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☆ United States takes gold medal breather at Pan Am Games
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Paul, who had Trinidad and Tobago's only gold at the 2019 Pan Am Games in Lima, successfully defended his title beating training partner Jair Tjon En Fa of Suriname in two consecutive races in the best-of-three final. Mexico had a productive day picking up four gold medals to leap frog Canada and move back into second on the table. The Mexicans continued their domination of the modern pentathlon winning the women's relay event to claim their fourth gold medal of the competition. There were also gold medals taken in the racquetball women's team event while Alejandra Zavala topped the podium in the women's 10 metre air pistol and Yareli Acevedo Mendoza won on the cycling track in the women's Omnium. Editing by Christian SchmollingerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Penaloen, Tobago's Nicholas Lee Paul, Silver, Suriname's Jair, Colombia's Kevin, Nicholas Paul, James Hall, Alexis Lagan, Rachel Tozier, Paul, Jair, Alejandra Zavala, Yareli Acevedo Mendoza, Steve Keating, Christian Schmollinger Organizations: Trinidad, United, United States Pan American Games, Games, Pan Am, Thomson Locations: Santiago, Chile, SANTIAGO, United States, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S, Mexico, Canada, Trinidad, Lima, Fa, Suriname

☆ African qualifier to go ahead in Marrakech despite deadly quake
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Mark Gleeson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

However, Saturday's match between Morocco and Liberia in Agadir, some 260km away from the quake epicentre, has been postponed. The Congo and Gambia squads spent the night sleeping beside their respective hotel pools after the magnitude 7.2 quake that struck in Morocco's High Atlas mountains and damaged buildings in nearby Marrakech. The coaches of both teams said their players had been traumatised by the event but had been told they must go ahead with their match. Sunday’s Group G decider between Gambia and Congo is being played in Marrakech because Gambia do not have a suitable stadium for hosting international matches. “We have been told our match on Sunday must go ahead.

Persons: Tom Saintfiet, ”, ” Congo’s, Paul Put Organizations: of Nations, Sunday’s, Sunday, ”, Reuters, CAF, Royal Moroccan Football Federation, Confederation of African, Thomson Locations: CAPE, Congo, Marrakech, Morocco, Liberia, Agadir, Gambia, ” Gambia

☆ How Strong Is the Economy?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Conservatives sometimes respond to this data by trying to separate the economy from the rest of society. But I think it’s a mistake to imagine that the economy is somehow distinct from living standards. To over-generalize only somewhat, blue America believes in NIMBYism (“not in my backyard”), while red America is more comfortable with YIMBYism. That combination helps explain why our economy looks so good by some measures and so bad by others. Liberals have been hobbling government and the economy, Nicholas Bagley of the University of Michigan explained on Ezra Klein’s podcast.

☆ NBA roundup: Anthony Davis, Lakers sprint past Grizzlies
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/5] Apr 22, 2023; Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Lakers guard Dennis Schroder (17) shoots the ball against Memphis Grizzlies forward David Roddy (27) in the fourth quarter during game three of the 2023 NBA playoffs at Crypto.com Arena. LeBron James added 25 points and nine rebounds as the Lakers took a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference matchup. D'Angelo Russell had 17 points and Rui Hachimura scored 16 for Los Angeles, which led by as many as 29 points in the wire-to-wire victory. Desmond Bane (18 points) ended the Morant run with a 3-pointer that cut the Los Angeles lead to 108-99 with 1:24 remaining. James Harden collected 17 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds.

☆ Crypto exchanges enabled online child sex-abuse profiteer
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +22 min

These sites often included links for users to pay via crypto exchanges, the IWF told Reuters, declining to name companies. “For those people looking to make money from child sexual abuse, crypto has lowered the barrier,” said Dan Sexton, the IWF’s chief technology officer. The Dark Scandals website, owned by Michael Mohammad, instructs users to send tokens to a Dark Scandals digital wallet to purchase content. While banks and payment platforms demanded more details from online merchants, many crypto exchanges for years requested little or no information from clients. The IWF received more reports last year of websites selling child abuse imagery for crypto than any year prior.

The U.S. Justice Department, in a report this September, said many crypto exchanges still "make little or no effort to comply" with know-your-customer requirements. These sites often included links for users to pay via crypto exchanges, the IWF told Reuters, declining to name companies. While banks and payment platforms demanded more details from online merchants, many crypto exchanges for years requested little or no information from clients. Asked at his trial for his opinion of crypto, Mohammad noted, "Privacy is something that a lot of users value." The IWF received more reports last year of websites selling child abuse imagery for crypto than any year prior.

☆ How George Clooney and Julia Roberts spent their first big paychecks
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

George Clooney and Julia Roberts have been working in Hollywood for over three decades — but the stars of "Ticket to Paradise" and longtime friends can still recall the excitement of receiving their first paychecks like it was yesterday. Roberts, 55, celebrated her first big payday by buying a boombox, she told POPSUGAR during a recent joint interview with Clooney. "Oh, that's great," Clooney said of Roberts' big purchase. "I was living in a closet of my buddy's apartment with his grandmother," he told POPSUGAR. Roberts and Clooney have worked on six films together before: "Ocean's Eleven," "Ocean's Twelve," "Money Monster," "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" and "August: Osage County."

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