Former CEO of now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange received 25 years in prison for masterminding the fraud that led to the collapse of FTX
Sam Bankman-Friedas parents are in the courtroom to witness their sonas sentencing.
Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried are both law professors at Stanford University, the former of tax law and the latter of legal ethics. Bankman-Fried said they were not involved in aany of the relevant partsa of FTXas operation.
Continue reading...Marine Engineersa Beneficial Association warned of the dangers of bigger cargo vessels and smaller crews not at par with US levels
A top labor union for maritime engineers has sounded the alarm against corporate profiteering in the wake of Tuesdayas cargo ship crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, claiming the industry is aprobably the worst offendera.
The Marine Engineersa Beneficial Association (Meba) warned of the dangers of growing vessels and shrinking crews a claiming that those from overseas are anot up to the standardsa required in the US.
Continue reading...Former New Jersey governoras decision closes another door on No Labels, the non-partisan group seeking to mount a campaign
Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor and two-time losing candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, said he would not mount a third-party White House run a closing another door on No Labels, the non-partisan group seeking to mount a campaign.
aI appreciate the encouragement Iave gotten to pursue a third-party candidacy,a Christie said.
Continue reading...Robotic dog, controlled remotely by state troopers, deployed in house to locate person and found someone armed in basement
A robotic dog is being thanked by state police in Massachusetts for helping avert a tragedy involving a person barricaded in a home.
The robotic dog named Roscoe was part of the Massachusetts state police bomb squad and deployed on 6 March in a Barnstable house after police were fired upon. Police sent in two other robots often used for bomb disposal into the house to find the suspect along with the robotic dog.
Continue reading...Trump lawyers at Atlanta hearing argue the first amendment is grounds for dismissing the stateas 2020 election subversion case
In the ongoing hearing in Atlanta, Steve Sadow, an attorney for Donald Trump, asked judge Scott McAfee to dismiss the charges related to election interference against the former president, saying they were attempting to criminalize speech protected by the first amendment:
Joe Bidenas campaign has meanwhile launched its own salvo against Donald Trump.
Continue reading...Israeli forces also blockading al-Amal hospital amid mounting concern for the safety of patients, civilians and medical staff
Heavy fighting took place around two key hospitals in Gaza on Thursday, while a third was reportedly under Israeli siege, amid mounting international concern for the safety of patients, civilians and remaining medical staff in the facilities.
The most intense fighting once again appeared to be focused on the al-Shifa complex, Gaza Cityas main hospital before the war, where the Israeli army said it continued to operate around the site after storming it more than a week ago.
Continue reading...District education authorities launch multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Meta, Snap Inc and ByteDance
Four of Canadaas largest school boards have launched a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the social media companies Meta, Snap Inc and ByteDance, accusing them of acting in a ahigh-handed, reckless, malicious, and reprehensible mannera with products the boards claim harm student learning and arewirea how children think.
The four district boards a Ottawa-Carleton, Toronto, Peel and Toronto Catholic a filed four separate statements of claim in Ontarioas superior court of justice on Wednesday.
Continue reading...President to appear onstage with Democratic predecessors in New York City and haul will widen lead over Trump in fundraising
Joe Biden will appear onstage with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, his two most recent predecessors as a Democratic president, in New York City on Thursday night, a presidential extravaganza the Biden-election campaign said would raise a ahistorica $25m.
Such a haul, which Politico called an aNYC money bomba, will widen Bidenas lead over Donald Trump in fundraising for the November election.
Continue reading...Drug companies urged to arelease strangleholda on medicines such as Ozempic and Trulicity, as millions are priced out of treatment
Drug companies are pricing diabetes medicines at almost 400 times the level necessary to make a profit, according to a new study.
Researchers said it would also be possible for modern insulin pens, which are safer and offer more accurate doses than vials and syringes, to be used even in low-income countries if pharmaceutical firms aput people before their astronomical profitsa.
Continue reading...University says first owner of book by French novelist took the skin from a deceased female patient without consent
Harvard University has said it will be removing the binding made of human skin from a 19th-century book held in its library because of the aethically fraught naturea of how the unusual binding took place.
The book, called Des DestinA(c)es de laAme (or Destinies of the Soul), has been held at the universityas Houghton Library since the 1930s but drew international attention in 2014 when tests confirmed that it was bound in human skin.
Continue reading...The Republican challenger to Democrat Sherrod Brown for US Senate in Ohio has made dubious claims in his campaign
Bernie Moreno, the Republican candidate for US Senate in Ohio who expected to mount a stern challenge to Sherrod Brown, the incumbent leftwing Democrat, says his family fled socialism when they came to the US from Colombia in 1971, when he was four years old.
Though such statements formed a central part of Morenoas campaign message on his way to securing the Republican nomination with support from Donald Trump, they do not withstand historical scrutiny.
Continue reading...Too often cemeteries for enslaved people have been all but erased from history but how we remember matters
For archeologists, what defines people as human is how we bury our dead. Imagine, then, a society that relegates a whole community as legally inhuman, enslaved with no rights. In spite of slavery, African burial grounds are tangible reminders of the enslaved and free a defying oppressive circumstances by reclaiming peopleas humanity through acts of remembrance.
When I first visited the British overseas territory of St Helena in 2018 and saw the burial ground in Rupertas Valley, I was astounded by its size and significance. It unambiguously placed the island at the centre of the Middle Passage a tying the British empire to the institution of slavery in the US, the Caribbean, and globally.
Continue reading...Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in Indiaas sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay a often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away
Sonu has one clear instruction from his boss: when you see an outsider, run. In the two years since he started working full time, he has had to run only twice. Sonu is eight years old. His mother, Anita, said that almost every time an outsider comes to their village of Budhpura, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, she receives a phone call telling her not to bring Sonu to work. aOnly adults go to work on those days,a said the 40-year-old, cradling her youngest child, who is three.
Sonu and his mother work eight hours a day, usually six days a week, making small paving stones, many of which are exported to the UK, North America and Europe. Sonu began working after his father died of the lung disease silicosis in 2021. aFirst, he made five stones, then 10, and then he quit school to work full-time,a his mother said. The pair sit on a street close to their home, amid heaps of sandstone rubble, chiselling rocks into rough cubes of rugged stone. Sonu is paid one rupee a less than a penny a for each cobblestone he produces. These stones have a retail value of about APS80 a square metre in the UK.
Continue reading...A process called biofortification puts nutrients directly into seeds and could reduce global hunger, but itas not a magic bullet
In 2004, Donald Davis and fellow scientists at the University of Texas made an alarming discovery: 43 foods, mostly vegetables, showed a marked decrease in nutrients between the mid and late 20th century.
According to that research, the calcium in green beans dropped from 65 to 37mg. Vitamin A levels plummeted by almost half in asparagus. Broccoli stalks had less iron.
Continue reading...Readers share their thoughts on maintaining the world of DVDs and Blu-rays after a feature looking exploring the phenomenon
At home we have been getting into the habit, when we identify (a knack in itself!) a show or movie we are confident we will want to re-watch, of ordering an inexpensive DVD copy.
Continue reading...Experts are trying everything from drums to whale calls to lure kE*iisaa,Y=iEis a or Brave Little Hunter a out of the Canadian lagoon she has been trapped in since the stranding death of her mother
As a two-year-old orca calf circled a lagoon off the west coast of Canada on Monday, she heard a comforting sound resonating through the unfamiliar place in which she found herself: the clicks and chirps of her great-aunt.
But the calf, named kE*iisaa,Y=iEis (pronounced kwee-sahay-is, which roughly translates as Brave Little Hunter) by local First Nations people, could not locate another whale in the shallow waters. The calls, broadcast from speakers placed underwater, were part of a complex and desperate operation still under way to try to save the stranded calf.
Continue reading...In 1981, photographer Brian Aris was invited to join the rockanaroll legends at rehearsals in Boston. He captured their intense musical bond a but couldnat corner Charlie Watts
Continue reading...Late-night hosts discuss ex-president hawking $60 Bibles while preparing for trial over paying hush money to an adult film star
Late-night hosts spoke about Donald Trumpas ad for a $60 Bible as well as some good news about one of his upcoming trials.
Continue reading...The star of The First Omen takes your questions on working as a chimney sweep, finessing his perfect sandwich a and hoping to die in a hail of bullets
Thereas an argument that youare the person James Bond matures into: women still want to sleep with you and men want to be you. Whatas your secret? MarcoPoloMint
I have no idea. I donat get out much and I donat identify with whomever theyare talking about. I did used to quip that I could be James Bondas grandfather and Iave always wanted to say: aThe nameas Nighy. Bill Nighy.a Iam very happy to hear, but itas a bit of a stretch for me to grasp.
When you were younger, you travelled to Paris to write a book, but never completed it. Will you ever dust down your great unfinished novel to realise your literary ambitions? VerulamiumParkRanger
I had a very romantic idea a I was a walking cliche in my 20s a of running away to Paris to write the great English short story. The pathetic thing is that I went and stood in the TrocadA(c)ro, outside the Shakespeare and Company bookstore and under the Arc de Triomphe, hoping to catch some vibes. I sat down for an hour in front of a blank page and drew a margin, like at school, for the teacheras remarks, but the doorbell went or the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.
From picking a perfect fragrance to spraying your radiators and getting rid of the worst stinks, here is how to make sure your life always smells sweet
From a fancy fragrance to a simple bowl of oranges, scent can transform how you feel about yourself, another person or a place. But how can you work out what suits the moment? And the best way to get rid of a stink? Perfumers reveal how to make your world smell fantastic.
1. Smell is an extreme sensation
aScent provokes a visceral reaction,a says Ezra-Lloyd Jackson, a perfumer and artist who makes wearable fragrances under the brand name deya and creates scent installations for art exhibitions. What fascinates him about working with scent is the process of transforming asomething that is grotesque or alarming into something that is familiar and comforting, or vice versaa.
2. Your reaction to a smell is linked to memory
Maya Njie makes perfumes inspired by her Swedish and Gambian heritage. She tried to capture this feeling in other artistic forms before realising that what she really wanted was to portray the way it smelled. aWe know that our sense of smell is directly linked to the part of the brain where our memories are stored,a she says. aSo it makes a lot of sense that fragrance and smells are connected to our memories. If you smell something that someone has worn, or you go to a house that belongs to your grandparents, smelling makes you feel way more emotional than a photo ever could.a Jackson describes this as ainternal time travel. It is another form of communication that isnat linguistic.a
3. It is possible to train your nose
aThat is what perfume is all about,a says Jackson. He didnat have a very orthodox route into perfumery: aI went straight into a laboratory and got to work, but most people will train at one of the schools in France, where the first year is all about learning 500 smells.a Brighton-based French perfumer Elodie Durande, who works for Somerset label Ffern, honed her craft at the University of Montpellier. aYou start out by working on your olfactory skills, remembering smells and describing smells,a before receiving a wide-ranging education about the perfume industry, she says.
A new show brings together historic sketches from Bruegel to Rubens and more, capturing fleeting snapshots of everyday 16th- and 17th-century life
The women gather in a circle, talking intensely and unselfconsciously, their attention passing from one animated face to another as the conversation darts around the group. They seem completely unaware, from a window above the courtyard where theyare chatting, the artist Jacques Jordaens is sketching them in quick red chalk and brown ink.
It is 1659, Antwerp, and, according to Jordaensa scribbled note at the bottom of the paper, these so-called agossip auntsa are discussing local political adisturbancesa a perhaps the recent strike of the paintersa guild. aItas a snapshot of daily life that you donat usually see,a says An Van Camp, the curator of Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings at Oxfordas Ashmolean Museum.
Continue reading...After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, promoting the 2020 stolen election lie has become a litmus test for loyalty
If youare seeking employment at the Republican National Committee (RNC), youare likely to be asked in your job interview if you believe the 2020 election was stolen. And if you say no, well, you might as well seek a job with George Santos.
After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, agreeing to the false claim has become a kind of litmus test for gaining employment a no less than itas become a litmus test for running for public office as a Republican.
Continue reading...If the high-rollers surrounding the disgraced FTX founder had any qualms about taking his money, they didnat show it
Later today, a man who has recently turned 32 will be hauled in front of a Manhattan judge. Already convicted of huge fraud, he knows heas going to prison. The only question is for how long. If the US government gets its way, he will not emerge before his 80th birthday.
This is the final disgrace of Sam Bankman-Fried. The judge, politicians and the worldas press will declare him one of the biggest swindlers in American history. They will note how within three years he built a marketplace for digital currencies, or crypto, that was worth around $32bn a and made himself the worldas richest person under 30. Still it wasnat enough. He spent perhaps $8bn of his customersa savings on luxury homes, risky investments and whatever else took his fancy.
Continue reading...Donald Tusk is working hard and fast on a great transformation, but travel the country and itas clear what a difficult task that is
My formative journalistic years were spent reporting on the final freeze of the cold war a days of hard times and soft currencies. When I return to those countries now, I test myself on how well I guessed what would follow in the three decades since. On Poland in particular, I would have been hard pressed to predict the giddy zigzag of power still featuring a generation who marched to topple communism, but whose protagonists feud bitterly about how to govern the country in the 21st century.
We talk a lot about places that have recently bought a one-way ticket towards authoritarian politics a Russia and Turkey for the full-fat versions, and Hungaryas democratic backsliding and stifling of independent institutions.
Continue reading...The way musicians are compensated is highly unfair. A new bill in the US Congress could fix that a and itas about time
Many of the younger musicians I know a musicians in the full flush of their career a donat see a path forward toward making a living. These arenat artists failing to connect with a public; on the contrary, they are releasing widely reviewed albums, going on tours and communicating (constantly) with their fans via social media. But this work is not paying them enough to manage without second jobs or side hustles.
Thatas a broken system. Itas not just broken for individual artists, itas broken for our society as a whole. We all benefit from music. And I believe we as a society want that music to come from as wide and deep and rich and varied sources as exist. How could we not?
Continue reading...Although there are significant financial and emotional benefits to returning to the nest, it should be a choice
The 2021 census already confirmed it: more adult children than ever are still living with their parents. But the Financial Times has recently revealed just how drastically the scales have tipped: about 40% of 18- to 34-year-olds now live with their parents, making it the most common domestic arrangement for this age group. Previously, it was living as a couple with children.
Itas not just an epidemic of Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum a Iave moved back home twice since graduating in 2018, and I know plenty of young well-to-do professionals who have felt obliged to do the same, or not moved out at all. There are also plenty of people who are unable to live in their family home due to distance and perhaps wish they could.
Continue reading...A braid from a formerly enslaved African buried on the island was the catalyst for Annina van Neelas work to preserve and share these histories
At the end of January 2012, I arrived on St Helena after a six-day journey by ship from Cape Town. After being surrounded by water for nearly a week, the sight of land on the midnight-blue horizon was overwhelming. It was as though someone had forgotten their piece of land in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. 47 square miles of volcanic rock, 2,810 miles from the coast of Brazil and 1,610 miles from Angola a an oasis in a desert, an enigma.
I arrived on the island as part of the project team constructing St Helenaas first airport. Previously accessible only by sea, this incredible community, which had been defined by its isolation as an outpost and a place of exile for 500 years, would for the first time be easily reached by the rest of the world.
Continue reading...British overseas territory may face legal action over alleged failure to honour reburial plan after remains found during airport project
A British overseas territory is being urged to return the remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to their ancestral kingdoms in Africa, or potentially face legal action.
The remains were excavated in 2008 when an access road to a new airport was being built on the remote South Atlantic Ocean island of St Helena. They were held in storage for 14 years before being reburied.
Continue reading...As the author of a book about a pivotal uprising in 18th-century Jamaica, Vincent Brown was enlisted in a campaign to make its leader a national hero. But when he arrived in Jamaica, he started to wonder what he had got himself into
aLetas get something straight,a the politician told me, awe are now owning you.a Though this was meant as a warm welcome, hearing it from an eminent state official made me wonder what I had got myself into. Olivia Grange, Jamaicaas influential minister of culture, gender, entertainment and sport, looked me in the eyes: aYou are Jamaican now, you are part of us.a
I met Grange last April, on a hot day in Port Maria in St Mary parish on the northern coast of Jamaica. Both of us had come to the town to commemorate the second annual Chief Takyi Day. Grange had established the holiday in 2022, instigating the governmentas proclamation that henceforth 8 April would honour Takyi, or Tacky, as he was generally called in English, the best-known leader of the largest uprising of enslaved Africans in the 18th-century British empire. I was invited to the event because I had written the first book about Tackyas revolt.
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