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As he spoke to about a dozen voters in a dimly lit Mexican restaurant on the outskirts of Louisville, Daniel Cameron, Kentucky's popular attorney general, explained how he viewed the tightening battle for the Republican nomination for governor.Some folks in this race have been running on ads, and I've been running on a record, said Mr. Cameron, who has long been seen as a rising Republican political talent and is a close ally of Senator Mitch McConnell.

A City Council committee advanced a $7.25 million settlement Wednesday for a man who served nearly 30 years in prison for a double murder conviction that was ultimately overturned.The award was the largest out of almost $10 million in total settlements the Finance Committee sent to the full Council, which will vote on them next week.

Revenue at North Chicago-based AbbVie dove by nearly 10% during the first few months of this year - a drop that comes as its best-selling drug Humira faces competition for the first time in the U.S.
The company reported net revenues of $12.23 billion for the first quarter of this year, a decrease of 9.7% on a reported basis compared with the first three months of last year, but slightly beating analysts' average estimate of $12.17 billion.

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Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will pay $50 million in a legal settlement with Shasta County for its role in causing the 2020 Zogg fire, which tore through several rural Northern California communities, killing four people and burning more than 56,000 acres.As part of the settlement agreement, which awaits final approval by a judge, criminal charges against PG&E that were filed by the Shasta County district attorney in 2021 will be dropped.

Los Angeles County agreed Tuesday to pay $28.85 million to the family of Kobe Bryant, concluding three years of litigation that began after deputies shared graphic photos of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed the Lakers star, his daughter and seven others.The settlement agreement filed in federal court also resolves pending litigation originally filed in state court and adds to the $15 million a jury had already awarded to the basketball star's widow, Vanessa Bryant, after a trial in federal court last year.

Netanyahu's government reportedly informed the U.S. of plans to build thousands of new Jewish-only settler homes.Member of the Knesset and leader of the far right Zionut Datit (Jewish Zionism) party, Bezalel Smotrich, visits the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah of the Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem on May 10, 2021, in Israel.Laurent Van Der Stockt / Getty Images Human rights defenders on Monday blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right apartheid government after it reportedly informed the Biden administration of plans to build thousands of new Jewish-only settler homes in the illegally occupied West Bank of Palestine.

On a hot summer day, a woman walked into a gas station in the Bronx and spent $1.99 on a bag of TGI Fridays Sour Cream & Onion Potato Skins chips.She tore into the snack, looking forward to the potato skins, as they were marketed on the packaging in 2018, according to court documents.But they were just regular chips, she discovered.

BRUSSELS - Moscow is "preparing for more war" and Ukraine's allies should send more ammunition to help Kyiv fight off the assault, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday in Brussels, where member nations' defense ministers were meeting to discuss Ukraine.Russian President Vladimir Putin "made two big strategic mistakes: He underestimated the strength and the bravery of the people of Ukraine and its armed forces, and he underestimated the unity and resolve of NATO and partners," Stoltenberg said.

Moscow has repeatedly accused NATO of involvement in the war by supplying arms to Kyiv, warning supplies are legitimate targets'.Western weapons supplies to Ukraine are dragging NATO directly into the conflict and could lead to an unpredictable escalation, Russia's defence minister says.The US and its allies are trying to prolong the conflict as much as possible, Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu said in a conference call on Tuesday with military officials.

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 356th day, we take a look at the main developments.Here is the situation as it stands on Tuesday, February 14, 2023: The Ukrainian military reported Russian shelling all along the front line and said 16 settlements had been bombarded near Bakhmut.Positions in Bakhmut have been fortified and only people with a military role were being allowed in, while any civilians who still wanted to leave the city would have to brave the incoming fire, a deputy battalion commander said on Monday.

After a week of mostly silence about its newly launched campaign to drive Russian occupying forces from Ukrainian territory, Ukraine's military on Sunday claimed its first small gains as fighting raged in at least three sectors of the front.The military operation is expected to be vast, but for the moment it appears to consist mostly of probing attacks and feints.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine visited the flood-stricken city of Kherson on Thursday, trying to rally the region's emergency workers, who were struggling under Russian artillery fire to evacuate thousands of people from cities and settlements left submerged by the destruction of a major dam this week.

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ODESA, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said he visited the flood-stricken Kherson region on Thursday, where rescue efforts pushed ahead after the destruction of a dam on the Dnipro River, as he called for a clear and quick global response to the disaster.An explosion early Tuesday at the Kakhovka dam sent a torrent of water from a reservoir upstream coursing down the river, flooding much of the Ukrainian-controlled city of Kherson and dozens of settlements on both sides of the Dnipro, an active war zone that cuts through Russian- and Ukrainian-controlled territory.

Ron Rivera just finished speaking with reporters at the NFL owners meetings in Arizona, and now Adam Schefter has dropped a massive scoop on the sale of the Washington Commanders.The Josh Harris/Mitchell Rales/Magic Johnson has submitted a full-financed bid that meets Dan Snyder's $6 billion minimum asking price for the franchise.

Canadian billionaire Steve Apostolopoulos emerged as a bidder for the Washington Commanders 6 days ago when Adam Schefter reported that he had toured the team's stadium and headquarters.Schefter reported earlier today that the Josh Harris/Mitchell Rales/Magic Johnson group had submitted a bid that met owner Dan Snyder's purchase minimum of $6 billion.

Ron Rivera just finished speaking with reporters at the NFL owners meetings in Arizona, and now Adam Schefter has dropped a massive scoop on the sale of the Washington Commanders.The Josh Harris/Mitchell Rales/Magic Johnson has submitted a full-financed bid that meets Dan Snyder's $6 billion minimum asking price for the franchise.

The sale of the Washington Commanders seems to be getting close to an announcement.There has been a lot of positive signs that Dan Snyder will finally sell the team that he has owned for almost 24 years.There are still issues that need to be resolved like Snyder's demand for indemnification from the other NFL owners for liability from lawsuits and settlements.

Russian forces edged closer to Bakhmut on Sunday, claiming to capture a village on the outskirts of the strategic city in eastern Ukraine as they hammered nearby settlements with tank rounds, mortar fire and artillery shells.The Wagner private military company, whose forces have helped lead the brutal and monthslong Russian campaign to seize Bakhmut, said that its assault units had taken the village of Krasna Hora, near the northern edge of the city.

Russian forces are attacking Bakhmut from three directions in a persistent attempt to encircle Ukrainian troops, the Ukrainian military said on Sunday, maintaining pressure on the battered city that has become the focal point of Moscow's wide-ranging offensive in eastern Ukraine.The battle for Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donbas region began last summer and Ukrainian soldiers have held out there even as Russian forces have gradually captured surrounding territory, nearly cutting off the city.

KYIV, Ukraine Ukraine's top generals want to bolster the defenses of the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut, the government said Monday, signaling that rather than retreat from the city, they will pursue a strategy of bleeding the Russian army in a battle of attrition before a planned Ukrainian counterattack.

Damage to a major dam in Ukraine is a catastrophe and abhorrent act, the Foreign Secretary has said.Ukraine has accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine that Russia controls.Officials have described the breach as an ecological disaster, while Ukrainian authorities have ordered hundreds of thousands of residents downriver to evacuate.

Ukraine will rebuild destroyed cities like Bakhmut in the same way that Hiroshima has recovered following the atomic bomb attack during the Second World War, the country's leader has said.President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in Hiroshima to address G7 leaders about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, visited the memorial to mark the Japanese city being the first place to experience the devastation of a nuclear bomb following the US attack in 1945.

A judge has approved a global settlement of compensation claims made by people affected by the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire.Lawyers representing bereaved relatives, survivors and local residents on Tuesday told a High Court hearing in London that there had been a global settlement of about 900 cases and a global sum of about 150 million compensation agreed.

Lawyers for people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire have begun outlining detail of a settlement of civil damages claims.A barrister on Tuesday indicated there had been a global settlement of around 900 cases and a global sum of about 150 million compensation agreed.Richard Hermer KC is outlining detail of the settlement to judge Barbara Fontaine at a High Court hearing in London.

The former head of Volkswagen's luxury division Audi pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges tied to the automaker's diesel emissions scandal, becoming the highest-ranking executive convicted over cars that cheated on emissions tests with the help of illegal software.Rupert Stadler answered "yes" to a statement read in court by his attorney that said Stadler admitted wrongdoing and regret for his failure to keep rigged cars off the market even after the scandal had become public knowledge, the dpa news agency reported.

Is the green belt doomed?One of the great creations of postwar British planning the concept of a national park within reach of every city-dweller is fast losing friends.Under siege from centralist housing targets, argued between Tories and their lobbyists, it has now been undermined by Labour's Keir Starmer.

While praised by human rights organizations, the bill is already facing backlash from pro-Israel lawmakers.Protesters gather during a Palestinian demonstration east of Gaza City on May 18, 2023.MOHAMMED ABED / AFP via Getty Images Two New York lawmakers have introduced legislation that would block local charities from funding illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

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Chapter 7 of The Dawn Of Everything shows that the rise of agriculture around the world shows a pattern similar to that of the Fertile Crescent, discussed here.To be sure, the mechanisms vary, the staple foods vary and the mix of foraging and farming vary, but in each case, people slowly domesticate plants and farm animals, and switch between hunting and gathering and agriculture, and work out methods for sharing resources.

Since 2018, San Francisco has sued multiple opioid manufacturers, distributors and dispensers, and Walgreens was the last defendant to reach a settlement agreement with the city.In total, San Francisco stands to receive $352 million over the next 15 years.In April, the city settled lawsuits over Walmart's and CVS Pharmacy's alleged negligent oversight of opioid prescription practices; San Francisco is slated to receive up to $18.8 million from those settlements.

The Australia pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is exclusively revealed here, features a copper reconstruction of the Empire Hotel in Queenstown.Named Unsettling Queenstown, the pavilion aims to draw attention to the legacy of colonialism and extraction by focusing on several settlements named Queenstown.

Britain's defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has confirmed reports that the UK is donating long-range Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine.Wallace said Ukrainians will have the best chance to defend themselves.The US ambassador to South Africa has accused the country of covertly providing arms to Russia a charge that drew an angry rebuke from Pretoria.

Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Russia's defence ministry has denied reports that Ukrainian forces had broken through in various places along the front lines and said the military situation was under control, according to Reuters.Moscow was reacting after Russian military bloggers, writing on the Telegram messaging app, reported what they said were Ukrainian advances north and south of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, with some suggesting a long-awaited counteroffensive by pro-Kyiv forces had started.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has awarded the Hero of Ukraine to Oleksandr Matsievskyi, a soldier who was executed by machine gun fire on camera after being captured by Russian soldiers.Zelenskiy said: Today I conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine upon Oleksandr Matsievskyi, a soldier.A man whom all Ukrainians will know.

A picture taken from the Palestinian village of Aqraba shows the Israeli settlement outpost of Gevat Arnon, near Nablus city in the southern occupied West Bank.Jaafar Ashitiyeh/AFP via Getty Images In a rare move, key European allies France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom joined the U.S. on Tuesday in condemning Israel's plans to build 10,000 more housing units in existing settlements in the occupied West Bank.

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 358th day, we take a look at the main developments.Here is the situation as it stands on Thursday, February 16, 2023: Russia has launched missile attacks across Ukraine on Thursday, Ukrainian officials said, after Western allies pledged to ramp up military aid to the Ukrainian armed forces to support a planned counteroffensive.

Vladimir Putin has accused the west of seeking to dismember Russia and and to turn the vast country into a series of weak mini-states.In an interview with the state TV channel Rossiya on Sunday, Putin claimed the US and its Nato allies wanted to inflict a strategic defeat on us.The aim, he said, was to make our people suffer, adding: How can we ignore their nuclear capabilities in these conditions?

The Weekly by Bitcoin.comSoftware developer Jason Dreyzehner says smart contracts comparable to Ethereum, but remarkably more efficient will be made possible by the May 15 upgrade coming to the Bitcoin Cash network.In other news, the world's largest regional organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) plans to switch to settlements in national currencies, moving away from the U.S. dollar.

The ICRC says about 10,000 Ukrainian civilians are living in very dire conditions' in Bakhmut and surrounding settlements.About 10,000 Ukrainian civilians, many elderly and with disabilities, are clinging on to existence in horrific circumstances in Ukraine's besieged city of Bakhmut and surrounding settlements, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warns.

"Given the incredible number of active patents, the question is not 'why are there so many suits?"but "why are there so few?'"The simplest facts are sometimes the most difficult to comprehend.Patent suits are not as pervasive as they are portrayed in the media or by defendants.Remarkably few are filed relative to the number of patents that are active.

NFL owners started their annual meetings in Phoenix, Arizona yesterday to discuss league business.The Washington Post reported on Friday that a possible vote to remove Dan Snyder as the owner of the Washington Commanders wouldn't be on the agenda as the sale of the team is still in process.NFL team owners are pausing any consideration of removing Daniel Snyder from ownership of the Washington Commanders, two people with direct knowledge of the NFL's inner workings and the owners' views said Friday.

The NFL knows how to stay in the headlines, and control the calendar.Free agency has been dominating the news cycle for the last week, and it's been pretty quiet on the Dan Snyder/Washington Commanders sale front.That changed last night via a report from Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio, who's sources tell him the Snyders have left the building...literally.

The magnificent boat in Götz Aly's short, disturbing book (first published in German in May 2021) is a richly decorated 50ft outrigger sailing canoe made on Luf Island, part of the Hermit Islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, off the north-west corner of what was then German New Guinea (now part of Papua New Guinea).

Photo by ATXN.Austin City Manager Spencer Cronk announced an "agreement in principle" Thursday morning.Friday, February 10, 2023 by Emma Freer
After nearly a year of negotiations, with just seven weeks to go until the current police labor contract expires, with city staff and the police union working to finalize a tentative four-year agreement and in the run-up to a local election with two competing ballot measures related to police oversight, Austin City Council is weighing a stopgap.

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Monday, February 27, 2023 by Jo Clifton
City Council voted unanimously Thursday to approve an ordinance that preserves the pay and benefits Austin police officers currently receive and directs interim City Manager Jesús Garza to come up with incentives for new recruits to the department.

AUSTIN, Texas The Austin City Council on Thursday voted to settle three lawsuits relating to injuries sustained during the 2020 social justice protests.The council voted on Feb. 23 to pay a total of $1.5 million to three different protesters who were injured by Austin Police Department (APD) officers in May 2020.

Privacy regulations around the world frequently include requirements for websites and apps to obtain informed consent from users prior to collecting, processing, or sharing their personal information, or to provide easy opportunities for users to opt-out of certain uses of their data.This has led to a proliferation of privacy choice and consent interfaces, many of which provide consent opportunities that are hardly informed, frequently difficult to find and use, and all-too-often deceptive.

It's now been half a decade since SpaceX turned heads around the world with its decision to launch Elon Musk's personal Tesla roadster into outer space, sending the car on an endless journey into the cosmic wilderness where it's expected to remain for millennia to come.As of Monday, February 6, the cherry-colored sports car has officially been in space for exactly five years.

Follow for the latest updates on the Alex Murdaugh murder case.WALTERBORO, S.C.In the more than 20 months since his wife and son were killed, Alex Murdaugh, the scion of a South Carolina legal dynasty, has rarely spoken publicly, even when prosecutors charged him with the killings.As reports of his questionable financial dealings, a botched suicide plot and an expensive drug habit swirled in the national spotlight, he remained quiet.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio In the three weeks since a freight train derailed in East Palestine and released more than 100,000 gallons of toxic chemicals, lawyers have poured into the little town, signing up clients, gathering evidence and already filing more than a dozen lawsuits in federal court on behalf of local residents.

As Putin asked the FSB to bolster security, Moscow said it is open to peace talks, but will not give up annexed regions.Russian forces have pressed forward their weeks-long drive to encircle and capture the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, where the commander of Ukraine's ground forces described the situation as extremely tense.

New York City has agreed to pay $21,500 to each of hundreds of demonstrators who were penned in by the police in the Bronx during racial justice protests in 2020, then charged at or beaten with batons, according to a legal settlement.If a judge approves the settlement filed in federal court late Tuesday, the amount would be one of the highest ever awarded per person in a class action case of mass arrests, and could cost the city between $4 million and $6 million.

It's been less than a year since DALLE*2 was released and blew our minds away with the variety of art it could generate from a simple yet descriptive prompt.Other tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion quickly followed.The initial stages of excitement were quickly replaced by concerns about the inventiveness of AI-generated art.

A New York City taxpayer-funded legal aid group condemned for a 2014 "kill the NYPD" rap video and a 2021 director's email blasting Israel and cops now been forced to issue an apology and a $170,000 settlement for alleged discrimination against a Jewish staffer, The Post has learned."You may remember that I was called a racist, a colonizer and a karen [slang for entitled white person], and I was told that I was worse than the dirt under your feet and that my children were murderers," former Bronx Defenders staffer Debbie Jonas said in an email Wednesday to the politically charged legal assistance group's employees informing them about the settlement.

Researchers exploring a cave system in south-east Spain have discovered a huge cavern, sealed off for millennia, hung with huge stalactites and gouged by the claws of long-extinct cave bears, which, they claim, opens a new door on prehistory.The find was made at the Cueva del Arco, a collection of caves in the Almadenes gorge near the Murcian town of Cieza.

A man walks by a sign that reads "to Moscow" placed on an old tank displayed at a war museum in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023.(AP Photo/Daniel Cole)KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian forces have conducted an organized retreat from a town in the eastern region of the Donbas, an official said Wednesday, in what amounted to a rare but modest battlefield triumph for Russia after a series of setbacks in its invasion that began almost 11 months ago.

Moscow's forces push towards the Ukrainian towns of Orikhiv and Hulyaipole, according to Russian state media reports.Moscow's forces are pushing towards two towns in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhia region, where fighting intensified this week after several months of a stagnant front, Russian state media has reported.

Today is the deadline for teams and their arbitration-eligible players to submit salary figures for the arbitration process.What that means from a practical standpoint is it's the day a lot of players and teams agree on a contract to avoid arbitration, which is good for everyone involved.The Dodgers had 10 eligible players this offseason - well, they had 12, but they non-tendered Cody Bellinger and Edwin Rios to bring the number down to 10 - and they've had a slew of settlements.