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The arrest warrant for a Massachusetts nurse, who’s accused of strangling her three young children before attempting suicide, includes two counts of murder, three counts of strangulation or suffocation, and three counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon.Lindsay Clancy, 32, remains in the hospital and will be arraigned “as soon as possible,” Plymouth District Attorney Tim Cruz said during a press conference Wednesday. Two of the three children – Cora Clancy, 5, and Dawson Clancy, 3 – died. The attack’s sole survivor, a seven-month-old infant boy, remains in critical condition in a Boston hospital. MA MOM ALLEGEDLY KILLED TWO OF…

If US consumers are worried about the economy, they are not showing it. Even as some of the world’s biggest names in finance and technology announced fresh job cuts, Americans have continued to spend at a brisk pace.At American Express, shoppers made more than $1.5tn in purchases on their cards last year, a 21 per cent jump from 2021. Overall, full-year revenue net of interest expense at the credit card giant was up a quarter at $52.8bn, a new high. Executives said the good times should continue. Amex is expecting revenue to increase in a range of 15-17 per cent…

Keira Johnson had been filming an advert for a London-based agency when she suffered ‘serious back injuries’ after a mechanical tree fell early and crushed her on set in Poland A dancer who suffered ‘serious injuries’ after being crushed by a mechanical tree while on a film set is suing for over £300,000 compensation. Keira Johnson had been filming an advert in Poland in September 2022 when she sustained back injuries after a tree mounted on a mechanical stump fell on her. The performance artist — who had worked for the Royal Opera House — had been hired by a…

When Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reports quarterly earnings next week, the Club holding’s results should not look nearly as bad as longtime rival Intel ‘s (INTC) dismal numbers. AMD’s quarter is unlikely to be perfect and may even be underwhelming in some areas. The semiconductor market — especially on the personal computer side where both AMD and Intel operate — remains challenged overall. But the magnitude of the Intel’s disappointment stems from many company-specific factors, including lost market share to chip peers such as AMD. It’s an important distinction that Friday’s stock moves seem to reflect. Intel shares fell more…

A student nurse appeared in a British court Friday, charged with planning to attack an air force base and taking a home-made bomb to a hospital maternity unit where he worked.Mohammad Farooq, 27, was arrested outside St. James’s University Hospital in Leeds, northern England, on Jan. 20 with what prosecutors say was a “viable” pressure-cooker bomb containing 30 pounds of a homemade low-explosive mixture.Prosecutors also allege that Farooq carried out “hostile reconnaissance” of a Royal Air Force base in northern England earlier this month after being encouraged online to attack it.CONVICTED UK TRANSGENDER RAPIST WILL SERVE SENTENCE IN MALE PRISON,…

New York City protest planned in response to Tyre Nichols’ deathA New York City group announced it is organizing a rally on Friday in New York City’s Times Square in response to the release of the body camera footage that Memphis police said shows the assault of Tyre Nichols by five police officers.The New York City branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation said they “are calling on all New Yorkers to hit the streets with us tomorrow” in an Instagram post shared by the group’s account on Thursday. The group said that it demands “an end to racist…

“Just one word . . . plastics” is the career advice offered by the family friend Mr McGuire to a bemused Benjamin Braddock, played by Dustin Hoffman, in the 1967 movie The Graduate. A modern-day Mr McGuire might well advocate coding as the route to decently paid job security. Or he might have done before the tech industry axed 200,000 jobs in the past 12 months — and the clamour around the artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT raised awareness that machines can write code, too. Computers, it seems, may soon be programming themselves. So is what we’ve been telling our kids about safe jobs all…

Spain’s National Court said Friday it had charged a 74-year-old retired man with terrorism for allegedly sending six letters containing explosive material to Spain’s prime minister and the U.S. and Ukrainian embassies in the country.The as-yet-unidentified man appeared before a judge in Madrid on Friday and was detained without bail, the court said. The suspect, referred to only by the initials PGP, was charged with six separate terrorism offenses, it added, after being arrested in the northern city of Miranda de Ebro on Wednesday.The man was charged with the manufacture and use of explosive devices for terrorist purposes, according to…

New York CNN  —  A coalition of Republican-led states is suing the US Labor Department to block an imminent rule change that will allow 401(k) managers to consider climate change and other environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when selecting investments. The coalition, led by Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, argues the Labor Department rule violates federal law, would put trillions of dollars of retirement savings at risk and is being driven by political ideology. The lawsuit was filed by 25 states, almost all of them led by a Republican governor. The two states led by Democrats, Kentucky and Louisiana,…

India will receive 12 cheetahs from South Africa next month that will join eight others it received from Namibia in September as part of an ambitious plan to reintroduce the cats in the country after 70 years.India plans to transport an additional 12 annually for the next eight to 10 years as part of an agreement signed by the two African countries, India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change said Friday.Cheetah populations in most countries are declining. South Africa, where the cats are running out of space, is an exception.INDIA TO REINTRODUCE CHEETAHS, 6 DECADES AFTER THEY DISAPPEARED FROM…