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Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia are set to win seats on the U.N. Security Council in a secret ballot at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday.The 193-member world body is due to vote to elect five countries to serve two-year terms. Regional groups usually nominate candidates for the 10 non-permanent seats on the 15-member council, but sometimes they can’t narrow it down to one. There will be no such surprises this year.Last year, Slovenia defeated close Russian ally Belarus for a seat representing the eastern European regional grouping, in a vote that reflected strong global opposition to Russia’s all-out…

A senior Biden administration official warned Friday that “absent a change” in Chinese and Russian nuclear strategies, the United States could be forced to expand its nuclear arsenal after decades of reductions through now-largely abandoned arms control agreements.National Security Council Senior Director Pranay Badi’s comments Friday were the clearest public warning yet that the United States is prepared to shift from merely modernizing to expanding its nuclear arsenal. They were also a warning to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin about how the United States might respond if the last major nuclear arms control agreement, called the New Strategic Arms Reduction…

Shares of beauty company Oddity Tech (ODD) are rising on Friday after the company’s board of directors approved a $150 million share repurchase program. The move comes on the heels of Oddity Tech’s decision to raise its second-quarter outlook, buoying investor optimism.For more expert insights and the latest market trends, click here to watch this entire episode of Market Domination.This post Angel SmithVideo TranscriptAnd the other ticket trend we’re watching is weird tech.This is a beauty company.The stock price has soared after the company’s board of directors approved a $50 million share repurchase program for up to 100 million shares…

byJeff Carlisle,ESPN viaviaJune 7, 2024 3:59 PM ET• 3 min readU.S. national team striker Josh Sargent will miss Saturday’s friendly against Colombia and likely the entire Copa America with what coach Gregg Berhalter described as a “nagging foot injury.”Berhalter said Friday that Sargent continues to work on the field and in the gym to get him in game shape.”We’ve been in and out and testing him to see where he is,” Berhalter said during a media availability on Friday. “The key for us is how do we get him in good shape and ready to go and see if he’s…

Grail Bra Specialists owner Carmen Champagne and staff are celebrating the east side store’s fifth anniversary with a party that will also double as the grand opening of Grail’s new retail space.The festival, which will be held at Suite 115 of the Ansonborough mixed-use development at 1040 Gaines School Rd., is scheduled to run from 2 to 8 p.m. Friday.Grail originally opened in 2019 in the Village at Cedar Shoals shopping center across the street, offering professional bra fitting services and stocking band sizes from 26 to 60 and cup sizes from AA to S. Champagne said there’s no cost…

TThe Indian Union’s performance in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha elections surprised everyone. It made deep inroads among all major social groups except the upper castes. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won only 33 of the 75 seats it contested, and its allies won just one. The Indian Union, on the other hand, won 43 seats.According to the Lokniti-CSDS post-poll data, general/upper caste Brahmin, Rajput and Vaishya voters predominantly supported the BJP, while Other Backward Class (OBC), Scheduled Caste (SC) and Muslim voters supported the INDIA coalition. Nearly nine in ten (89%) Rajput voters supported the BJP. Yadav and…

A heatwave broke early-summer records in the western United States, but the region’s first heatwave of the year eased somewhat on Friday.Millions of people in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas are under extreme heat warnings this week.The region is used to sweltering heat, but climate change exacerbated by human activity is causing more extreme weather events and making the current heatwave the earliest in history.Las Vegas recorded 111 degrees Fahrenheit (44 degrees Celsius) on Thursday, the earliest such temperature reached this year.”It’s been hot the past few days,” the city’s National Weather Service said, announcing a long list…

Remus Sports, the sports agency co-founded by Bad Bunny, has been accused by the MLB Players Association of offering inappropriate gifts to attract potential clients. (Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images)Remus Sports, the sports agency co-founded by pop star Bad Bunny, committed a “series of significant violations” in its dealings with baseball players, according to the Major League Baseball Players Association, which detailed the allegations in federal court in Puerto Rico this week, The Athletic’s Evan Drellich reports.Among Limas’s inappropriate conduct were providing a $200,000 interest-free loan to a player the agency was seeking to recruit as a…

June 7, 2024 3:17 PM | 2 min read 20-year pro trader reveals “Moneyline” Ditch the indicators and use the “Money Line”. A simple line that tells you when to buy or sell without the guesswork. It’s the line on a chart that helped Nic Chahine win 83% of his options purchases. This is how he does it. PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) is gaining attention after rising 5.49% on Thursday. The increase was driven by CEO Alex Kris He offered the optimistic outlook at Bank of America’s Global Technology Conference on Wednesday.The stock has risen 5.6% over the past year…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new Mississippi law requiring age verification for users of websites and other digital services would unconstitutionally restrict minors’ and adults’ access to online speech, tech industry groups argued in a lawsuit filed Friday.Lawmakers said the new law was enacted to protect children from sexually explicit material. The bill passed the Republican-controlled House and Senate without opposition from either party. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed it into law on April 30 and it is set to take effect on July 1.The lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s new law was filed in federal court in Jackson by NetChoice LLC,…