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brMust be love on the brain! Rihanna and A$AP Rocky have spent years denying that their relationship is anything but platonic, but things finally changed when the rapper called her “the love of my life” in 2021. After more than a year of rumors, the “Peso” artist confirmed in a May interview with GQ that he was dating the Fenty Beauty founder and called her “The One.” One month earlier, a source told Us Weekly that the pair were spotted “holding hands and laughing” during a night out in Los Angeles. “It’s obvious they’re a couple and also are each…

Despite the rally in Bitcoin that has seen prices jump around 27% since the start of the year, on-chain data suggests that Bitcoin whales are not using the pump as an opportunity to sell their holdings. According to some analysts, this is a sign of confidence that the recent rally signals the start of a longer-lasting bull market.According to data from crypto analytics firm Glassnode, the number of Bitcoin addresses holding between 1,000 to 10,000 Bitcoins (or so-called whale addresses) has remained broadly steady at just above 1,900 since the start of December. Shark bitcoin addresses, which hold anything between…

Elon Musk made the “split-second decision” to tweet that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private in 2018 after seeing a story in the Financial Times, a lawyer for the billionaire told jurors in San Francisco on Wednesday. Musk sent the message while in a car on the way to an airport after he read a report in the FT detailing how Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund had quietly acquired a $2bn stake in the electric vehicle group, a lawyer for Musk and Tesla, Alex Spiro, said. Days earlier, Musk had met with the PIF to discuss taking Tesla…

TAIPEI: Appeasing China will not bring peace, Taiwan’s vice-president said on Wednesday (Jan 18), days after he was elected head of the ruling party in a move that makes him a prime presidential contender at the next election. William Lai, 63, is seen as a likely successor to President Tsai Ing-wen, who is barred from running again after her second four-year term ends in May 2024. Lai has been more outspoken on Taiwanese independence than Tsai, and he is openly loathed by Beijing for that reason. “Appeasement cannot buy peace,” Lai said in his first comments on China since assuming the Democratic…

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, on day two of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPalantir co-founder and CEO Alex Karp knows many tech workers in Silicon Valley have misgivings about his data mining firm’s dealings with intelligence agencies and the military. He has a message for them.”You may not agree with that and, bless you, don’t work here,” Karp said at the World Economic Forum in Davos in a conversation with David Rubenstein, co-chairman of private equity firm The Carlyle Group.Palantir sells software to government and private sector organizations that helps them analyze…

Police fired tear gas at demonstrators in eastern Congo on Wednesday after dozens of people took part in an unauthorized protest in Goma against the presence of foreign troops to help quell violence from armed groups.Authorities later detained some participants, as well as some journalists covering the protest.Leaders of the seven-nation East African Community resolved last year to create and deploy a regional force to eastern Congo, where the M23 rebel group has been blamed for growing violence.Kenyan troops arrived late last year, and another contingent from South Sudan was expected in the coming days. However, the troops have faced…

A driver who led police on a chase in suburban St. Louis was shot and killed by officers after pointing a gun at them, police said.The shooting happened about 10:45 p.m. Tuesday on Interstate 70 in Wentzville, Missouri. Police said officers with a crime reduction task force made up of several St. Charles County departments tried to pull over a pickup truck in O’Fallon, Missouri, because the license plate didn’t match the vehicle. The truck refused to stop.A few minutes later, in Wentzville, spike strips were successful in stopping the truck, which drove through a grass median and came to…

The Canadian Judicial Council says it will take no further action against an Alberta judge after receiving a complaint that comments he made about a medical examiner from Nigeria could be perceived as racist. Dozens of medical and legal experts filed the complaint in 2019 against Justice Terry Clackson for comments he made in finding an Alberta couple not guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of life in the death of their 19-month-old son.Clackson said in his decision that Dr. Bamidele Adeagbo spoke with an accent and was difficult to understand and also called the doctor out for his…

A man charged with threatening to kill a Kansas congressman said in federal court Wednesday that he has a “very religious” defense and is now acting as his own attorney, despite a judge’s warnings that he is making a big mistake.Prosecutors hoped to call U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner, the Republican whose Topeka office received the phone call prompting the criminal charge, as a witness Wednesday afternoon.The trial of Chase Neill, 32, of the northeastern Kansas city of Lawrence, came amid what authorities say is a sharp rise in threats against the nation’s lawmakers and their families.TRIAL UNDERWAY FOR KANSAS MAN…

Excessive speed was a contributing factor in a fatal car crash that killed Georgia football player Devin Willock and a member of the team’s recruiting staff early Sunday morning, just hours after the Bulldogs celebrated winning back-to-back national championships, investigators in Georgia said.According to a crash report released by the Athens-Clarke Police Department on Tuesday, 24-year-old recruiting analyst Chandler LeCroy was driving a 2021 Ford Expedition SUV when she “failed to negotiate a left curve, resulting in the vehicle striking the curb with its front passenger tire and leaving the roadway on the west shoulder.” The report, obtained by the…