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Celebrities balk at paying Twitter for a blue check mark

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:32 GMT

By Matt O’Brien | Associated PressWilliam Shatner, Monica Lewinsky and other prolific Twitter commentators — some household names, others little-known journalists — could soon be losing the blue check marks that helped verify their identity on the social media platform.They could get the marks back by paying up to $11 a month. But some longtime users, including 92-year-old Star Trek legend Shatner, have balked at buying the premium service championed by Twitter’s billionaire owner and chief executive Elon Musk.After months of delay, Musk is gleefully promising that Friday is the deadline for celebrities, journalists and others who’d been verified for free to pony up or lose their legacy status.“It will be glorious,” he tweeted Monday, in response to a Twitter user who noted that Friday is also April Fools’ Day.After buying Twitter for $44 billion in October, Musk has been trying to boost the struggling platform’s revenue by pushing more peop...

NCAA men’s winners and losers: Gonzaga and UCLA hammer each other as lower seeds thrive and UConn emerges

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:32 GMT

The rapidly intensifying Gonzaga-UCLA postseason rivalry has one winner and, it seems, two victims.Twice in the past three years, the Zags eliminated the Bruins from the NCAA Tournament in thrilling fashion, with their epic Final Four game in 2021 and then a riveting Sweet 16 matchup last week.The Zags won the former on Jalen Suggs’ 40-foot buzzer beater and the latter on Julian Strawther’s long 3-pointer with seven seconds remaining.But in each case, the effort required to oust the Bruins appeared to exact a significant physical and emotional toll as Gonzaga struggled to recover adequately for its next assignment.The Zags trailed Baylor by double digits early in the 2021 national championship game and could not keep pace with UConn in the second half of Saturday’s Elite Eight game.So while they hit the Bruins with two gut-punch losses, UCLA made sure to grab a pound of flesh on its way out.Now the teams, which had designs on the Final Four when the tournament bega...

San Jose police releasing more details on deadly standoff

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:32 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) -- San Jose police will release more details about a man who allegedly armed himself with a machete and held two children hostage during a deadly standoff last week. Police fatally shot the man. The San Jose Police Chief is holding a news conference at 11:30 a.m. Monday to talk about what led up to the standoff and shooting.Watch the news conference live in the video player above at 11:30.The standoff began at 8:30 p.m. on March 22 when the man barricaded himself inside a home on Boynton Avenue with hostages, according to police. The police standoff stretched over nearly nine hours before officers opened fire. According to the San Jose Police Department, the man died from gunshot wounds in a hospital shortly after. SJPD said three hostages were safely removed from the home.So far, police have not released the man's name, nor his relationship with the hostages. This news story will be updated. Check back for updates.San Jose standoff scene (KRON4 / Will Tran)

LAGOS explica por qué su colaboración con Reik “No se acaba hasta que se acabe” es tan importante en su carrera

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:32 GMT

(CNN Español) – El dúo venezolano LAGOS presentó en febrero su tema “No se acaba hasta que se acabe”, una balada con la banda mexicana Reik.El título de la canción es un adelanto de la letra de la misma, que está cargada de sinceridad a lo que podría –o no– ser el ocaso de una relación.“No sabemos el final de la historia, pero sí sabemos que hay que perseverar, mínimo luchar hasta el final, ¿no? Hay veces que que vale la pena. Bueno, yo creo que siempre vale la pena porque por lo menos duermes en paz, de que intentaste todo lo que pudiste. Entonces sí, es una canción que habla de no rendirse, de intentarlo. Inclusive cuando la cosa se ve complicada o cuesta arriba”, cuenta a Zona Pop Luis Jiménez, vocalista y una de las mitades de la agrupación.Este tema no pudo contar con otra banda mejor que Reik, conocida en toda América Latina por ser parte del soundtrack de tanto enamoramientos como despechos.LAGOS cuenta a Zona Pop que la agrupación se montó en el tema ...

CNBC: usó su cheque de estímulo para iniciar un negocio de “relleno de efectivo”; generaría $1 millón este año

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:32 GMT

Para enero de 2021, Jasmine Taylor sabía que necesitaba ajustar su mentalidad en torno al dinero. El ahora de 31 años de Amarillo, Texas, apenas había superado la temporada de compras navideñas del mes anterior. “Recuerdo que me preguntaba cómo iba a pasar el próximo mes”, le dice a CNBC Make It. Taylor había perdido recientemente su trabajo de tiempo completo y se las arreglaba con trabajos secundarios, entregando recetas para farmacias y alimentos para DoorDash. Tenía alrededor de $60,000 en deuda estudiantil y otros $9,000 en deudas médicas y de tarjetas de crédito. Entonces, como casi todos los demás que buscan finalmente resolver algo, fue a YouTube, donde descubrió el “relleno de efectivo”, una estrategia de administración de dinero que cambió su vida. “Encontré el presupuesto de efectivo y literalmente me aferré a él”, dice Taylor. “Solo gastaría lo que tenía en efectivo”. CNBC: sigue esta regla para evitar tener ...

Bucks’ Antetokounmpo, Holiday out Monday for Pistons game

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:32 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — The Milwaukee Bucks won’t have All-Stars Giannis Antetokounmpo or Jrue Holiday available for their Monday night game with the Detroit Pistons.The Bucks released an injury report Monday that listed both players as out for the game. Holiday won’t be available for personal reasons and Antetokounmpo has a sore right knee.Antetokounmpo has missed 11 games over the course of the season due to left knee soreness, but this will be the first time he’s been out with a sore right knee. This will be the 16th game overall that the two-time MVP has missed this season.The Bucks are playing two nights after losing 129-106 at Denver in a matchup of the two conference leaders. The Bucks are 1 ½ games ahead of the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Division standings.___AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports Source

Idaho bill to provide free period products in schools fails

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:32 GMT

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A bill that would have provided free menstrual products in girls bathrooms in Idaho public schools failed in the state House, with at least one Republican lawmaker calling the proposal “very liberal.”The measure advanced earlier this month from the House Education Committee with a “do pass” recommendation. It failed on the House floor 35-35 last week. It was expected to cost $435,000 to install product dispensers and about $300,000 each year to stock them to provide menstrual products for female students in grades six through 12, according to the bill’s fiscal note. State budget analysts have forecast a $1.4 billion tax revenue surplus at the end of the fiscal year, the Idaho Statesman reported.“It’s not a lot of money in the state’s budget,” Rep. Rod Furniss, a Republican, told the committee in speaking about the bill. “Today is a step to preserve womanhood, to give it a chance to start right, to not be embarrassed or feel alienated or ashamed, or to feel ...

Why does Russia want tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:32 GMT

The announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin that he intends to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus appears to be another attempt to raise the stakes in the conflict in Ukraine.It follows Putin’s warnings that Moscow is ready to use “all available means,” to fend off attacks on Russian territory, a reference to its nuclear arsenal.A look at Putin’s statement and its implications:HOW DID PUTIN EXPLAIN HIS MOVE?Putin said President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has long urged Moscow to station its nuclear weapons in his country, which has close military ties with Russia and was a staging ground for the invasion of neighboring Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.Russia already has helped modernize Belarusian warplanes to make them capable of carrying nuclear weapons — something that Belarus’ authoritarian leader has repeatedly mentioned.In remarks broadcast Saturday, Putin said the immediate trigger for the deployment of Russia’s tactical nuclea...

Un gran tiburón blanco de 680 kilos llamado “Breton” está actualmente nadando en la costa de Carolina del Norte

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:32 GMT

(CNN) — A medida que la primavera va tomando las playas de Outer Banks, en Carolina del Norte, es posible encontrar a amigo acuático que fue avistado frente a la costa: se trata de un gran tiburón blanco llamado Breton.Breton es uno de las docenas de tiburones que están siendo rastreados por OCEARCH, un grupo de investigación marina sin fines de lucro que proporciona datos de código abierto sobre la migración de tiburones.Este sábado, el rastreador de Breton hizo “ping” cerca de Pamlico Sound en los Outer Banks de Carolina del Norte. El tiburón macho adulto mide casi cuatro metros de largo y pesa alrededor de 680 kilos, informó OCEARCH.OCEARCH detectó por primera vez a Breton cerca de Nueva Escocia en septiembre de 2020 con un rastreador electrónico, que emite un sonido cada vez que sale a la superficie.Al igual que otros grandes tiburones blancos del Atlántico, parece estar realizando actualmente su migración anual desde los Cayos de Florida hacia el norte hasta C...

Colorado youth violence at 5-year high plateau

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:37:32 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Violent youth crime has been at high plateau for five years, part of an upward swing in violent crime across all age groups. Colorado’s violent, motor vehicle crimes are concentrated in these counties The number of violent crimes has risen more than 50% since 2014, rising every year except 2019. Violent crime spiked in 2020 and reached a 15-year high in 2022.The number of violent crimes committed by people under the age of 18 has stayed consistent since 2018 for every year but 2020. In 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022, there were between 3,200 and 3,400 of these crimes. This is a notable uptick from 10 years ago. In 2011, there were 2,230 violent crimes committed by offenders under 18. Violent youth offenders are heavily concentrated in a few counties along Colorado's Front Range.Adams County has the state's largest share of violent youth offenders. In 2022, over 22% of the state's violent youth offenders were in Adams County, which has less than 10% of Colorado's popul...