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FRIDAY’S BIG STORIESMourinho’s dig Roma’s 1-1 draw with Real Betis leaves them on four points in Europa League Group A. They sit third in the group, with Betis on 10 points and Ludogorets on seven. Ergo, Jose Mourinho’s side are in real jeopardy of not progressing to the knockout stages of the competition and dropping into the Europa Conference League. Europa LeagueBetis stay top after Roma draw, Ratcliffe’s Nice beaten at home by Slovacko10 HOURS AGOBetis – as well as topping their Europa League group – sit fifth in La Liga after a fine start to the season and Mourinho…

Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp, the Chinese memory chip producer, has been stockpiling foreign equipment for months in anticipation that the US is preparing to kneecap one of China’s national champions.Four YMTC employees said the company had been preparing for Washington to impose export controls, as US lawmakers urged the Biden administration to punish the state-backed company for allegedly helping the Chinese military and violating trade restrictions by supplying chips to Huawei, the Chinese telecoms company.“We’ve been doing everything possible beforehand to support existing production lines, such as stockpiling all kinds of equipment,” said one senior YMTC engineer.Those concerns materialised on…

Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says she is “concerned with every single customer who leaves Optus”. “We are trying to deliver fantastic service to all of our customers all the time, and we want to retain all out customers and give them innovative and wonderful services,” she told Sky News host Ross Greenwood. “Every customer loss concerns us.” Source: Sky News

Border patrol officials found Tuesday what the agency said was $400,000 worth of methamphetamine hidden inside pumpkins at the U.S-Mexico border in Texas, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.The discovery was made at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry across from Piedras Negras when an SUV coming from Mexico was referred for further inspection, CBP said.CBP said 136 condoms were filled with 44 pounds of liquid methamphetamine and hidden inside four pumpkins. A photo released by the agency appeared to show items packed into a hollowed out squash. It characterized them as Halloween decorations.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers…

The mother of a Navy SEAL candidate who died hours after successfully completing the notoriously punishing “Hell Week” said she was “disgusted” to learn that the senior officials involved in the death have so far only received “administrative actions” despite the months that have passed.More than eight months after Seaman Kyle Mullen died, the 24-year-old’s mother is on a mission now more than ever to get justice for her son and push for greater protections for other Navy SEAL candidates going forward.”My son can’t die in vain.” — Regina Mullen to Fox News Digital”It’s not just my son that died,”…

Samuel W. Alderson is the genius who made dummies smart. The California inventor parlayed a knack for tinkering in his old man’s sheet metal shop into a gift for making highways safer here in America and around the world. A prolific producer of cutting-edge military hardware in World War II, Alderson is most famous as the father of the crash test dummy. In scientific circles, these objects are known as anthropomorphic test devices — a more accurate indication of their robust capabilities. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO FIRST PLANTED APPLES IN THE COLONIES: WILLIAM BLAXTON, ECCENTRIC SETTLER”Sam Alderson was driven by a passion to save lives by using…

Vice President Kamala Harris has spent only three days in Central America during the two brief trips since she was assigned the mission of addressing the “root cause” of mass migration to the southern border.Harris has taken two brief trips to Latin America in her nearly two years in office. Since her last visit in June, annual encounters at the border hit their highest total in American history at 2.1 million in August. If the trend continues at a similar pace, total encounters will surpass 3 million for 2022.  Harris waited six months to visit the southern border for the…

ATLANTA – Democratic Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock is arguing that his party should continue its focus on abortion as an election issue despite polls consistently showing voters with significantly more concern for the economy and inflation just weeks ahead of the November midterms.During a media gaggle following an event celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, Fox News Digital asked Warnock if Democrats needed to adjust their message to focus more on what was at the forefront of voters minds, as well as if he supported any limitations on abortion, a question he dodged.”Listen, we can, and we must focus on the economy…

A short series just got shorter.  With Game 2 of the ALDS between the Yankees and Guardians postponed Thursday due to a bad forecast in The Bronx, the teams could end up playing four straight days if the series goes the full five games.  As Aaron Boone said Wednesday about the prospect of losing an off day, “That’s what you do in baseball. You play every day.”  But that’s not usually the case in the playoffs, and the Yankees will head into Friday’s Game 2 at the Stadium having played just one game in an eight-day span thanks to their…

The Bank’s Financial Stability Committee on Sep. 28 announced a two-week emergency purchase program for long-dated U.K. government bonds.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesLONDON — The Bank of England’s emergency bond-buying program draws to a close on Friday, with traders remaining on edge as volatility in the U.K. bond market looks set to continue.The central bank initially announced the two-week intervention in the long-dated bond market on Sep. 28, having been informed that a number of liability driven investment (LDI) funds — held by pension plans — were hours from collapse as U.K. government bond prices plunged.The market volatility was…