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Analysts have predicted health insurer Medibank could pay up to $150 million as the company exposes itself to potential class actions.Medibank has revealed thousands of South Australian patients using the company’s ‘My Home Hospital’ service have had their data compromised, along with four million Medibank customers. Source: Sky News

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From law school to the White House! Bill Clinton met Hillary Clinton (née Rodham) while they were studying at Yale Law School and have been together ever since. “She exuded this sense of strength and self-possession that I found magnetic,” the Arkansas native recounted during the 2016 Democratic National Convention. The 42nd president met his first lady while studying at the school’s library in 1971. One year later, the pair traveled to Texas together to volunteer for George McGovern’s presidential campaign. In 1973, Bill proposed to Hillary — but she turned him down, saying she “needed time.” After the twosome…

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Former NBA point guard Eric Bledsoe was arrested for alleged domestic violence just days after signing to play professional basketball in China. Bledsoe was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence Wednesday night, TMZ reports, after a woman claimed she had been slapped by her boyfriend.Lost Hills Police in California responded to the call at 11:13 p.m. Wednesday. The 32-year-old was booked at the Lost Hills Sheriff’s station and eventually released on bond.  TMZ added that the woman posted a photo to her Instagram with what appears to be a red mark with a caption stating, “NO RELATIONSHIP LIKE THIS IS EVER WORTH STAYING…

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Apple said it faced a difficult December quarter as it confronts “significant” foreign exchange headwinds and supply challenges for its latest iPhone models.“Overall, we believe total company year-over-year revenue performance will decelerate during the December quarter as compared to the September quarter,” finance chief Luca Maestri said during an earnings call on Thursday.The cautious outlook came as Apple reported $90.1bn in revenues during the September quarter, an 8 per cent increase year-on-year. That beat forecasts of $88.9bn and compared with $83.4bn a year ago, according to Refinitiv. Apple eked out a slight rise in net income to $20.7bn, versus estimates…

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Not backing down. Maren Morris didn’t hold back when she slammed Brittany Aldean (née Kerr) — the wife of country singer Jason Aldean — for her comments about transgender children. “I’d really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase. I love this girly life?✌?,” the beauty blogger wrote via Instagram in August 2022, alongside a makeup tutorial that she shared with fans at the time. The “Dirt Road Anthem” singer — who married Brittany in 2015 — responded, “Lmao!! I’m glad they didn’t too, cause you and I wouldn’t have…

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Prince Harry’s bombshell memoir will be released early next year – and promises to give ‘raw, unflinching honesty’ on his life in the Royal Family, according to the publisher Senior royals are bracing themselves for Prince Harry’ s memoir after the revelation it will be called “Spare”. A reference to the phrase “the heir and the spare”, used by Harry while growing up in the shadow of his brother, the bombshell book will be published on January 10. Harry will rake in more than £36million for lifting the lid on his time as a royal leading up to his acrimonious…

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CNN  —  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday in an exclusive interview with CNN that she did not see signs of a recession in the near term as the US economy rebounded from six months of contraction. During a one-on-one interview in Ohio that aired on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront,” Yellen said the third quarter GDP data released Thursday underscored the strength of the US economy as policy makers urgently move to cool off pervasive and soaring inflation that has had a sharp effect on American views of the economy – and endangered the Democratic majorities on Capitol Hill less…

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The Bank of Japan (BOJ) headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, April 25, 2022.Toru Hanai | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesHong Kong stocks plunged to its lowest levels since April 2009, leading losses in the Asia-Pacific as the Bank of Japan left its benchmark interest rate unchanged.The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong briefly lost 4% dragged by the Hang Seng Tech index falling 6.1%. In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.87% to 6,785.70. The Nikkei 225 in Japan fell 0.88% to 27,105.20, while the Topix was 0.34% lower at 1,899.05. The Japanese yen maintained 146-levels after the Bank of Japan kept…

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