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Doha, Qatar – Billions of people around the world have witnessed the unbridled passion of supporters of the 32 teams participating in the football World Cup 2022 in Qatar. Fans of Morocco, Brazil, Cameroon, Mexico and other countries have been the subject of endless media attention over their colourful costumes, songs, dances, chants and stadium choreography aimed at helping their team’s chances at the World Cup. At the very pinnacle of football fandom, the energy and enthusiasm of Argentinian supporters have lit up their team’s five games played to date in the tournament. With drums, trumpets and untiring vocal chords,…

FIRST ON FOX: Texas Republican Rep.-elect Pete Sessions warned that treating the House like the Senate in operation is a “dangerous way for us to go.”Fox News Digital caught up with Sessions in a Thursday phone interview about the ongoing balloting to determine the next House speaker.Sessions is behind Rep.-elect Kevin McCarthy in the race and said that “a lot of substance has come up” amid negotiations, including “a discussion about campaign activities that Mr. McCarthy was engaged in against other members of the conference.”THE VOTE FOR HOUSE SPEAKER “A lot of money, a million dollars spent against one of…

The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday said it is proposing a rule to ban employers from imposing noncompete agreements on workers and to rescind all existing noncompete agreements. The FTC’s reasoning: Such agreements, which affect millions of rank-and-file employees and independent contractors across industries, in addition to business executives, have suppressed competition, wages and entrepreneurship. “Research shows that employers’ use of noncompetes to restrict workers’ mobility significantly suppresses workers’ wages — even for those not subject to noncompetes, or subject to noncompetes that are unenforceable under state law,” said Elizabeth Wilkins, Director of the Office of Policy Planning. “The proposed…

A worker was shot by a would-be thief at a Dollar Tree in Brooklyn — just hours after an employee at a Manhattan smoke shop was struck in the back during a possible attempted robbery, police said.  The male employee was blasted once in the left leg inside the store on Van Sinderen Avenue near New Lots Avenue in East New York around 8:40 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said.  He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. A would-be robber shot an East New York Dollar Tree worker in the leg Wednesday night, cops said. Robert Mecea…

Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services. Getting dressed in the winter is a tough task. We have enough trouble when the weather is nice! We can’t wear baggy sweatsuits every single day, and while they’re comfy, we don’t want to. Sometimes it’s nice to dress up a little and feel good about our look. But we don’t want to be left uncomfy or cold! We’re big fans of sweater dresses for this reason, but even then, many don’t quite get it right. They’re itchy or too hot, they’re tight…

A green comet discovered last March will make its closest approach to Earth this month.The comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was first discovered by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera at California’s Zwicky Transient Facility. It was already inside the orbiter of Jupiter.Since then, it has brightened substantially and is sweeping across the northern constellation Corona Borealis in predawn skies, according to NASA. QUADRANTID METEOR SHOWER PEAKS AS MOON CREATES POOR VIEWING CONDITIONS The agency notes that it is still too dim to see without a telescope – though an image from December reveals its bright coma, short broad dust tail and faint…

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A former BlackRock portfolio manager has paid $250,000 to settle claims that he failed to disclose that a film company in which one of the asset-manager’s funds invested had helped his daughter land a small acting role.The Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that while working at the world’s largest money manager, Randy Robertson asked BlackRock client Aviron Pictures — which distributed movies featuring Hollywood stars such as Keanu Reeves and Anne Hathaway — to “help his daughter’s career”.Aviron received as much as $75mn from BlackRock’s Multi-Sector Income Trust (BIT) fund, which Robertson and others managed, the SEC said, making it…

In a high-impact sport like football,  injuries are common. But rarely has there been a medical episode as harrowing as Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s collapse from cardiac arrest during a game this week, which is certain to be on NFL players’ minds as they take the field this weekend.“It’s scary,” D’Andre Swift, a Detroit Lions running back, told reporters in a locker room interview. “We see injuries week in and week out, but something like that, you’re talking life-and-death situations. It kind of hit a little different.”To play professionally, athletes must be highly skilled physically as well as mentally,…

Yet another Progressive Conservative MLA has decided not to run for re-election this fall. Cathy Cox announced Thursday she won’t seek another term as the representative for Kildonan-River East, a role she’s held for almost seven years.Cox joins eight other Tory MLAs stepping down ahead of the Oct. 3 provincial election.In a statement, Cox said it’s time for her to step back and spend more time with family.“I am forever grateful and humbled for the opportunity to represent the hard-working families of Kildonan-River East in the Manitoba Legislature,” she said.“It is their trust and confidence that motivates and inspires me.…