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LAS VEGAS — The trial of a Las Vegas-area politician accused of killing an investigative journalist who wrote a story critical of him will turn its attention to Nevada on Monday, when jury selection is set to begin in the case that has stunned the Sin City and the journalism community.”Everything has been turned upside down,” veteran Las Vegas lawyer Tom Pitaro said of the death of reporter Jeff German, who for 44 years delved into confidential sources in the city of Las Vegas, the Las Vegas government and the Las Vegas courts.Pitaro also supervised Robert Telles, the public servant…

The United States is sending missile submarines to the Middle East and accelerating the arrival of an aircraft carrier strike group as Israel prepares for retaliatory attacks by Iran and its proxies following the assassinations of senior Hamas and Hezbollah leaders.The Pentagon confirmed late Sunday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had ordered the USS Georgia, a guided missile submarine, to the region. Austin also ordered the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, equipped with F-35C fighter jets, to accelerate its passage to the region. The order, and the unusual step of publicly announcing the submarine’s deployment, came after Defense Secretary Austin…

PHILADELPHIA — The weather system formerly known as Hurricane Debbie continued to struggle to fully subside in parts of the U.S. on Sunday, prompting flood warnings in North Carolina and leaving thousands without power in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.After the hurricane struck Florida on Aug. 5, the storm caused tornadoes and flooding for nearly a week, damaging homes and claiming lives along the East Coast before moving into Canada on Saturday.Many rivers had receded by Sunday, but flood warnings remained in effect for central and eastern North Carolina, where more thunderstorms are possible over the next few days. Debby…

Brands and products from France, the host country of the Olympics, have become increasingly popular as the games have progressed, and data from Alibaba’s e-commerce platform highlights the impact the games have on shopping habits around the world. The impact of the Olympics on French brands For example, Paris-based luxury skincare brand Orlane saw its sales on cross-border marketplace Tmall Global increase 300-fold between July 23 and August 4 compared to the same period last year. Bordeaux winemaker Chateau d’Armailhac reported a 200-fold increase in sales over the same period, while Epernay champagne retailer Perrier-Jouet announced a 70-fold increase in…

Group sales for the 12 months were down 10% year-on-year to 106.5 million euros (£91 million), but the London-based fashion brand said the results were “in line with expectations” and that it had been its “second-best year ever”. “Given ongoing macroeconomic and geopolitical headwinds in markets, the Group continues to manage costs prudently while progressing with its strategic global investment plan, focused on the expected recovery in consumer confidence in 2025,” the company said in a statement. The company acquired its UK global headquarters on Old Burlington Street in Mayfair in September 2023. The new headquarters is 14,500 square feet…

Singapore-based Aevice Health has secured $7 million in an expanded seed funding round led by Cedars-Sinai’s Singapore venture arm, Coronet Ventures. Existing investors including East Ventures, A&D Company, NTUitive, Farquhar Venture Capital and Silicon Solution Venture also participated in the round. Enterprise Singapore’s investment arm SEEDS Capital also participated in the round. The startup, a spin-off from Nanyang Technological University, offers a technology platform for managing chronic respiratory diseases, featuring AeviceMD, a smart wearable stethoscope approved in Singapore and the US. What is it for? The company said in a statement that the new funding will be used to further…

OMG! The number of men with cancer worldwide is predicted to soar from 10.3 million in 2022 to 19 million in 2050, an 84% increase, according to Australian health experts. Additionally, the number of men dying from cancer is expected to increase by 93%, from 5.4 million in 2022 to 10.5 million in 2050. A new study published Monday predicts the number of men dying from cancer is expected to rise 93%, from 5.4 million in 2022 to 10.5 million in 2050. Syda Productions – stock.adobe.com The researchers analyzed 30 types of cancer and population data from 185 countries and…

Introduction: Bank of England ratesetter warns against being ‘seduced’ by lower inflationGood morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy.One of the Bank of England’s hawkish policymakers has warned that the UK should not be “seduced” by the recent fall in inflation, given underlying price pressures in the economy remain strong.Catherine Mann, one of four policymakers who opposed this month’s cut in UK interest rates, argues that services inflation remains too high for comfort, and that UK wages are rising faster than the Bank’s models would predict.Speaking to the Economics Show with…

Former President Donald Trump has launched a new attack on Vice President Kamala Harris.He is now falsely accusing Harris of using artificial intelligence to generate images of huge crowds in Michigan, and further alleging that “no one was waiting” for Harris when she arrived at the airport for the rally on Wednesday.”Did anyone notice Kamala cheated at the airport,” he wrote in a Sunday Truth Social post. “There was no one on the plane and she manipulated it with an ‘AI’ to show hordes of so-called followers, but they weren’t there!”He added that photos of the incident, particularly those showing…

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