If you’ve ever taken a westbound flight, you may have noticed the flight time was shorter coming home than on the way there. For example, a direct flight from New York to Los Angeles takes about six hours and four minutes. However, you shave about an hour off the flight time on the return flight, which clocks in at just five hours and eight minutes. If you look at flight times for a transatlantic flight, the time savings can increase even more: A flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong, for example, clocks in at about 14 hours and 45…
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A US federal appeals court has blocked Texas’s controversial immigration law, hours after the Supreme Court allowed the state to begin enforcing the measure. Here is what we know about the law and the latest updates: What is the Texas immigration law? The law known as Texas Senate Bill 4 (SB4) was signed into law by Republican Governor Greg Abbott in December, and it makes it a crime for foreigners to enter Texas from anywhere other than a legal port of entry. Texas and Mexico have 11 land ports that are legal crossing points between them. Typically, immigration enforcement is handled…
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France is the newest country to join the bandwagon in trying the famed four-day work week. But unlike most other countries that have piloted the system for a select few companies, France is looking to open up the program specifically for divorced parents who share child custody. The French scheme, first reported by The Times of London on Monday, will kick off in September and apply to a select group of civil servants. In practice, parents who have custody of their child only on specific weeks can work for four days instead of five, under the new program. The 35-year-old…
Apex Legends has postponed the North America finals for its Global Series championship over concerns that hackers have compromised the “competitive integrity” of the game. Two professional players from major teams were targeted while livestreaming on Sunday by an attack that forcibly applied advantage-granting cheats during competitive gameplay. The cause of these attacks hasn’t been officially verified, leading to speculation that the hack may have been delivered via Apex Legend’s anti-cheat protections. An exchange posted by a cheat monitoring account on X claims that the attacker found an RCE, or remote code execution, exploit to run their code directly on…
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Source: X Video Elon Musk, the CEO of X (formerly known as Twitter), has branded the former CNN host Don Lemon as a “stupid a**hole” after cancelling his show on his social media platform. Musk Rips Lemon As A ‘Stupid A**hole’ “On a chart that measured personality and intelligence, [Lemon] would be in the worst quadrant – stupid a**hole,” Musk wrote in response to the above clip from an interview that he did with Lemon. In the video, Lemon showed his own ignorance as he failed to understand Musk’s explanation for his view of how DEI is being implemented…
Team: Las Vegas Raiders Deal: 3 years, $33 million The former New England Patriots receiver was a quality target while playing out his UDFA deal. With the Raiders, though, the crafty No. 2 receiver exploded. Not only did Meyers double his career receiving touchdown total in one season, he became one of the few players ever to record a receiving, rushing, and passing touchdown in the same season.
As the war enters its 755th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Fighting Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to Kyiv’s allies to supply more air defences, saying Russia had launched 130 missiles, more than 320 attack drones and almost 900 guided bombs on the country so far this month. Russia named Admiral Alexander Moiseyev as acting commander-in-chief of its navy. Moscow fired his predecessor Nikolai Yevmenov amid repeated Ukrainian attacks on the Black Sea Fleet. Ukrainian forces claim to have destroyed more than two dozen Russian ships since the start of…
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Question: Who do the Star Wars creator George Lucas and JPMorgan Chase’s star CEO and chairman Jamie Dimon have in common? Answer: Ariel Investments co-CEO Mellody Hobson, also one of Fortune’s most powerful women. Hobson was the first Black woman to join JPMorgan’s board, in 2018, and has served as co-CEO of Chicago-headquartered investment firm Ariel Investments, which has nearly $15 billion in assets under management, since 2019. Hobson married Lucas in 2013 at Skywalker Ranch. Lucas issued a statement from the ranch today, outlining his support for Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger in Disney’s proxy fight with activist…
Anker Soundcore headphones, earbuds, and speakers are seeing significant price drops ahead of Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, which officially runs from March 20 through 25. Here are some of our top picks as of March 19. The best Anker Soundcore headphone and speakers deals at a glance: We’re on the cusp of a brand-new Amazon savings event: the Big Spring Sale. Officially kicking off March 20 and running through March 25, the spring sale will showcase deals on “seasonally relevant items.” For Amazon, that means practically everything. If you’re in the market for headphones, earbuds, or speakers, Amazon’s already…