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WNBA star Brittney Griner has returned home after spending nearly 10 months in a Russian prison following her arrest for bringing vape cartridges containing hashish oil through a Moscow airport. Griner was freed from a Russian penal colony on Thursday in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.  Griner’s return to the U.S. sparked emotional reactions from many within the basketball community, including Griner’s college coach. COWBOYS STAR RIPS BIDEN OVER BRITTNEY GRINER RELEASE, WALKS BACK SCATHING TWEETSLSU head coach Kim Mulkey, who coached Griner at Baylor and won a national championship together in 2012, broke her silence on her former player. “God…

A Chinese food deliveryman was brutally beaten and robbed of his grub and a wad of cash in a broad-daylight Bronx mugging this week, cops said.  The 50-year-old worker showed up to his delivery address, an apartment building on East Clarke Place near Walton Avenue in Mount Eden, around 3:10 p.m. Tuesday, police said.  A man then walked up to him and hit him in the head, causing him to fall to the ground, authorities said.  Then a second man approached, and both of them repeatedly punched and kicked the delivery worker, cops said.  The assailants grabbed the worker’s delivery…

Kendall Jenner hit pause on her swaddling knitwear streak to tap into the partywear trend for magpie sparkle this week. While The Row’s alpaca coats and mohair shirts might work for Calabasas, Sunset Boulevard called for an altogether more glitzy proposition as she hit private club Poppy for a tequila-fueled night courtesy of 818.Engaging entrepreneur mode went a little like this for Jenner: twinkling dress + directional footwear. Her diamanté-encrusted look rivaled anything the industry witnessed at the Fashion Awards on Monday night, while Kendall’s flip-flop heels provided the cool-girl spin Jenner is carving out for herself thanks to a…

Christina Applegate’s sense of humor has made her a top comic actor since the 1980s, but it’s serving an additional purpose since she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis last year.The “Dead to Me” star spoke on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” on Nov. 8 about how living with MS — a disease of the central nervous system that affects how the brain communicates with the body — has made her use her natural ability to be funny in order to lighten the mood around others.”My humor shield keeps me OK,” she said. “But of course, down on the insides, you feel the…

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Consumers are becoming more confident about the state of the economy, despite recession fears, soaring interest rates and continued high prices, according to the latest consumer survey from the University of Michigan. The survey’s consumer sentiment index measured 59.1 in December, up from the final reading of 56.8 in November. Economists were expecting a reading of 56.9, according to consensus estimates on Refinitiv. The 2.3 point increase in the December report is the best one-month improvement in the reading since August, when it experienced a 6.7 point jump. The November report had shown a 3.1 point decline in consumer sentiment…

Schools across Sri Lanka were closed on Friday as health and environment officials said the air quality in most parts of the island nation was unhealthy partly due to extreme weather conditions.Polluted air from neighboring India was aggravating the problem, authorities said, as a storm in the Bay of Bengal triggered heavy rains and winds across Sri Lanka in recent days.A haze hung over the capital, Colombo, and other parts of the country, with the level of fine particles in the air reaching unhealthy levels.”The current pollution has arisen due to the combination of local air pollutants and transboundary air…

Action by a government standards agency on potential post-quantum cryptographic algorithms will strongly stimulate the PQC market over the next five years, according to an international research and advisory firm. In its recently released Post-Quantum Cryptography application analysis report, ABI Research predicted PQC revenues will jump 12% from US$196 million in 2022 to $218.6 million in 2023 and 20% from $328.7 million in 2026 to $395.3 million in 2027. The report noted that the fledgling market would kick into high gear as the National Institute of Standards finalizes its choice of PQC algorithms. “NIST is the foremost standard development organization…

On the cusp of the greatest generational wealth transfer in history, baby boomers are set to pass more than $68 trillion on to their children.”It’s a generation that has accumulated a greater percentage of wealth than any other generation ever has,” said Mark Mirsberger, a certified public accountant and CEO of Dana Investment Advisors, referring to boomers.But they may not be handing down as much as their children think.Studies show a growing disconnect between how much millennials expect to inherit in the “great wealth transfer” and how much aging boomers plan on leaving them.More from Personal Finance:35% of millionaires say they…

Even the most fanatical fitness lover among us has “one of those days.” You know, the kind of day that feels like it would be best spent under the covers pressing the “play next” button? Wouldn’t it be great if we all had some way to pump ourselves up to work out? Well, guess what? We do. That magical something is music.Only it’s not magic, it’s science. That’s right, music is scientifically proven to aid fitness in some very important ways. According to recent research, listening to music while you work out can decrease your experience of fatigue and therefore…