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A Chinese college student was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in federal prison for stalking and harassing a former classmate who distributed pro-democracy leaflets on campus.Prosecutors said Xiaolei Wu, 26, handed out fliers calling for solidarity with Chinese democracy activists around the campus of Berklee College of Music in Boston, then later identified the victim, identified in court documents as Zooey. targeted).When Wu saw the poster, he threatened to chop her. [his victim’s] Keep your hands off me,” if she keeps posting them around the campus where they both studied. Prosecutors say he also provided her details to her mother,…
top line Tech stocks fell in premarket trading Thursday after Facebook parent company Meta Inc.’s lackluster outlook surprised investors across the industry, a sign that Wall Street’s appetite for embracing artificial intelligence is seemingly limitless. There is no indication that it may not match the enthusiasm of Silicon Valley. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the company’s spending on AI.CQ-Roll Call, Inc (via Getty Images) important facts Meta shares rose after the company told investors to expect slower growth and higher spending on AI going forward as there is no clear path to how the technology will become a revenue stream…
Forty years ago, in April 1984, the streets of Brazil were crying for freedom. The dictatorship was on the verge of death. The military government had promised a slow, gradual and safe opening to democracy, but the people were in a hurry. The people wanted a direct election for the president and launched a massive protest movement called the Diretas Ja Campaign, giving Socrates, one of the most unique soccer players in Brazil’s history, the greatest political moment of his life. Ta. His father, a civil servant and avid reader of Greek philosophy, chose this name. However, to avoid suspicion,…
When a prominent Iowa developer announced plans four years ago to build in Grimes what was dubbed the “Midwest’s largest” privately developed youth sports facility, he predicted that 1.5 million visitors annually would descend on the fast-growing city of nearly 17,000 straddling Polk and Dallas counties.But as GrimesPlex nears a grand opening and youth sports are in full swing, the optimistic projections surrounding the ambitious facility compete with a growing number of other options for young athletes. The city two years ago took over the now $31 million development of the complex, and projections of visitors were reduced to 1…
Federal agencies with competing interests are slowing the country’s ability to track and control an outbreak of highly virulent bird flu that for the first time is infecting cows in the United States, according to government officials and health and industry experts.The response has echoes of the early days of 2020, when the coronavirus began its deadly march around the world. Today, some officials and experts express frustration that more livestock herds aren’t being tested for avian flu, and that when tests and epidemiological studies are conducted, results aren’t shared fast enough or with enough detail. They fear that the…
Kyle Rittenhouse is not a typical college campus speaker.In 2020, at the age of 17, he took an AR-15-style rifle to a Black Lives Matter demonstration and fired it, killing two people and injuring a third. Rittenhouse said he pulled the trigger in self-defense and was acquitted of wrongdoing.He has since penned a book, “Acquitted,” and has set out on a series of college speaking events dubbed the “Rittenhouse Recap.” He is slated to appear Thursday at Clemson University in South Carolina.Rittenhouse is selling books, and ostensibly promoting the right to bear arms on campus, but he’s also trying to…
Pakistani business leaders, in a dialogue session with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, urged him to start trade talks with India to boost business and commerce, which will greatly benefit the cash-strapped country’s economy. .Asking tough questions during an hour-long meeting at the Sindh CM House in Pakistan’s commercial capital here on Wednesday, Karachi’s business community appreciated the Prime Minister’s determination to tackle economic issues but not to “turn around” Pakistan’s situation. He advised the Prime Minister to focus on bringing political stability. economy.The Prime Minister has spoken to the business community to find ways to boost the economy through exports,…
Pro-Khalistan leader Amritpal Singh, who is currently in jail in Assam, is keen to contest the parliamentary elections from Punjab’s Qadur Sahib seat as an independent candidate. Singh, who heads the ‘Walis Punjabi De’ organization, was arrested in April last year after he was booked under the National Security Act (NSA). This raises the question whether an incarcerated person can participate in elections in India. The issue has been debated for a long time and has reached courts including the Supreme Court of India. And there are countless politicians who ran and won elections while in prison. Let’s analyze the…
Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto/Getty Images European Commission building in Brussels, photographed in August 2019. London CNN — European Union officials raided the offices of Chinese security equipment maker Nuktec as part of a subsidy investigation, exposing growing tensions between the bloc and one of its biggest trading partners. The European Commission announced on Tuesday that it had carried out “surprise inspections” on the premises of companies that manufacture and sell security equipment in Europe. It is suspected that the person may have obtained an unfair advantage. from state subsidies. The company name was not disclosed. “The Commission has indications that the inspected…
Next to gerrymandering, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision to condone unchecked dark money and paid corruption is the biggest systemic driver of dangerous and destructive political misrepresentation in Ohio and across America. This is a tragic verdict. One of the biggest bribery scandals in state history. The central feature of the criminal extortion scheme was that FirstEnergy and now-incarcerated former Ohio House Speaker Larry Hausder laundered campaign funds and helped unwanted politicians run for office. In order to do so, he used a 501(c)(4) underground financial group. $1.3 billion in relief to the utility industry, paid for by consumers.…