ATHENS, Ga. — Jaden Rashada is making another move in his well-traveled college football career, after just one semester at Georgia.Rashada plans to enter the transfer portal, a source close to the team confirmed on Sunday. His next school will be the quarterback’s fourth stop, including Florida, where he initially signed in December 2022, then left amid a name, image and likeness deal that broke down, leading to Rashada suing Florida and head coach Billy Napier.Rashada spent his freshman year at Arizona State, where he started the first two games, then got hurt and missed the next nine before playing…
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Nippon Steel shares fall as carmaker’s president reportedly mulls suing U.S. governmentShares of Japan’s Nippon Steel fell 2% after the carmaker’s president Tadashi Imai reportedly said that the company might file a lawsuit against the U.S. government, according to a report by Japanese broadcaster Nippon Television.This comes after U.S. President Joe Biden blocked Nippon Steel’s purchase of U.S. Steel after a year-long review, citing national security concerns.The NTV report quotes Imai as saying, “Our company has the right to be properly reviewed. The history of the review so far and the U.S. government’s decision have not been properly reviewed,” according to…
The Israeli military said on Sunday that it has been conducting “operational raids” in recent weeks on Mount Hermon in Syria, continuing a military campaign on Syrian soil that is drawing increasing international condemnation.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based Syrian war monitor, on Sunday also reported airstrikes around the Syrian capital, Damascus, attributing them to the Israeli military. The strikes targeted an ammunitions warehouse used by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted in a rebel offensive last month, the observatory said. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the airstrikes.Israel’s continued military operations in…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on the first day of trading of the new year on Jan. 2, 2025.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesU.S. equity futures were little changed Sunday evening as investors looked forward to jobs data in another shortened trading week.Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were unchanged. S&P 500 futures added 4 points, or 0.08%, and Nasdaq 100 futures inched higher by 0.09%.On Friday, the major indexes closed higher on the day to cap a shaky week as a “Santa Claus rally” failed to materialize. The Dow ended higher by…
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 07, 2024 shows Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky (L) arrives to give a press conference on the sideline of a EU summit in Brussels, on October 17, 2024, and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) arrives to speak during a campaign rally at the J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 4, 2024. Ludovic Marinryan M. Kelly | Afp | Getty ImagesUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late on Sunday that security guarantees for Kyiv to end Russia’s war would only be effective if the United States provides them,…
EMBARGOED TO 1AM SG MON JAN 6 / 9AM PST SUN JAN 5 2025Beijing-based robot vacuum maker Roborock revealed a new model in January 2025 with an artificial intelligence-powered folding arm for removing obstacles.CNBC | Evelyn ChengBEIJING — Chinese robot vacuum cleaner company Roborock revealed a new model on Monday that comes with a folding arm for removing socks and other obstacles — a feature powered by artificial intelligence.It’s the latest step toward what Roborock President Quan Gang expects will be the inevitable: that robot vacuum cleaners become as essential as washing machines.That’s something that could happen in as soon…
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks as he participates in a bill signing ceremony for the “Social Security Fairness Act” in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, U.S. on Jan. 5, 2025. Nathan Howard | ReutersPresident Joe Biden on Sunday signed the Social Security Fairness Act, bipartisan legislation that clears the way for teachers, firefighters, policeman and other public sector workers who also receive pension income to receive increases in their Social Security benefits.The benefit boost comes as the new law repeals two provisions — the Windfall Elimination Provision, or WEP, and the Government Pension Offset, or GPO…
The far-right Freedom Party of Austria gained a realistic chance this weekend of leading the country’s next government, after talks between three mainstream parties collapsed.The Freedom Party’s ascent would put its firebrand leader, Herbert Kickl, into the position of chancellor and signal a new high-water mark for the rise of the far right in Europe.Austria’s president, Alexander Van der Bellen, was expected to give Mr. Kickl, whose party won the most seats in the national assembly in September elections, the task of forming a coalition when the two men meet on Monday. The meeting could be the first formal step…
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco GoncalvesCNBCEven as Nippon Steel faced skepticism of its doomed $14.9 billion bid for U.S. Steel from the Biden administration, it was also contending with headwinds from an unlikely source: the CEO of a rival bidder for the firm who repeatedly cast doubt on the deal’s prospects to investors.Lourenco Goncalves, CEO of steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs, which made a failed $7 billion bid for U.S. Steel in August 2023, participated in at least nine calls assuring investors that President Joe Biden would scuttle the Nippon Steel merger months before he did so on Friday, according to summaries of investor calls…
How Trump redefined the Jan. 6 riot as “a day of love”Four years ago today, protesters stormed the Capitol with clubs, chemical irritants and other weapons, inflamed by Donald Trump’s lie that the election had been stolen from him.Several people died during and after the riot, including one protester by gunshot and four police officers by suicide. More than 140 officers were injured. After the attack, Trump’s political career seemed done. But in two weeks, he takes the oath of office.In the years since the riot, both he and his supporters have devoted considerable effort to reinventing the events of…
