeys in his three-under final round while Scott produced a belated finish by firing eight birdies in his bogey-free round.
Scott, playing the back nine first, carded five birdies from his initial six holes.
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