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After 12 Hall of Fame-worthy seasons, Arizona Cardinals defensive end J.J. Watt played his final NFL game, as he walked off the field at Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco to a standing ovation in emotional fashion. But, as HBO’s “Hard Knocks” teased ahead of their final in-season episode with the Cardinals, Watt’s water works had been running throughout the week. During a defense meeting, Arizona’s coordinator on that side of the ball, Vance Joseph, shared a very special video the team put together for Watt. And when his brother, fellow Defensive Player of the Year T.J. Watt, came on the screen, Watt immediately…

Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles. Shutterstock (2) Read between the lines? Olivia Wilde shared a cryptic quote that offered more insight into her state of mind following her split from Harry Styles. Wilde, 38, took to social media on Tuesday, January 10, to share a scene from Tropical Malady in her Instagram Stories, which read, “I’d hate to die without having loved.” The actress’ subtle social media post comes two months after Us Weekly confirmed that Wilde and Styles, 28, called it quits. Ahead of their breakup, the former couple made headlines for their high-profile romance after meeting on the set…

South Korea on Tuesday hit back at claims that its Covid rules for Chinese travelers are “discriminatory,” saying more than half of its imported cases are coming from China.In a response to CNBC, Seung-ho Choi, a deputy director at the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said that up to 80% of “imported confirmed cases” in South Korea are coming from China.Choi said the number of people traveling from China who tested positive for Covid-19 went up 14 times from November to December.Choi also said that its policies cover “all Korean nationals and non-Korean nationals coming from China. This is…

The World Bank slashed its global growth forecasts from projections it made in mid-2022 on the back of what it sees as broadly worsening economic conditions.The international development institution downgraded almost all of its forecasts for advanced economies in the world, cutting its growth outlook for the global economy to 1.7% for 2023, it said in its latest report, Global Economic Prospects. The organization earlier projected the world economy to expand by 3% in 2023.The adjustment was led by a significant downgrade to its prospects for the U.S. economy — it now forecasts 0.5% growth from an earlier projection of…

The Islanders got the much-improved start they needed. And really, they played the game they needed coming off a rough four-game road trip. All that was missing were the two points. That’s going to happen sometimes in hockey, and one was a consolation in this shootout loss. But this was not a good night to settle, not with the Islanders opening a pivotal five-game homestand and needing a win far more than the consolation prize of a point and improved play. They’ll have to settle with that, though, as they reckon with a 2-1 defeat at the hands of the…

CNN  —  Lynette Hardaway, a pro-Donald Trump social media personality and part of the duo most commonly known as “Diamond & Silk,” has died, according to the pair’s official social media accounts. The official Diamond and Silk Facebook account announced the death in a post on Monday, and similar announcements were posted to the pair’s official Instagram and Twitter accounts. No additional details on the cause of death were provided. Hardaway, known as “Diamond,” was 51 at the time of her death, according to The New York Times. “The World just lost a True Angel and Warrior Patriot for Freedom,…

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Chief Minister Hajiji Noor unveiled a new Cabinet on Wednesday (Jan 11), with former deputy chief minister Bung Moktar Radin dropped from the line-up. Last week, Mr Bung Moktar, who is also Sabah’s United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) chief, pulled the party’s state assemblymen from the 27-month-old coalition government. This led to the collapse of the state government led by the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition. “With the realisation for the need of an inclusive administration, I have included assemblymen from Pakatan Harapan (PH) into the Cabinet, in addition to representatives from UMNO/Barisan Nasional (BN) and GRS,”…

Hong Kong CNN  —  Fast Retailing, the Japanese giant that owns popular clothing brands Uniqlo and Theory, will start paying its employees much more this year. The company announced Wednesday that it would boost salaries in Japan by up to 40%, acknowledging that “remuneration levels have remained low” in the country in recent years. “This will include employees from headquarters and corporate departments responsible for the functions of the company’s global headquarters, as well as employees working in stores,” the firm said in a statement. The move comes just days after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called on business leaders…

C-SPAN isn’t packing up its cameras quietly. The public affairs network on Tuesday sent a letter to new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy asking for permission to operate its own independent cameras in the House chamber. “Allow C-SPAN to cover House floor proceedings on behalf of our network and all Congressionally-accredited news organizations,” co-chief executive Susan Swain wrote McCarthy. Typically, the video feed viewers see on television of the House conducting its normal day-to-day business is one provided by the government to the press from government-controlled cameras. That’s because the House normally forbids independent media coverage of proceedings. But during special…

The state of Texas executed a former police officer who hired two people to kill his wife almost 30 years ago during a heated divorce.Robert Fratta, 65, was pronounced dead on Tuesday night at 7:49 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at the Huntsville state penitentiary.Fratta, a former suburban Houston police officer, was convicted in a murder-for-hire plot after prosecutors say he hired a middleman, Joseph Prystash, to hire the shooter, Howard Guidry. Farah Fratta, 33, died after being shot twice in the head inside the garage her home in November 1994, in Atascocita, Texas.TEXAS TO EXECUTE FORMER POLICE OFFICER FOR…