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Another day, another awards show! The 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards are coming soon — and the guest list will be full of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Nominations were announced by Ashley Park and Haley Lu Richardson in January. The Emily in Paris star, 31, and the White Lotus actress, 27, took to Instagram Live to reveal which of their peers were being honored this year. The 29th annual SAG Awards are celebrating stars of both the big and small screens for their excellence over the past year. Among those recognized for their stellar performances are Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All…

Michelle Obama insists she played no role in helping embattled FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh secure her position. Rumors ignited within the FDNY that Obama gave Kavanaugh — a former campaign staffer for her husband, Barack — a glowing endorsement and urged New York City Mayor Eric Adams to promote her to commissioner last year, sources told The Post. Now, nearly a year into the job, sources within the department are complaining she was wrongfully appointed thanks to her lofty connections. “She’s essentially a PR person without any firefighting experience, and she’s lost the respect of the force,” said one of the…

About $1.6 million in cash were seized during raids in Belgium targeting an alleged criminal organization suspected of sending Chinese women to Europe and forcing them into prostitution, the federal prosecutor’s office said Wednesday.In addition, investigators took hold of four tons of coins with an unspecified value, prosecutors said. Belgian police took control of several buildings during the raids in Antwerp, Charleroi, Louvain, Neufchâteau and Brussels, prosecutors said.After a two-year investigation, some 300 police officers took part in Tuesday’s raids targeting human traffickers. The prosecutor’s office described the operation as one Belgium’s biggest targeting human traffickers in recent years.A total…

Shares of Google parent Alphabet were down more than 8 per cent on Wednesday, wiping billions of dollars off its market value, as Wall Street digested the potential damage to its search dominance and profits from a new artificial intelligence battle with Microsoft.The knock to its stock price came as a result of a glitch in a Google AI demonstration, highlighting the challenges the company faces in bringing a new style of chat-based search to a mass market.It came the day after Microsoft unveiled a new version of its Bing search engine that incorporated AI advances including summarising answers to…

A Chicago man has been charged in the August death of a Florida woman he allegedly struck with his Corvette while racing another car on the city’s southwest side, police said.Aaron Guerrero, 27, was arrested Monday and charged with reckless homicide with a motor vehicle and aggravated street racing in the death of Shawman Meireis, 40, Chicago police said.Guerrero was scheduled for a Wednesday bail hearing. It was unclear if he has an attorney who could speak on his behalf.Police said Meireis, who was visiting Chicago from Florida, was crossing a street near Midway Airport early on Aug. 28 when…

Russian authorities on Wednesday requested a lengthy prison term for a former regional governor who is standing trial on murder charges and whose arrest two years ago prompted weeks-long mass protests.The prosecutor has asked a court in the Moscow region to sentence Sergei Furgal, former governor of Russia’s far eastern Khabarovsk region, to 23 years in prison on charges of murder, attempted murder and illegal arms trafficking. Earlier this month, a jury panel found Furgal guilty on all counts.NOTORIOUS RUSSIAN CRIMINAL FREED FROM PUTIN’S JAILS AFTER FIGHTING IN UKRAINE: REPORT Furgal, a former businessman, was arrested in July 2020 on…

Police in Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali have arrested an Italian fugitive wanted on mafia-related drug trafficking charges, Italian authorities said Wednesday.Antonio Strangio, 32, was arrested at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport as he disembarked from a flight from Australia, where he had been living since 2016, carabinieri paramilitary police said.Strangio was wanted for alleged production and trafficking in drugs, and was subject of an Interpol “red notice.” He is affiliated with the Strangio clan of San Luca, in the heartland of the Calabrian ‘ndrangheta organized crime syndicate, the statement said.INDONESIAN POLICE DETAIN AUSTRALIAN FUGITIVE WHO HAS BEEN WANTED BY…

Progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., argued that the government and educational institutions are not keeping parents in the dark on vital information regarding their children, despite parents across the country accusing schools of withholding information on their child or the curriculum.”I am not aware of… any decisions that are being made by lawmakers here in Congress, by local lawmakers, saying we do not want parents’ input, we not want parents’ involvement, we don’t want parents’ engagement in our schools,” Omar said during the House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing Wednesday.The “Squad” member went on to say that claims from…

NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg warned that China’s surveillance flight program represented threat to “global” security on Wednesday after U.S. intelligence found that spy balloons had traveled over five continents.Stoltenberg made the statement in response to questions from reporters during a joint press conference with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The Pentagon stated earlier Wednesday that the U.S. had confirmed Chinese surveillance craft over Europe, North America, South America and across Asia, violating the sovereignty of multiple countries.Stoltenberg argued China’s program emphasized the importance of international security organizations like NATO, saying China represented a threat to not just national security,…

Spain’s government on Wednesday pledged stronger action against cybercrime, saying it has come to account for about a fifth of all offenses registered in the country.Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said police would be given additional staff, funding and resources to address online crime. He said reported cases of cybercrime were up 72% last year compared to 2019, and 352% compared to 2015.”The … decline in conventional crime and the increase in cybercrime has brought us to a turning point: today, one in every five crimes in Spain is committed online,” he told a press conference in Madrid.MANNEQUIN WEARING BLACK PLAYER’S…