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Cherries came from behind to beat West Ham 2-2, and Bournemouth missed out on a chance to move into the top four.The Hammers got off to a perfect start, with Callum Wilson scoring two first-half goals to put his former club to shame, but Andoni Iraola’s side fought back with a dominant second-half performance. Marcus Tavernier’s penalty and the immediate impact of substitute Enes Unal gave the hosts a point, but they would have had all three points had it not been for an inspired performance from West Ham goalkeeper Alphonse Areola. team news Bournemouth were without Antoine Semenyo through…
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaks at a campaign event for Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Johnny Mercer Theater Civic Center on September 24, 2024 in Savannah, Georgia, USA. Megan Varner | ReutersGeorgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced Friday that she will resign from her House seat in early January following a dramatic clash with President Donald Trump over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and other issues.In a video and statement posted to X, Greene cited Trump’s recent attacks on her, including calling her a “traitor” and a “lunatic,” and said her last day…
Trying the same thing over and over without success could be called insanity, depending on your point of view, or a Russian negotiation tactic. President Donald Trump’s widely leaked draft 28-point plan is a terrible setback for Kiev. It was invented jointly by Russians who wanted to pretend they were working on peace, and propagated by Ukrainians and Europeans who felt it was extremely stupid to be sure to die on first contact with oxygen. Much of the text is similar to the extremist position Russia displayed in Istanbul in 2022, when Russian forces seized control of much of Ukraine…
Bert Verbruggen was Brighton’s hero and Igor Thiago’s penalty save in stoppage time gave the Seagulls a 2-1 win over Brentford, lifting them up to fifth in the Premier League table.The afternoon match started with a penalty for Thiago and ended with a penalty for Thiago. The Brentford striker gave the Bees the lead with a penalty in the first half and it was his ninth goal of the season, continuing a run of seven goals in seven games. His flick for Dango Ouattara in the build-up was even better as the Brentford winger was brought down by Carlos Baleva…
Waymo continues to expand its reach, with the robo-taxi company announcing Friday that it is “officially cleared for full self-driving in more areas of the Golden State.” Waymo already has operations in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles (as well as outside California in Atlanta, Austin, and Phoenix). But maps published by the California Department of Transportation show that the company can now test and deploy self-driving cars in a much larger area of both the Bay Area and Southern California. In the Bay Area, Waymo’s approved operating area includes most of the East Bay and North Bay (including…
Cambridge Dictionary has chosen ‘parasocial’ as the word of the year for 2025.Francesco Carta Moment | Getty ImagesAI chatbots, Taylor Swift, and social media influencers all contributed to Cambridge Dictionary’s 2025 Word of the Year: ‘Parasocial’. Parasocial, revealed as the word of the year by the World Dictionary on Tuesday, refers to the connection people feel to online personalities, from celebrities to podcasters and even artificial intelligence. “Parasocial relationships are when we think we know someone, or feel very close to someone we’ve never actually met, such as a celebrity, an influencer, or someone who has become famous for some…
Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special envoy of the Russian president for economic cooperation with foreign countries, talks with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkov during talks in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 11, 2025.Vyacheslav Prokofiev | via ReutersU.S. officials and lawmakers are increasingly concerned about Trump administration representatives meeting last month with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who is under U.S. sanctions, to draft a plan to end the war in Ukraine, multiple sources said.The meeting took place in Miami at the end of October and was attended by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, President…
Lando Norris says he is still willing to take a risk in his anticipated battle with Max Verstappen at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, despite a huge chance to win his first F1 world title.Norris completed a hat-trick of pole positions in wet conditions after a last-gasp effort to wrest the top spot from Verstappen, while championship challenger and McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri remained in fifth place. The British driver is 24 points clear of Piastri and 49 points clear of Verstappen in the drivers’ championship, with three races and one sprint remaining. A win for Norris on Sunday would…
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis about Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Friday night.)Just a week after Berkshire Hathaway disclosed last Friday that it had purchased 17.8 million shares of Google’s parent company’s Class A stock. alphabetin the third quarter (July-September), the market value of that position increased by $415 million to almost $5.35 billion.GOOGL is up 8.4% this week, while its biggest technology rival has fallen significantly. Nvidia’s Despite strong financial results, concerns about an “AI bubble” could not be overcome.Arrow pointing outside zoom in…
US President Donald Trump has given Ukraine less than a week to accept a plan widely seen to favor Russia to end the war, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the country was facing “one of the most difficult moments” in its history. “We’ve had a lot of deadlines, and if things are going well, we tend to extend them. But Thursday is the deadline,” the president said in a radio interview with Fox News. Trump’s 28-point plan puts pressure on Kiev to cede territory, limit the size of its military and commit to not joining NATO in exchange for an…