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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the gag order imposed two months ago on former President Donald J. Trump in the criminal case accusing him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, but narrowed its terms to allow him to keep attacking one of his main targets: Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing his federal prosecutions.The fight over the gag order has pitted the First Amendment rights of a presidential candidate against fears that his vitriolic language could spur his supporters to violence against participants in the case. While the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia…

The Roblox streamer and TikToker PowEnvy has gone viral with videos of his trash-strewn bedroom.His clips toe the line between serious and satire, with many viewers unsure what is real.PowEnvy told Business Insider he really lives there, and his parents are supportive of the channel. 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 PowEnvy’s room is a junk food safari. In one corner, there are empty snack packets of Takis, Funyuns, and Airheads. In another, McDonald’s and Popeyes bags are piled against each other.…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Media myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Paramount Global has held talks about a sale of its legendary Hollywood studio and other assets to Skydance, the production company behind Top Gun: Maverick, according to sources familiar with the company controlled by Shari Redstone. Skydance, whose shareholders include the Ellison family and RedBird Capital Partners, has emerged as a leading contender to take over Paramount in part due to the strong ties between the two companies, which have co-produced a series of movies.The conversations were at a very early stage and there…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks during an event in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo By David Shepardson (Reuters) – California’s ambitious high-speed rail project that aims to move travelers from San Francisco to the Los Angeles basin in under three hours still faces significant funding challenges despite a $3.1 billion federal award. The White House on Friday announced $8.2 billion in federal funding for rail projects across the country, including the California project billed at the first U.S. speed rail project with speeds of 220 miles per hour. California Governor Gavin…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Artificial Intelligence words are seen in this illustration taken March 31, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo By Foo Yun Chee, Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee BRUSSELS/LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Europe on Friday reached a provisional deal on landmark European Union rules governing the use of artificial intelligence including governments’ use of AI in biometric surveillance and how to regulate AI systems such as ChatGPT. With the political agreement, the EU moves toward becoming the first major world power to enact laws governing AI. Friday’s deal between EU countries and European Parliament members came after nearly 15 hours of negotiations…

SlavkoSereda/iStock via Getty Images Crude oil production from the U.S. reached a new all-time high of 13.2M bbl/day in September, according to data released last week, outpacing expectations and causing a big problem for OPEC+, which agreed last week to further output cuts in an effort to prop up faltering prices. The U.S. accounts for 80% of the expansion in global oil supply this year, according to the International Energy Agency, and its production is expected to grow by 850K bbl/day, well below the pace reached earlier in the shale revolution but much faster than analysts had forecast. The American…

Seventy-four House members sent a bipartisan letter to the governing boards of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania, calling on all three to take immediate action to remove the president of each respective institution.The letter, obtained by Fox News Digital, was signed by 74 House of Representatives members from both parties, and specifically calls out MIT President Sally Kornbluth, UPenn President Liz Magill, and Harvard President Claudine Gay, for failing to say if calls for the genocide of Jewish people would violate university policies during a congressional hearing Tuesday.The letter was signed by Rep.…

Every day, a team of cooks and waitstaff serves 13,500 meals at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Midshipmen gather for every meal in the historic King Hall, the dining hall in T-shaped Bancroft Hall — the largest single-building dormitory in the world. Staff at King Hall can prepare 2,000 pounds of shrimp, 3,000 hamburgers, or 2,500 pounds of chicken a day for the 4,400 midshipmen seated at the 392 tables in the dining hall.Business Insider visited King Hall to see cooks prepare an estimated 500 pounds of sauerkraut and 7,500 wursts for their annual Oktoberfest dinner and…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.South Africa’s struggling Eskom state electricity monopoly has ended an almost year-long search for a chief executive with the appointment of Dan Marokane, who will have the job of ending the wave of rolling blackouts throttling the economy.Marokane, a former head of group capital at Eskom who left in 2015, will rejoin the utility no later than the end of March. He brings “experience working in distressed organisations with visible and pressurised turnaround mandates”, Eskom said on Friday.He was one of a…

© Reuters. Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., December 7, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve’s last monetary policy meeting of 2023 and a U.S. inflation report in coming days should test a stock market rally that some view as stretched following weeks of gains. Bets the Fed will begin cutting interest rates sooner than expected have fueled a surge in U.S. equities, which received a tailwind from a rapid decline in Treasury yields. The up nearly 20% in 2023 after…