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☆ Two guys who were fed up with spam calls created a ChatGPT tool that trolls telemarketers and wastes their time
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Will Gendron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jolly Roger is a telephone service that uses AI to fight back against pesky telemarketing calls. With the prevalence of robocalls across the country, Jolly Roger serves as a way to fight back. A telephone service called Jolly Roger harnesses ChatGPT and voice modulation software to create and read scripts to telemarketers. There were 4.7 billion spam calls made in November 2022 and 5.08 billion this past May, according to YouMail's robocall index. Until a world where dubious calls from unidentified numbers exists, Jolly Roger will do its best to alleviate the annoyance.

Persons: Jolly Roger, pesky, Whitey Whitebeard, Sally, telemarketers, Roger Anderson, Anderson, Steve Berkson, Berkson, Steve, Sid Berkson, Berkson's, ChatGPT, it's Organizations: Morning, Street Journal, robocalls, Force Locations: Washington, Arizona

☆ A $50,000 wedding for free: What it's like to win an all-inclusive wedding giveaway
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Half of wedding vendors say higher costs of goods, from food to flowers to gas, are driving them to increase their service prices. A growing share of couples are adding cash funds to their wedding registries — some even earmarked specifically to help pay for the wedding itself. But with their surprise wedding winnings, Moore estimates their wedding day will be valued at more than $16,500. Usually, couples who win the free services are asked to promote the businesses on social media, or to appear in their marketing materials online and elsewhere. Now a couple of years after her wedding, Brallier continues to shout out the vendors who gifted her and her husband, Jacob, 26, a dream wedding.

Persons: Zola, Melanie Moore, Brandon Wallace, —, Moore, Wallace, Wallace's, Emily Forrest, Forrest, Jen Brallier, Jen, Jacob Brallier, Brallier, Jacob Organizations: Savings Locations: Memphis, Zola, Puerto Vallarta , Mexico, Tulsa

☆ Panama pledges to purge more substandard ships from world's largest registry
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

PANAMA CITY, June 27 (Reuters) - The Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) said on Tuesday it would continue to clean up its fleet to prevent substandard Panama-flagged ships from being detained in foreign ports, a week after the country was added to an international watch list. Panama's ships registry was last week added to the "grey list" of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), an agreement among 27 countries establishing an international inspection regime for foreign ships in other nations' ports, aiming to control ships' safety and environmental standards. The grey list includes fleets with acceptable compliance levels but low detention rates. Panama has removed 216 vessels from its ships registry, the world's largest, since 2021, for not meeting international standards. Reporting by Elida Moreno; Writing by Sarah Morland; Editing by Stephen CoatesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Elida Moreno, Sarah Morland, Stephen Coates Organizations: PANAMA CITY, Panama Maritime Authority, AMP, Thomson Locations: PANAMA, Panama, Paris

☆ Overstock Sees a Future in Calling Itself Bed Bath & Beyond
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Jordyn Holman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Soon, Overstock.com will become Bed Bath & Beyond — at least in digital form. Overstock, which last week paid $21.5 million to acquire the bankrupt retailer’s intellectual property, said on Wednesday that it would start operating its website under the Bed Bath & Beyond name. Company executives plan to eventually bring back Bed Bath & Beyond’s popular wedding registry. As Overstock folds the bankrupt retailers’ assets into its own operations, it is considering renaming its business entirely, said Jonathan Johnson, the company’s chief executive. It might settle on Bed Bath & Beyond, he added, but other names are being considered, too.

Persons: Overstock.com, Jonathan Johnson Organizations: Bed, Company Locations: Canada, United States

☆ How to Prevent Another Submersible Tragedy Like OceanGate’s Titan - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Salvatore Mercogliano | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The Polar Prince, the ship from which the submersible was launched, is of Canadian registry and based out of Canada. Both the United States Senate and the British Board of Trade led investigations into the loss of the ocean liner. The United States has not even ratified the U.N. convention. Meaning that if Titan was launched from a Canadian ship, from a Canadian port, Canada has jurisdiction. At present, it’s unclear which country has jurisdiction in the Titan investigation, as the craft was reportedly built in the United States but launched from a Canadian vessel.

Organizations: Canadian Transportation, U.S . Coast Guard, Marine Board of, U.S . National Transportation Safety, Titanic, United States Senate, British Board of Trade, Titan, United Nations ’ International Maritime Organization, Federal Aviation Administration, United Nations Convention, United, International Maritime Organization Locations: Canada, U.S, United States, Canadian

☆ Prison staff misconduct made it easier for sex predator Jeffrey Epstein to kill himself, DOJ watchdog says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. "Significant misconduct" by federal Bureau of Prisons staff made it much easier for sex predator Jeffrey Epstein to kill himself in a New York jail in August 2019, a Department of Justice watchdog said in a new report Tuesday. The jail's Psychology Department had issued a directive that he be given a new cellmate. Epstein's death came a month after he was arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges. The city's Medical Examiner's office ruled shortly after his death that Epstein's injuries were consistent with him hanging himself, rather than from being strangled by another person.

Persons: Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein, Epstein's Organizations: New York State Division, Criminal, Services, Reuters, federal, of Prisons, of Justice, DOJ's, Metropolitan Correctional Center, Department Locations: New York, Manhattan

☆ A son died, his parents tried to sue. How U.S. courts protect Big Pharma
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +26 min

His parents soon started exploring a lawsuit against Merck, the developer of the blockbuster asthma and allergy drug, Singulair, along with the manufacturer of the generic version their son took. That meant Merck had written the warning label, with federal approval, on the generic version of Singulair that Nicholas England took. But his parents couldn’t sue Merck, either, because their son had never taken its name-brand version of Singulair. The generic drug manufacturer that made the pills England took, Teva Pharmaceuticals, did not respond to inquiries. Since Merck’s patent on Singulair expired in 2012, major generic drug manufacturers have sold millions of prescriptions under the drug’s scientific name, montelukast.

Persons: Nicholas England, Nicholas, Merck, ”, Jennifer England, Nicholas’s, ” Merck, Organon, “, George W, Bush, Daniel Troy, Troy, Medtronic, Nicholas England’s, Adam Zimmerman, ” Zimmerman, Jay Lefkowitz, Ellis, shouldn’t, Bayer, drugmaker Wyeth, Phenegran, Jan Gilpin’s, mumbling, ” Gilpin, ” “, hadn’t, Singulair, Gilpin, Stephane Bissonnette, suicidality, Dr, Judith Kramer, Duke, Robert England, Robert said, Kim Beck Organizations: Merck, U.S, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Reuters, U.S . Food, Drug Administration, FDA, Big, Corporate America, Corporations, Administration, ”, New, University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law, Norfolk, Union Pacific, Federal Railroad Safety, Pacific, GlaxoSmithKline, Monsanto, Bayer, Parent Locations: Virginia, England, U.S, New York, Kirkland, East Palestine , Ohio, Louisiana, Atlanta, Vermont, Wise , Virginia, Wisconsin

A Buy Buy Baby store in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Buy Buy Baby, the baby goods retailer owned by Bed Bath & Beyond , has been attracting interest ahead of its bankruptcy-run auction. But as the auction nears, interest in keeping Buy Buy Baby's stores open has waned. "When we looked at the stores and the Buy Buy Baby store footprint, we really said like, does this accelerate this strategy? Initially, Go Global Retail – which owns the children's wear brand Janie and Jack – was interested in keeping Buy Buy Baby stores open, the people said.

Persons: Overstock.com, Babylist, Natalie Gordon, Gordon, Janie, Jack – Organizations: Bed, –, CNBC, Go, Sixth, Partners, Street, Global Locations: Brooklyn, New York

☆ Medicare offers details on reimbursement for new Alzheimer's drugs
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Julie Steenhuysen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

CHICAGO, June 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Medicare health plan on Thursday offered details of plans to collect patient data as a condition for reimbursement for Eisai Co Ltd (4523.T) and Biogen Inc's (BIIB.O) new Alzheimer's drug Leqembi, should it win traditional U.S. approval as expected by July 6. If it wins traditional FDA approval, Leqembi would be the first disease-modifying drug ever to achieve the regulatory milestone. Current treatments only treat symptoms but do not change the course of the disease, which affects 6 million Americans, according to the Alzheimer's Association. On that basis, CMS said it would only pay for Leqembi if patients were enrolled in a clinical trial. The CMS data requirements apply to all Alzheimer's treatments that reduce beta amyloid from the brain, including Eli Lilly and Co's donanemab, which recently reported positive results from its late-stage trial.

Persons: Biogen, Eisai's Leqembi, Leqembi, Eli Lilly, Co's, “, Robert Egge, Julie Steenhuysen, Daniel Wallis Organizations: U.S, Eisai Co, Centers, Medicare, Medicaid Services, CMS, Alzheimer's Association, U.S . Food, Drug Administration, FDA, Alzheimer’s Association, Thomson Locations: U.S

☆ Australia's Perpetual says 'tech outage' affected some funds in cyber incident
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 21 (Reuters) - Australian Perpetual (PPT.AX) on Wednesday confirmed an extended tech outage over an IT security incident, affecting some of its funds, though the fund manager reaffirmed that all its client investments and its own systems were unaffected and secure. "Perpetual's listed products, institutional mandates, Pendal, Perpetual Corporate Trust, Perpetual Wrap clients, and all of our international asset management businesses are not affected," a Perpetual spokesperson said. In Perpetual's case, one of its third-party unit registry systems was compromised, impacting clients' access to its main investor login portal myPerpetual, the company said in a statement. The outage impacted about 45,000 clients and was limited to its Asset Management and Wealth Management divisions' Investment Funds, WealthFocus, and select products distributed in Australia, it added. Reporting by Roushni Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Varun H K and Janane VenkatramanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Pendal, Roushni Nair, Varun Organizations: Wednesday, Trust, Medibank, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Investment Funds, Thomson Locations: Australia, Bengaluru

CNN —A woman in Ecuador who was previously discovered to be alive in a coffin at her own wake has now actually passed away. Montoya was quickly transported to the Martin Icaza General Hospital when she was found alive after banging on her own coffin at the wake in Babahoyo. Likewise, the respective medical audit was carried out for this case,” Ecuador’s Ministry of Public Health said in a statement. Barberán told CNN that he has to register his mother’s death on the civil registry for a second time. The Ministry of Public Health has said an investigation is underway into the events leading up to her presumed death.

Persons: Bella Montoya, Gilbert Barberán, Montoya, Martin, Barberán, Zeneida Leal, ” Leal Organizations: CNN, Hospital, Ecuador’s Ministry of Public Health, of Public Health Locations: Ecuador, Babahoyo, “

☆ Marriages in China slump to historic low
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A new couple holding marriage certificates poses for a photo outside a registry office of marriage on Valentine's Day in Beijing, China, February 14, 2017. China's birth rate fell last year to 6.77 births per 1,000 people, the lowest on record, from 7.52 in 2021. Demographers warn China will get old before it gets rich, as its workforce shrinks and indebted local governments spend more on their elderly population. To encourage marriage and boost the country's flagging birth rate, China said last month it would launch pilot projects in more than 20 cities to create a "new-era" marriage and childbearing culture. Reporting by Martin Quin Pollard and Ellen Zhang; Editing by David HolmesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Jason Lee, Martin Quin Pollard, Ellen Zhang, David Holmes Organizations: REUTERS, Ministry of Civil Affairs, Thomson Locations: Beijing, China, BEIJING, Demographers

All six advisers on the panel voted in favor of Leqembi for treatment of the mind-wasting illness. That approval would also make Leqembi the first disease-modifying drug ever to achieve the regulatory milestone. Leqembi won accelerated approval by the FDA in January based on its ability to remove sticky amyloid plaques from the brain. Most U.S. Alzheimer's patients are Medicare-eligible. “We are in full agreement with the FDA Advisory Committee that Leqembi provides clinical benefit and that this benefit outweighs the risks."

Persons: Eisai, Leqembi, Tanya Simuni, Robert Alexander, Joanne Pike, Leroy Leo, Khushi, Julie Steenhuysen, Bill Berkrot Organizations: Food and Drug Administration, Alzheimer's Association, FDA, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Banner Alzheimer's Institute, CAA, Medicare, Wall Street, Analysts, Alzheimer's, Thomson Locations: Leqembi, U.S, Bengaluru, Chicago

☆ Lawmakers worry Medicare Alzheimer's plan won't ensure access to new treatments
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Rep. Nanette Barragan (D-CA) speaks alongside US Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg after a tour of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach during a press conference at the Port of Long Beach on January 11, 2022 in Long Beach, California. Two Democratic lawmakers are calling on Medicare to provide more information on how the program will make good on its promise to cover Alzheimer's treatments for seniors. Medicare has promised to cover Alzheimer's antibody treatments on the same day the medications receive full approval by the Food and Drug Administration. The federal health program will cover the treatments through Part B of the program for seniors. Eshoo and Barragan told Brooks-LaSure that they are worried the registry could present a barrier to care.

Persons: Nanette Barragan, Pete Buttigieg, Anna Eshoo, Chiquita Brooks, LaSure, Eshoo, Barragan, Brooks Organizations: US Department of Transportation, Port, Democratic, Health, Medicare, Medicaid Services, Food and Drug Administration, FDA Locations: Los Angeles, Long, Port of Long Beach, Long Beach , California

☆ Explainer: How Hong Kong plans to test its digital dollar in $229 bln mortgage market?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Georgina Lee | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

HONG KONG, June 6 (Reuters) - Hong Kong 's central bank plans to test the use of its digital currency under a pilot project in its HK$1.8 trillion ($229 billion) mortgage market, with an aim to slash a month-long loan approval process by half, according to the pilot participants. Here's a look at how the digital currency, e-HK dollar (e-HKD), can be potentially used in the mortgage business:WHAT IS THE E-HKD PILOT PROGRAMME? The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) kicked off the e-HKD pilot programme in May under which 16 firms were selected to examine the digital currency's use across 14 projects. The pilot project will look at potentially giving e-HKD loans to homebuyers in an e-wallet, both online and offline, the pilot participants said. Currently information on the title deed is first collected from the customer and then checked against a separate property title deed register.

Persons: Ripple, Fubon, Georgina Lee, Himani Sarkar Organizations: HK, Hong, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Fubon Bank, Thomson Locations: HONG KONG, Hong Kong

☆ In Rare Victory for Media, Hong Kong Court Overturns Conviction of Journalist
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Tiffany May | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a rare victory for journalism amid a crackdown on the news media in Hong Kong, the city’s top court on Monday overturned the conviction of a prominent reporter who had produced a documentary that was critical of the police. Choy Yuk-ling, who also goes by the name Bao Choy, is best known in Hong Kong for producing investigative documentaries examining police conduct in 2019, when the city was roiled by months of antigovernment protests. Among the documentaries she produced was a prizewinning episode of “Hong Kong Connection,” a news program by the city’s public broadcaster RTHK. She was arrested in 2020 and found guilty the next year of making false statements to obtain car registry records. A court ordered her to pay a fine of 6,000 Hong Kong dollars, about $775.

Persons: Choy Yuk, Bao Choy, Choy Organizations: Hong, Hong Kong Connection, RTHK Locations: Hong Kong, Hong

☆ Buy Buy Baby draws sale interest in Bed Bath & Beyond bankruptcy, one bidder looks to save stores
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Gabrielle Fonrouge | In Gabrielle-Fonrouge | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

A Buy Buy Baby store in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. That's where Buy Buy Baby – and its long-held name recognition – would come in. "We have tremendous trust with new and expecting parents but Buy Buy Baby is much better known with kind of that older generation," she said. The crown jewel of Bed Bath & BeyondThis is not the first time Buy Buy Baby has seen sale interest. Buy Buy Baby has remained a bright spot in Bed Bath & Beyond's otherwise dismal earnings reports in recent years.

Persons: Stephanie Keith, Natalie Gordon, It's, Gordon, Babylist, it's, –, Ryan Cohen, Chewy, Cohen Organizations: Bloomberg, Getty, Bed, CNBC, Capital Advisors, GameStop, & $ Locations: Brooklyn, New York, Bed Bath, Beverly Hills , California, Bath

☆ Yes, You Can Make a Wedding Cake
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Natasha Pickowicz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ever scroll through a friend’s wedding registry and feel uninspired by the cavalcade of appliances and trinkets? Consider going rogue and asking the couple if you can give them something major: a wedding cake. With their vertiginous tiers, sculpted sugar roses and fondant as smooth as clay, professional wedding cakes are engineered to look good for long stretches of time — some even come with a sneaky Styrofoam layer — but they can fall short in flavor. A more personal homemade cake subverts expectations, and can feel less formal in the best possible way: big, exuberant and celebratory.

☆ Remains Match Traits of Missing Call Center Workers in Mexico, Officials Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Emiliano Rodríguez Mega | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

More than 110,000 people are missing in Mexico, their fate uncertain. The figures have become a political sore spot for Mr. López Obrador, particularly as Mexico heads toward a presidential election in 2024, when one of the president’s closest allies is likely to be on the ballot. When Mr. López Obrador came to office in December 2018, he promised to root out the violence convulsing Mexico. The president has defended himself against the alarming numbers by saying his government has gotten better at counting and investigating the missing. “No government had ever taken care of the disappeared as we are doing now,” Mr. López Obrador said last year.

Persons: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, López Obrador, “, Mr, Delia Quiroa, Roberto, ” Locations: Jalisco, Mexico, Tamaulipas

☆ Medicare will require data on patient use for approved Alzheimer's drugs
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Julie Steenhuysen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Leqembi received accelerated approval from the FDA in January, based on limited evidence suggesting it would slow cognitive decline in early Alzheimer's patients. A panel of FDA advisers will discuss whether Leqembi should receive traditional approval next week, and a decision could come by early July. Medicare, the government health plan for Americans 65 and over, currently pays for Leqembi only if patients are enrolled in a clinical trial. Such "coverage with evidence development" requirements are rare and historically used by Medicare to evaluate medical devices rather than drugs. To receive Medicare coverage, people will need to be diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment or early dementia caused by Alzheimer's and have a qualified physician participating in a registry.

Persons: Biogen, Leqembi, Eisai, Eli Lilly, Co's, Eli Lilly's, Alzheimer's, Sue Peschin, Manas Mishra, Leroy D'souza, Bill Berkrot Organizations: U.S, Eisai Co, FDA, Medicare, Centers, Medicaid Services, CMS, Alzheimer’s Association, Alliance for Aging Research, Thomson Locations: Bengaluru

☆ Queer people in history: Figures to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Leah Asmelash | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

To commemorate the month, CNN is highlighting five major LGBTQ elders – some who have passed on, and some who haven’t – highlighting their achievements. From a drag king who fought discrimination on the streets of New York to a famous mathematician who stood up to adversity despite legal limitations, here are five LGBTQ figures to know. Miss Major Griffin-GracyMiss Major in the film "Major," a documentary about her life and campaigns. But a year after Stonewall, Miss Major was arrested for robbery, landing her with a five-year prison sentence. Decades after her release, Miss Major spent time as the executive director of the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project.

Persons: Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr, Patrick A, Burns, Rustin wasn’t, Rustin, King, Sen, Strom Thurmond, Gavin Newsom, Larry Kramer Larry Kramer, Catherine McGann, Larry Kramer, “, ”, Kramer, Anthony Fauci, Miss Major Griffin, Major, Marsha P, Johnson, Miss Major, Mama, Michelle V, Stormé DeLarverie, DeLarverie, White, “ That’s, Alan Turing, Alan Turing’s, Turing, it’s Organizations: CNN, New York Times Co, Getty, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, California Gov, Village Voice, AIDS, Centers for Disease Control, ACT UP, AIDS Coalition, National Institute of Allergy, Miss, Stonewall, New York Times, Physical Laboratory Locations: New York, India, Montgomery, Washington, Chicago, Greenwich, New Orleans, England

☆ Brazil's Lula cuts losses after setbacks on environment and Indigenous front
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Maria Carolina Marcello | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

On Wednesday, the minority Lula government faces another key vote in the chamber that will reduce the powers of the ministries of the environment and of Indigenous affairs. Lula called an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the dilemma, and called the speaker of the lower house, Arthur Lira, whom he plans to meet as well, to ensure the measure passes. INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL SETBACKThe law passed on Tuesday would set a cut-off date for recognizing Indigenous land claims, establishing that they had to be occupied before Brazil's current Constitution was enacted in 1988. Brazil's 1 million Indigenous peoples are guaranteed by the Constitution the right to live on ancestral lands. After the bill passed, the minister of Indigenous peoples, Sonia Guajajara, said that the deputies who backed it would be "responsible for approving a bill that explicitly attacks the lives of Indigenous peoples in Brazil."

Persons: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Lula, Arthur Lira, Jair Bolsonaro, Bolsonaro, Sonia Guajajara, Lisandra Paraguassu, Ricardo Brito, Maria Carolina Marcello, Anthony Boadle, Matthew Lewis Organizations: Lawmakers, Liberal Party, Thomson Locations: BRASILIA, Congress, Sao Paulo, Brazil's, Brazil, Brasilia

CNN —Canada’s former Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole has accused China of targeting him with misinformation and voter suppression campaigns during the 2021 election, citing intelligence from Canada’s spy agency. Canadian Security Intelligence Service last week identified multiple threats against him, O’Toole told Parliament on Tuesday. O’Toole emphasized that alleged misinformation occurred in the run-up to the 2021 general election, which saw the reelection of a Liberal Party government led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Earlier this month, Canada expelled an accredited Chinese diplomat accused of involvement in a harassment campaign against Canadian opposition lawmaker Michael Chong and his relatives. China has repeatedly dismissed previous claims of political interference in Canada’s political system.

Persons: CNN —, Erin O’Toole, O’Toole, ”, Justin Trudeau, Michael Chong, Chong, Marco Mendicino, Mendicino, Meng Wanzhou, Michael Kovrig, Michael Spavor, Meng Organizations: CNN, Conservative Party, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Liberal Party, Huawei, Canadian Public Safety, CSIS, ” Locations: China, Canada, Canadian, Beijing

CNN —Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, says it is “troubled” by the recent spate of horse deaths after racetrack officials on Saturday announced two more horses were put down. The euthanizations of Lost in Limbo on Friday and Kimberley Dream on Saturday at the track mean a dozen horses have died at Churchill Downs in the past two months. A similar injury impacted Lost in Limbo during Friday’s seventh race, and veterinarians deemed the injuries “inoperable and unrecoverable” in both cases, Churchill Downs Inc. said in a news release. The 12 horse deaths have occurred since the track’s stable area reopened for training on March 30, the release stated. Churchill Downs said it is working with the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission and the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority to investigate the deaths and improve the sport’s safety.

[1/2] U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10,... Read moreCompanies Deutsche Bank AG FollowMay 17 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE) has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging the lender facilitated the late Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking ring, the Wall Street Journal reported late on Wednesday, citing lawyers who sued the bank on behalf of alleged victims. The suit was filed last year in New York by an anonymous woman on behalf of herself and other accusers, alleging Deutsche Bank did business with Epstein for five years knowing he was engaged in sex-trafficking activity, the report said. Deutsche Bank did not immediately reply to a Reuters' request for comment. Reporting by Rahat Sandhu in Bengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline WongOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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