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After LEGO Fortnite released last week it took players just one day to reenact 9/11.The LEGO Fortnite release smashed Fortnite’s previous current player count.LEGO Fortnite is rated E10+ by the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app When Fortnite released its new LEGO mode on Thursday, it took players less than one day to recreate 9/11.The release of LEGO Fortnite brought millions of players to the game, smashing the previous record for most online players at once with 6.6…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The world must ramp up the production of meat to address widespread hunger and nutrient deficiencies faced by people in developing countries, the UN said, even as it called on those in richer nations to eat less animal protein.The findings are part of the UN Food and Agriculture Agency’s global food systems’ road map to 1.5C report, released on Sunday at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. It is billed as an extensive plan to tackle hunger and bring greenhouse gas emissions…
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) has found an unlikely ally in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as the group pursues its First Amendment case before the Supreme Court. “The NRA is proud to stand with the ACLU and others who recognize this important truth: regulatory authority cannot be used to silence political speech,” NRA President Charles Cotton said after adding the ACLU as co-counsel for the case. “This case is important not only to the Association, but all who openly advocate for the causes and issues in which they believe,” Cotton continued. The NRA filed its 2018 challenge following the revelation that…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was recently seen crying on national television.Kim was addressing the country’s declining birthrate and imploring mothers to have more children.The dictator has been seen crying in front of citizens multiple times. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was seen shedding a tear during a recent broadcast of a speech on state media, marking one of several times the dictator has cried in front of his citizens.Kim’s latest emotional moment came…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Tufan Erginbilgiç threw his weight behind the decarbonisation of aviation last month. The Rolls-Royce boss will, however, end the company’s electric and hydrogen propulsion efforts. Erginbilgiç thinks the sector’s more immediate lower carbon future will come from sustainable aviation fuel. The high cost of producing enough SAF is just one of the barriers that still needs to be overcome. SAF makes sense for a new chief executive who is more concerned with cash flows than carbon dioxide. It is largely compatible with current…
EXCLUSIVE: The Biden administration has told lawmakers that an average of 5,000 illegal immigrants are currently being released into the U.S. each day at the border, while there were over 670,000 illegal immigrants who evaded Border Patrol last fiscal year, Fox News has learned.In a briefing on Friday to the Arizona congressional delegation, House and Senate Judiciary committees and the House and Senate Homeland Security committees, Fox is told that Department of Homeland Security officials told lawmakers that there were around 670,000 known “gotaways” at the border last fiscal year. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had previously acknowledged that the number…
A Boeing 737 flying to Moscow, Russia, made an emergency landing on Friday. Media outlets reported that the plane experienced engine failure after takeoff.Passengers had to wait eight hours for another plane to arrive and continue the flight. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app A passenger plane traveling across Russia made an emergency landing on Friday after its engines caught fire.Agence France-Presse reported that the incident occurred when a Boeing 737, operated by Russian airline S7, attempted to fly from the Novosibirsk International…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Hitachi’s rail business has taken a multimillion-pound writedown on the value of its factory in the North East of England as fears grow over the future of Britain’s train manufacturers.The Japanese conglomerate’s UK operation flagged a £64.8mn impairment against the value of its Newton Aycliffe plant in its accounts for the year to the end of March, which were published online last month.The £82mn factory in County Durham opened in 2015 and is delivering trains for Avanti West Coast and East Midlands…
Hunter Biden’s 2021 memoir, “Beautiful Things,” was cited repeatedly in a California indictment detailing tax charges against him this week, outlining how he talked about lavish spending at a time when prosecutors say he should have been paying taxes.Biden is facing nine charges alleging a “four-year scheme” when he did not pay his federal income taxes from January 2017 to October 2020 while also filing false tax reports.The charges break down to three felonies and six misdemeanors related to $1.4 million in owed taxes that have since been paid. The special counsel alleged Hunter “spent millions of dollars on an…