FTX Founder to Live With His Parents After Being Released on Enormous Bail

Sam Bankman-Fried has been released on $250 million bail, a New York federal judge ruled on Thursday. Under the terms of the agreement, Bankman-Fried is to live in Palo Alto, California, with his parents under electronic surveillance. The next hearing is scheduled for January 3, when he’ll enter his plea and be arraigned.

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Sympathy for the Devil: Secret of Fictional Villains' Appeal Laid Bare in New Study

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan has discovered a possible explanation of why some members of an audience may feel sympathetic toward villainous characters in movies or cartoons.

During the course of their work, the results of which were published in the journal Cognition, researchers gauged how children and adults perceived the character and true selves of fictional heroes and villains.

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Biden Expects More Ups, Downs for US Economy in 2023 After Latest Inflation Report

US President Joe Biden said that he foresees more ups and downs for the nation's economy in the year ahead on Friday after the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge showed prices continued to moderate in November.

"Today’s report shows that incomes are up and inflation is coming down – while our job market remains strong," Biden said in a statement. "There will be more ups and downs in the year ahead, but we are making progress building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out and I’m optimistic for the year ahead."

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🫡 Alex 'the Great 8' Ovechkin has scored his 801st goal, tying Gordie Howe for second in NHL history

‼️Air raid warning issued in Kiev-controlled Zaporozhye - ministry data

📹WATCH: Russian Pantsir-S surface-to-air missile system on duty as part of a special operation in Ukraine (video courtesy of Russia’s MoD).

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🏒Ovechkin has done it again... this time surpassing Gordie Howe's record after scoring his 802nd goal

Polygamist 'Prophet' Who Wed Underage Girls Arrested by Authorities - Video

Having been caught transporting underage girls in an unventilated trailer, the self-proclaimed "prophet" has since pleaded guilty to charges of child abuse, with his followers claiming that the accusations brought against their leader are false.

Police bodycam footage of the arrest of a self-styled “prophet” with a penchant for polygamy has emerged on social media this week. The arrest, which took place on August 28 in Arizona, was thrust into the media spotlight this month due to the filing of federal court documents that shed light on the matter.

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🤔Fox News host Tucker Carlson has lambasted politicians in the US for dutifully clapping along as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky implored a joint meeting of Congress to provide him with more weapons.

💬“Almost every person in the room clapped like a seal,” Carlson told viewers of his nightly show on Thursday. “So no matter what [Zelensky] said — Send me more money; I command you, send me more money; we’re taking care of it the most responsible ways — they applaud, all of them....Almost like they have to,” he added.

The near-identical response by the vast majority of the US political class indicates the supposedly “bitter” public disagreements between Democrats and Republicans are mainly for show, Carlson suggests.

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🏒Alexander Ovechkin will theoretically be able to beat Canadian Wayne Gretzky (894) in the list of the best scorers in the history of the NHL in the 2024/25 season if he continues to score an average of 50 goals per season, as he has done for the last 5 years.

📹The video shows the historic 802nd goal scored by the 37-year-old Russian, which allowed him to beat Gordie Howe (played 26 seasons in the NHL from 1946 to 1980) and place second in the list of the best scorers in the history of the NHL.

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⚡️Russian Defense Ministry names new senior participants in military bio program in Ukraine;

▪️Russian MoD: Pentagon transfers military bio research in Ukraine to other states;

▪️Moscow accessed US Defense Department report on bio threat reduction in Ukraine

❗️The Russian MoD has named new key participants in American military biological projects in Ukraine, among them the chief researcher and president of the Pfizer International Research Department. At the same time, all the identified defendants turned out to be associated with the US Democratic Party.

▪️Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov noted that the leaders of the US Democratic Party "are the ideological inspirers of military biological research and the creators of secret money laundering schemes in the interests of a narrow circle of representatives of the American elite."

▪️The Ministry also received access to an expanded version of the report of one of the Pentagon departments on activities in Ukraine, which confirms that exercises and training took place in the country involving particularly dangerous pathogens.

📹Russian security forces detained a former Azov* militant in the LPR who had planned terrorist attacks

*banned in Russia for terrorist activities

Intensified cooperation with NATO undermines Moldova’s security and the supply of western arms would only bring negative consequences, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin told Sputnik.

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📹WATCH: A woman from the Rubezhnoe settlement (LPR) describes how the Ukrainian Army shelled residential buildings

New Year the Japanese Way: Start Your Life From Scratch

New Year's Day is the most beloved and colorful holiday in Japan. The Japanese have been celebrating it since 1873 on January 1 by the western calendar. However, the custom of celebrating the Christian Christmas preceding the New Year did not become an integral part of Japanese cultural tradition until a century later, in the 1970s.

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Mecca flooded, whole streets turned into rivers

Crisis and disaster management officials in Mecca are asking residents not to leave their homes due to the devastating flash flood that hit the holy city on Friday.