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Liberal MP Michelle Landry has accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of bullying her in parliament. Mr Albanese has denied the accusation. “Show the footage, you’ll see me having an exchange with Peter Dutton, not with the member fore Capricornia about the fact that he as injecting, yelling at me … he didn’t know his Yeppoon from his Yeppen. They’re two different places,” he said.“It was an exchange between myself, and Peter Dutton and the footage shows during that time Michelle Landry actually laughing at my response that was good-humored, bit of a joke about ‘Queenslander’ which is of course a…

Russell Wilson. Steve Luciano/AP/ShutterstockMaking every moment count. Russell Wilson revealed that he spent half of a recent 8-hour flight working out, and social media can’t stop laughing about it. “I don’t really get jet lagged too often. … For me, for the first two hours … I was watching the [game] film, watching all the cut-ups and everything else. And then for the next four hours, I was doing treatment on the plane,” the quarterback, 33, told reporters on Wednesday, October 26, after the Denver Broncs arrived in England ahead of their upcoming game at Wembley Stadium. “I was walking…

Stocks rose on Friday despite a tumble in Amazon shares after economic data pointed to slowing inflation and a steady consumer.The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 828.52 points, or about 2.6%, higher at 32,861.80. The S&P 500 added nearly 2.5%, to close at 3,901.06. The Nasdaq Composite ended up about 2.9%, to close at 11,102.45.On a weekly basis, the major indexes made notable gains. It was the fourth positive week in a row for the Dow, a first since a five-week streak ending in November 2021. The 30-stock index is up 5.7% this week in its best performance since May.…

The White House on Thursday said that any attacks on U.S. satellites or infrastructure will be met with an “appropriate response” after a senior Russian official told the United Nations that the Kremlin sees commercial satellites helping Ukraine as “a legitimate target for retaliation.”National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that Russians have been “trying to pursue anti-satellite technology and capability.””Any attack on U.S. infrastructure will be met with an appropriate response in an appropriate way,” Kirby told reporters Thursday. “And we’re going to continue to pursue all means to expose, deter and hold Russia accountable for any such attack…

A vagrant was nabbed on an alleged farebeating rap — and then linked to the slashing of a Manhattan straphanger earlier this month, police said Thursday. Jermal Vives, 46, was spotted around 2 a.m. Sunday allegedly using an emergency gate at a Washington Heights subway station to beat the fare, the NYPD said. Cops then determined that Vives was allegedly the same transit maniac who attacked a 57-year-old man on Oct. 12 aboard a No. 1 train near the Theatre District, the department said. Vives, of Yonkers, was allegedly panhandling at the Broadway and West 50th Street station when he…

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Erik ten Hag denied that he took Antony off at half time against FC Sheriff because the Brazilian winger made an embarrassing error after showboating for Manchester United.The former Ajax forward made a smooth 720 degree spin on the right wing when no other player was near him, before firing a heavy pass out of play for a FC Sheriff goal kick.Speaking on BT Sport after the match, former United midfielder Paul Scholes described it as “being a clown”. When Ten Hag was asked after the match if the incident caused him to take off the player, he denied it.Europa…

Three hundred business groups are calling on President Joe Biden to intervene in the ratification of the national tentative agreement he helped broker last month between rail unions and US freight railroads. In a letter sent to the president Thursday, retail, agricultural, manufacturing, and trucking associations jointly asked the president to ensure that the tentative agreement is ratified. The groups include American Trucking Associations, the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, and the National Retail Federation. “It is paramount that these contracts now be ratified, as a rail shutdown would have a significant impact on the US…

Thomas Detry made a fine start to the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, as Austin Smotherman stormed to the top of the leaderboard.Port Royal is the shortest course on the PGA Tour rotation, with a strong wind the major defence of the 6828-yard track.The wind blows most days of the year on a course that hugs the coast in Southampton, but there was not a breath on the opening day – and the players cashed in.Butterfield Bermuda ChampionshipMurray withdraws from Bermuda Championship due to injuries in road accident8 HOURS AGOSmotherman produced a career-low round of 62 to storm to the top of…

A wannabe rental shark who calls himself the “Wolf of Airbnb” was indicted in a scheme to illegally sublet more than a dozen Manhattan apartments while he refused to pay rent, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Florida resident Konrad Bicher, 31, fraudulently obtained more than $565,000 in COVID-19 relief funds — even as he claimed he couldn’t pay landlords because of the pandemic, the indictment alleges. Meanwhile, Bicher listed the units on sites like Airbnb and operated them as “mini hotels,” said Damian Williams, said US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. “Bicher abused Government programs and tenant protections…