Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Sunday echoed President Joe Biden’s remarks last week that the upcoming election would be “free and fair,” but maybe not “peaceful.”“If it is close, if [former President] Donald Trump loses again, as I expect that he will, he will contest it,” Schiff told moderator Kristen Welker on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” “He has more reason to contest it than he did before, not because of any flaw in the election, but because Donald Trump believes, and perhaps with reason, that if he doesn’t succeed at the ballot box, he may be going to jail.…
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Valerie Penso-CuculichTV producer Ms Penso-Cuculich says reality TV applicants are using too much AI to alter how they lookValerie Penso-Cuculich knows a thing or two about picking contestants for reality TV shows.She’s a casting director for such programmes as Love Island USA, The Real Housewives of Dubai, and The Millionaire Matchmaker.Ms Penso-Cuculich says that AI has made her first contact with applicants far more complicated.“Potential contestants are increasingly using AI on the photos they post on their social media,” she says. As a result, there is a big uptick in over-filtered images, and people not looking real.“My main mission is…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.A series of strong economic data has persuaded investors swing behind US central banker hints that the Federal Reserve will only cut interest rates gradually in the coming months. Next week’s inflation figures mark the next point to shape investor thinking. Thursday sees consumer price inflation figures with producer price numbers due on Friday. Before both, the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s September meeting, due on Wednesday, should reveal more about the debate that led the bank’s rate-setting committee to cut rates by…
A crowd gathers around an anti-Israel protestor who lite himself on fire./Image credit: @JessicaCostescu @FreeBeacon /X An anti-Israel protester, identified as Samuel Mena Jr, lit himself on fire outside of the White House during an anti-Israel protest on Saturday evening. In photos and videos of the incident, Mena Jr, is seen screaming in pain as he raises his left arm engulfed in pain and Several bystanders rished to his aid, dousing him with water and beating out the flames with pieces of clothing. Mena screamed about ‘misinformation’ and announced that he is a journalist. Jessica Costescu from Free Beacon captured the…
Since news broke of Anna Delvey’s participation in “Dancing with the Stars”—where she was partnered with Ezra Sosa–there was a ton of buzz among fans and celebrities. Even “Dancing with the Stars” judge Derek Hough expressed curiosity about what Delvey would bring to the dance floor ahead of the season.Her time on the show didn’t last long, as on the September 24 episode of “Dancing with the Stars,” the 33-year-old convicted con artist and her professional dance partner, Ezra Sosa, were eliminated from the competition.After Anna Delvey was eliminated, host Julianne Hough asked her what she would take away from…
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Sunday (Oct 6) announced he will appoint 21 new cardinals of the global Catholic Church, in an unexpected push to influence the powerful group of churchmen that will one day choose his successor. The ceremony to install the new appointees, known as a consistory, will be held on Dec 8, the 87-year-old pope announced during his weekly noon-time prayer with pilgrims and tourists in St Peter’s Square. It will be the tenth consistory called by the pope since his election 11 years ago as the first pontiff from Latin America. The new cardinals come from…
Dozens of Palestinians killed and wounded as the Israeli army announces new evacuation orders for northern Gaza.At least 26 Palestinians have been killed and many others wounded after Israeli forces attacked a mosque and a school sheltering displaced people in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, the strip’s Health Ministry said. “The number of martyrs brought to hospitals as a result of the occupation’s targeting of displaced people in the Ibn Rushd school and al-Aqsa Martyrs Mosque reached 26, with several more wounded,” the ministry said in a statement on Sunday. “The Israeli occupation committed three massacres against families in the Gaza…
LeBron James is calling “cap” on a recent report about him. The Los Angeles Lakers star was the subject of an interesting claim this week in a report by Ramona Shelburne of ESPN. Shelburne said that “part of the reason” James came to the Lakers in 2018 was because he was impressed by how the team treated the late Kobe Bryant during the final seasons of Bryant’s career.James openly disputed that notion in a post to his X page on Saturday.“I came to the Lakers cause I wanted to help [Lakers owner] Jeanie [Buss] win championships, bring that Spark back…
The U.S. job market surpassed forecasts with a staggering addition of 254,000 new jobs in September. Experts were forecasting the number to be around 150,000.The unemployment rate, meanwhile, fell from 4.2% in August to 4.1% in September.Related: Barbara Corcoran Says This Is the One Question to Ask Before Selling Your Home”You really couldn’t ask realistically for a better report for the economy — coupled with finding out that the port strike is not going to be an extended matter, and that at least for months, this is not going to be an issue,” Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee told…
You could be forgiven for thinking that this dramatic image is a still from a forthcoming science fiction epic, but it is actually the work of photographer Andrew McConnell, part of his in-depth series Some Worlds Have Two Suns – and it is very much of this planet. McConnell began documenting the movements of Russian Soyuz rockets in 2015. Every three months, a spacecraft takes off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, a spaceport in Kazakhstan, carrying three astronauts and cosmonauts on a 6-hour journey to the International Space Station. At roughly the same time, three space travellers come back to Earth, landing…