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Hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has been denied bail as he awaits a sex trafficking trial, by a judge who cited evidence showing him to be a 'serious risk' of witness tampering. or signup to continue reading Lawyers for Combs argued that a $50 million bail package would be sufficient to ensure he doesn't flee and doesn't try to intimidate prospective trial witnesses. US District Judge Arun Subramanian concurred with two previous judges that the Bad Boy Records founder was a danger to the community if he was not behind bars. "There is compelling evidence of Combs's propensity for violence," Subramanian wrote. Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years, aided by associates and employees. An indictment alleges that he silenced victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings. Subramanian said he took a fresh look at all the bail arguments and the evidence supporting them to make his decision. Prosecutors say that even in a federal lockup in Brooklyn, Combs has orchestrated social media campaigns designed to influence prospective jurors and tried to publicly leak materials he thinks can help his case. They say he also has contacted potential witnesses through third parties. Lawyers for Combs say any alleged sexual abuse described in the indictment occurred during consensual relations between adults and that new evidence refutes allegations that Combs used his "power and prestige" to induce female victims into drugged-up, elaborately produced sexual performances with male sex workers known as "Freak Offs." Subramanian said evidence shows Combs to be a "serious risk of witness tampering," particularly after he communicated over the summer with a grand jury witness and deleted some of his texts with the witness. The judge also cited evidence showing that Combs violated Bureau of Prisons regulations during pretrial detention at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn when he paid other inmates to use their phone code numbers so he could make calls to individuals who were not on his approved contact list. Subramanian said Combs "willingness to skirt" jailhouse rules to conceal communications was "strong evidence" that any conditions of release would not prevent similar behaviour. Advertisement Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date. We care about the protection of your data. Read our . Advertisementmnl777 free 100 。

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Is the overthrow of Assad good for the Palestinians?Romanian politicians have voted in favour of a new pro-European coalition government led by incumbent Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu. The move could usher in an end to a protracted political crisis in the European Union country following the annulment of a presidential election by a top court. Parliament approved the new administration in a 240-143 vote in Romania’s 466-seat legislature. The new coalition is made up of the leftist Social Democratic Party (PSD) the centre-right National Liberal Party (PNL), the small ethnic Hungarian UDMR party and national minorities. It caps a month-long period of turmoil in which far-right nationalists made significant gains in a parliamentary election on December 1 a week after a first-round presidential race saw the far-right outsider Calin Georgescu emerge as the front-runner. “It will not be an easy mandate for the future government,” Mr Ciolacu, whose PSD party topped the polls in the parliamentary election, said in a statement. “We are aware that we are in the midst of a deep political crisis,” he said. “It is also a crisis of trust, and this coalition aims to regain the trust of citizens, the trust of the people.” Romania’s 16 ministerial positions will be shared among the parties, which will hold a slim majority in the legislature. It is widely seen as a tactical partnership to shut out far-right nationalists whose voices found fertile ground amid high living costs and a sluggish economy. Mr Ciolacu, who came third in the first-round presidential ballot despite polls indicating he would win the most votes, has served as prime minister since June 2023. After parliament’s approval, President Klaus Iohannis swore in the new government and warned the new Cabinet that it is entering a “difficult new period” in which “for many Romanians, there are major concerns”. Romania was plunged into turmoil after Mr Georgescu’s surprise success in the presidential race, after allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference emerged. Days before the December 8 run-off, the Constitutional Court made the unprecedented move to annul the presidential race. “We go through complicated times, but I think we all learned from mistakes of the past,” Mr Ciolacu said. “I hope that together with my colleagues in the coalition, we’ll find the best solutions to get past the challenges we have in front of us.” Mr Ciolacu said that the new government would aim to quickly organise the rerun of the presidential election in which the new coalition has agreed to put forward an agreed common pro-European candidate. Cristian Andrei, a political consultant based in Bucharest, said that the new government made up of the same political parties will likely embrace “soft populist” rhetoric such as economic patriotism, anti-austerity, and a peace solution in neighbouring Ukraine to counter the rise of far-right populism. “This will be a way to answer the concerns of many Romanians who voted for populists... but will not solve the fundamental problem of trust,” he said. “The only decisive factor now will be who and how convincing the pro-European candidates will be against this popular revolt.” George Simion, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, which came second in the parliamentary election, said that all politicians from his party on Monday would vote against the Ciolacu government. In 2021, the PSD and the PNL also formed an unlikely but increasingly strained coalition together with UDMR, which exited the Cabinet last year after a power-sharing dispute.Nigel Farage said he is weighing up what action to take if the Conservatives do not apologise for accusing Reform UK of “fakery” over its membership numbers. The Reform UK leader pushed back against reports suggesting that legal action would be the next step, saying he would make a decision in the next couple of days about his response if there is no apology for the “crazy conspiracy theory”. Mr Farage also said the party has “opened up our systems” to media outlets, including The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times, in the interests of “full transparency to verify that our numbers are correct”. His remarks came after Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch accused Mr Farage of “fakery” in response to Reform claiming they had surpassed the Tories in signed-up members. Mrs Badenoch said Reform’s counter was “coded to tick up automatically”. A digital counter on the Reform website showed a membership tally before lunchtime on Boxing Day ticking past the 131,680 figure declared by the Conservative Party during its leadership election earlier this year. Mr Farage, on whether he was threatening legal action or not, told the PA news agency: “I haven’t threatened anything. I’ve just said that unless I get an apology, I will take some action. “I haven’t said whether it’s legal or anything.” He added: “All I’ve said is I want an apology. If I don’t get an apology, I will take action. “I will decide in the next couple of days what that is. So I’ve not specified what it is.” Mr Farage, on the move to make membership data available to media organisations, said: “We feel our arguments are fully validated. “She (Mrs Badenoch) has put out this crazy conspiracy theory and she needs to apologise.” The accusations of fraud and dishonesty made against me yesterday were disgraceful. Today we opened up our systems to The Telegraph, Spectator, Sky News & FT in the interests of full transparency to verify that our data is correct. I am now demanding @KemiBadenoch apologises. — Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) December 27, 2024 On why Mrs Badenoch had reacted as she did, Mr Farage said: “I would imagine she was at home without anybody advising her and was just angry.” Mr Farage, in a statement issued on social media site X, also said: “The accusations of fraud and dishonesty made against me yesterday were disgraceful. “Today we opened up our systems to The Telegraph, Spectator, Sky News and FT in the interests of full transparency to verify that our data is correct. “I am now demanding Kemi Badenoch apologises.” A Conservative Party source claimed Mr Farage was “rattled” that his Boxing Day “publicity stunt is facing serious questions”. They added: “Like most normal people around the UK, Kemi is enjoying Christmas with her family and looking forward to taking on the challenges of renewing the Conservative Party in the New Year.” Mrs Badenoch, in a series of messages posted on X on Thursday, said: “Farage doesn’t understand the digital age. This kind of fakery gets found out pretty quickly, although not before many are fooled.” There were 131,680 Conservative members eligible to vote during the party’s leadership election to replace Rishi Sunak in the autumn. Mrs Badenoch claimed in her thread that “the Conservative Party has gained thousands of new members since the leadership election”. Elsewhere, Mr Farage described Elon Musk as a “bloody hero” and said he believes the US billionaire can help attract younger voters to Reform. Tech entrepreneur Mr Musk met Mr Farage earlier this month at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, amid rumours of a possible donation to either Mr Farage or Reform. Mr Farage told The Daily Telegraph newspaper: “The shades, the bomber jacket, the whole vibe. Elon makes us cool – Elon is a huge help to us with the young generation, and that will be the case going on and, frankly, that’s only just starting. “Reform only wins the next election if it gets the youth vote. The youth vote is the key. Of course, you need voters of all ages, but if you get a wave of youth enthusiasm you can change everything. “And I think we’re beginning to get into that zone – we were anyway, but Elon makes the whole task much, much easier. And the idea that politics can be cool, politics can be fun, politics can be real – Elon helps us with that mission enormously.”

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Things to watch this week in the Big 12 Conference: No. 14 BYU (9-1, 6-1 Big 12, No. 14 CFP) at No. 21 Arizona State (8-2, 5-2, No. 21), Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET (ESPN) League newcomer Arizona State has a three-game winning streak and BYU is coming off its first loss. The Cougars, after losing at home to Kansas, still control their own destiny in making the Big 12 championship game. They can clinch a spot in that Dec. 7 game as early as Saturday, if they win and instate rival Utah wins at home against No. 22 Iowa State. Arizona State was picked at the bottom of the 16-team league in the preseason media poll, but already has a five-win improvement in coach Kenny Dillingham's second season. No. 16 Colorado (8-2, 6-1, No. 16 CFP) at Kansas (4-6, 3-4), Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET (Fox) Coach Deion Sanders and the Buffaloes are in prime position to make the Big 12 title game in their return to the league after 13 seasons in the Pac-12. If BYU and Utah win, Colorado would be able to claim the other title game spot with a win over Kansas. The Buffs have a four-game winning streak. The Jayhawks need another November win over a ranked Big 12 contender while trying to get bowl eligible for the third season in a row. Kansas has won consecutive games over Top 25 teams for the first time in school history, knocking off Iowa State before BYU. Iowa State quarterback Rocco Becht has thrown a touchdown in a school-record 14 consecutive games, while receivers Jayden Higgins and Jaylin Noel both have more than 800 yards receiving. San Jose State is the only other FBS team with a pair of 800-yard receivers. Becht has 2,628 yards and 17 touchdowns passing for the Cyclones (8-2, 5-2), who are still in Big 12 contention. Oklahoma State goes into its home finale against Texas Tech with a seven-game losing streak, its longest since a nine-game skid from 1977-78. The only longer winless streak since was an 0-10-1 season in 1991. This is Mike Gundy's 20th season as head coach, and his longest losing streak before now was five in a row in 2005, his first season and the last time the Cowboys didn't make a bowl game. ... Baylor plays at Houston for the first time since 1995, the final Southwest Conference season. The Cougars won last year in the only meeting since to even the series 14-14-1. ... Eight Big 12 teams are bowl eligible. As many as six more teams could reach six wins. The Big 12 already has four 1,000-yard rushers, including three who did it last season. UCF's RJ Harvey is the league's top rusher (1,328 yards) and top scorer with 21 touchdowns (19 rushing/two receiving). The others with consecutive 1,000-yard seasons are Texas Tech career rushing leader Tahj Brooks (1,184 yards) and Kansas State's DJ Giddens (1,128 yards). Cam Skattebo with league newcomer Arizona State has 1,074 yards. Devin Neal, the career rushing leader at his hometown university, is 74 yards shy of being the first Kansas player with three 1,000-yard seasons. Cincinnati's Corey Kiner needs 97 yards to reach 1,000 again. Get local news delivered to your inbox!

Monday Night Football: Jaire Alexander is inactive for Packers vs. SaintsVideo showing an Ohio delivery driver realize that she had been given a very generous tip has gone viral. See the moment captured by Ring doorbell camera in the video player above. The act of kindness was caught on Ring camera , and the driver and the woman who started it all were reunited. When Lisa Burnett delivered a grocery order to a home in the Springboro neighborhood, she never imagined it would change her life. But it did, and it all started with a tip. During the holiday season, Kelly Schilling said she likes to randomly gift people with generous tips. On Saturday, she decided to give Lisa a $100 tip. Lisa thought it might have been a mistake and drove all the way back to Kelly’s home the next day. That’s when the two women shared an emotional moment, after Kelly told Lisa that the tip was a holiday gift. A few years ago, Lisa’s daughter passed away. She is now raising her granddaughter and has been doing deliveries to provide for them. She had just filed for public housing assistance, but after the video of the interaction went viral, Lisa got more support than she could ever imagine. “This became so popular because they loved her story,” Schilling said. “They loved the sincerity of it. I mean, she could have easily just taken the money and never said anything about it, right? But she didn't. And so, within hours, there were probably 5,000 comments.” Lisa said before the moment, she did not have many clothes, or even a winter coat. Now, she does, and she credits this experience as the reason. “I realized I just met an angel in person,” Burnett said. “I've got chills thinking about it now.” As the video went viral, a GoFundMe account was set up for Lisa, with the video seen by millions of people on social media. By Friday afternoon, nearly $40,000 had been raised and the total was continuing to climb. To donate and learn more, click here .

Dynamic pricing: how algorithms are changing costs If rental cars, hotel rooms, airfares, ride-share trips and concert tickets have anything in common, it’s certainly not the overwhelming confidence Americans feel when booking and buying them, reports Bloomberg. Prices for these kinds of purchases fluctuate from one minute to the next -- or, in many cases, from buyer to buyer. It’s not that fair prices don’t exist, but it can be impossible to feel sure that you’re getting one. You have no idea what anyone else might be paying for the same flight or seat or midsize sedan, or what you might have paid yesterday or could pay tomorrow. The possibility that you’re being taken for a fool (or outright discriminated against) looms every time you click ‘Buy’. Put another way, no regular person has ever sat back and thought, “You know what? I want more of my interactions with the economy to feel like renting a car.” Nevertheless, a suite of tactics collectively known as dynamic pricing has already crept into an expansive array of consumer transactions. Through dynamic pricing, retailers algorithmically adjust prices, sometimes in real time, using whatever data they can scrape together -- the time of day, your location, the product’s popularity and inventory level, competitors’ prices, even whether you’ve visited the product page before. And this practice is likely to become much more widespread in pretty short order. According to Dipanjan Chatterjee, a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc, consumer businesses that have been profit-taking by raising prices over the past few years can’t just keep marking up their products the old-fashioned way. Americans seem to have been pushed to their limit, financially and psychologically, by the highest inflation in four decades; additional broad markups would risk alienating customers and tanking revenue, Chatterjee said in an email. “I fully expect companies will turn to more sophisticated pricing mechanisms like dynamic pricing to boost profitability,” he wrote. Dynamic pricing -- a blanket term that covers many slightly different tactics, including surge pricing, demand pricing and personalized pricing -- is easiest to implement online, and plenty of internet retailers have been using it in some capacity for years. These merchants have a significant advantage in doing the kind of large-scale, fine-grained data collection that makes it possible to deploy algorithmic models to maximise purchases. Amazon[dot]com Inc is generally regarded as the retailer with the most sophisticated pricing operation. Not only does the megaretailer reprice its own products constantly, but it also gives its army of third-party sellers access to tools that can adjust their listings’ prices automatically to compete with other sellers or better comply with the changing preferences of Amazon’s internal search. Thanks in part to the investment dollars pouring into seemingly every vaguely artificial-intelligence-tinged business, third-party software vendors have sprung up to offer similar capabilities to everyone from your landlord to your local ice cream shop. Plenty of them seem ready to give it a shot: In a recent survey of 755 American restaurant operators, the ordering platform Toast found that 70 per cent were “very or extremely interested” in implementing dynamic pricing that would raise or lower prices depending on foot traffic or order volume. (Only 7.0 per cent reported currently using the practice.) The proliferation of things such as plug-and-play order management software and Square’s tablet-based checkout systems has made it feasible for many more types of businesses to collect basic data on customers and use it to quickly adjust prices, dynamically or not. For larger brick-and-mortar retailers, the increasing popularity of installing digital shelf-labelling systems provides similar capabilities across thousands of products. The problem -- or one of them, anyway -- is that customers hate dynamic pricing almost as much as they hate normal price increases. Earlier this year, when Wendy’s Restaurant LLC announced it would test demand-based pricing at some of its restaurants in 2025, the internet blowback was so swift and forceful that the company ditched the plan entirely. Similarly, when news got out this summer that Walmart and Kroger stores were replacing paper price tags with digital shelf labels, both retailers had to publicly promise they had no plans to use them to raise prices indiscriminately. Ticketmaster’s demand-based pricing has provoked the ire of fan bases as disparate as Taylor Swift’s and Bruce Springsteen’s. When Oasis announced its long-awaited reunion tour dates in the UK, prices soared so high that the band refused to allow Ticketmaster to use the same tactic on subsequent American dates, calling it “an unacceptable experience for fans.” The Federal Trade Commission has taken an interest in some of these pricing gambits, initiating a study last summer on how a handful of popular pricing services use surveillance data to manipulate how much they charge people. But as it stands, dynamic pricing is largely regarded as legal, as long as sellers don’t use protected characteristics such as race or gender to determine what buyers will pay. The algorithmic nature of dynamic pricing also gives sellers plausible deniability; who’s to say which data points were dispositive? The main risk for retailers is one of perception. “Nontraditional pricing strategies like dynamic pricing have a marketing problem,” Forrester’s Chatterjee says. He points to Uber Technologies Inc’s clumsy surge pricing -- the flavour of dynamic pricing that people hate most virulently -- as one source of broad public animus toward the idea, especially in transactions in which buyers expect static pricing. No one likes that airfares are higher around the holidays or that beachside hotels are more expensive during the summer, but it’s been that way for so long and is predictable enough that people generally accept it. Most will need to contend with these premiums only once or twice a year, plus advice abounds on money-saving travel hacks. Having to do some form of that calculus every time you buy groceries is an entirely different kind of budgeting burden. Whether dynamic pricing does lead to the higher prices everyone is afraid of is a more complicated question. When used well, pretty much everyone agrees that it results in larger and more consistent profits for merchants, who are able to maximize margins and volumes simultaneously in a way that’s much harder with static prices. By definition, that means that at least some customers are getting good deals. A 2021 study of European grocery stores found that those using dynamic pricing through digital tags both improved margins for retailers and reduced the average cost of goods sold to consumers, especially for perishable products, which could be more effectively discounted as expiration dates neared. Some people in the pricing industry have tried to encourage retailers to adopt dynamic pricing in ways that paint the practice in a more positive light. In an editorial in the trade publication Restaurant Dive, Catherine Tabor, the chief executive officer of the food service software company Sparkfly, urged restaurants to try out “dynamic offers”—essentially, a spontaneous, data-driven happy hour to boost foot traffic during slow periods (which was, of course, why analog happy hour was invented in the first place), instead of surge pricing that penalizes shoppers during high demand. Chatterjee was less optimistic about the possibility that companies would use new pricing methods purely to offer better value to their customers. “‘Surge pricing’ is a dirty word,” he says. “Companies are trying to figure out how to do it without saying it.

Video games and video game consoles have remained popular gift ideas for the Christmas holiday for many years, with the holiday helping to provide a boost to the overall gaming sector. Here's a look at whether parents and loved ones would have been better off buying a video game or stock in leading video game retailer GameStop Corporation GME last Christmas and over the last five Christmas holidays. What Happened : GameStop is one of the most popular retail destinations for people looking for video game gifts during the holidays. The company has also had one of the most popular stocks in recent years thanks to a historic short squeeze in 2021 and the notoriety of being a meme stock. A visit to GameStop around the holidays would find many new release games carrying a $69.99 retail price. While children likely prefer an item like a video game that carries the instant gratification of being able to play it on Christmas Day and in the subsequent days, there are other gifts that might hold their value longer. Video games often lose value over time as new versions of sports games come out or sequels to video game franchises. The release of new consoles over time often diminishes the value of older video games as well. Another gift idea is giving the stock of public companies, but most kids or younger relatives might not understand the value of an investment and potential gains over the years. Here's a look at the comparison between buying a video game versus buying stock. Read Also: GameStop Q3 Earnings: Revenue Miss, $4B+ Cash, No More Offerings Planned In Fiscal Year Stock Instead of Game : While many kids would have been happy with the latest video game last Christmas, it turns out they might be wishing that they got GameStop stock instead. A new video game cost $69.99 last Christmas, while GameStop stock traded at a high of $17.20 on Dec. 22 last year, the last trading day before Christmas. The same $69.99 used for a video game could have bought 4.07 GME shares. Based on a price of $30.80 at the time of writing, the GameStop shares would be worth $125.36 today, up 79.1%. While the GameStop stock rose in value, chances are the $69.99 video game is now worth less than half of its original value due to being opened, used, and somewhat outdated. Going back to past years, here's a look at how the same $69.99 invested in GameStop stock would have performed. 2019: Price on Dec. 23 $1.52, 46.05 shares with $69.99 investment, $1,418.34 today, +1,926.5% 2020: Price on Dec. 23 $5.59, 12.52 shares with $69.99 investment, $385.62 today, +451.0% 2021: Price on Dec. 23 $38.75, 1.81 shares with $69.99 investment, $55.75 today, -20.3% 2022: Price on Dec. 23 $20.62, 3.39 shares with $69.99 investment, $104.41 today, +34.4% Add in the 2023 investment and over the past five Christmas shopping seasons, the investment would look like this: $349.95 invested in GameStop instead of video games = $2,089.48 today, +497.1% It's hard to predict if GameStop stock will trade higher in 2025 and if investing in the stock this Christmas will perform better than a video game. With a price of $30.80 today, the $69.99 investment used for stock instead of video games could buy 2.27 GME shares. Read Next: GameStop Rockets As Roaring Kitty Returns To X: What Does His Tweet Signal Ahead Of Q3 Earnings? This article was previously published by Benzinga and has been updated. Photo: Shutterstock © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.

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