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Brittney Griner’s nine-year prison sentence was upheld by a Russian court on Tuesday in a ruling her legal team called “excessive” and contradictory. But even with talks of a potential prisoner swap still on the table, the WNBA star fears the worst. Griner’s attorneys, Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, said in a statement Tuesday that they were surprised by the court’s decision to deny her appeal of a nine-year prison sentence for drug possession — a charge they argued has received an average sentence of five years.  ‘It is not what we expected. We are very disappointed,” Blagovolina and Boykov said,…

Google may be the giant in the digital advertising world, but even it is not immune to the impact that the economic downturn and recession fears are having on the online ad market. Google parent company Alphabet (GOOGL) on Tuesday reported earnings results for the third quarter that fell short of Wall Street analysts’ estimates for both sales and profits, due in large part to a sharp slowdown in the growth of its core advertising business. It reported revenue of nearly $69.1 billion, up just 6% from the same period in the prior year. Google’s advertising revenues grew just 2.5%…

An 80-stone beast not seen in Britain since the Ice Age is again roaming the countryside. Actually, there’s four of them, though one’s a little smaller. In the vast expanse of West Blean and Thornden Woods, near Canterbury in Kent, wild bison now graze. Three females were released in July: the older one from Scotland, the others from Ireland. As the Mirror reported on Saturday, one of the Irish animals gave birth to a calf last month, the first wild bison to be born in Britain for at least 6,000 years, when Europe’s largest mammals were hunted to extinction. The…

Qatari officials have said they plan to suspend evacuation flights for Afghan refugees hoping to resettle in the U.S. while the country hosts soccer’s World Cup next month, according to refugee advocates, congressional aides and a source familiar with the Qatari government’s plans.The move would add to an already massive backlog of tens of thousands of Afghans who worked for the U.S. military and who are now trying to leave the country after the hard-line Islamist Taliban seized back power last year.The reported plan comes as Qatar is already under scrutiny over its treatment of migrant workers and its policies…

Jackie Goldschneider, Margaret Josephs, Jennifer Aydin Courtesy of Getty ImagesNot here for it. Jackie Goldschneider and Margaret Josephs opened up about their “disappointment” with Jennifer Aydin for throwing a drink at Melissa Gorga and Joe Gorga. “I’m not shocked that Jennifer Aydin threw a drink. I was shocked that it happened at BravoCon because I feel like that should be about the fans,” Goldschneider, 46, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, October 24, while attending Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation’s Angel Ball 2022, which was cofounded by Denise Rich to help raise money for cancer research. The former attorney questioned Aydin’s decision…

On TikTok, loads of people share videos talking about natural contraception and the dangers of birth control. It seems overwhelming to understand what natural birth control is, if there’s a problem with hormonal birth control and what the options are for people who do not want to get pregnant. “It boils down to this idea that birth control is not natural,” Dr. Jennifer Lincoln, an OB-GYN and author of “Let’s Talk about Down There: An OB-GYN Answers all Your Burning Questions … Without Making You feel Embarrassed for Asking,” told TODAY. “Every few weeks or months, there’s some influencer who…

It’s not the type of scare Astoria’s Vicky Poumpouridis wanted this spooky season. For more than a decade, the Ditmars Boulevard resident has put up magnificent Halloween displays — adding new ghoulish monstrosities to the mix each year — to delight troves of trick or treaters in the riverfront Queens nabe. But crime-ridden NYC spoiled the fun this year as Poumpouridis’ ghastly spread — featured in The Post as one of NYC’s best in 2021 — had huge props stolen and parts of her front yard vandalized, she said in overwhelming frustration. “It’s not even kids playing a prank or…

Japan has stepped up its push to catch up on digitization by telling a reluctant public they have to sign up for digital IDs or possibly lose access to their public health insurance.As the naming implies, the initiative is about assigning numbers to people, similar to Social Security numbers in the U.S. Many Japanese worry the information might be misused or that their personal information might be stolen. Some view the My Number effort as a violation of their right to privacy.So the system that kicked off in 2016 has never fully caught on. Fax machines are still commonplace, and…

Republican Kim Crockett picked up Donald Trump’s endorsement Tuesday in her run for secretary of state against incumbent Democrat Steve Simon.Trump’s endorsement on Truth Social claimed that election fraud in Minnesota is “rampant” and that Crockett would “get to the bottom of that.”Trump has repeatedly pressed false claims that his 2020 election loss was due to fraud, even though the results have been confirmed by multiple reviews in battleground states, by judges who rejected dozens of legal challenges, and by Trump’s own Department of Justice and top officials in his administration.FOCUS GROUP OF TRUMP VOTERS CLASHES WITH MSNBC ANALYST OVER…

Coffee is arguably one of the most popular drinks around the world. The caffeinated beverage comes hot or cold, with milk or cream — and sometimes even with sugar or cinnamon (or plenty of other add-ins). Yet the coffee beans themselves are grown far and wide, and many countries’ cups of joe taste completely different from others. Redemption Road Coffee is an organization with a mission to source coffee from around the world — and for a m greater good. HOW DELICIOUS! COFFEE SHOP SPREADS KINDNESS THROUGH ITS PRODUCTS, PEOPLE AND PROGRAMSRedemption Road Coffee co-owners Aaron and Jessica Harsch, who are based in Mead,…