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A 26-year-old man was stabbed with a butcher knife on a Manhattan subway train Wednesday night in yet another instance of transit-system violence The victim was knifed in the leg and left finger after getting into a dispute with another straphanger on a northbound 2 train around 11 p.m., police said. A woman who was riding the train with the victim pepper-sprayed the stabber, who then fled the train — hopping off at the 72nd Street station on the Upper West Side, according to the NYPD. No arrests have been made in the stabbing. Christopher Sadowski A woman was able…

Chinese stocks have hit multi-year lows in New York and Hong Kong amid growing concerns about China’s rising Covid cases and economic outlook. The plunge comes at a time when members of China’s ruling Communist Party are meeting for the 20th Party Congress, a major leadership reshuffle that sets the tone for policy for the coming years. In Hong Kong, the benchmark Hang Seng (HSI) Index tumbled as much as 3% in Thursday’s morning trade. By early afternoon, it pared losses to 1.1%, on track to hit its lowest close since October 2011, according to Refinitiv. The fall comes just…

A former California youth soccer coach convicted of molesting a child for six years has been sentenced to over 155 years behind bars.Jesus Anthony Magana, 39, from Oxnard, was sentenced to 155 years to life in prison on Wednesday following his previous conviction involving multiple counts of sexually assaulting and committing lewd acts with a young child, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.On Sept. 7, Magana was convicted of five counts of unlawful acts on a child 10 years of age or younger, four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and seven counts of lewd acts…

TAIPEI: Chinese President Xi Jinping would become a “sinner” of all Chinese people if he attacked Taiwan and would not win a war as he would face international sanctions and diplomatic isolation, Taiwan’s top security official said on Thursday (Oct 20). China has ramped up military and political pressure against democratically governed Taiwan over the past two years as it seeks to assert its sovereignty claims, which the government in Taipei strongly rejects. Opening a twice-a-decade congress of China’s ruling Communist Party on Sunday, Xi said it was up to the Chinese people to resolve the Taiwan issue and that China…

A believer in Happily Ever After! Gwyneth Paltrow shared her feelings about finding “The One” — and if someone can have more than one big love in their lifetime.  “I do believe in [soulmates],” Paltrow, 50, exclusively shared with Us Weekly on Wednesday, October 19, while promoting her Gwyneth Paltrow x Copper Fit collection. “I mean, I think that there can be more than one. But I do believe that there’s that person that can feel so right. And I think you do know. You know pretty early when it’s the right person.”  The Sliding Doors star has had her…

Three musicians from the iconic American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, plus three other people, were killed in a terrifying plane crash on the Louisiana-Mississippi border on this day in history, Oct. 20, 1977. Lead singer and founder Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and his sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines, were all killed on impact. The crash of the small Convair CV-240 passenger plane also claimed the lives of assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray. Twenty people survived.ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, OCT. 19, 1789, JOHN JAY SWORN IN AS FIRST SUPREME COURT JUSTICE”The crash took away…

Many Asian countries introduced tougher Covid-19 restrictions than in other continents, a reality that has caused concerns about elevated levels of stress, anxiety and isolation. Now, a number of young entrepreneurs are leveraging technology to provide greater access to mental healthcare there. In July, Singapore-based Intellect raised $20 million in its Series A funding, the largest amount raised by a mental health start-up in Asia. Founded in 2019, Intellect runs a mobile app that regularly checks in on users’ mood, provides rescue sessions and exercises that tailor to their needs, and allows them to connect with therapists in real time…

Uber is launching an in-house advertising division and rolling out its own form of targeted digital ads as it seeks to develop new revenue sources. The ridehailing giant announced the launch of its “enterprise-wide” advertising unit on Wednesday, saying it will be helmed by Amazon advertising veteran Mark Grether. Uber (UBER) at the same time unveiled its new in-app “Journey Ads” service, which lets marketers place ads within the Uber (UBER) app to reach customers at each step on their trips. This means the customers will be served ads when they check to see how far away their driver is,…

An omicron subvariant is once again demonstrating immune-dodging abilities, posing a threat to both vaccinated and previously infected individuals.A report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the subvariant, called BA.4.6, could drive reinfections.As of Friday, BA.4.6 accounted for just over 12% of new COVID cases in the U.S. BA.5, meanwhile, has been detected in nearly 68% of new cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Full coverage of the COVID-19 pandemicThese subvariants are far from the only strains that experts worldwide are keeping their eyes on. Other omicron subvariants that have piqued the interest — and concerns…

Bakhmut, Ukraine CNN  —  The weather in Bakhmut deceives the senses, sunny and warm – almost peaceful. But a deafening boom of outgoing artillery from the critical eastern Ukrainian town shook that notion out of the system, as Ukrainian soldiers on Wednesday launched offensives to try to reclaim positions from Russian forces. Three men could be seen making a run for it out of town, one with a microwave strapped to his back. Russia’s war in Ukraine has been going on for eight months. It’s only when you descend into the city of Bakhmut that you really get a sense…