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A stenographer shook Donald Trump’s hand following his April arraignment in Manhattan. Randy Berkowitz later spoke about the experience with a Long Island paper. His union says he was removed from serving on the case for his political views.  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 senior court stenographer for the New York Supreme Court was precluded from participating in the Manhattan case against former President Donald Trump, and his union is arguing it’s because he told the news he was a registered Republican.The…

The last time Manchester City travelled to Luton Town’s Kenilworth Road for a league match was 1998, when both sides were playing in the third tier of English football. The game ended in a 1-1 draw.On Sunday, the two face each other again as equals for the first time in 25 years, pitting the richest club in the world against a team whose rise from the ashes has been one of English football’s recent fairy tales.Since their last meeting, City has risen to the pinnacle of European football, collecting Premier League titles and winning the Champions League for the first…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Nasdaq logo is displayed at the Nasdaq Market site in Times Square in New York City, U.S., December 3, 2021. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo (Reuters) – New York-based stock exchange Nasdaq Inc agreed to pay a $4 million settlement to the U.S. Department of Treasury over apparent violations of sanctions against Iran by a former Nasdaq unit, the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said on Friday. Nasdaq OMX Armenia provided services to Iran and Iran’s state-owned Bank Mellat, it said. “The settlement amount reflects OFAC’s determination that Nasdaq’s conduct was non-egregious and voluntarily self-disclosed,”…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Tesla Model 3 vehicle drives on autopilot along the 405 highway in Westminster, California, U.S., March 16, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo (Reuters) – Tesla (NASDAQ:) Inc defended its use of “Autopilot” and “self-driving” for its driver assistance features, arguing in response to a California regulatory action that the agency had implicitly approved the terms when it did not take action in its previous investigations of them. The electric car company run by billionaire Elon Musk was accused last year by California’s Department of Motor Vehicles of falsely advertising its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features as…

Justin Sullivan Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) partnership with ChatGPT-developer OpenAI is getting some regulatory scrutiny. On Friday, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority said it was seeking comments from interested third parties on the partnership between Redmond, Wa.-based Microsoft (MSFT) and OpenAI. “The CMA is today providing an early opportunity for the parties and interested third parties to comment on whether the partnership between Microsoft (MSFT) and OpenAI, including recent developments, has resulted in a relevant merger situation and, if so, the impact that the merger could have on competition in the UK,” the regulator said in a statement. “The Invitation to…

The Department of Education announced this week that an additional six schools across the country are being investigated for discrimination amid the Israel-Hamas war.Investigations into Montana State University, Tulane University, Union College, the University of Cincinnati, Santa Monica College, and Cobb County School District in Georgia, were opened over the past week by the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights. The investigations are focusing on cases of alleged discrimination that involve shared ancestry.A DOE spokesperson declined to comment on the investigations, but pointed Fox News Digital to a November press release after opening investigations into several schools after the Oct. 7…

Grok, Elon Musk’s chatbot, and ChatGPT appeared to score similarly on the Political Compass Test.Both appeared to have left-leaning and libertarian views.Musk criticized the test but said xAI would work to make Grok more politically neutral. 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 Elon Musk said he was taking immediate action to make his AI chatbot, Grok, more politically neutral after it appeared to express political views similar to that of ChatGPT.Musk was responding to a Friday X post by research scientist David…

BUY: Paragon Banking Group (PAG)A share buyback, increased dividend and higher returns make the buy-to-let lender a standout performer in the banking sector, writes Julian Hofmann.Paragon Banking Group handed out Christmas goodies in its full-year results with a £50mn share buyback, a 30 per cent dividend increase and a net interest margin of 3.09 per cent that came in well ahead of what anyone had forecast. Investors took the cue to bid up the shares on the day by 8 per cent, which represented their best individual performance for the year. In short, specialist banks — in Paragon’s case with…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People walk along Nanjing Pedestrian Road, a main shopping area, ahead of the National Day holiday, in Shanghai, China September 26, 2023. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s consumer prices fell the fastest in three years in November, while factory-gate deflation deepened, suggesting heightening deflationary pressure as weak domestic demand casts doubts over the economic recovery. The consumer price index (CPI) dropped 0.5% both from a year earlier and compared with October, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Saturday. The falls were deeper than the median 0.1% declines, both year-on-year month-on-month,…

© Reuters. The closed Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino sign is illuminated among other closed hotels and properties as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Las Vegas, Nevada U.S., April 10, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -A company that helps timeshare owners undo their contracts has sued the United States’ largest privately held vacation ownership company, accusing Florida-based Westgate Resorts of scheming to eliminate competition for cancellation services. Wesley Financial Group LLC’s Orlando federal court lawsuit against Westgate, a subsidiary of Central Florida Investments Inc, claims the company violated federal advertising law and antitrust…