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Samsung Electronics flagged on Friday its quarterly profit tumbled to an eight-year low as a weakening global economy hammered memory chip prices and curbed demand for electronic devices. Profits at the world’s largest memory chip, smartphone and TV maker are expected to shrink again in the current quarter, analysts said, after Samsung announced its October-December operating profit likely fell 69% to 4.3 trillion won ($3.37 billion) from 13.87 trillion won a year earlier. It was Samsung (SSNLF)’s smallest quarterly profit since the third quarter of 2014 and fell short of a 5.9 trillion won Refinitiv SmartEstimate, which is weighted toward…

Former NFL running back Peyton Hillis is reportedly hospitalized after a swimming accident where he saved his kids from drowning, according to TMZ.According to the report, Peyton remains in the intensive care unit for treatment on his lungs and kidneys, but doctors say his health is improving, according to his uncle, Greg Hillis. Peyton’s kids are said to be safe and healthy, according to the report.According to Fox 24 reporter Alyssa Orange, Peyton Hillis was in Pensacola, Fla. when the accident happened and he was helicoptered to the hospital and remains unconscious in the ICU. While there were posts on…

One day after the release of a scathing review looking into how Alberta’s child welfare system failed a four-year-old girl who died while in care, some advocates for families say it demonstrates the need to recognize the status quo is not acceptable. “This isn’t working,” Lynne Marshalsay said Thursday.The Medicine Hat-based founder of Preserving Families, a support group for people dealing with Alberta Children’s Services, said she believes child welfare in the province is steeped in systemic racism and unfairly impacts Indigenous and low-income families.“We need to tear this whole system down,” Marshalsay said. “There is no fixing the system……

Throwing shade? Lisa Rinna announced she would be exiting The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills — and former costar Lisa Vanderpump was seemingly quick to share her thoughts on the matter.  “Ding dong,” Vanderpump, 62, tweeted on Thursday, January 5, just hours after Rinna, 59, revealed she wouldn’t be returning to the Bravo series. The comment appeared to reference lyrics from the song “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead,” which was featured in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The two women have found themselves in various on-air feuds over the years and were at odds once again in 2019 when…

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MOSCOW, Idaho – Bryan Kohberger lived just over 10 miles from the home where he allegedly stabbed four University of Idaho students to death.His suspected escape route added a few extra turns.Kohberger was being held without bail Thursday at the Latah County Jail on four counts of murder and a felony burglary charge for allegedly entering a home with the intent to kill.Police allege he ambushed four sleeping University of Idaho students with a knife in the early hours of Nov. 13, 2022.IDAHO MURDERS: BRYAN KOHBERGER CHANGED LICENSE PLATE FIVE DAYS AFTER STUDENT SLAYINGSWATCH THE VIDEOIn a sworn statement unsealed…

A suspected drunk driver accused of killing two Tennessee parents on Christmas Day may have to pay child support for their now orphaned children under a new state law. As of January 1, Tennessee became the first state in the U.S. to charge DUI drivers who cause a fatality child support for their victims’ surviving children.On Christmas Day, Patricke Conley, 42, was arrested after he lost control of his vehicle after hitting a mailbox and swerved into the lane where Dustin and Brittany Dillard, both 33, were driving along with their three young children.Conley was charged with two counts of…

The court finds Arturo Murillo guilty of conspiracy to commit money laundering and sentences him to 70 months in prison.A federal court in the United States has sentenced former Bolivian Interior Minister Arturo Murillo to nearly six years behind bars for conspiracy to commit money laundering, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. Murillo pleaded guilty in October to receiving at least $532,000 in bribes from a Florida-based company in exchange for helping it secure a lucrative tear gas contract with Bolivia’s defence ministry. He had laundered the money through the US financial system, the department said. Murillo…

HONG KONG: Shanghai engineer Roy Wang has a pressing task now that the border between Hong Kong and China is being reopened – rekindling his long-distance relationship after a painful separation. “There were so many quarrels with my girlfriend. It was really miserable to handle,” Wang, 23, told AFP on Wednesday (Jan 4). His wish to visit her was granted the very next day. Authorities announced that widespread travel between Hong Kong and China would resume from Sunday, initially allowing about 60,000 people a day to cross in each direction. Those measures are a game-changer for many after the border…

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