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The Wiz logo on a smartphone arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024.Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSeven months ago, Alphabet lost a marquee case against the Biden administration’s Justice Department, which accused the company of maintaining an illegal monopoly in search. Weeks earlier, Google’s pursuit of cybersecurity vendor Wiz, in what would have been its largest deal ever, fizzled in part because of antitrust concerns.With Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Alphabet is back on the offensive.Alphabet on Tuesday agreed to buy Wiz for $32 billion in cash, almost $10 billion more than the…

A former judge engaged in serious corrupt conduct during an inquiry into one of the most high-profile prosecutions in Australia’s history, leaking its report to media before its public release.An investigation into Walter Sofronoff KC as chair of a board of inquiry into the ACT’s criminal justice system found he had engaged in the corrupt conduct.”Mr Sofronoff’s corrupt conduct has significantly undermined the integrity of the board’s processes and the fairness and probity of its proceedings,” the report from the ACT Integrity Commission concluded.Mr Sofronoff’s report of the inquiry delivered damning findings of unethical conduct against the territory’s top prosecutor…

Former NHL defenseman Tomas Kloucek has died following a skiing accident in Czechia. Kloucek was 45. Kloucek’s wife, Barbara Klouckova confirmed her husband’s death on Instagram Monday.  New York Rangers defenseman Tomas Kloucek (22) in action against St. Louis Blues right wing Scott Young (48) at Madison Square Garden.  (Lou Capozzola-USA TODAY NETWORK)”Yesterday, after a grievous accident, my husband, my universe, my love, dad of our children and your friend Tomas Kloucek abandoned us forever,” Klouckova wrote. “All of you who were around him deserve to know. Please respect our privacy and grief we are grappling with right now.”The NHL Alumni Association…

A South Dakota active-duty airman was arrested on federal charges after authorities say he allegedly murdered a missing Native American woman on a military base.Quinterius Chappelle, 24, an Airman Basic stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 21-year-old Sahela Toka Win Sangrait.Chappelle appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Daneta L. Wollmann on Monday and pleaded not guilty to a federal criminal complaint. Sahela Toka Win Sangrait was found dead after being reported missing by family in 2024. (Facebook / Bernice White Swan)CHILLING GOOGLE SEARCHES LEAD POLICE TO ARREST ACTIVE-DUTY MARINE IN ALLEGED MURDER…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Tesla has been removed from the upcoming Vancouver International Auto Show, the executive director confirmed on Tuesday. Eric Nicholl said in a statement that the automaker was provided multiple opportunities to voluntarily withdraw.“The Vancouver Auto Show’s primary concern is the safety of attendees, exhibitors, and staff,” Nicholl said.“This decision will ensure all attendees can be solely focused on enjoying the many positive elements of the event.”The show is held at Vancouver’s Convention Centre West from March 19 to 23 and attracts thousands of car enthusiasts. 3:14 Tesla fires: FBI says Las Vegas…

However, the city aims to widen its appeal by building a giant “matrix” of theme parks in the area surrounding the 9-year-old Shanghai Disney Resort, which stretches over 3.9 sq km in Shanghai’s eastern suburbs. The huge new complex, Shanghai International Resort, will also encompass the Legoland Shanghai Resort which is due to open in mid-2025 and the world’s largest standalone Peppa Pig outdoor theme park, which will launch in 2027. Though the venues are largely aimed at domestic tourists, they may also attract foreign visitors if they can combine visits to entertainment parks with sightseeing trips to older sites, travel specialists…

The State Department has ended funding for the tracking of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and American officials or contractors might have deleted a database with information on them, according to a letter that U.S. lawmakers plan to send to Secretary of State Rubio on Wednesday.The work on the abducted children by the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab was frozen when President Trump signed an executive order in late January halting almost all foreign aid spending. Since then, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and an official under him, Pete Marocco, have ended the vast majority…

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A-League footballer Josh Cavallo says he still receives daily death threats more than three years after publicly revealing he was gay.Cavallo was professional men’s football’s first openly gay player after coming out in 2021.And while the 25-year-old Adelaide United squad member said it was the “best decision” he ever made to come out, it has come with “sad” consequences.“There’s multiple, multiple, multiple death threats that come my way daily still, and it’s quite sad to see,” Cavallo told FIFPRO’s Footballers Unfiltered podcast.“In the world of football, being an openly gay player is a very toxic place. It’s something that not…

The promise of a “final” release of all government secrets relating to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy has whetted the appetite of many Americans, including the current occupant of the Oval Office.But many historians are taking a more measured, wait-and-see approach to Tuesday’s release of documents by the National Archives.“I doubt that these releases are going to overturn our understanding of what happened on that terrible day in Dallas,” Fredrik Logevall, a historian at Harvard who is working on a multivolume biography of President Kennedy, said before the release.But still, he added, “we should prepare to be surprised.”It…