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Jay-Z issues major statement amid court case victory

Jay-Z issues major statement amid court case victory

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The civil lawsuit filed against Jay-Z in December has been dismissed after the rapper had been embroiled in allegations of assault alongside disgraced star Sean “Diddy” Combs. The lawsuit, which alleged that Jay-Z and Diddy assaulted a 13-year-old girl at an after party following the 2000 MTV VMA’s, has now been thrown out in a victory for the father of three.  The judge granted their dismissal request on a technicality, with Jay-Z’s lawyers stating that he could not be prosecuted under the Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act because it came into effect after the alleged attack.  Recommended videoYou may also likeWATCH: Beyonce shares rare family video with Jay-Z He released a statement on Friday following the news, calling the allegations “laughable” and sharing how the ordeal impacted his family.  “Today is a victory. The frivolous, fictitious and appalling allegations have been dismissed. This civil suit was without merit and never going anywhere,” he said via X. “The fictional tale they created was laughable, if not for the seriousness of the claims. I would not wish this experience on anyone.” He added: “The trauma that my wife, my children, loved ones and I have …

Head scores victory as Google agrees to delete school reviews

Head scores victory as Google agrees to delete school reviews

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Tech giant says all school reviews will now be deleted because of ‘consistent off-topic and harmful’ comments Tech giant says all school reviews will now be deleted because of ‘consistent off-topic and harmful’ comments More from this theme Recent articles A deputy headteacher who created a petition to remove Google school ratings and reviews for educational institutes has won a victory against the tech giant.   Justin Cowley, who works at Mendell Primary School in Bromborough, Wirral, sent a letter to Google this month demanding old reviews be deleted. Cowley said some Google reviews were more than six years old and did not show changes in Ofsted disagre ratings.  Google announced in 2019 that it would no longer let people leave reviews on schools, which were deemed “critical services”. However, the policy was not implemented uniformly – with some still able to leave school reviews.  And for those were reviews were closed, any published before were still visible. Cowley said this had led to a “search engine lottery” which risked the reputation of schools based on …

Social media users risk fragmenting into silos after Trump election victory, experts warn | Science, Climate & Tech News

Social media users risk fragmenting into silos after Trump election victory, experts warn | Science, Climate & Tech News

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Social media sites and their users risk fragmenting along political lines in light of Donald Trump’s election win, experts have told Sky News. They added some of the world’s biggest social media platforms fell into line behind the new US government after November’s election victory. X’s Elon Musk backed Mr Trump in the election and he has since taken up a federal advisory role. Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg recently announced an overhaul in his sites’ content moderation, removing third-party fact-checkers in the US and bringing in community notes. Image: Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg ahead of the inauguration. Pic: AP This move was a “performative choice” to align behind the new administration, according to Nina Jankowicz, former head of a disinformation board in the US Department of Homeland Security. As a result, established social media sites, as well as newer platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon, risk fragmenting along political lines as users split to engage more with content they like, Melissa Ingle, who worked in political disinformation at Twitter before Mr Musk’s takeover, told Sky …

Trump Victory Sparks Renewed Optimism In Manufacturing Surveys

Trump Victory Sparks Renewed Optimism In Manufacturing Surveys

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While Services surveys are soaring, Manufacturing continues to stagnate (below 50) despite a serial improvement in US Macro ‘hard’ data. However, November saw a post-Trump resurgence in confidence with S&P Global’s Manufacturing PMI rising to 49.7 (highest since June) and ISM’s Manufacturing PMI jumped from 46.5 to 48.4… Source: Bloomberg While both of the surveys rose notably, they do both remain in contraction (sub-50). One more silver lining is that while new orders rose, prices actually fell (for now)… Chris Williamson, Chief Business Economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence noted optimism is on the rise: “The mood among US manufacturers brightened in November, though any feel-good factor has yet to feed through to higher output on the factory floor. “Optimism about the year ahead has improved to a level not beaten in two and a half years, buoyed by the lifting of uncertainty seen in the lead up to the election, as well as the prospect of stronger economic growth and greater protectionism against foreign competition under the new Trump administration in 2025. But, it’s …

Ellen DeGeneres’s UK home floods weeks after her move to the UK following Donald Trump’s victory

Ellen DeGeneres’s UK home floods weeks after her move to the UK following Donald Trump’s victory

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Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Ellen DeGeneres’s new home in England has flooded. The former talk show host and her wife, Portia de Rossi, recently bought a house in the Cotswolds, which is around a two-hour drive from London. She moved to England after Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidental election. The flood was caused by Storm Bert in the U.K., which featured days of torrential rain and wind speeds of up to 80mph. During the storm, the River Thames broke its banks, which happened to be right next to DeGeneres’s and de Rossi’s 43-acre property. “The flood waters are rising by the hour. This is the worst I have seen it in years,” a local resident told The Mail about the aftermath of the storm. The couple’s …

How the polls accurately forecast a Trump victory

How the polls accurately forecast a Trump victory

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Donald Trump’s shocking Election Day victory wasn’t the only comeback on Election Day. The polling industry, which suffered serious black eyes after drastically understating Trump’s support in both the 2016 and 2020 contests, came through in 2024 by correctly gauging the extent to which voters would cast their ballots for the president elect. “Polls did pretty well, and performance seems to be getting better as the vote-counting continues,” Dr. Christopher Wlezien, a professor of government at the University of Texas in Austin, told Salon. “Using the final FiveThirtyEight numbers, national polls appear to be off by 2.3% points and polls in swing states about 2.5% on average. These are below average errors, e.g., the average error in the last week’s polls for all presidential elections between 1952 and 2020 is 2.5%.” The bad news for the polling industry is that, to the extent that the polls were off, it was once again by understating Trump’s support. Yet this time there is an important difference: The polls were only off to the degree that one expects …

Olympics Photo of the Day: A Moment of Victory

Olympics Photo of the Day: A Moment of Victory

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Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Fencers can be very demonstrative during matches, and the impact of participating in the Olympics seems to intensity the many reactions of all competitors. Today’s photos from Paris, on day one of the Games, captured so many faces full of raw emotion, and I felt that this was a fantastic representative image of the moment. Here, France’s Bolade Apithy celebrates after winning against Hungary’s András Szatmári in their men’s sabre individual round-of-32 bout at the Grand Palais in Paris. Source link

Biden’s Ever-Narrowing Path to Victory

Biden’s Ever-Narrowing Path to Victory

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As Donald Trump prepares to accept his third consecutive Republican presidential nomination tonight, Democrats remain trapped in a stalemate that could ease his return to the White House. The movement to force President Joe Biden to step aside has widespread support in the party, but probably not enough support to overcome his adamant refusal to do so. In turn, Biden’s position against Trump in polls is weak enough to leave the incumbent with long odds of winning a second term—but not such slim odds that they make the case for replacing Biden irrefutable. Caught between the growing signs of danger for their candidate and the shrinking window to change course, Democrats are drifting toward November with widening divisions and a pervasive sense of dread. Republicans, meanwhile, are overflowing with confidence, as this week’s party convention has demonstrated. Many Democrats now fear that they face the worst possible situation: a weakened nominee who will not withdraw and is angrily feuding with donors, elected officials, and other former allies pressing for his removal. Amid all of these …

Hackers did not project the Soviet Victory banner on Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate this week

Hackers did not project the Soviet Victory banner on Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate this week

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CLAIM: Images show the Soviet Victory banner projected by hackers onto the east side of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Tuesday night, prior to annual festivities celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The images were fabricated. Berlin police and the company that manages the Brandenburg Gate confirmed to The Associated Press that the Soviet Victory banner did not appear this week on the monument, one of Germany’s most significant landmarks. THE FACTS: Social media users shared photos and videos that made it appear the banner was being projected onto the Brandenburg Gate ahead of this week’s commemorative celebrations. “Last night, hackers breached the projection on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and put the Soviet Victory Banner,” reads one X post that had received approximately 21,000 likes and more than 5,300 shares as of Friday. A TikTok video viewed more than 198,000 times was similarly captioned: “Last night, hackers hacked the projection on the Brandenburg Gate and reminded authorities of who once defeated them, German police have launched an investigation.” Other …